Never hit your grandma with a shovel,It makes a bad impression on her mind. -Tiny Tim It’s hard to image a stranger person than Tiny Tim hitting the big time, but he did. He became an icon of the sixties when he got married on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and he was a one hit wonder with Tip Toe Through the Tulips. I found this LP when I was in high school and a huge fan of The Beatles. There was a story that Tiny Tim was mad at Capitol records for signing the Beatles and not signing him. He…
Category: sixties
Staircase-being gay was never like this, was it?
TCM is a very cool network, which more often than not, plays movies you liked the first, oh forty or fifty times you saw them. But every once in a while they play something a little different. I think Staircase falls into that category. I like Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady is one of my all time favorites. I never liked Richard Burton. John Wayne was famous for playing himself in all of his movies and I always got the same feeling from Burton. The difference, of course, is that I liked John Wayne. Robert Osborne, the omnipresent host on…