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• Happy Early 65th Birthday, Joni Mitchell

  This is a great day for the peace movement that flowered (pun intended) in the 1960s. One person who must be thrilled at the prospect of an Obama presidency is the great Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, one of our personal heroes, whose birthday is on Friday but is for some reason is celebrated in a story in today's Wall Street Journal. Read More... Posted Nov 04 2008, 01:34 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: feminism, music, birthday, canada, the seventies, Neil Young, the 60s, pop stars, singers, joni mitchell

• Top 5 Sex Scenes From Comedies

  Nerve once did a Top 5 Funny Sex Scene list. Unfortunately, we disagree with almost all of its choices ("The Graduate" being the only exception.) Here's a new, much funnier list, with not only great sex scenes but barrels of laughs (we had a hard time imagining anyone would laugh at the raunchy sex in "Havoc.") Barrels of laughs during sex? Can't say we've ever experienced that... no, sir... Read More... Posted Oct 28 2008, 04:15 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: movies, south park, sex scenes, the seventies, funny, top 5 lists, censorship, nsfw, the 80s, nerve sex scenes

• Led Zeppelin May Have A New Singer... And It's Amazin'...

  ...if it's true, of course. In the months since their first show in decades, Led Zeppelin has been the subject of dozens of rumors about billion-dollar tours, new lead singers, new albums, and in-fighting among its original members. Now all that appears to have been brushed aside and the band is about to unveil its actual new singer, which is great news for the music business... Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 01:23 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: rock and roll, music, Led Zeppelin, robert plant, concerts, the seventies, money, aerosmith, steven tyler, guns 'n roses, velvet revolver, axl rose, rock stars, singers, scott weiland

• While You Were Sleeping: Minnie Driver Pops Out A Future Celebrity

  It's primary day in some states, which means the phone sex lines are humming. We'd like to think this idiot just failed in an attempt to get back at Oasis for all their pretentious snobbery, but he was probably just a drunken jackass who rushed the stage. And you really, really need to see these photos of Anthony Bourdain in the prehistoric era known as the 1970s... Read More... Posted Sep 09 2008, 09:46 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: babies, the seventies, the Onion, elections, celebrities, phone sex, jewish, anthony bourdain, minnie driver, alabama, birth, oasis

• The Top 5 Hollywood Players Who Did Porn

  The Frisky has a new list out, this time running down ten former porn stars or porn makers who have gone on to bigger (though, in most cases, not at all better) things. We narrowed the list to five for several reasons, including the fact that theirs includes actual current porn stars (Tracy Lords doesn't count either.) Although we didn't leave out #5... did you know about the kid from The Christmas Story?! Read More... Posted Aug 01 2008, 09:45 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Burt Reynolds, the seventies, tits and ass, porn stars, celebrities, cosmopolitan, nude photos, Dita Von Teese, thora birch, titanic, sylvester stallone, naked men

• No William Shatner Cameo in New Star Trek

  William Shatner will not appear as Kirk, Spock or anyone in the new version of Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams. He's not happy with the decision, and neither are we. But we are reminded of this video that was circulated on the web about a year ago of Shatner performing Elton John's Rocket Man back in the 70's. And this makes us happy. Probably a little too happy.   Posted Dec 18 2007, 12:42 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: star trek, william shatner, the seventies, elton john