Harry Truman Doris Day Red China Johnnie Ray
South Pacific Walter Winchell  Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon Studebaker  Television
North Korea-South Korea Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs H-Bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom
Brando “The King and I” and “The Catcher in the Rye”
Eisenhower vaccine England’s got a new queen
Marciano Liberace Santayana goodbye
Josef Stalin Malenkov Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller Campanella Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn Juan Peron Toscanini Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls Rock Around the Clock
Einstein James Dean Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett Peter Pan Elvis Presley Disneyland
Bardot Budapest Alabama Khrushchev
Princess Grace Peyton Place Trouble in the Suez

Little Rock Pasternak Mickey Mantle Kerouac
Sputnik Chou En-Lai “Bridge On The River Kwai”
Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California Baseball
Starkwether Homicide Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly Ben Hur Space Monkey Mafia
Hula Hoops Castro  Edsel is a no-go
U2  Syngman Rhee payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker Psycho Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan Berlin  Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania
Ole Miss John Glenn Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul Malcolm X British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away what else do I have to say?
Birth control Ho Chi Minh Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot-Woodstock-Watergate punk rock
BeginReaganPalestine  Terror on the airline
Ayatollah’s in Iran  Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune Sally Ride heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts homeless Vets  AIDS Crack Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores China’s under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars I can’t take it anymore

We’re working on The Go-Go Tales. It’s a comedy feature set in a go-go club. That’s going to be the pilot for a series. It’s like La Cage Aux Folles meets The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie. If you can figure out how to do that, e-mail me.

(Abel Ferrara)

La nostra mente crea la realtà partendo dal mondo circostante. In “Videodrome” mi sono chiesto: fino a che punto i media possono trasformare il nostro modo di percepire la realtà? Il protagonista del film è l’esasperazione negativa di questa risposta: egli permette che i media costruiscano la sua realtà.

[Cronenberg on Cronenberg]