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Saving Mr.Banks Meets Mary Poppins - It's 1964 Again! - FREE Interactive Book

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Saving Mr.Banks Meets Mary Poppins - It's 1964 Again!  FREE Interactive Book

'Perhaps the best family movie in 50 years - since, well, 1964 and Mary Poppins! 
***** (Oldies Country)

Seen the movie yet - Saving Mr.Banks? Don't miss it... the story of the making of Mary Poppins, takes you back to 1964 with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as the 'difficult'   author that Disney/Hanks must convince to allow them to use her book for the screenplay. Great scenes, music, acting. May be trite, old Disney for some , who will call it 'schmaltzy' or corny but we say a movie that captures the feeling of THE ERA perhaps as well as anything since.  The only negative for us is having the movie end and walking back outside into a world that is no longer anything like 1964 - devoid of the hope and spirit of the Kennedy Era (even though Mary Poppins actually came out months after the Assasination). But a couple hours of escapism like this is a rare treat.

  Enjoy the FREE Interactive , multi-media book by clicking, above (you will need Itunes, which is downloadable, also above, if you don't have it).Enjoy! Here's a trailer for the movie...

 

Scene from the original movie,Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews, pictured here, 1964.  In the new movie,  attempting to win over the writer PJ Traverse character, Walt Disney ( Tom Hnaks)  takes Traverse to Disneyland ('the happiest place on Earth') , where -knowing that she loves carousels - gets her onto a merry-go-round despite her initial protestations. 

The Story Behind the Music - Saving Mr. Banks Soundtrack

 Disney legend RICHARD SHERMAN discusses working with Walt Disney on  the  movie Mary Poppins, in 1964 , along with others

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SCENE from the new movie, Saving Mr Banks, where Tom Hanks, playing Walt Disney, tries to  charm the book's 'difficult'  author, PJ Traverse into allowing them to make the movie, Mary Poppins,  in 1964.




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MARY POPPINS and ME

A mother today discusses her conflicting feelings about bringing her young son to the new movie, Saving Mr Banks. No sex or vioilence but plenty of emotions, which she's concerned may play heavy on the boy's future (from Huffington Post article)....

I misjudged. He is so grown up, so accustomed to adult conversation, having two college-aged sisters. He is an old 9, so I thought he would be okay at Saving Mr. Banks. It was PG-13 but I hadn't read the reviews closely. I loved Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks. We'd all go -- a Christmas night outing.
The movie splices Travers' experience in negotiating the making of the film Mary Poppins in Hollywood with her childhood in Australia. In the golden-glowed flashbacks, young Mrs. Travers is called Helen. When Helen's alcohol-dependent father coughs blood into his handkerchief and falls off a platform at the fair, our son pulls my hand. "I need to leave," he whispers urgently. "Now," he insists  more

(Editor's note: Nice to see a mother today so concerned about her son's feelings - and this is about a family movie)

editor's note... WE'RE NOT DONE YET... COME BACK 

SOON FOR MORE on the wonderful 'Mr.Banks'  Movie 

and  story behind it

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Book review: ‘If Kennedy Lived:

An Alternate History’ by Jeff

Greenfield

 [starrating]

By H.W. Brands, Published: October 25

Would Rocky Marciano have beaten Muhammad Ali if their primes had overlapped? Could Ted Williams have hit Bob Gibson’s fastball? Would John Kennedy have defeated Barry Goldwater in a race for president?Jeff Greenfield is silent on boxing and baseball, but his current contribution to fantasy politics includes a Kennedy victory over Goldwater in 1964, following Kennedy’s survival of the assassination attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald 50 years ago this November. Fantasists will find “If Kennedy Lived” intriguing — students of the real world less so.

(The Penguin Group) - “If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History” by Jeff Greenfield.

 

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There are two reasons to engage in counterfactual history. Greenfield prefers the more lenient label “alternate history.” One is to identify critical events, hinge points of history, and analyze why they turned out the way they did. To ask whether there would have been a Cold War if Franklin Roosevelt had lived to complete his fourth term is to conduct a thought experiment on the causes of the breakdown of the Grand Alliance of World War II. Were personal considerations crucial — was Harry Truman overly suspicious, perhaps? Or were larger factors decisive?Yet guessing can be fun, which is the second reason to engage in counterfactualism. Historical fiction has a long lineage. Homer, Shakespeare and Dickens indulged, as did countless authors less distinguished. Greenfield amuses himself concocting a second inaugural gala at which the Beach Boys sing “Fun, Fun, Fun (in a Second Term With JFK)” and Roy Orbison croons “Oh, Pretty Woman” (“This one’s for you, Jackie,” he says). Kennedy brings the Beatles to the executive mansion and declares, “Not since the British burned the White House in 1812 has a foreign invader conquered our land as swiftly and thoroughly as have John, Paul, George, and Ringo.”

DION (DiMucci) Celebrates Birthday, New Book- Excellent Interview Covers An Extroardinary Life

But for a coin flip, this interview could have been with Richie Valens and not Dion DiMucci. You see, Dion LOST the coin flip in February 1959 for a seat in the ill-fated plane that cost the lives of Valens, Buddy Holly and Big Bopper. Actually, Dion WON the coin flip, he relates, along with Big Bopper, but didn't want to spend the $36 and deferred to   Valens.

Dion is one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, maybe not from the VERY beginning, but definitely the first wave of the Fifties. Over 50 years later Dion has been to hell and back - and he talks in detail about this all this including stories about 'old soul' Buddy Holly and his friends as if it were yesterday - and his many career phases, from the social comment song of 'Abraham , Martin and John' to religious songs.


Today, Dion has found answers to many of his and life's questions - 'We're all wanderers' he says - as he relates in his book 'The Wanderer Talks Truth'.  He talks about his relationship with fellow New Yorker, John Lennon and others. SEE   Dion Store  - scroll down to bottom for book

Dion, with many seminal songs in rock and roll , including 'I Wonder Why,' ' Runaround Sue' and 'The Wanderer' , has to be considered among the Top 10 true rock and rollers and certainly one of the top doowop acts.  He was one of the few early artists to write and record many of his own songs and he talks about the real life inspiratons for these.

Though he's in the rock Hall of Fame, Dion has sometimes been left out  of rock's historical perspective  as he's never quite fit one category and spanned them all, so this is a important interview - and book that will, hopefully,  bring him more cred- if that even matters to Dion. We look forward to viewing both. Enjoy!

PS One story we love about Dion, certainly covered in the book, is where he, a Christian, talks of walking by the Jewish Synagogue in New York and loving the minor, meloncholy melodies of the Cantor, which would inspire much of his sound and songs, such as 'Diane.'