THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (M) (121min) Directed by Robert Redford. Starring Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Tag Archives: 1960s
Time Essay: The Graying of America
In the 1960s the torch was passed from age to youth, but in the 1970s the torch is being handed back again. Youth —the obsession of a few years ago, the hope of some, the fear of others —no longer makes great waves
San Francisco: Circumcision Ban and Religious Freedom
In the 1960s and ’70s, the San Francisco Bay Area was where the counterculture really started — the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury, gay rights in the Castro. Today, the Bay Area is challenging the larger culture in a new and controversial way: there will be a referendum on the ballot in November that would make it the first major city in the U.S.
The 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s moon speech to Congress
Even the most iconic moments in American history can start to seem a little shopworn after a while. The flag-raising at Iwo Jima
Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back
From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs.
Burger Meister RAY KROC
Among the army of burger flippers at work across America in the 1960s was a French chef putting his training to use at Howard Johnson’s on Queens Boulevard in New York City.
Ian McKellen: The Player
In a trailer on the edge of a film set beneath an underpass in downtown Cape Town, Ian McKellen, 69, is musing about fame and death, and what the papers will say when he goes. “ ’GANDALF DIES,’ I expect,” he says.