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HIStory - Disc one. "Billie Jean" (Jackson) - 4:54 "The Way You Make Me Feel" (Jackson) - 4:57 "Black or White" (Jackson/Bottrell) - 4:15 "Rock with You" (Temperton) - 3:40 "She's out of My Life" (Bahler) - 3:38 "Bad" (Jackson) - 4:07 "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" featuring Siedah Garrett (Jackson) - 4:12 "Man in the Mirror" (Ballard/Garrett) - 5:19 "Thriller" (Temperton) - 5:57 "Beat It" (Jackson) - 4:18 "The Girl Is ...

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While optimism and hopes were high following the collapse of Communism, the backlash of the Cold War's effect was only beginning, precipitating the continuation of terrorism in Third World regions that were once the frontlines for American and Soviet foreign politics, particularly in Asia. However, during the 1990s many First World economies such as the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and South Korea experienced steady economic growth for nearly the entire decade. The United Kingdom, after the recession of 1991-92 and Black Wednes ...

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In the early 1980s Osborne founded The Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard who all went to Montesano high-school where he graduated in 1982. In the beginning The Melvins played The Who and Jimi Hendrix covers and began playing fast hardcore punk. When Dillard left the band in 1984 Dale Crover joined and the band's rehearsals moved to a back room of Crover's parents house in Aberdeen, Washington. It was soon that they also started to play slower and "heavier" songs ...

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Horror film - Early milestones. The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du Diable (aka "The Devil's Castle") which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. Another of his horror projects was the 1898 La Caverne maudite< ...

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Foo Fighters began as a studio solo project for Grohl while he was a member of the hugely popular group Nirvana. Unbeknownst to most of Nirvana's fanbase, Grohl had gradually written a stockpile of songs that he had held back from the band for fear of ruining their chemistry. Following Kurt Cobain's death, Grohl entered Robert Lang's Studio in Seattle with friend/producer Barrett Jones to put many of his new and old songs to tape. With the exception of a guitar part on "X-Static" by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Grohl played every i ...

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Dawson's Creek - First season. Set in the fictional Massachusetts seaside town of Capeside, the show began during the tenth grade and the first year of high school for Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson), and Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), three lifelong friends and Capesiders, who were joined in the pilot by Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams). All were fifteen. Dawson was a dreamy romantic obsessed with movies, especially those of Steven Spielberg, Dawson having posters of all his f ...

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Because of its graphic violence, the original version of the movie was banned in several countries, including Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Germany. The "tree rape" scene was also objectionable to some and seen as being misogynist. In Germany, the movie's release was hindered by public authorities for almost 10 years. Original 1982 cinema and video releases of the movie had been seized, making the movie a hit on the black market video circuit, with pirated copies abounding. A heavily edited version was first made available in 1992. Se ...

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Barrymore's career began at the age of 11 months, when she appeared in a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared litigation, though Barrymore merely laughed the incident off. She shot to fame as a child actor when she co-starred in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. At the age of 7, on November 20, 1982, Barrymore became the youngest ever guest host of the weekly TV program Saturday Night Live. She performed in a skit ...

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Some genre film theorists see parody as a natural development in the life cycle of any genre, especially in film. Western movies, for example, after the classic stage defined the conventions of the genre, underwent a parody stage, in which those same conventions were lampooned. Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectation ...

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