Arlen’s Blog
*Please click on the image or headline to comment on any blog!*
GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW webinar 11/19!
:
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:
JACK KIRBY’S NEW GODS webinar 10/29!
THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF JACK KIRBY’S NEW GODS webinar via New York Adventure Club, Thursday, October 29 @ 7:00pm EST
One of the leading new Hollywood writer/directors, Ava DuVernay, was recently announced by Warner Bros. as the director of a forthcoming major motion picture based on the DC Comics characters The New Gods, who were initially published 50 years ago this year! They were the creation of legendary comic book writer/illustrator/editor Jack Kirby, who had co-created, the decade prior, the Marvel Comics universe of characters and stories in conjunction with editor Stan Lee.
Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the comic book origins of these unique Kirby characters and stories, and how they’ve been a steady influence on pop culture over the decades—most notably on George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise!
Hosted by award-winning comic book-style illustrator and pop culture historian Arlen Schumer, this overview of Kirby’s New Gods—and how it fit into Kirby’s groundbreaking “Fourth World” series of four interrelated, concurrent comic book titles— will make you look at these comics as you never have before!
Talkin’ JACK KIRBY’S NEW GODS on the radio 10/28!
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JACK KIRBY’S NEW GODS Night-Light radio show with Pop Culture Man Arlen Schumer
One of the leading new Hollywood writer/directors, Ava DuVernay, was recently announced by Warner Bros. as the director of a forthcoming major motion picture based on the DC Comics characters The New Gods, who were initially published 50 years ago this year! They were the creation of legendary comic book writer/illustrator/editor Jack Kirby, who had co-created, the decade prior, the Marvel Comics universe of characters and stories in conjunction with editor Stan Lee.
In advance of his webinar tomorrow night via New York Adventure Club—
CONNERY BOND webinar (part 2) 10/22!
THURSDAY, October 22 @ 7:00pm EST:
“THE SEAN CONNERY BOND CANON Part 2: GOLDFINGER & THUNDERBALL” webinar via New York Adventure Club!
Though Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore and other great actors have played the iconic James Bond 007 role over the decades, the majority of Bond aficionados still consider the first, Sean Connery, to be the definitive James Bond. And of his seven Bond films, the first four—Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (’63), Goldfinger (’64), and Thunderball (’65)— are considered not only his best, but perhaps the best of the entire Bond series.
Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the third & fourth Connery Bond films (with the first two covered in last week’s webinar), which are the beginnings of the modern action film genre, instituting and incorporating so many signs, symbols and scenarios of that most unique decade of the 20th Century, the 1960s.
Hosted by pop culture historian Arlen Schumer, this multimedia overview of GOLDFINGER and THUNDERBALL includes pertinent clips from each film, behind-the-scenes production pix & films, and rare advertising and promotional materials!
TIX: nyadventureclub.com
