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23 October 2009 11:40 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
I'm not ashamed to say that Soupy Sales was one of the formative influences on my sense of humor as a preteen and adolescent, along with Rocky & Bullwinkle and the early years of Mad magazine. So I was sad to hear of his death yesterday. As a youth living in suburban Minneapolis in the early 1960s, I found myself drawn to anarchic and form-busting humor, but there wasn't much to be had. The early '60s were, in a sense, still the 1950s - watch an episode of Mad Men if you don't believe it. The '60s as a time of mass cultural upheaval didn't really kick in until the end of 1963-early 1964, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the arrival of the Beatles. But, beginning in 1961, when he moved from Detroit to Los Angeles - at least... »
- Marshall Fine
1 article from 2009
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