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Woodstock did not happen in Woodstock. The festival borrowed its name from the artists’ colony in Ulster County, New York, where Bob Dylan was living and where its four young promoters hoped to build... Read More →
There is no Triple Crown of Acting. No academy hands it out, no committee meets to confer it, no statuette exists for the shelf. The phrase was lifted from horse racing – where a... Read More →
On the night of May 4, 1959, the recording industry handed out its first Grammy Awards at two black-tie dinners held at the same hour on opposite coasts – one in the Grand Ballroom... Read More →
Toy Story 5 opens with a wedding. Bonnie, eight years old now, marries a plastic spork to a plastic knife named Karen Beverly, casts Buzz Lightyear as best man and a tyrannosaur as maid... Read More →
In 1984, a Miami Vice actor named Philip Michael Thomas began wearing a gold medallion stamped with four letters: EGOT. He told a reporter he expected to win all four awards it stood for... Read More →
The one piece of music Carl Sagan’s committee wanted most never made it aboard. They asked for the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” and the Beatles themselves agreed. The record company that owned the... Read More →
Robert Johnson had been dead for forty-eight years when the Hall of Fame put him in its founding class of 1986 – not through the Performer wing, but by way of a separate honor... Read More →
Ask who was in the first class of the Rock Hall and most people will hand you ten names: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and the rest of the founding performers. The ten everyone... Read More →
Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is something that happens to you whether you want it or not. There is no application and nothing to sign. A nominating committee puts your... Read More →
Hogwarts is, on the authority of J.K. Rowling herself, the most heavily haunted dwelling place in Britain. Given the competition on these islands, that is saying something. Most of its ghosts are never named.... Read More →
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