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Chariots of Fire: 1981 Best Picture

At the 54th Academy Awards “Chariots of Fire” won Best Picture, over the highly favored “Reds” (12 nominations), as well as “On Golden Pond” (10), “Raiders of the Lost Ark”...

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Dallas (TNT): Hurt Recap

There really was a lot of weird stuff going on in “Hurt”, the 11th episode of Season 3 of Dallas (9/1/2014). Like Emma weeping from afar at Drew’s funeral, then...

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Ordinary People: 1980 Best Picture

“Ordinary People” won Best Picture and Best Director at the 53rd Academy Awards, beating “Raging Bull”, “The Elephant Man” and “Tess”. Two biographical films about living people got the top...

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Sunny Recap: Ray Donovan

Last week in Walk This Way, Conor wanted the family, and he got the family in all its dysfunctional glory with a misspelled birthday cake to boot. In tonight’s episode,...

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The Deer Hunter: 1978 Best Picture

“The Deer Hunter” won Best Picture and Best Director at the 51st Academy Awards. The also rans were “Coming Home”, “Heaven Can Wait”, “Midnight Express” and “An Unmarried Woman”. Best...

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The 60s Teen Tragedy Song Craze

We tend to think of the sixties in connection with The Beatles, but before the Fab Four and subsequent British Invasion, there were several years where teen tragedy songs were...