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Screen legend George C. Scott gives a strong, sensitive portrayal of a deeply religious Midwestern businessman whose daughter, while on a church-sponsored outing, runs away from home. He hires an oddball detective (Peter Boyle), who learns that the daughter has ...
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Science fiction stories and films set in a post-apocalyptic world have almost become cliché by now, and looking at the trailer for The Creator one can have the assumption that this one is no different, borrowing heavily from previous films ...
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The new play Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard is currently playing at Washington DC's Ford’s Theater, from playwright Pearl Cleage and director Seema Sueko, and uses an intentionally 'meta' approach to telling a story. We start in a random ...
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Everyone young and old knows the story of The Wizard of Oz, mainly through the classic 1939 MGM musical that has been a perennial on television for decades. It's also a good bet that most people have heard of The ...
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We're switching things up a bit this week due to the large number of new films, and keeping it more in line with our sister 'By The Decade' post for television. Now you'll see a list of the films released ...
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Another week with some major TV premieres across the decades. 1953 gave Danny Thomas a starring role in a sitcom that ran for more than a decade on two different networks under two different titles. 1963 saw the debut of ...
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As a Baltimore native and a child of the 60s and 70s, I wasn't really familiar with Baltimore native Billie Holiday until well into the 1980s when I worked with a young woman who was a singer who competed in ...
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This last full week of September across the decades was full of new movies making their debuts. Only problem is not many of them were all that memorable. There were a few bright spots this week such as the 1943 ...
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This was a huge week across six decades -- only 1953 had no new series premieres -- with many long-running shows making their debuts ... and just as many blink-and-you-miss-them shows, many barely lasting a season. This week also featured ...
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Ex-cop! Ex-CIA! Ex-plosive! Screen legend Burt Reynolds is back as Richard Malone, an ex-CIA agent looking to leave his past behind him and start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. But his dreams of living the quiet life soon ...
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There were quite a few films released this week over the past century, but you'd be hard-pressed to find many that are all that memorable. There are just as many Razzie nominees this week as there are Oscar nominees. Of ...
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The new Fall Season has begun this week across the decades with new series making their debuts in every decade, 1993 in particular having a banner week for extremely popular shows. 1953 and 1973 had two new shows each, but ...
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