[78-L] It's not only Ken Burns who get it wrong, or what is the obsession with Dave Brubeck?

[buster]

One thing that must be admired, however, is the cleverness of the morse code message played over the closing credits of "Empire of the Air."  Whether you like Ken or not, it's pretty cool. 

On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:30 AM, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:

> The Buddy Holly Story is full of this sort of anachronistic stuff. 
> The same goes for a film made that was to be the story of The Monkees 
> which showed their records as being on a label that was blue and 
> white, whereas the Colgems label was red and white.
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> One Ken Burn's docu-thing that got on my nerves was Empire of The 
> Air: The Men Who Made Radio. The lack of any mention of Nikolai Tesla 
> or Heinrich Hertz was bad enough. The reminiscence of some of the 
> contributors was enough to make my skin crawl. Particularly grating 
> was the commentary by Garrison Keillor where he spoke in overblown 
> terms and tone of voice of the radio having this "huge glowing dial". 
> Of course not being a fan of GK at all, this only made him seem more 
> like a buffoon in my eyes
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