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Pebble Beach Golf Course
Pebble Beach is the most spectacular golf course in the United States. It doesn’t have the genteel beauty and pedigree of Augusta...
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Apocalypse Now
It’s a miracle Apocalypse Now ever got made. Lead actor Martin Sheen had a heart attack in the middle of filming. A typhoon came...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
Christmas Eve, 1951. A few privileged people gathered around a box in their living room called a “television” and saw the...
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The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
America experienced collective depression as the year 1964 dawned. John Kennedy, a charismatic and much-loved president, had been...
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“Purple Haze”
This is one of those things that make you go, “Hmm.” “Purple Haze” was a groundbreaking single written by Jimi...
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Veggie Tales
It’s a basic law of children’s entertainment that the best movies and videos appeal not just to kids, but to parents as well....
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Parker House Rolls
If you’d been a visitor to Boston in the second half of the nineteenth century, chances are you might have desired a room at the new...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When he was known as Lew Alcindor, a high school phenom leading Power Memorial to multiple state championships, America knew this young man...
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Sidney Poitier
Some people seem to happen to be in the right place at the right time, and fame or fortune finds them. Then there are others, like Sidney...
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My Fair Lady, Play and Film
George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion in 1912, but refused to allow it to be converted into a musical during his lifetime. Curmudgeon. So...
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