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She is one of the few artists to have won all four major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, also known as the coveted EGOT. Moreno's breakthrough came with her Oscar-winning performance in the 1961 film West Side Story. Despite facing typ...
While 1970 marked the dawn of a new decade, the socio-political upheaval of the late 60s was still very much at the forefront of artists’ minds. Plenty of musicians used their voices for change, withJohn Lennon, Curtis Mayfield, andStevie Wonder, among others, calling for peace and equalit...
United Artists The cinematic masterpiecethat isOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestexplores the institutionalized world of a mental health facility, challenging societal norms and questioning the nature of sanity. Jack Nicholson's performance as Randle McMurphy is nothing short of extraordinary, showcasing...
Emblematic of the decade’s moral decay, The French Connection still hits hard after all these years. 25. Annie Hall (1977) (Image credit: United Artists) While admiration for Woody Allen has understandably soured over the years, Annie Hall is still deserving of celebration as an outrageously...
of rock and roll artists ever play their music in a peaceful demonstration against the war. The cameras catch the acts, but go so much further than that, heading into the crowds to talk to the people who came there to find out why, to the townsfolk who loved the kids and went out ...
Various Artists:The Harder They Come (1972) I never bought Jimmy Cliff’s optimism in the face of adversity. If Horatio Alger was a ridiculous longshot in the United States, imagine the odds for someone coming from a Jamaican slum. Statistically speaking, that which the people from ghettoized...
Check out our playlist of the best 70s music on Spotify. Funk It’s hard to imagine a more vital genre in the 70s than funk. Songs from Black artists all over the United States were busy soundtracking dance floors the world over. The intent was often simply to make folks move: “Haven...
Various Artists:The Harder They Come (1972) I never bought Jimmy Cliff’s optimism in the face of adversity. If Horatio Alger was a ridiculous longshot in the United States, imagine the odds for someone coming from a Jamaican slum. Statistically speaking, that which the people from ghettoized...
Seven years after the Watts rebellion sparked by Martin Luther King Jr’s death, a concert featuring the recording artists of Stax Records took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Its aim was to heal the area.“Iamsomebody,” spoken proudly by Jesse Jackson, became its battle cry. D...