{"id":3769,"date":"2006-04-19T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T23:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/back-in-1973\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:41:45","slug":"back-in-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/19\/back-in-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in 1973&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6645,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.paulkerensa.com\\\/movietimeline&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.paulkerensa.com\\\/movietimeline&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is fun: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulkerensa.com\/movietimeline\/\" title=\"The Movie Timeline\">THE movie timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  So here&#8217;s the pitch: The Movie Timeline is the history of everything, taken from one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true &#8211; the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it&#8217;s reported in a movie somewhere&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 1973, the year I was born:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>January 1: 12:01am &#8211; The Poseidon, a luxury liner on its last voyage from Athens to New York, is struck by a 90ft tidal wave and capsizes (The Poseidon Adventure, 1972)<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Darin dies (Beyond The Sea)<\/li>\n<li>New York &#8211; William Miller and Penny Lane go on tour with Stillwater (Almost Famous)<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas &#8211; Sam &#8220;Ace&#8221; Rothstein begins running a casino (Casino)<\/li>\n<li>The Ice Storm<\/li>\n<li>The Long Goodbye<\/li>\n<li>Astronauts travel 3000 years into the future and bring back talking apes, who are killed by the police and the investigation files sealed (Planet of the Apes)<\/li>\n<li>March 15:   George McFly wins a writing award, or is killed, depending on the timeline (Back To The Future Part II)<\/li>\n<li>June: Mossad debriefs a killer it may or may not have hired (Munich)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And in 1976, the year both Prairie and my brother Kevin were born:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>January 4:  Rocky Balboa shocks the boxing world by lasting 15 rounds with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed &#8211; though Creed wins (Rocky)<\/li>\n<li>King Kong is again discovered on Skull Island and let loose &#8211; again &#8211; on New York City (King Kong, 1976)<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta, Georgia &#8211; Bo &#8220;Bandit&#8221; Darvill and Cledus &#8220;Snowman&#8221; Snow bring 400 cases of Coors beer 1800 miles from Texarkana to Atlanta in less than 28 hours, winning $80,000 (Smokey and the Bandit)<\/li>\n<li>Israeli officer Avner is debriefed by Mossad (Munich)<\/li>\n<li>Rocky Balboa marries Adrian and they have s son, Robert &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Jr (Rocky II)<\/li>\n<li>Summer &#8211; Dazed and Confused<\/li>\n<li>July 4: Coeur d&#8217;Alene Indian Reservation, Idaho &#8211; Arnold Joseph saves infant Thomas Builds-The-Fire from a burning house (Smoke Signals)<\/li>\n<li>July 8: Hannibal Lecter savages a nurse during a medical examination (Red Dragon)<\/li>\n<li>September 8:    Howard The Duck arrives on Earth (Howard The Duck)<\/li>\n<li>November 25:    Philadelphia &#8211; Rocky Balboa knocks out Apollo Creed in the 15th round in their rematch (Rocky II)<\/li>\n<li>November 26:    The Band perform their last concert together (The Last Waltz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew things were so eventful back then?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DShakespear's Sister%2526songTerm=Stay%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Stay' on the iTMS\">Stay<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DShakespear's Sister%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Shakespear's Sister' on the iTMS\">Shakespear&#8217;s Sister<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DShakespear's Sister%2526albumTerm=Hormonally Yours%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Hormonally Yours' on the iTMS\">Hormonally Yours<\/a><\/em> (1991, 3:48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Movie Timeline is the history of everything, taken from one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true &#8211; 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