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Hoop Dreams


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Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James. It follows the story of two black high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players.

Originally intended to be a 30-minute short produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, it eventually led to five years of filming and 250 hours of footage. It premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Despite its length (171 minutes) and unlikely commercial genre, it received high critical and popular acclaim. It was on more critics’ top ten lists than any other film that year, including Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Heavenly Creatures and Quiz Show.

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Laverne & Shirley


Submitted by Kr

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Laverne & Shirley is an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, roommates who, as the series began, worked in a Milwaukee brewery.

The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that show as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley started in approximately 1959, and when the series ended, it was 1967.

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Benji


Submitted by Kr

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Benji is the name of a fictitious dog who has been the focus of several movies from 1974 through the 2000s, and is also the title of the first film in the series. His character is a small, lovable mixed-breed dog with an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time, usually helping a person overcome a problem. Joe Camp is the creator and director of the Benji films.[1]

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Jimmy Soul


Submitted by Card S

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Jimmy Soul (August 24, 1942 – June 25, 1988), born James McCleese in Weldon, North Carolina, was an American vocalist.

He performed gospel music as a teenager, later scouted by Frank Guida and recruited to sing songs handpicked for one of Guida’s other hit artists, Gary U.S. Bonds. Soul only had two chart hit singles, both which were Bond’s cast-offs, “Twistin’ Matilda” in 1962 and the Billboard Hot 100 number one hit “If You Wanna Be Happy” (based on the calypso, “Ugly Woman”, by Roaring Lion) in 1963. “If You Wanna Be Happy” sold over one million gramophone records, earning gold disc status.[1]

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Bear Whiz Beer Shirts


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Submitted by Jessi L

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Conway Twitty


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Conway Twitty (born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993) was one of the United States’ most successful country music artists of the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early Rock and Roll, R&B, and Pop music. Until 2006, he held the record for the most Number One singles of any country act, with 40 Number Ones on the Billboard country chart. George Strait notched 41 Number One hits in 2006 with the single, Give It Away.

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Muzzy


Submitted by eahern

Muzzy was the coolest thing you could ever watch in foreign language. An adorable alien who ate metal, he distracted us from the fact we were learning. It was really the cute little narrator who taught us how to count, the seasons and weather and much more in a strange, seemingly unrelated sequiturs to the actual story line. Whether we retained any actual knowledge of the foreign language, or even watched it in a language other than the english tape, we’ll always remember Muzzy enjoying a meal as he destroyed public property.

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Potsworth & Company


Submitted by Jeffrey S

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The series revolves around Potsworth, an English Springer Spaniel, based upon a real-life springer spaniel called Potsworth, bought from the Battersea Dogs Home in 1983 by Martin Powell and Vivien Schrager-Powell, the show’s creators and founding directors of Sleepy Kids Plc. The other main characters are four young children: Carter, Keiko, Rosie, and Nick. When they go to sleep at night they turn up in the Dream Zone where, as the Midnight Patrol, they are appointed by the Grand Dozer to protect it from nightmares and other threats and are given their missions by the Snooze Patrol. Their main enemy is the Nightmare Prince.

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OshKosh B’Gosh Commercials


Submitted by Jess B

Any media savvy child of the ’80s remembers this commercial, maybe even more than they remember actually wearing the overalls! Best part? Saying the name for our parents and other grown-ups who were endlessly (and shamelessly) amused by our linguistic baby bumbles.

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Tri-Chem Paints


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Submitted by Amy N

My sisters and friends spent hours defacing brand new tshirts with Tri-Chem fabric paints. Everything from advertisements of our most recent crushes (“Scott is a Hunk – of Junk – just kidding”) to our renderings of horseheads, daisies and kittens. Tri-Chem was a cheap way to personalize tshirts with our own special brand of humor and artistic vision. Plus, it made all the kids with plain white tshirts jealous.

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