Star Debuts

I have said this before, but this scene was the moment that I realized that someone finally decided to do it right.

Watching super hero movies my entire life was like watching Robbie Benson play point guard or some other actor play an athlete in a movie - it just never looked right. It was always off.

Then there was this scene. I knew that someone finally decided to make a decent super hero movie.

 

Robby Benson was EVERYTHING as a point guard!

 

He can play anywhere he wants. And about the scholarship ...

 

With a red hot poker

 

Two things. To this post: I may be DB'ing myself but one year in the early aughts I was at the Big East tourney and BC had an afternoon game (probably when they had Dudley). So I was walking back to the press hotel, the Hyatt, and stopped in a Broadwayish bar in the 40s and there were Jackman and McKellan, who were in separate plays, at the other end of the pretty empty bar discussing whether to take another couple of freight cars of money to do "X-Men Whichever." I didn't eavesdrop too hard, but history shows what they decided.
As to the topic of this thread, my dear wife Alice was at the concert at the old Harvard Square Theater where warmup act Bruce Springsteen performed and headliner Bonnie Raitt, no slouch, refused to go on and sent him out for more.

 

Springsteen was big on the Jersey shore, and in Richmond (and not much of anywhere else) when I first saw him in April, 1974. Good show, not great, nothing to think he'd get as big as he did.

I next saw him in Nov. 1974, at UVa., several months before BTR came out. After that show, I had no doubt he was going to be huge. Sometime between April and November the light came on for him. Maybe it was getting rid of Mad Dog Lopez.

 

But is he related to this Springstin guy?

 

Wow. My Pika chapter could barely fund a band party during rush, much less a Beach Boys concert! But we could spell.

 

In the '60s, the Rolling Stones played their first U.S. college show in, of all places, Statesboro, Georgia, at what was then Georgia Southern College. The good ol' boys hated them so much, they booed them in favor of the opening act.

Don't think this is 100% true, but the fable is that the Stones wrote "Satisfaction" in response to it.

Here's a great recollection of the whole show:

Unabridged - The Rolling Stones, live at Georgia Southern--in 1965

 

Anyone know what year this was?

 

The Stones first U.S. show was at the San Bernardino Swing Auditorium in June 1964.

The story goes that “an English gal named Wendy” who hung around the local rock radio station kept in touch with her former boss at a record store in England who told her the Rolling Stones would be bigger than the Beatles. The Rolling Stones’ manager was called in London and told San Bernardino was a suburb of Hollywood.

‘A straight gas, man’: The Rolling Stones’ U.S. concert debut was in San Bernardino – Daily Bulletin

 

Seems like a good place to say, once again, that I love the fact this movie exists. And while I don't know that it was the moment that made McConaughey a star, he did do a lot to make fun what would have been an absolutely dreadful movie without him.