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Movie Preview: The War with Grandpa
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By Randal C. Hill
In 1978, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken starred in “The Deer Hunter”, one of moviedom’s most depressing war stories ever....
What? Paul McCartney is DEAD?
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By Randal C. Hill
In October 1969, shortly after the release of “Abbey Road”, Beatle fans everywhere were suddenly digging up “evidence” of a music-world tragedy—the death of Paul McCartney.
What did the rumor about Paul say?
According...
Music Flashback: “Candida” by Dawn
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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,...
Movie Preview: The Glorias, the Life of Gloria Steinem
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By Randal C. Hill
“The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.”Gloria Steinem
At last. A worthy...
The Summer of Love
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By Randal C. Hill
In the now-fabled summer of 1967, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood temporarily morphed into a community of societal dropouts,...
In the Summertime: Mungo Jerry
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By Randal C. Hill
C’mon, admit it. The cheerful, shuffling Top 5 single of “In the Summertime” brought a smile to your face and got your fingers drumming back in the...
Spider-Man: The Prodigious Power of Peter Parker
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By Randal C. Hill
It was the late 1950s, and comic-book sales were stagnating. So was the enthusiasm of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, following two decades...
Movie Preview: The Secret Garden
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By Randal C. Hill
The plot of The Secret Garden revolves around Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx), a wealthy, spoiled girl from 1947 colonial India, an update from the original 1911 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When her parents unexpectedly die, Mary is sent to Misselthwaite Manor, an...
Melanie: Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
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By Randal C. Hill
Melanie (full name Melanie Anne Safka) began her performing career as a folk singer in such hip Big Apple coffeehouses as the Café Wha? Later, at the Brill Building—the New York music-world hotspot—she met record producer Peter Schekeryk, her future manager...
Easy Rider: Cycles of Life… and Death
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By Randal C. Hill
Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway Lookin’ for adventure and whatever comes our way -Steppenwolf
“Easy Rider” was the ultimate epochal, and ultimately doomed, buddy picture, a movie replete...