MOMENTS TO REMEMBER CD PBS TV

MOMENTS TO REMEMBER CD PBS TV

He could improvise routines with the Rat Pack in front of a casino audience, or host a TV variety show. He could act, sing, dance, emcee, play the straight man to Jerry Lewis, or tell his own jokes. Such is the fickleness of the hive mind at the heart of pop culture.ĭean Martin is especially vulnerable because he spread himself across so many fields. Other icons of the past, from Johnny Carson to Walter Cronkite, would struggle to get 10 percent name recognition among millennials. had a larger audience than Hope in the years following World War II, but now the airport execs felt they needed a name with a bigger draw for tourists. A few days ago, officials at the Bob Hope Airport in Southern California voted to change its name to the Hollywood Burbank Airport. Pop culture has forgotten so many of the top tier entertainers of the middle decades of the 20 th century. Will he get the red carpet treatment, and find a place on the radar screens of new fans? Or will his centenary celebrations be limited to old-timers who remember Martin from decades long gone? Next year will be the 100 th anniversary of Dean Martin’s birth, and I am curious to see how Sinatra’s old colleague and fellow Rat Packer fares. Sinatra received veneration in full-scale tributes from HBO, PBS, CBS, TCM, and other three-initial media powerhouses, along with a stack of books, articles, album reissues, and tribute concerts. I can’t recall another musician generating so much acclaim after 100 years. We celebrated Frank Sinatra’s centenary a few months back, and the amount of media coverage was stunning.

Moments to remember cd pbs