Re: [bomp] some vibes don't stop dead cold when the decade ends

[jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, the Brothers were making movies in the
daytime right in Astoria (I'm sure you've walked
right past the spot) and heading over the bridge
into Broadway at night to star on stage. 
--- ItsBoss9@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Hemingway and Fitzgerald were writing great
> stuff in
> > the 30s, too.
> 
> As a major Fitzgerald geek, I prefer the stuff
> he was writing in the 30s to 
> the stuff that he did in the 20, though Gatsby
> would be my favorite novel by 
> anyone who didn't write Tender Is The Night. 
> 
>
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> 
> That said, yeh, the Marx Brothers too were a
> '20s phenomenon on the New York 
> stage... which counted then.  The films were a
> continuation during the 30s.
> 
> That's what someone I once knew called
> "leftover"... like, when we saw 
> designs in the early '70s that were really cool
> and more evocative of the 
> mid-'60s... she called that "leftover '60s".
> 
> The same can be said, Brent Walker, of
> "leftover" Victorian era stuff that 
> did still exist during the '20s...  Sure, they
> didn't get it "right," but maybe 
> we can just sum that up to "retro" not being
> that well-defined of a thing yet.
> 
> Domenic Priore
> 
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