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...with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson; in Los Angeles. A close friend of John Lennon, Spector co-produced the Beatles' final album Let It Be. His revolutionary "wall of sound" recording techniques transformed the music industry, making possible such 1960s pop hits like the Ronettes' Be My Baby and the Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Loving Feeling. Spector has been released on $1 million bail and will be represented by Robert Shapiro, the lawyer who played a key role in O.J. Simpson's defense...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Steven Spielberg takes a breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman?...
...1960s dawned, the home of folk musicians wasn’t Grenwich Village—it was Harvard Square, and more specifically Club Passim. Artists ranging from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez would play benefits for Harvard students and headline social protest rallies. Dylan’s first album even has lyrics about drawing inspiration from wandering through Harvard Square...
...residence's Qing-dynasty compound is rumored to have once been the home of Kuomintang General Fu Zuoyi and served as both an infirmary and message center for the Communist government. In the late 1960s, a bomb shelter was dug out from under the courtyard on the orders of Lin Biao, Mao's then-heir apparent. Brahm has turned it into the three-chambered Bomb Shelter Bar, a lushly decorated wine and cigar lounge where you can sip red Bordeaux while watching vintage films, such as The East Is Red and Ballet of the Red Detachment of Women. Brahm...
...Black Pride movement sparked numerous other Gay, Asian American and Native American Pride campaigns. Civil rights for Blacks were the start of civil rights for all. For instance, the gay rights movement has mimicked many of the tactics pioneered by civil rights activists during the 1960s, such as legal challenges to unfair laws, civil disobedience in the form of “sip-ins” to protest discrimination in bars and the “rights” rhetoric. Before there was the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Title IX of 1972, or the Americans...