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THE BATMAN TV SERIES webinar 1/12!
THE 55th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATMAN TV SERIES webinar by Arlen Schumer via InstantSeats
Tuesday, January 12 @ 7:30pm EST
Do YOU remember the frisson of excitement the night of Wednesday, January 12, 1966— truly, “a day that will live (in infamy?) forever!”—when the Batman television series debuted?
If NOT, don’t worry—because Pop Culture Historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) WAS there, and on the 55th Anniversary of Batman’s premiere, he’ll present a brand new webinar that will not only recreate the pop culture atmosphere of the mid-1960s—the dawn of psychedelia—that spawned the landmark series, but will detail the comic book origins of the show, and how they were—and weren’t—translated to television. Of course, the ‘66 merchandising and cultural phenomenon known as “Batmania” will be covered, too!
Weaving together a plethora of still images with television and music clips, interspersed with his usual trenchant and witty pop culture commentary, Arlen Schumer’s Batman TV series webinar will make you look at the show you’ve been watching for 55 years as if for the FIRST time!
My BIDEN-HARRIS portraits on AltPick.com!
IT’S A POP CULTURE XMAS webinar 12/23!
, run the gamut of genres and mediums, from comedy to drama and melodrama to maximum rock & roll, and he’ll surprise you with his unique takes on some “expected” Christmas choices, to more that are unexpected.
CONNERY BOND MEMORIAL webinar 12/30!
GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW webinar 11/19!
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Talkin’ GREEN LANTERN-GREEN ARROW on the radio 11/18!
THE TWILIGHT ZONE webinar 11/10!
THE TWILIGHT ZONE AHEAD OF ITS TIME webinar, Tuesday, November 10 @ 8:00pm EST via New York Adventure Club:
“We can feed the stomach with concentrates. We can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort. We can pump oxygen in, and waste material out. But there’s one thing we can’t simulate, that’s a very basic need: man’s hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness. That’s one thing we haven’t licked yet.”
Those are the concluding words of Rod Serling—creator, head writer, narrator, and host of the legendary TV series The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64)—said in the series’ debut episode where an astronaut-in-training hallucinates that he’s totally alone in a deserted American town.
If those words sound uncomfortably close to the quarantining we’re all experiencing now, it’s because Serling (1924-75) was a true visionary, a prescient prophet of the small screen, whose many Twilight Zone episodes dealt with the universal, timeless themes of isolation, loneliness, and solitude.
Join New York Adventure Club as we embark on a journey through The Twilight Zone, and how the greatest television series of the 20th Century continues to shed a prescient light on the global pandemic of the 21st Century. Led by esteemed Twilight Zone scholar and author/designer Arlen Schumer, this trenchant webinar, filled with images and video clips from the hit series—and a screening of the series’ quintessential episode in its entirety, “ Eye of The Beholder,” on the 60th Anniversary of its debut, November 10, 1960—will make you look at The Twilight Zone as you never have before!
Talkin’ TWILIGHT ZONE on the radio 11/7!
SPRINGSTEEN LIVE RETROSPECTIVE webinar 11/6!
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A LIVE RETROSPECTIVE webinar with Arlen Schumer, Friday November 6 @ 7:00pm EST via New York Adventure Club:
Though Bruce Springsteen has long been acknowledged as one of—if not THE—greatest live performers in rock & roll history—film and videos of his greatest live performances are not as well known or widely seen, especially his earliest ones, because he came to prominence in the pre-video 1970s.
But now Springsteen historian Arlen Schumer (art director of the first Springsteen fan publication, Thunder Road) has curated a collection of what he considers Bruce’s best performance films and videos from throughout his long and storied career, interspersed with still images that give historical background to each clip.
So no matter how much you know and love Bruce Springsteen, you’ll see his life and career in ways that will make you appreciate him in a whole new light!
Talkin’ SPRINGSTEEN LIVE RETROSPECTIVE on the radio 11/4!
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A LIVE RETROSPECTIVE Night-Light radio show with Pop Culture Man Arlen Schumer, Wednesday, November 4 @ 8:00pm EST: