Seems like everytime I turn around, retelling of the 60s is in my face. And y'know, it is going to get worse before it gets better with the boom population taking its last stands.
I wrote about
And now example #3: Browsing the library sale shelf some weeks ago I saw a nice new hardback copy of The Help. Oh. OK. I didn't see the movie and thought it would be a good read.
Yes, it was a good read but WHA?! I had no idea it was set in Jackson, MS in 1962 or so. Oy. So I got to read this first hand account of the confrontation between black and white, what the neighborhood probably was like where Medgar Evens was shot, what was on TV when Kennedy was president.
Ack. Fine, it was actually really a stroke of good luck to read instead of watch. I was much more able to think about the issues, how it was when and where I grew up and so forth. However, I was curious and looked at the reviews after reading and see that the criticism was mostly that the movie was 'too shallow, glossed over the cultural and political issues of the era'. Exactly what I didn't want, so hooray! for reading.
The book even makes reference to a commercial on TV at the time. What was this slogan for? and what was the unique 'logo' used?
---NO GOOGLING!
"I'd rather fight than switch"
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So now on the book shelf:
'It's always something' Gilda Radnor. Of course there is no escaping the SNL memories here. More 60s fallout.
Biography of Colin Powell. Hmph. Yes he served in Vietnam. His child was born in Birmingham in 1963 or so. Nuff said.
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I believe the commercial was for Lucky Strike cigarettes. I didn't Google, so I am relying completely on memory.
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MM: the MOVIE reviews were critical that the issues were not portrayed deeply. The book was written as a novel, as realistic as was desired by the author I suppose. It is a very quick and worthwhile read. I grew up in Cleveland, OH and brought back alot of the who/what/why I am today.
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Tareyton cigarettes
oy, big flash back to the past. and remembering the ad now, I think it is horrible. predecessor of so much violence in the media now, ugh.