Peter Colin Moore was born on February 21, 1944 in Cleveland. His father, Raymond, was a career Navy officer. His mother, Mary (Jameson) Moore, was a housewife. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1969, he worked in a design studio that he eventually …
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A metal barrel containing the remains of a person killed in the 1980s was found on the shore of Lake Mead in Nevada on Sunday; It’s a discovery that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says was made possible thanks to an ongoing drought. “It’s really strange that the lake was never retracted in the …
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For decades, police in Shelby County, Ind. have failed to identify the man who broke into homes at night, armed with a knife or gun, woke his victims and then tied them up and sexually tortured them. He often disguised in a thick coat and covered his face with a ski mask or leggings. Then, …
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If you don’t have a few hours to watch the jolly silly comedy “Lost City,” just look at the poster. Almost everything you need to know about this silly joke is packed into one page: the stars, the tropics, the Bruckheimer-esque fireball. The poster sells sex, violence and blatant laughter, while Sandra Bullock’s sequined purple …
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Defender Jean Potvin, who played in the first two of the New York Islanders’ four Stanley Cup championships in the 1980s, died Tuesday in Westin, Florida, aged 72. His brother, Denis, confirmed the death in a hospital. He said the cause was not yet known before an autopsy was performed. Potvin spent 11 seasons in …
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Defender Jean Potvin, who played in the first two of the New York Islanders’ four Stanley Cup championships in the 1980s, died Tuesday in Westin, Florida, aged 72. His brother, Denis, confirmed the death in a hospital. He said the cause was not yet known before an autopsy was performed. Potvin spent 11 seasons in …
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and although did not start As a cynical and moving family drama, it turned into a single drama. The plot, following the inner workings of a Mexican drug cartel and the Central American adventures of rogue CIA agent Reed (Carter Hudson), is dropped and focused entirely on Franklin and his close-knit team: his uncle Jerome …
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In Annie-B Parson’s “The Mood Room,” the first thing we learn about the five sisters reunited in their childhood home is that their parents died a year ago. One of the sisters tells us this. They all talk a lot, though very little, about grief. Something is clearly wrong. The sisters are anxious and depressed. …
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Yet despite all the stylistic cosplay of the album’s visual presentation, very little of that aesthetic is in songs, mostly overly beautiful, sometimes oh-he-really-pulled-it-off nostalgic, and more often sullen songs. “Sob Rock” sometimes crackles with the excitement of an artist breaking code in an outdated style, but more often it shows how difficult it is …