The term Generation X has been used at various times to describe alienated youth. In the early 1950s, Hungarian photographer Robert Capa first used Generation X as the title for a photo-essay about young men and women growing up immediately following World War II. The term first appeared in print in a December 1952 issue of...
I kissed him [Robert Duncan McNeill] at the end of the episode, and he was standing on an apple box because God forbid you’re the same height as the girl. And then, I made out with him [Tim Russ] in real life....
It seems that the makeup artists on “Star Trek,” without asking beforehand, shaved off Craig’s eyebrows before applying her makeup. Craig was merely laying still in the makeup chair, so it seems the makeup artists could have sandblasted her face and she wouldn’t have noticed. Craig had never shaved her eyebrows before,...
Though they were marooned, the shipwrecked characters of “Gilligan’s Island” often found themselves in fantastical scenarios, thanks in part to the show’s goofy dream sequences. One such sequence, in the season 3 episode, “Lovey’s Secret Admirer,” involved the titular Lovey, aka Mrs. Howell (Natalie Schafer) having...
Mark Alan Stamaty’s MacDoodle Street ran in the Village Voice for a number of years. The continuing story of beleaguered poet Malcolm Frazzle and his journey from the Cafe Fizz as seen above to dishwashing nirvana at the behest of a cow goddess can be read in the full collection, which I highly recommend. The best thing about...