Looking ahead to 2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n Will the New Year mean a new gig? If you’re over 50, you better have a Plan-B<\/strong>. Research shows<\/a> that more than half of us in that age bracket are more likely to be pushed out of our job before we are ready to go. Here are some tips on reinventing yourself<\/a> <\/strong>from our friends at the Harvard Business Review, just in case you need them..<\/p>\n Quick Takes:<\/strong><\/p>\n More & more retailers are saying<\/a>, \u201cYour cash ain\u2019t nothing but trash<\/strong>.\u201d Don’t forget that debit card!<\/p>\n Turner Classic Movies<\/strong> remembers<\/a> those who left us in 2018. The piece was produced before we lost Penny Marshall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/strong> does a uniformly excellent job of writing celebrity remembrances. Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s piece<\/a> on Margot Kidder<\/strong> is a tour de force.<\/p>\n The folks at TED<\/strong> teach us “How to disagree productively and find common ground<\/a>“. A skill sorely needed in Washington right now.<\/p>\n The 1960 version of Oceans Eleven<\/strong> was set on New Year\u2019s Eve in Las Vegas. It remains my favorite version of the franchise. Here\u2019s the original trailer.<\/a><\/p>\n The SciFi Channel<\/strong> (now calling themselves SyFi) is running another New Year’s Eve Twilight Zone<\/strong> marathon. Rod Serling<\/strong>‘s daughter, Anne<\/a>, regularly tweets about her famous father. What’s your favorite episode?<\/p>\n Today’s Birthdays:<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy Summers (The Police), 1942; John Denver, 1943 (died 1997); Pete Quaife (The Kinks), 1943 (died 2010); Burton Cummings (The Guess Who), 1947; Donna Summer, 1948 (died 2012); Tom Hamilton (Aerosmith), 1951<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/220px-Decca_Records_Rick_Nelson_1966.jpg\")
<\/a>On this date in 1985, Rick Nelson<\/strong> & six others died when his charted DC-3 aircraft crashed in Texas. A generation grew up with Rick and his brother David as co-stars on their parent’s television show, “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”<\/strong>. When Rick showed interest in music, his bandleader father knew how to capitalize on it. Here\u2019s a 1986 remembrance,<\/a> courtesy of Popular Culture Classics. Nelson patriarch, Ozzie, died in 1975, mom Harriet in 1994, and older brother David passed away<\/a> in 2011 at the age of 74. A 1998 documentary<\/a> revealed a family quite different from what we saw on the small screen, but perhaps more like many real families were, then and now.<\/p>\n<\/a>A reboot of the famous Woodstock Music and Art Fair<\/strong> returns to the site of the historic 1969<\/a> concert for a 50th anniversary event in August of 2019. The original was a money loser, until the 1970 film and double LP brought the event back to the center of the world’s attention. It amplified the carriers of Crosby, Stills & Nash<\/strong>, The Who<\/strong>, Joe Cocker<\/strong>, Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>, Sha-Na-Na<\/strong>, Santana<\/strong>, Richie Havens<\/strong> and others. The lineup for the 2019 iteration has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<\/a>Had enough of those sleep deficit inducing New Year’s Eve parties<\/strong>? We talked on Friday about Netflix’s cool way to scam kids<\/a><\/strong> into getting into bed early tonight. Here’s an idea<\/a> from WSJ Columnist Jason Gay on how to pull something similar with those friends who want you to stay up late.<\/p>\n<\/a>The LA Times reports<\/a> that Rabbit Ears<\/strong> are making a comeback in the era of cord cutting.<\/p>\n<\/a>Check out Robert DeNiro<\/strong>, DustinHoffman<\/strong> & JohnTravolta<\/strong> before they were famous, in these early 1960s TV commercials<\/a>.<\/p>\n