Source: BreitBart:
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs. [...]

Disco Godfather (1979)
Director: J. Robert Wagoner
Starring: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones, Lady Reed, Frank Finn, Julius Carry
(out of 4)

I love Disco, and I hear it’s making a comeback!!
Disco Godfather could very well qualify Rudy Ray Moore as the Ed Wood of the 1970s. It is a movie so bad - [...]

Faded Youth Blog has put up some images of Kim Kardashian in the upcoming December 2007 issue of Playboy.

Kim Kardashian was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, one of the three daughters of lawyer Robert Kardashian. Kardashian’s initial media attention was centered around her close friendship with Paris Hilton, but her notoriety exploded after it [...]

Face it, marketing departments and product development divisions can be made up of real dopes sometimes. We mean, for every Apple iPod there’s an Arch Deluxe or worse, a Time Warner/AOL merger. Hey, they can’t all be winners, right? In that spirit, we present to you
5 Product and Marketing Disasters
New Coke
From Wiki:
New Coke [...]

Roma Violenta (1975)
Directed by: Marino Girolami
Starring: Maurizio Merli, Richard Conte, Silvano Tranquilli, Ray Lovelock, John Steiner, Daniela Giordano
1/2

Now… that’s Italian.
In a society of rampant crime, corrupt government officials, and terrorism by the Red Brigades, a movie like Roma Violenta (AKA Violent Rome) was inevitable.
In the 70s, poliziotteschi films were quite popular in Italy. It [...]

Top 20 TV Show Intros of the 70s
Introduction
Entries 16 to 20
Entries 11 to 15
Entries 6 to 10
The Top 5
5
The Muppet Show
1976-1981
Since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Henson’s creations invaluable exposure; however, Henson began to perceive that he was being pigeonholed as a children’s entertainer. He sought to create a program that could be enjoyed [...]

Top 20 TV Show Intros of the 70s
Introduction
Entries 16 to 20
Entries 11 to 15
Entries 6 to 10:
10
The Jeffersons
1975-1985
Another spinoff from All in the Family, this was another show I watched alot. Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley were great, as was Marla Gibbs who played Florence the maid. (she actually was in a spin-off show called [...]

Top 20 TV Show Intros of the 70s
Introduction
Entries 16 to 20
Entries 11 to 15:
15
The Odd Couple
1970-1975
The Odd Couple was originally a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon. In the play, Art Carney was Felix Ungar, the neat freak, and Walter Matthau was Oscar Madison, the slob. Jack Klugman would later replace Matthau, but Matthau would [...]

I mostly grew up in the 80s. One of the cool things about TV in the 80s was that, through the magic of syndication, I got to see a lot of shows from the 70s that were no longer being produced (or were in their last days). One of the more memorable parts of a [...]

Got PLUR?
In the early nineties rave music was everywhere. I remember it well. I was in college at the time and living in Orlando. Back then the downtown party scene was much cooler. Firestone was around, The Edge was around. Clubs stayed open all night and nobody even went out until well after midnight. If [...]