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Actress Bonnie Franklin, who died on March 1 at age 69 in Los Angeles, was a television trailblazer in the Norman Lear-Allan Manings sitcom One Day at a Time, which had a nearly nine-year run on CBS from 1975 to 1984. Franklin wasn't the first to portray a divorced woman on TV, but as Ann Romano, a…
In the mid-to-late 1950s, there were two young men in their early 20s - one born in Mississippi, the other in Louisiana - who not only climbed meteorically to the top of the musical world but caused a sensation with their flamboyant hairstyles and matinee-idol looks.
When such Staple Singers' hits as " I'll Take You There" and " If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" came on the radio, it was easy to get lost in Mavis Staples' raspy, soulful contralto lead vocals. But if you listened closer, another part of what made the Chicago gospel-soul group's distinctive…
George Aratani was as personally well-known as the imported products sold by the companies he founded - most notably, the Mikasa line of dinnerware, and Kenwood home audio equipment.
You know the story: Girl from respectable family falls in love with motorcycle-riding bad boy from the wrong side of town. Parents disapprove, and force the girl to break up with the boy. Boy, aggrieved and despondent as only a young romantic can be, peels out on his motorcycle, and promptly…
In 1961, a Washington lawyer named Steuart Pittman was tapped by President John F. Kennedy's administration for a singularly unpleasant job: getting Americans to prepare for a nuclear Armageddon.
Back in 1966, a folk-rock group called The Association had a huge hit with a song called "Along Comes Mary," which provoked a lot of knowing snickers among adolescents who assumed it was a thinly coded reference to, well, smoking weed.
If you grew up in the 1960s, you probably still remember the lyrics to this theme song:
Richard Collins was a gifted screenwriter - he wrote the screenplay for the 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers - and he produced hundreds of episodes of such venerable TV shows as Bonanza and Matlock. But in the eyes of Hollywood, he was never quite able to overcome another infamous…
Today, the title of the sexy 1960 Elizabeth Taylor drama BUtterfield 8 probably puzzles a lot of younger movie buffs who come across it on Netflix. They don't recognize it as an old-fashioned phone number, with the first two letters and a number denoting a local exchange on Manhattan's posh Upper…