“My RAD Career” is a roller coaster ride through Hollywood in the 1980s as seen through the eyes of one of the cult figures of the era, Bill Allen (star of the movie RAD). Starting as a teen actor on his first ill-fated film alongside a young George Clooney, Bill shares his personal and professional
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There are few things that occur in a flash that change our entire soul as a nation. One of those was the 9/11 attack on the World Trade center. In a surreal moment, even the least concerned about world affairs became totally irreversibly involved. Terrorism was instantly front and center to everyone around the globe.
Set in the backdrop of 1960s Coney Island, Detective Sergeant Roscoe Brown and his partner Detective Jimmy Walsh of the Homicide Unit solve some of the most strange and curious murder cases New York has ever seen. To the tourist, Coney Island is known as the “Playground of the World”: home of the Wonder Wheel,
When a billionaire game manufacturer finds out he’s dying from an incurable disease, he summons three former close friends from college to pilot a new murder mystery game his company’s developing. Estranged since graduation, each has fallen on hard times and see the invitation as a way of soliciting financial assistance from their wealthy friend.
When Helen Chapman, the beautiful 16-year-old daughter of army chief-of-staff for the European Command in Germany, had gone missing, her father Brigadier General Earl Chapman assumed she sped off on yet another one of her adventures with her boyfriend. However, hours later the body of Helen Chapman’s boyfriend was discovered by German police on the
The first photograph Amelia Thorn ever took was of her father on the beach in the 1930s as he stared wistfully out to sea. The last, some seven decades later, is of a familiar old woman teetering on the edge of life. Between those two clicks of the aperture Amelia experiences a lifetime of hardship,
Born and raised in a patriarchal farming community infused with bent religion, nineteen-year-old Meyrick has spent the majority of her life encased in snow-dusted hills and trees. Stanch regulation leaves little room for teenage antics and Meyrick finds herself dreaming of a future far from the grasp of rural Alberta. As plans to leave for
“Before Penn” provides the little known but fascinating history of the European settlement of the Delaware River Valley prior to the founding of Philadelphia by William Penn. The background tells of a legendary visit to North America by Irish monk St. Brendan in the seventh century and continues with a litany of European explorers searching
El Buscador has long been legendary for revealing, to select visitors, New York’s secrets. Now he confronts his greatest challenge: The real estate mogul Timothy Terrance Tolland has been erecting skyscrapers at an alarming rate. Tolland’s mysterious construction at Canal Street threatens to tear the city’s fabric. Aided by a group of investigative reporters, El