by David Krell | Feb 7, 2017 | David Krell
Carl Yastrzemski is synonymous with Boston, as significant in the city’s iconography as Boston Common, Faneuil Hall, and the Paul Revere House. To be a Red Sox fan is to know pride in Yaz’s representation of New England’s greatest asset—doing a job...
by David Krell | Nov 16, 2016 | David Krell
In 1961, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the nation’s youngest elected president, The Dick Van Dyke Show débuted, and Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut in space. 1961 was also the year of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. The M&M boys. As...
by David Krell | May 14, 2015 | David Krell
CSI, after 15 years, has been canceled. William Petersen starred in the show about Crime Scene Investigators in Las Vegas from its debut in 2000 until 2008 as Gil Grissom, the lead investigator of the night shift. Grissom was fascinated by the different aspects of...
by David Krell | Jul 13, 2013 | David Krell
When President John F. Kennedy declared Ian Fleming to be a favorite author, he unknowingly triggered a popular culture trend. Kennedy’s statement established Fleming’s creation of fictional spy James Bond as the standard against which spy genre...
by David Krell | Mar 12, 2013 | David Krell
King Kong is a New York City film icon. He climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in the 1933 and 2005 King Kong films. In 1976, he climbed to the top of the World Trade Center. But the 1966-67 Saturday morning cartoon series King Kong depicted the title...
