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When CBS’s “Survivor” burst on to TV screens on May 31, 2000, few could have predicted that it would launch an entirely new genre of television that, more than 20 years later, still dominates networks…
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For film fans, the last year of the 20th Century really had everything. A career-launching suspense from M. Night Shyamalan. An indie smash that created the “found footage” horror genre. Some of the most iconic…
Queer cinema has existed almost as long cinema itself. The art form has proven an ideal forum for the LGBTQIA+ community to tell its stories, and to expose wider audiences to the realities of being…
The adorable pocket monsters of Pokemon have been super effective at delighting us ever since they first debuted in 1996. Maybe you had the trading card game. Maybe you played the GameBoy game. Maybe you…
They solve crimes and captivate our attention. Detectives on TV! Since at least the late 1930s (Inspector Holt, “Telecrime,” BBC) detectives have been a staple of TV shows. Most are procedurals (the “Law & Order”…
Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere Bono Allman — better known to the world simply as Cher — is a true American entertainment icon. She worked her way up from a back-up singer to the Ronettes and the…
Disney vacations are the stuff dreams are made of. Much of that comes down to the incredible rides the Imagineers have created for the parks in the nearly 70 years since Disneyland first opened in…
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