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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | |  Oklahoma! On Broadway by The Ovi Team
March 31st 1943. The financial risk of mounting a Broadway musical is so great that few productions ever make it to the Great White Way without a period of try-outs and revisions outside of New York City. | | | |  Sunshine On My Shoulders by The Ovi Team
March 30th 1974. Of his many enormous hits in the 1970s, none captured the essence of John Denver better than his first #1 song, "Sunshine On My Shoulders," which reached the top of the pop charts on this day in 1974. | | | |  Tom Jones knighted by The Ovi Team
Tom Jones can apparently count among his many fans one Elizabeth Windsor of London, England-known professionally as Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland... | |
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| | |  Memes by Jan Sand
Way back when our prime common forbear lounged in a tide pool of tepid water, this blob of snot became upset by the windy to and fro that whacked it repeatedly and decided to hang onto a good sized pebble to fend off... | | | |  Mario Vargas Llosa by The Ovi Team
March 28th 1928; Peruvian novelist and unsuccessful presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa is born. Llosa, who built his fame as a writer on works ranging from novels to plays to critical essays... | | | |  Marlon Brando declines Oscar by The Ovi Team
March 27th, on this day in 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather. The Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather... | | | |  The bittersweet reunion of the Motown family by The Ovi Team
March 25th 1983; technically, the 25th anniversary of Motown Records should have been celebrated nine months later, in January 1984, but that was only one of several details glossed over in staging the landmark... | | | |  Elizabeth Taylor by The Ovi Team
March 23rd; on this day in 2011, actress Elizabeth Taylor, who appeared in more than 50 films, won two Academy Awards and was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, dies of complications from congestive heart failure... | | | |  Moondog Coronation Ball by The Ovi Team
Breathless promotion on the local radio station. Tickets selling out in a single day. Thousands of teenagers, hours before show time, lining up outside the biggest venue in town. | | | |  International Day of the Francophone by The Ovi Team
March 20th; half a billion Francophones around the world will celebrate International Day of Francophonie on 20 March. This event began in 1998 as a way for the then 49 members of La Francophonie to celebrate... | | | prev | | next | | |
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