Posted on 01/08/2005 11:24:29 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
;-)
Sounds like a plan.
Beyond the Sea (Official Site)
I am going to see this movie later on this week.
Yes, Kevin Spacey was excellent portraying Bobby Daren. However, what was fact and what was fantasy? Was he actually this big Vietnam war protester? I actually took somewhat a different spin on the whole movie. One thing that really jumped out at me was the anti-war theme. Kevin Spacey is one of the Hollywood crowd that is anti-Bush and, of course, anti-Iraqi war. And, Spacey is quite clever in how he slips this into the movie in an anti-Vietnam theme.
Basically the war in Vietnam wasn't lost in the jungles of Vietnam, but in the streets and universities of America.
According to the link in #34 posted by Banshee Bill, Darin DID get involved with the Kennedy campaign. Because everybody running in that election was running against LBJ, the war was a major theme. Also, "folk music" was sweeping the country. Everyone liked it -- not just the hippies -- and most of the recording artists morphed into that genre. Think Kingston Trio, John Denver, Jim Croce.
Frankly, I don't remember Darin being involved. But I was so poor and so involved raising 4 kids I wasn't very up to date in my listening. My singing fare was more in the nursery school genre. I wasn't hanging out in Las Vegas or the Copacabana, so I only heard Darin when he was a guest on Ed Sullivan, or one of the other Sunday night shows. We didn't have I Pods & Walkmans and 11 speaker stereo in our cars to keep up with the latest trends.
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