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Long before Bob Hope became known for his TV specials, USO tours and hosting the Academy Awards, he had a career on the stages of vaudeville and Broadway, followed by a stint on radio until TV came into American homes ...
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There’s no shortage of coming of age tales for young men, not in any medium, and certainly not movies. So sometimes it comes down to specificity and the underlying themes -- in this case the setting is modern day Ireland ...
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As we close out the month of April and head into May, the studios pulled out a lot of big guns for this week. Nearly every decade has at least one very well-known film, a classic, an award winner, a ...
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Of the four new series that debuted this week over the last 70 years, only one was a scripted, network series and it had the shortest run of the four, with some episodes never aired. The rest fall into the ...
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Bailey has a profound piece of advice for a patient this week and it's simple: 'Rest is not a dirty word.' Unless of course you're Meredith Grey, in which case - WAKE THE HELL UP FROM COVID-BEACH ALREADY. (Everyone is ...
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This was a pretty big week for movie releases across the last 100 years. Outside of 1931, each decade had something new to offer. There were a few stinkers, and a lot of money-makers. In 1941, Marlene Dietrich had a ...
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The first, and perhaps the best of the long-running series of horror films from the house of Hammer, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star in this landmark interpretation based on the famous Mary Shelley story. Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) ...
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The most recent episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is called 'Zoey’s Extraordinary Girls’ Night', which isn’t really thematically about a 'girls’ night' but it is the centerpiece of a few of the storylines. The actual underlying theme is explicitly said ...
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Only two new series premiered this week over the last 70 years, and both of them were in 1991. One is a beloved sitcom that ran for four seasons, and has recently joined the Disney Plus line-up, and the other ...
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Too much. Too Much. TOO MUCH.  If the majority of this season - steeped in the brutal reality of the COVID-19 Pandemic - has been too much, you might need to give this week's episode a pass for your own emotional ...
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The first half of the century saw several new films released, but none that are really remembered today or considered classics. It's not until 1971 when we get the first bona fide box office smash, but even today you may ...
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The most recent episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is called 'Zoey’s Extraordinary Mystery', and it utilizes the very stupid concept of the 'psychic medium' to explore a different way to get into the 'Zoey solves a problem' storyline. At this ...
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