Melissa Gilbert recently turned 59. She had a quiet day with her family, which she said was “heaven.” As the former Little House on the Prairie star enjoys her last year in her 50s, let’s look back at how she began the decade: having a moving experience at a spiritual center.
Melissa Gilbert | Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Melissa Gilbert wanted to do something ‘quiet and reflective’ for her 50th birthday
Gilbert couldn’t have ignored turning 50 if she’d wanted to. Publications and sites ran headlines like “Half-Pint Reaches Half a Century” for months leading up to May 8. But she didn’t want to ignore it. She also didn’t want to celebrate with a big blowout, as she’d done for milestone birthdays in the past.
“For fifty, I decided that I’d had enough crazy to last a lifetime,” she wrote in her 2022 memoir, Back to the Prairie.
Melissa Gilbert | Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Melissa Gilbert wanted to do something ‘quiet and reflective’ for her 50th birthday
Gilbert couldn’t have ignored turning 50 if she’d wanted to. Publications and sites ran headlines like “Half-Pint Reaches Half a Century” for months leading up to May 8. But she didn’t want to ignore it. She also didn’t want to celebrate with a big blowout, as she’d done for milestone birthdays in the past.
“For fifty, I decided that I’d had enough crazy to last a lifetime,” she wrote in her 2022 memoir, Back to the Prairie.
- 5/18/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Turn Turn Turn by Jud Yalkut (1965-1966)
Jud Yalkut’s main contribution to the 1960s underground film scene was his cinematic documentation of multi-media installations and performance art “happenings.” One of his earliest contributions to this field was Turn Turn Turn, completed in either 1965 or 1966.
In 1965, Yalkut had joined the multimedia collective Usco, which the book Rock ‘N’ Film by David E. James describes as a group influenced by Marshal McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller and Meher Baba that created installations “designed to expand human consciousness to states of mystical awareness.” The name Usco is a shortening of the phrase “Company of Us” or “Us Company.”
According to the first Canyon Cinema Cooperative catalog, issued in December 1966, Yalkut describes Turn Turn Turn:
Sound by Usco
A kinetic alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicholas Schoffer, Julio Le Parc, Usco, and Nam June Paik. An experiment in McLuhan’s “the medium...
Jud Yalkut’s main contribution to the 1960s underground film scene was his cinematic documentation of multi-media installations and performance art “happenings.” One of his earliest contributions to this field was Turn Turn Turn, completed in either 1965 or 1966.
In 1965, Yalkut had joined the multimedia collective Usco, which the book Rock ‘N’ Film by David E. James describes as a group influenced by Marshal McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller and Meher Baba that created installations “designed to expand human consciousness to states of mystical awareness.” The name Usco is a shortening of the phrase “Company of Us” or “Us Company.”
According to the first Canyon Cinema Cooperative catalog, issued in December 1966, Yalkut describes Turn Turn Turn:
Sound by Usco
A kinetic alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicholas Schoffer, Julio Le Parc, Usco, and Nam June Paik. An experiment in McLuhan’s “the medium...
- 4/28/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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