In yesterday's blog I referred to Albert Goldman's controversial biography Elvis (1981). Having mentioned the book, I was prompted ...

I've never been able to shake the impression that Elvis's year and a half in Germany (October 1958-March 1960) while a soldier in th...

According to author Stephen Rebello, in his extremely interesting and well-researched book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (St. ...

The crucial role of television to promote presidential candidates and their agendas is now an accepted truism. If this commonplace bit of wi...

A week earlier, on January 2, 1960, then Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for President of the United States, ending several...

"...But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues..." According to the webpage www.eddiecochran.info , on January 8, 1960, ...

"Marina found herself thinking, how odd, that when Khrushchev visited Minsk while she was living there with Lee, there were strong rumo...

"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb." On January 6, 1960, R...

"A nationwide poll of your hopes, plans and fears for the decade ahead, with picture reports on the mood of the American people as they...

"Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl..." According to Billboard Top 1000 Singles 1955-1990 ...

"…the personalities of the popular music industry have every reason to cultivate the child market and are quite willing to “rob the cra...

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan asserted that each new media takes as its content the older one. The movies, for instance, became the conten...