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Summer Fashion

sillybilly1Here I am modeling an eye-catching summer ensemble of swim trunks, ski cap, glasses and black gloves. It’s funny what you can get away with when you’re five years old. I expect if I tried this today, I might be reported to the authorities.

I love seeing my mom’s old green Chevy Malibu in the background here. What a beautiful, sporty car that was.

Oklahoma!

48ed0_ok-posterHere’s a piece I wrote about Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical:

Oklahoma!

Copyright Infringement

jake_holmesIn the wake of recent lawsuits against Led Zeppelin and Men At Work, my latest MOJO Blog is a brief history of copyright infringement cases:

You Stole My Song!

“A Note From The Management”

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A little fun pairing our song with a ’50s training video called “You And Office Safety.”

A Note From The Management

30 Things I Love About Old Movies

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1 Spinning Headlines
2 Calendar pages torn away to mark passage of time
3 “Say, what’s the big idea?”
4 Window shopping
5 Sleeper cars on trains
6 Dry, witty butlers
7 “That’s swell!”
8 “Try and get some sleep”
9 Steamer trunks
10 Silk pajamas
11 Suspenders on fat men
12 Double takes
13 Seltzer bottles
14 Hobos with bindlestiffs
15 Wisecracking taxi drivers
16 Character actors with interesting faces
17 Guns being pulled from suit jackets
18 Backstage dressing room scenes
19 “Nights on the town” montages
20 Thin mustaches
21 A woman pressing the back of her hand to her forehead
22 Cigarette holders
23 “Why you . . .!”
24 Dream sequences
25 Flashbacks
26 “You big lug”
27 Telephone exchange operators
28 Men named Vance, Cyril, Pendleton, Sammy
29 Women named Gladys, Myrtle, June, Dorothy
30 Dotted lines across maps to depict long journeys