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Thumbnail image from Pixabay 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....

Thumbnail image from Pixabay 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...

Thumbnail image from mcall.com By Randal C. Hill Pop music star Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitas in 1944 in Hells Kitchen, New York,...

Thumbnail image from Saporta Report By Randal C. Hill “The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.”Gloria Steinem At last. A worthy...

Thumbnail image from Pixabay 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,...

Thumbnail image from Pixabay 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...

Thumbnail image from Marvel 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...

Thumbnail image from Pixabay 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...

Thumbnail image from The Atlantic 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...

Thumbnail image from Medium.com 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...