Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Pop Art:Dinky Edition
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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50 Years Ago: The Little Prince (1974)
This 1974 musical fantasy film from Stanley Donen, now a half-century old, is an adaptation of one of the most popular children’s novels in ...
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1...
The British Dinky Toys company was a wonderful part of being a child in the '70s. One of my happiest boyhood memories was fall 1975 with the television series debut of SPACE:1999 and then discovering a full-page advertisement for the Dinky Toys Eagle Transporter toy in an issue Boys Life magazine. I immediately ordered one with my parents permission.
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God, I miss that company.
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