Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation

I can remember watching the first "Mission: Impossible" film when I was nine years old all those years ago. In 1996, when that first film was released, Tom Cruise had been one of Hollywood's hottest stars for about a decade, and (the Peter Graves controversy aside) he effortlessly helped established...

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The Greatest Beatles Songs

I've been thinking a lot of the Beatles lately. I'm currently reading an old copy of Hunter Davies' authorized biography of the group just before their breakup, Ringo Starr turned 75 a few months ago, and I glanced through Elvis Costello's article in Rolling Stones magazine this past summer. And so,...

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