According to the official website, the month is meant to “[pay] tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society.” As of 2019, Hispanics make up the country’s largest minority group with a total population of 60.6 million....
Ringo switched hats from documentarian to surrealist. “My theory about filming concerts is you can’t capture the atmosphere that was in the hall,” he explained. “So I needed to do more.” He and Bolan concocted a couple of fantasy sequences to make the film more of a visual experienc...
His “invention of the shopping cart revolutionized merchandising and changed the face of America,” The Oklahoman newspaper wrote in tribute to the beloved native son the day after his death in 1984. The mid-1930s seem a most unlikely time to revolutionize global consumer culture. The world w...
While Jason Robards delivers a superb portrayal of an iconoclast living outside of society, railing against conformity, trying to raise his wonderfully compassionate nephew in search of a name, played by Barry Gordon (who also did the character on stage) in the film version adapted from the st...