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"'Doctor Zhivago' on a shoestring": When Lisa Vanderpump ruled in new wave band ABC's cult movie 'Mantrap'
This surreal '80s spy caper is an “underground classic,” but thanks to the internet and Vanderpump’s marquee name, it's reaching new audiences 40 years after its release.
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Duran Duran on 'Rio,' 40 years later: The 'exotic, erotic' album that 'put us on the map — and kept us there'
Was there ever any album that embodied all things grand and glamorous about the escapist, excessive, exotic, erotic, aspirational ’80s more than Duran Duran’s 'Rio'?
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35 Years Later, John Lennon’s Politics Are as Loud as His Music
I’m an artist first and a politician second. -John Lennon John Lennon would have been 75 years old this week, on Oct. 9. In the 35 years since his 1980 murder, the world has seen Reaganomics, Monica Lewinsky, Duran Duran, Nirvana, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise and fall of Biebermania, the nation’s first black president, Seinfeld, Live Aid, Jon Stewart, Sarah Palin, and Taylor Swift. Lennon died before the internet, Facebook, iPhones, and 9/11. He was gunned down while The Jeffersons wa