Five shocking days in the life of an alcoholic While Wilder’s 1945 Oscar winner, The Lost Weekend, was not the first big-screen look at alcoholism, it was one of the earliest to take such an honest and unrelenting approach. Though ...
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Fans of The Golden Girls are proud of the show’s boundary breaking premise. Even now, pitching a primetime series featuring an entirely female regular cast all over the age of 50 would be laughable. And yet, the series was an ...
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Mike Tyson. Iron Mike. The baddest man on the planet. Five foot ten of unstoppable, unfettered carnage. A disciplined machine of purpose and destruction. Effectively orphaned at 16, Tyson took up boxing in juvenile detention, falling under the wing of ...
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About six months ago I was talking to a friend about what we had been reading recently. In her handbag was Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It was one of those books that she loved to reread ...
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