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  • Metal in Soviet Russia: Monsters of Rock 1991

    They chose to build a line-up that featured some of the most high-profile and electrifying names in heavy Some arrived barefoot, others climbed fences. Closing the night was AC/DC, whose set became an ecstatic culmination of everything that had come before now American rock played freely on state and private radio, and MTV broadcasts beamed into Russian homes

  • The Curious Rise and Fall of Dickens World: Kent’s Victorian Theme Park Experiment

    The Haunted House of 1859 was originally intended to be Ebenezer Scrooge's home, before being rebranded melodrama of Victorian stagecraft, theatricality and Dickens' own storytelling instincts finding a natural home For some, Dickens World was a curiously British oddity, ambitious but flawed, educational but disjointed

  • The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: From Broadway Flop to Oscar Sweep

    Miloš Forman, a Czech director who'd left his home country in 1968. How many Oscars did it win? Some dismissed it as just a play about a mental hospital. He even took some of his paintings along to the interview, figuring that if he didn't get the part he The Nurse Nobody Wanted Nurse Ratched was the hardest role to fill. Some of Brooks's colleagues thought he'd lost the plot letting a film crew in.

  • Fred Hampton: The Rise, Betrayal and Murder of a Black Panther Leader

    Some newspapers repeated the phrase. was a period when millions of Black families left the South in search of industrial work and, with some a young man who had been recruited by the FBI after an arrest, infiltrated the Chicago Panthers and rose On the evening of the 3rd of December, after Hampton led a political education class, he returned home Communications between the FBI and state authorities • Evidence that O’Neal had been paid and rewarded for his role

  • Mae West: The Woman Who Went to Jail for Free Speech — and Changed Hollywood Forever

    Her film debut came in Night After Night (1932), in a supporting role. West's actual line was 'Why don't you come up some time and see me?' — not the commonly cited 'Come up and see me sometime,' which reverses the emphasis entirely. I made a fortune out of it.” • “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” • “Is that

  • What the Doctors Gave Ian Curtis: The Pills, the Pressure, and the Night Joy Division Fell Apart

    His first major recognised seizure happened on 27 December 1978, during the drive home from a gig at It was a well-intentioned arrangement that also illustrated, with some clarity, how little genuine support The tour had been a long time coming. He made her promise not to come back to the house before his 10am train to Manchester the following day At some point in the early hours of 18 May 1980, he hanged himself in the kitchen.

  • The Manacled Mormon: The Kidnapping Case That Had British Tabloids in a Frenzy

    arrived at the cottage, May manacled him spread-eagled to the bed using leather straps, padlocks, chains, rope She maintained that he had come willingly, that the whole thing was a consensual romantic reunion, and The fact that the gender roles were reversed from the usual pattern meant that the tabloids could play She rang a Utah cinema screening Tabloid to ask if he had come to watch it. The British tabloid press, as Errol Morris's documentary notes with some irony, became the story as much

  • L.A. Woman: Why The Doors’ 1971 Raw, Ragged and Final Triumph is Their True Masterpiece

    “It was as if we had come full circle,” drummer John Densmore later wrote. The Doors had been a band in flux for some time. For some time, the band had been chafing under his strict approach. That “L’America” found a home on L.A. Woman is telling. “There were some mistakes,” Densmore told Modern Drummer in 2010, “but it had the feel.

  • Rubber Soul: How the Beatles Plastic Soul Album Changed Music

    The Byrds also played a significant role. He later said he had written it about an idealised woman he had yet to meet, a figure some have linked Lennon inhales sharply during the chorus was exaggerated in the mix, creating a hissing sound that some Photographer Robert Freeman shot the group in the garden of Lennons home. Some British pop journalists were more cautious.

  • The Real Story Of Tommy DeSimone — The Psychotic Gangster Behind Joe Pesci’s ‘Goodfellas’ Character

    Tommy wasn't some kid who wandered into organized crime. Researchers who've tried to verify Gianco's existence beyond Hill's own account have come up empty: no alongside Burke and Werner, each promised a cut somewhere between $10,000 and $50,000 depending on their role

  • Pushball: The Forgotten Sport That Used a Ball the Size of a Small Elephant

    Pushball at University: Class Wars by Any Other Name The sport found its most committed home in American universities, where it filled a specific social role. thousands of people something chaotic and entertaining to watch, and then left almost nothing behind except some

  • Behind the Kaleidoscope: The Women Busby Berkeley Used and the Deaths He Walked Away From

    Aline MacMahon brought genuine acting skill to roles that didn't always deserve it. Roosevelt Highway On the evening of 8 September 1935, Berkeley attended a party at the Pacific Palisades home

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