Armed with a five octave voice, Mariah Carey burst on to the music scene in 1990 with her self titled album. At that time, she became the first singer to have her first five singles reach #1 on the U.S….
Movie trailers can make or break a film. Trailers are the marketing tool that can make an audience rush out to see a film or forget about it instantly. A great trailer can give birth to a tagline or catch…
I have to admit that having watched the first few minutes of Rob & Big when it debuted on MTV in 2006, I thought, what the heck is this? Watching a 30-something professional skater named Rob Dyrdek and his 400…
Brighton, England’s The Pipettes were formed in 2004, by a local promoter named Monster Bobby who wanted to bring the Phil Spector sound back into the 21st century. By early 2005, Monster Bobby had put together a line up of…
The late 1960’s was a tough time in California. In 1969, Charles Manson and his family systematically murdered seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Around that same time, during an eleven month period in 1968-69 an individual who identified himself…
George Lucas is rarely a man of small ideas. In 1992, Lucas decided to transfer the character of Indiana Jones, popularized in three mega-successful films, on to the small screen. Conceived as The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the series began…
Ben Stiller’s quick to DVD version of The Heartbreak Kid is a prime example of why Hollywood sometimes needs to think twice about doing a remake. The Heartbreak Kid was originally done by Elaine May back in 1972 in a…
As a card carrying member of Red Sox Nation, I suffered many years before that magical season in 2004, when my beloved team finally won a championship after eighty-six years of disappointments. Even though I’ll never forget that night in…
Though Judy Garland died a few years before I was born, I have been a fan of hers most of my life. I watched The Wizard of Oz just to hear her sing “Over the Rainbow.” Garland’s 1954 version of…
Sonic Underground, which debuted in 1999 was the third cartoon series based on Sega’s popular video game character, Sonic the Hedgehog. Underground finds Sonic as one of three siblings–also including Manic and Sonia–who has joined the others to form the…