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Steve Martin: Early years
Martin worked at the Bird Cage Theater in Knott's Berry Farm and at the Magic Shop at Disneyland as a teenager, where he developed his talents for magic, juggling, playing the banjo and creating balloon animals.
Martin majored in philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, but dropped out. Nevertheless, his time there changed his life:
:"It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, "Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!" Then it gets real easy to write this stuff, because all you have to do is twist everything hard - you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set I up, that it's easy... and it's thrilling."
A girlfriend helped him get his first
real job in 1967, as a comedy writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the show she was on as a dancer. Martin, along with the other writers for that show, won an Emmy Award in 1969. Martin also wrote for
John Denver (a neighbor of his in Aspen, Colorado at one point) and The
Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
He then started performing his own material, sometimes as an opening act for groups such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Carpenters, and sometimes appearing on camera:
- Ray Stevens Show in 1970,
- The Ken Berry Show in 1972,
- The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour from 1972 to 1973,
- The Smothers Brothers Show in 1975, and
- Johnny Cash and Friends in 1976.
He appeared at San Francisco's
The Boarding House among other locations. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1975.
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LiteratureDisneyland home movie from 1956 makes Library of Congress's National Film Registry
Molly sez, "Robbins Barstow's film Disneyland Dream was included in this year's National Film Registry (25 films selected by the Library of Congress annually). He is a tireless advocate for amateur film and a great supporter of Home Movie Day. Steve Martin wrote to Robbins Barstow after the news of Disneyland Dream being selected for the Film Registry. Martin appears in the home movie, he's 11 years old and worked selling guidebooks. Go home movies!" We've blogged Robbins's amazing home movies here before. The man's a hero of the medium. Well-deserved congratulations indeed. From the Library of Congress?s press release: Disneyland Dream (1956) The Barstow family films a memorable home movie of their trip to Disneyland. Robbins and Meg Barstow, along with their children Mary, David and Daniel were among 25 families who won a free trip to the newly opened Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., as part of a ?Scotch Brand Cellophane Tape? contest sponsored by 3M. Through vivid color and droll narration (?The landscape was very different from back home in Connecticut?), we see a fantastic historical snapshot of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Catalina Island, Knott?s Berry Farm, Universal Studios and Disneyland in mid-1956. Home movies have assumed a rapidly increasing importance in American cultural studies as they provide a priceless and authentic record of time and place. The film, along with 15 other Barstow Travel Adventure titles, is available for viewing and downloading at the Internet Archive. Robbins Barstow?s ?Disneyland Dream? Named to National Film Registry, Steve Martin and Disneyland Dream (Thanks, Molly!) Previously:Robbins Barstow's spectacular amateur films - Boing Boing Home movie of contest-winning family vacation to Disneyland in ......
Published: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:20:48 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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