The Morning Sound of Clark Weber from Chicago
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When Clark Weber and Ron Riley, two of the most popular personalities on Chicago’s hottest radio station, WLS, introduced The Beatles to a sold-out crowd at cavernous Comiskey Park on August 20, 1965, the reaction was tumultuous. “As we brought The Beatles on, you could put your hands out and actually feel the sound from […]
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Humans in Search of a “Good Death”
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As prominent psychologist Edwin Shneidman noted, you don’t have to die, it will be done for you. Shneidman also theorized that a person doesn’t experience death. Ironically, it is the living loved ones who experience the death. For well over 50 years, Shneidman studied loss of life, a subject which does not appeal to many, […]
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Mank on Netflix explores the mysteries of Citizen Kane
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After Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz shared the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 1941’s Citizen Kane, the wunderkind Welles sent this letter to his collaborator: “Dear Mankie, Here’s what I wanted to wire you after the Academy Dinner: ‘You can kiss my half.’ I dare to send it through the mails only now that I find it […]
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Even Experts Can Be Fooled By Silent Heart Attacks
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Bill Schaffer, a retired Emergency Medical Technician, did not recognize the symptoms of his heart problems. The stabbing pain in his back was something Schaffer thought a chiropractor could address. The indigestion was just part of being 57 years old. Then, one weekend, reality hit like a lightning strike: “I started feeling funny prior to […]
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When Riddle and Ronstadt Made Beautiful Music Together
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“Who is Linda Ronstadt?” That was the question Grammy/Oscar/Emmy winning arranger Nelson Riddle asked when he hung up the phone after a conversation with Peter Asher, Ronstadt’s manager. It was May of 1982 and Riddle was no longer at the top of his game: his best years, those times when he and Frank Sinatra were recording […]
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