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‘Why?’: Remembering Nina Simone’s Tribute To The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King’s death.

How is it I never heard this song until today? I think every American History course covering the 1960s should include it as required reading.

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Good god I love this blog: In this breaking-the-fourth-wall scene from AIP’s genre-creating 1963 surfsploitation movie, Professor Sutwell (Robert Cummings) and his assistant Marianne (Dorothy Malone, the bookish bombshell from The Big Sleep) bail out [far left] once Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and his crew discover that the oldsters are studying the mating habits of aboriginal Southern Californians — i.e., them. Because it lampoons previous teen movies from The Wild One and Splendor in the Grass to Gidget and Blue Hawaii, Beach Party helps demarcate the end of the Fifties (1954-63). The blocking here symbolizes the moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up; the question now is whether they’ll adopt a reformist cause (the movie’s subplot, which prompts a spooky-kooky Vincent Price cameo) or instead remain simultaneously utopian (Avalon’s stage name reminds us of that blissful island, from Arthurian legend, which is populated by scantily clad youth) and skeptical about the competing ideologies of their elders. Sutwell, who represents the Partisan Generation, favors the former; but if you dig the surfers’ scene, you’ll disagree.

Good god I love this blog:

In this breaking-the-fourth-wall scene from AIP’s genre-creating 1963 surfsploitation movie, Professor Sutwell (Robert Cummings) and his assistant Marianne (Dorothy Malone, the bookish bombshell from The Big Sleep) bail out [far left] once Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and his crew discover that the oldsters are studying the mating habits of aboriginal Southern Californians — i.e., them. Because it lampoons previous teen movies from The Wild One and Splendor in the Grass to Gidget and Blue Hawaii, Beach Party helps demarcate the end of the Fifties (1954-63). The blocking here symbolizes the moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up; the question now is whether they’ll adopt a reformist cause (the movie’s subplot, which prompts a spooky-kooky Vincent Price cameo) or instead remain simultaneously utopian (Avalon’s stage name reminds us of that blissful island, from Arthurian legend, which is populated by scantily clad youth) and skeptical about the competing ideologies of their elders. Sutwell, who represents the Partisan Generation, favors the former; but if you dig the surfers’ scene, you’ll disagree.

Filed under hilobrow beach party frankie avalon film 1960s surfsploitation robert cummings dorothy malone

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Oh hello, work neighborhood! The giant parking lot at Federal Triangle is nuts - the Reagan Building is there now. Though I suppose there was no metro at the time either. And very sad that the museum is just out of view to the right of this photo. oldhollywood: Prof. Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) tests out “Flubber”, the anti-gravity flying rubber he’s invented in The Absent Minded Professor (1961, dir. Robert Stevenson)

Oh hello, work neighborhood! The giant parking lot at Federal Triangle is nuts - the Reagan Building is there now. Though I suppose there was no metro at the time either. And very sad that the museum is just out of view to the right of this photo.

oldhollywood:

Prof. Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) tests out “Flubber”, the anti-gravity flying rubber he’s invented in The Absent Minded Professor (1961, dir. Robert Stevenson)

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