On This Day: June 2, 1989 — Dead Poets Society Premieres
On June 2, 1989, Dead Poets Society opened in eight theaters and became the year’s highest-grossing drama. The story behind Robin Williams, the cast, and the desk scene.
-
-
Colors 1988 Movie: 9 Reasons This LA Gang Film Still Hits
The Colors 1988 movie grossed $46 million on a $10 million budget and dropped a hip-hop title track that Ice-T still calls the most important song of his career — but the real story is that Dennis Hopper, the man who blew up Hollywood with Easy Rider in 1969, spent nineteen years in the wilderness…
-
Mr T A-Team: 7 Reasons BA Baracus Owned the 1980s
How Laurence Tureaud became Mr. T — Rocky III, The A-Team, the mohawk, the gold chains, and the cultural takeover of the 1980s.
-
Miami Vice: 9 Reasons the 1984 Show Defined 80s Cool
Miami Vice premiered Sep 16, 1984 and rewired 80s style, music, and TV. Inside Crockett, Tubbs, the Ferrari, and why it still pops.
-
On This Day: May 26, 1990 — The Week Women Owned the Entire Billboard Top 5
On the morning of May 26, 1990, radio DJs across America were spinning a chart that had never existed before. Five songs sat at numbers one through five on the Billboard Hot 100. Five songs. All by women. It sounds like a footnote, but in the pop landscape of 1990 — an industry still largely…
-
MC Hammer: The Rise, the Pants, the Bankruptcy, and the Legacy
On February 12, 1990 — the same day Nelson Mandela walked free from Victor Verster Prison — a 27-year-old kid from Oakland named Stanley Kirk Burrell released his third studio album and accidentally changed pop culture forever. By August, it was selling 100,000 copies a day. By the following spring, it had gone diamond with…
-
On This Day: May 25, 1983 — Return of the Jedi Premieres
On May 25, 1983, Return of the Jedi opened in 1,002 theaters and broke every box-office record on the books. Inside the secret production, the Ewok backlash, and how George Lucas closed the original Star Wars trilogy.
-
Hudson Hawk: 7 Wild Facts From May 24, 1991’s Bomb
Hudson Hawk hit theaters on May 24, 1991 and became Bruce Willis’s most notorious flop. 7 wild facts about the $65M cult classic that almost broke a career.
-
Squirm (1976): The Killer Worm Horror That Actually Got Under Your Skin
Squirm 1976 is still a gross little cult miracle, all stormy Georgia dread, practical effects, and pure drive-in horror nerve.
-
The Night Hip Hop Was Born: What Really Happened in the Bronx
The history of hip hop begins on one specific night: August 11, 1973, in the recreation room of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx. An 18-year-old Jamaican kid named Clive Campbell — who the neighborhood would soon know as DJ Kool Herc — hooked up two turntables, grabbed a microphone,…
-
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: What Happened When Rock Said Goodbye
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley on April 20, 1992 united rock’s biggest stars for a billion viewers. 7 iconic moments relived.
-
The Tracey Ullman Show: The Simpsons Sketch That Started an Empire
Tracey Ullman Simpsons history starts on April 19, 1987, when the crude little Good Night short introduced TV’s most durable family.
