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He’s the one who alienates half the dinner guests at your party, gets roaring drunk, makes a pass at your wife, breaks your $1,000 vase,...

Back in the mid-sixties, when the Beatles were hot, it seemed everyone was claiming to be "The Fifth Beatle"; in New York City, a popular...

There’s Frankenstein and there’s Frankenstein. There is a difference. There’s the classic Frankenstein movies of Universal Pictures,...

If you love baseball, and were lucky enough to have lived in Los Angeles some time in the past 60 years, then you are familiar with one...

How can you not love a girl who adores the Beatles, gets Frank Sinatra, loves Jazz, and who enjoys sitting under the stars at the...

Over half a century ago, the Beatles made their American debut on the Ed Sullivan Show (February 9, 1964). In one memorable evening they...

Who was Vaclav Havel? He was a leading figure in the "Velvet Revolution", that propelled Czechoslovakia to Independence from the Soviet...

This is a story of two successful pop/rock bands, one was English and the other was American. Despite being from different nations,...

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Carroll Shelby dreamed of building an American sports car. It wasn't a daydream, but an actual dream he had at night. He awoke and wrote...

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It was a magical time to be in motor racing. Anything was possible. It was a time when a sharp entrepreneur like Ken Tyrrell could...