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He managed the Bee Gees and created Saturday Night Fever but the closeted impressario ‘never felt that sense of success’ according to a new documentary
Robin, Maurice, Barry and Andy Gibb in Miami in 1978. Photograph: Michael Brennan/Getty Then again, the Bee Gees were outsiders from the start. In clips from Australian TV in the early 1960s, they look more like an old-fashioned variety act than a rockânâroll band: a lanky teenager and his little twin brothers, telling jokes and mugging for the camera between songs. Teenagers being what they are, you would have thought the 14-year-old Barry might view being shackled to his 10-year-old siblings as fatally injurious to his cool, but apparently not. âI never thought of them as...
>> eat your shorts? >> you could have looked at tv guide, any issue during the 60s, and i'll tell you where i was, watching that episode of "the flintstones" or "the jetsons." but i always thought those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said someday if i have my own tv show, i'm going to do it different. >> in the '80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didn't have any preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three-camera sitcom that you could do in animation. to qu...
And i'll tell you where i was, watching that episode of "the flintstones" or "the jetsons." i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show i'm going to do it different. >> in the '80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didn't have preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three camera sitcom that you could do in animation, to quote monty python, make it up as you go along. >> are there any jive talking robots in t...
And i will tell you where i was. and i was watching that episode of the flintstones or the jetsons. i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show i'm going to do it different. >> in the '80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didn't have preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three camera sitcom that you could do in animation, to quote monty python, make it up as you go along. >> are there any jive talking rob...