Ask anyone to say the first thing that comes to their mind when you say the word “disco” and they’re very likely to say “Donna Summer“. The legendary Donna Summer defined, embodied and celebrated an era of music that is synonymous with decadence, overt-sexuality and freedom of self-expression. Disco, disco, disco!!!
Today is Donna Summer’s 61st [...]
We lost Johnny Carson (the King of late night talk shows) this past decade (2005) and the great Ed McMahon (2009). Below, Carson and McMahon (with Robert Blake from the 70’s hit drama series Baretta) ring in the new year with The Tonight Show band and enough confetti to black out the sun.
Carson offers the [...]
Without a doubt, Larry King (born this day in 1933 in Brooklyn (woot!) under his legal name: Lawrence Harvey Zeiger) has lived seemingly many lifetimes all in one. With the hundreds of interviews he’s done with actors, politicians, heads of state and leaders of nations, it’s pretty awe inspiring to think how much Larry King [...]
This was one of those candid moments with would live in talk show infamy forever, and deservedly so.
It was the 80’s — that wonderful time when pop culture struggled to break free (once and for all) from the conservative chains and religious hypocracy that stiffled generations of youthful expression and creativity for far too long. [...]
Warning: this 5-part interview of Alfred Hitchcock on a German talk show speaking with four other (German) gentlemen is not translated into English. So if you are not fluent in German, you will not be able to follow the entire conversation.
Why, then would I post this footage knowing most people (unless they were fluent in [...]
“Star Wars is a blockbuster motion picture, it has all the things a motion picture should have….”
Watching this old clip made me remember how revolutionary Star Wars was in it’s day. Talking robots, fearsome storm troopers, a talking Wookie, and of course, the “lovely princess” Carrie Fisher.
Fisher comes out for the interview on The Mike [...]
Patrick Swazy, accomplished actor and dancer of such films as Dirty Dancing, Ghost and countless other tv and film productions he starred in during a career that spanned over 30-years, passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Here, he discusses the release of his new film Black Dog with Letterman. He was, as [...]
Ted Kennedy talks to an unnamed journalist about the prospect of being President of the United States. Though the show and the date of this interview are unknown, it clearly took place during his bid to be the democratic presidential candidate in 1979. His on-again-off-again affair with the prospect of running for the highest office [...]
Legendary comedian Bill Hicks appears on a 1989 taping of The Late Show with David Letterman Show and reminds us how dark late night talk shows can get.
Hicks jokes openly about homelessness, his alcoholism and dying from smoking . Thought provoking and ground breaking comedy from the post-Reagan 80’s era.
In this second video clip from [...]
Bill Clinton had been in office only one year and the internet was called the “information super highway” when Walter Cronkite gave David Letterman and his audience this interview.
He is amiable and thoughtful as ever and gives his inisghts into the political and media spectrum at that time (fascinating considering how much has changed in [...]
