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It's our 200th edition of Movies by the Decade, and this week has quite a few notable films and blockbusters as we head into the Summer season. In 1924, Mary Pickford produced a film she hoped would change her image ...
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It was another slow week as the regular TV season comes to an end and a few new Summer series make their debuts, all in 2014. One new series barely made it through a month before it was yanked, a ...
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This week saw the release of many films over the last 100 years with quite a few based on literature or stage production, a few that have some interesting firsts, and several that earned some Oscar glory. Of the nine ...
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There are just three new series debuts this week, all fitting into the game show genre but only one of them being moderately successful. 2004 had a singing competition that pulled the wool over everyone's eyes ... and got into ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic work of theatre by Oscar Wilde which, for its time, was seen as somewhat radical in that, as some critics suggested, it was empty of any meaning and lacked any social message ...
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Everyone these days is familiar with Tupperware, or at least the kinds of plastic containers that are used to store leftovers that have been knocked off from the popular brand and are just generically referred to as Tupperware. They aren't! ...
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Films that were released this week over the last century include a classic 1924 silent comedy, a 1934 Joan Crawford film that was later featured in another Joan Crawford film, a 1944 camp classic, a 1954 3D gorilla and an ...
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Murder mystery board game Clue has been with us for decades. First launched in the UK in 1949 -- known as Cluedo -- the game came to US shores courtesy of Parker Brothers -- now Hasbro -- and has been ...
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Of the two decades with series premieres on the list this week, only one of those decades actually had new series and, technically, only three of the four were really new. 1974 gave us a game show that simply moved ...
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He’s a stunt man, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this ...
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We're on the cusp of the Summer Movie Season -- at least in the latter part of the century -- and Hollywood has a lot to offer with a handful of really notable films. 1934 saw the first pairing of ...
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Only a handful of new shows premiered this week, but a few of them were very notable. It's not often we include shows that didn't air nationally on a network, in Syndication or on cable, but a 1954 series shown ...
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