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BY RANDAL C. HILL
Batman featured an ear-candy theme song, barbaric death traps, innovative gadgets and repulsive villains (each one represented by a celebrity guest). The show was played for laughs all the way and poked fun at melodrama while injecting pop-culture references into the action. With all this rolled into a presentation best described as “camp”—something...
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By Michael B. Wright
Growing up, our favorite entertainment was The Little Rascals, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Flash Gordon and Tarzan, especially. We had our favorite Tarzans. Johnny Weissmuller was not number one. Gordon Scott...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
As the first female governor of New York assumes her post, she, Kathy Hochul, claims to be independent, promises to speak out for what she believes, and vows to live a life of purpose which is to better the...
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By Kathy A. Megyeri
When a teen, I never missed the Miss America pageant on TV. I was fascinated with the gowns, bathing suits and responses to questions asked of the contestants, particularly as they revealed a favorite cause or...
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By Randal C. Hill
On the night of December 27, 1960—a chilly Tuesday evening—1,500 music fans jammed into the spacious Litherland Town Hall in Liverpool, England. Promotional posters promised fans a grand night of dancing and rock ‘n’ roll, thanks to the debut of...
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By Randal C. Hill
Pop music star Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitas in 1944 in Hells Kitchen, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother and a Greek father. By age 15, Tony had formed...
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BY RANDAL C. HILL
Have you ever heard of musician Billy Strange? Born William Everett Strange in 1930 in Long Beach, California, he became an in-demand session guitarist/arranger in Hollywood who recorded with such top-drawer artists as Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, Cher and Nancy...
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Not long ago, I visited the Flight 93 Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for the third time because I continue to be moved by its serenity and beauty in the midst of a Somerset County, PA, field.
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By Rebecca Fending
The month of March is National Women’s History Month. Women tend to be unsung heroes, taken for granted or largely forgotten. However, this month, we honor and revisit those who deserve to be exalted for their accomplishments.
Mary...
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By Randal C. Hill
He couldn’t shapeshift into a wolf, and his real name wasn’t Jack. In fact, when he was born in 1938, Wolfman Jack was known back then simply as “Bob Smith from Brooklyn.”
Smith, who grew up...
