So here’s the plan — I’m gonna move back to my college town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and start a poetry group there.
Gonna call it “Fred Poets Society.”
(I already e-mailed my old writing prof and told him he had to be our Mr. Keating.)
Tag Archives: 1989
Throwback Thursday: “I’ve been LOOKING for that paint.”
Just a classic Benny Hill skit from … the 1980’s? I’m not sure. “The Benny Hill Show” ran between 1969 and 1989, according to the Internet Movie Database, and he looks relatively young here.
The show was an institution in the house I grew up in, and this particular skit was quoted and re-enacted with reverence. I recently found it entirely at random on Facebook. I took this video using my phone, so that I could share it with people who are not on that platform.
“These are what we stay alive for.”
Source: the “Cinema Lovers” Facebook page
Cover to “Sandman” #8, Dave McKean, 1989
DC Comics. Vertigo.
Throwback Thursday: “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989)!
I remember seeing “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in the theater with my 11th grade girlfriend. When it was released, we thought this third entry in the film series would be the last. (Blockbusters tended to run in trilogies back then.) And what a great ostensible send-off it was! Indy was back, in fine form, doing what he did best — punching Nazis. Casting Sean Connery as his father was a stroke of genius, and the chemistry between him and Harrison Ford was priceless.
A couple of astute film fans on Facebook pointed out that 1989 was a great year for movies. This was the summer when Tim Burton’s “Batman” came out, along with “The Abyss,” “Lethal Weapon 2,” “Pet Sematary” and “Dead Poets Society.” Seriously, look at this list. It’s insane.
Throwback Thursday: USA’s “Up All Night” with Gilbert Gottfried and Rhonda Shear!
This show ran for over 900 episodes between 1989 and 1998. Wow — I remember it being it on all the time, but I don’t remember it being quite such an institution.
Cover to “Secret Origins Special” #1, Brian Bolland, 1989
DC Comics.
Poster for “Dead Poets Society” (1989)
Touchstone Pictures.
Throwback Thursday: “Fletch” (1985) and “Fletch Lives” (1989)!
God, I loved these movies back in the day. It’s silly, but they were one of the things that made me want to become a news reporter when I was a kid. I actually saw the second movie first, in the theater — and then found the first movie on VHS at my local mom-and-pop video store.
I’ve heard good things about the reboot with Jon Hamm, though I haven’t seen it yet. I’ve also never read the original novels by Gregory McDonald, and I feel like I ought to remedy that.
Cover to “Doctor Fate Annual” #1, Kent Williams, 1989
DC Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 