COLUMNS
Talk Show 7: Julianna Baggott, Lisa Borders, Maria Flook, Antonya Nelson, Darin Strauss
/ Jaime Clarke
01.08.08
--What pop culture event do you think precedes it?
Baggott: If I had to really choose the most important SPORTS pop culture event, it couldn't really be that Red Sox game. It would have to be the Miracle Game––the Olympic gold medal game of the US vs. USSR in 1980, mid Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Borders: I've read that The Partridge Family was loosely modeled on the 1960s band the Cowsills, none of whom rocked their bell bottoms quite the way David Cassidy did. The Monkees' TV show (which was itself a rip-off of the Beatles' "A Hard Days' Night") was probably the most direct television predecessor. And I liked the Monkees, especially the shots with their surfboards in the opening credits, but the Monkees were missing the Partridges' secret weapon: David Cassidy.
Flook: Dylan's first electric appearance at the Folk Festival.
Nelson: The event that precedes Watergate, in my mind anyway, is JFK's assassination. The two events, a decade apart, couldn't be more different in tone. The nation couldn't have responded more oppositely: one was the end of innocence, the other was the beginning of cynicism. They seem like two sides of a single coin, defining events in the center of the century.
Strauss: At the time, people were saying Elvis and the Beatles; nowadays, it seems clear that those musicians had a more lasting impact than MJ did. Not sure there was ever a pop artist who was so huge and then basically went forgotten: Bing Crosby, maybe?
Baggott: If I had to really choose the most important SPORTS pop culture event, it couldn't really be that Red Sox game. It would have to be the Miracle Game––the Olympic gold medal game of the US vs. USSR in 1980, mid Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Borders: I've read that The Partridge Family was loosely modeled on the 1960s band the Cowsills, none of whom rocked their bell bottoms quite the way David Cassidy did. The Monkees' TV show (which was itself a rip-off of the Beatles' "A Hard Days' Night") was probably the most direct television predecessor. And I liked the Monkees, especially the shots with their surfboards in the opening credits, but the Monkees were missing the Partridges' secret weapon: David Cassidy.
Flook: Dylan's first electric appearance at the Folk Festival.
Nelson: The event that precedes Watergate, in my mind anyway, is JFK's assassination. The two events, a decade apart, couldn't be more different in tone. The nation couldn't have responded more oppositely: one was the end of innocence, the other was the beginning of cynicism. They seem like two sides of a single coin, defining events in the center of the century.
Strauss: At the time, people were saying Elvis and the Beatles; nowadays, it seems clear that those musicians had a more lasting impact than MJ did. Not sure there was ever a pop artist who was so huge and then basically went forgotten: Bing Crosby, maybe?