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...watch reruns of American Bandstand, Dick Clark's 30-year milk-fed grooveathon currently airing weekdays on VH1, is to wonder whether the sexual revolution ever actually occurred. The network is showcasing Bandstand episodes from 1975 to 1985. They remain transfixing, not so much for the musical acts--the ABBAS and the Sheila E's--but for the constrained, robotic movements of the voluminously coiffed dancers who orbit each other so stiffly, their smiles as synthetic as the Qiana on their backs. This was the decade of gettin' down? In funky town? Somehow most of these young men and women...
...brief three months it has been on the air, the Best of American Bandstand has become one of VH1's top-rated programs, aiding the network in its haphazard quest to be seen as something other than a buzz bin for all things Celine Dion. The reruns, each featuring newly taped introductions by the still chipper Dick Clark, prove that VH1 has mastered the Nick-at-Nite art of repackaging cheesy old shows as found-object satire. It's so easy! And so hip--a lesson that has eluded the minds at MTV, VH1's cooler sister network, where they...
Alexander was helped by the fact that as Forbes fell, he was the only alternative to Dole in the center-left side of the party. He immediately switched into a message-a-day mode, uncorking conservative virtuecrat Bill Bennett and his endorsement at a village bandstand in snowy, picture-perfect Milford on Wednesday and dusting off earlier proposals during the following days. For Forbes, whose buscapade pulled in across the Milford village green the same morning, the goal was some fast retrofitting. First came the required contrition for the slasher ads: "In business and politics," he said through a clip...
...innovations. "We had almost the whole world against us," said Lacy, "we had more rehearsals than gigs, and there were about two, or three, or four people that would follow us around from gig to gig. That was our public, really...There were musicians who would walk off the bandstand when Cecil would walk in a club...
...scenes, the guys go to restaurants "where the people there are so snobby they're the type who pretend they don't know us, so we have a good time." To which Paul McCartney gives a twist: "Joe's Caf. Social comment, that, y'know." The gigs were half Bandstand, half Goon Show...