The MODS & ROCKERS!
The Pop-Culture Icons Guide
The films in the festival feature some of the larger-than-life people
who by their personalities or work defined the Sixties. So check out
the movies featuring these pop-culture icons!
Alan Aldridge
- Famed
illustrator/artist - including the cult book "The Beatles Illustrated
Lyrics"
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- Syd Barrett
- Legendary founder of the original Pink Floyd. Rock's first acid
casualty. See Syd Play!
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- Toni Basil
- The famous choreographer/cheerleader/singer
("Mickey") started by choreographing Monkees!
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- Jane Birkin
- British actress-singer-nymph! (The notorious "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus"
erotic Euro-hit!) Still wowing the French!
Blow Up
Wonderwall
- Timothy Carey
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- Howard Cosell
- The very first of his several movie cameos
as "Himself" Well before Woody Allen's "Bananas" and "Broadway Danny
Rose."
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- Mal Evans
- Famed faithful Beatles roadie plays a
cross-channel swimmer. He later played an anvil (!) during the
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" recording session in "Let It Be" Last role:
Tragically he played an undeserving target for trigger-happy L.A. cops
in 1973. R.I.P. Mal.
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- Annette Funicello
- The original Mouseketeer!
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- Allen Ginsberg
- The definitive beat poet
who transcended time to become the definitive hippie poet and guru
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- David Hockney
- The definitive 60's
artist. Northern English working-class. Took England then America by
storm. Still (rightly) respected - both for his innovative art and for
his political/social conscience
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- Sonny Liston
- The former heavyweight champ hooks up
with the Monkees! Clay/Ali may have beaten him - but he's still a
knock-out!
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- Victor Mature
- The original alpha-man! An actor with the
wit and courage to lampoon his own faded 40's matinee idol image (rent:
"After The Fox"!)
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- Edna O'Brien
- The feisty outspoken writer
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- Andrew Loog Oldham
- The Rolling
Stones'
enigmatic first manager. His unintentionally badly-executed copycat of
a George Martin concept (an orchestral album of his band's rock hits)
yielded a barely-recognizable 1965 cover of the Stones' "The Last Time"
- the perfect music bed for The Verve's 1998 hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
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- Anita Pallenberg
- Actress/model/geologist (Noted collector of Stones - including Brian,
Mick, Keith...)
Performance
- Jean Shrimpton
- The original super-model/actress - nicknamed ‘The Shrimp’ Her sister
Chrissie was Mick Jagger’s first post-fame girlfriend - but it ended
because she wasn’t Faithfull. (Marianne that is! The next conquest on
Mick’s never-ending belt!) Jean was once engaged to 60’s photographer
David Bailey - the prototype for the David Hemmings character in
“Blow-Up”
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- Frank Zappa
- A Mother of a musician and visionary - in
a rare acting role - as a critic!
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