Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
Recognizing the need for preservation of nostalgic pop culture, our guest of honor this year has an impressive list of accomplishments best described as “eyebrow raisers.” Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D., is the chair of the Communications/English Discipline of Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City, Michigan). Born and raised in Wisconsin, home of Stanley G. Weinbaum and [...]
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Radio Pro is actually several books in one, covering every aspect of personality radio—from the history of pioneer broadcasters to how to become a successful personality. Forty-one-year radio pro Joe Martelle also brings together a richly-varied selection of candid comments on the subject from over 150 of America’s best broadcasters, seasoned pros, who tell it [...]
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When 20th Century Fox scored a hit with Marilyn Monroe, every movie producer wanted to cash in with their own platinum blonde. Diana Dors… Jayne Mansfield… and Mamie Van Doren come to mind. The latter of whom posed twice for Playboy in 1963 to promote her movie, 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), [...]
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Ed Asner is a television legend, the winner of seven acting Emmy Awards (which puts ties him with Mary Tyler Moore, both of whom rank second to their Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star, Cloris Leachman who has nine). In all, he has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award, with 17 nods for a [...]
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Nominated for both an Academy and an Emmy Award, Robert Loggia first came to prominence playing the real-life American lawman Elfego Baca in a series of ten hour-long Walt Disney television productions, starting in 1958. Soon after, he starred in the lead as the proverbial cat-burglar-turned-good guy in a short-lived television series called T.H.E. Cat. Walt [...]
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As an actor, James Rosin appeared on numerous television programs including Love, American Style, Banacek, Cannon, Adam-12, Mannix, T.J. Hooker, Quincy M.E. and many others. Rosin is known to science-fiction fans as John Ya Ya in the 1984 movie, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Rosin can be seen in Eraser (1996), [...]
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One of the most exciting things about the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is meeting the celebrities. When they meet the celebrities, some people become star-struck and after having their photo taken with the celebrity and that treasured autograph, they leave only to discover they forgot to ask the celebrity the questions they meant to ask or [...]
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