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After his first American concert in ten years, Paul McCartney was flushed and triumphant. It had been six years since the breakup of the Beatles, and the audience in Fort Worth, Texas, had just given the former Beatle and his band, Wings, a screaming ovation. Paul McCartney had proved that he could make it on his own.
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Original Publication: Newsweek, December 15, 1975. Paul Simon should be on top of the world. His latest album, “Still Crazy After All These Years,” was No. 1 on the Billboard hits…
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Bruce who? He is still not exactly a household name across America. But since the release last August of his highly professional third album, “Born to Run,” which rocketed to a million-dollar gold album in six weeks, 26-year-old Bruce Springsteen has exploded into a genuine pop-music phenomenon.
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Working with Italian director Lina Wertmuller on the set of Seven Beauties. The film went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing — the first time a woman was nominated in that category.
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When Patricia Hearst returned to the San Francisco Federal courthouse last week to petition for her freedom, she was backed up by her family, a phalanx of nine lawyers and all the resources of the formidable Hearst wealth.
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Original Publication – Newsweek – November 25, 1974 “Give me a minor chord, Nino.” Seated at an editing machine in Rome, director Francis Ford Coppola is scoring reel 23, the…
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