Mattel Films’ producer Robbie Brenner stated that “working with Daniel Kaluuya will enable [Mattel] to take a completely new approach to Barney that will surprise audiences and subvert expectations. The project will speak to the nostalgia of the brand in a way that will resonate with adults, while entertaining today’s kids.”
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Erin Grey of Buck Rogers fame
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Dear sweet baby Cthulhu, noooooooo!
They already tried that once and failed
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Out to brunch yesterday, I saw a woman wearing a poncho with a sprinkling of pompoms. I had one very similar in the 60’s, although my pompoms weren’t (fake?) fur. Everyone else at the table said they thought it looked hideous, but I found it nostalgic in the best way.
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I think that’s how it always works. Few would associate the 1960s with Lawrence Welk, but he may have appeared on TV more than any other musician.
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Exactly. I was just a little surprised that some folks in the thread didn’t seem to understand the concept of nostalgia and how one can look back at the past through rose-colored specs to remember the good parts.
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Yes.
No.
No opinion.
Oh hell yes! If I had my way, I’d have a shag in every room of my house. I’d even have a shag in the bathroom and the kitchen, if it weren’t too much of a mess to clean up.
What’s everybody looking at me like that for?
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More like “the platonic ideal of a mall” than an actual mall (a place I deeply loathe being in as an adult). As a kid in the midwest, a place like this was glorious:
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You mean like “average people being able to afford nice things”?
You’re right, I do miss the 80s.
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Where is the mall in that photo?
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That’s the now-demolished City Center Mall in downtown Columbus Ohio. Technically more of a 90s mall than a vintage 80s example.
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The more things change…
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Yes, the best basic concept over strip malls or stand-alone stores in the Midwest was warmth in winter and a/c in summer.
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I still have a seventies shirt, but it no longer fits, is very faded, and may have a few hokes.
It’s a tshirt, with a Grateful Dead logo, so it’s not really the type of “seventies shirt” you were talking about.
they played the Tonight Show just before Joey’s death but it gave me mixed emotions. a good performance as I recall, though.
the ShaNaNa performance makes more sense to me in a way. Both are cartoony revivals of 50s rock; one corny, one more dangerous, but both with a sense of fun.
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I saw them at the Masquerade Music park in… 1996, I think it was. They were fucking amazing live, even though they were all in the 50s or 60s by that point…
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