tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360486056983018949.post5900992548415931925..comments2024-01-31T09:10:18.662-07:00Comments on "One Poor Correspondent": Getcha BackTom Nawrockihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03766845038505392731noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360486056983018949.post-24170880363275115922008-04-17T14:06:00.000-06:002008-04-17T14:06:00.000-06:00It was not my intention to disparage Brian Wilson,...It was not my intention to disparage Brian Wilson, for whom I have tremendous respect and affection. It's been a while since I read "Wouldn't It Be Nice," but as I recall, Brian himself admits he had serious mental problems during this time. I don't think it does anyone any good to pretend they weren't there. And I'm certainly not insinuating that they were in any way Brian's fault or that he should be blamed for them.<BR/><BR/>My own opinion is that if the worst thing Landy did was put Brian on TV, he'd have been a lot better off.Tom Nawrockihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766845038505392731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360486056983018949.post-17004725907748268902008-04-17T13:14:00.000-06:002008-04-17T13:14:00.000-06:00It's a bit unfair to dismiss Wilson as being "insa...It's a bit unfair to dismiss Wilson as being "insane," and a bit unkind to make fun of the man at a vulnerable point in his life. Insane? I've seen plenty of people look just as uncomfortable speaking in front of a group. Landy never should have put him on television, but that's not Wilson's fault. I guess 30 years later, even journalists have not come very far in understanding mental illness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360486056983018949.post-53372025152477863532008-04-14T13:30:00.000-06:002008-04-14T13:30:00.000-06:00Amazingly, the NBC special was called "The Beach B...Amazingly, the NBC special was called "The Beach Boys: It's O.K." It aired in August, 1976. "It's O.K." is apparently the title of a song from "15 Big Ones." <BR/><BR/>http://www.therockradio.com/2006/08/flashback-beach-boys-its-ok-special.htmlJoe Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08060317452146257550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360486056983018949.post-25657732661210559802008-04-14T10:23:00.000-06:002008-04-14T10:23:00.000-06:00I was looking for that Rolling Stone cover to put ...I was looking for that Rolling Stone cover to put with this item, but I couldn't find it. If it was November 1976, it was exactly contemporaneous with his appearance on Saturday night, which happened on November 23, 1976.Tom Nawrockihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766845038505392731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360486056983018949.post-55588482993831788972008-04-14T09:34:00.000-06:002008-04-14T09:34:00.000-06:00Lorne Michaels was tight with the Beach Boys and B...Lorne Michaels was tight with the Beach Boys and Brian. In 1976, Michaels directed a prime time NBC special on the Beach Boys. That's when Annie Leibovitz shot the photo of him in a bathrobe on the beach holding a surf board for the November '76 "Healing of Brother Brian" Rolling Stone cover story. (He's not healed at all. He spends part of the story trying to cage coke off the writer.) That photo was shot while Brian was filming a skit with Dan Akroyd and John Belushi in which Akroyd and Belushi play the surf police and arrest Brian for failure to surf. They take him to the Beach and make him surf. <BR/><BR/>Incidentally, this roman-a-clef about Brian, called Whale Music, is fantastic: <BR/><BR/>http://www.amazon.ca/Whale-Music-Paul-Quarrington/dp/0679308687Joe Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08060317452146257550noreply@blogger.com