70s Flashback — Were Redenbacher and Bowman charged too much?
Imagine, for a few moments, that you are a fly on the wall.
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70s Flashback — He was known as ‘Harrison the Headache’
He’s one of the world’s biggest box-office stars, but to those who once worked alongside Harrison Ford, his later success no doubt left many people scratching their heads in amazement.
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70s Flashback — Better to avoid that room!
In late summer 1974, Stephen King and family rented a house in Boulder, Colo.
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70s Flashback — Beware of that ‘big ugly hole’
Sunday, Sept. 8, 1974.
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Seventies Flashback — Bobby Riggs said whaaaaat?
On Sept. 20, 1973, over 30,000 people crowded into Houston’s cavernous Astrodome.
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70s Flashback — ‘I Have A Bomb’ leaped D.B. Cooper into legend
It was on a stormy Thanksgiving Eve in 1971 that a person who called himself Dan Cooper leaped into legend in a bizarre escapade that remains history’s only unsolved commercial-airline hijacking.
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70s Flashback — ‘The Love Boat’ created cruise control
Can you imagine a TV series changing the fortunes of a major business?
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70s Flashback — The ‘Y’ and the Wherefore
In 1978, after producing two poorly selling Village People albums that featured only a lead singer (Victor Willis) and some session musicians, French record producer Jacques Morali experienced an epiphany for his third effort: a Casablanca Records album called “Cruisin.’ ”
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’70s Flashback — Man vs. Machine
It was early 1971, and 24-year-old Universal Studios employee Steven Spielberg found himself champing at the bit.
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‘70s Flashback — ‘Love Story’ Ruined Erich Segal
In 1958, Erich Segal graduated from Harvard University as both the class poet and a Latin salutatorian.
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