The first time many Americans encountered Penny Marshall on their television sets, it was in this commercial for Head and Shoulders. The ad’s main selling point is meant to be the luxurious blonde mane of Marshall’s co-star, Farrah Fawcett. But there’s something in the dry exasperation with which Marshall responds …
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Famed music documentarian Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric and Jimi Hendrix‘s legendary Isle of Wight performance, died Saturday from kidney failure, Variety reports. He was 90. Lerner’s son, Noah, said the filmmaker died at his home in Long Island City, New York after falling ill about three …
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Following the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, his longtime collaborator and bandmate Donald Fagen penned a tribute to the guitarist/bassist who died at the age of 67. In the tribute, Fagen reminisces about their time as college students and how a “very rough childhood” in part molded Becker …
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