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On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, “The Day After”, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic hellscape that would follow. The film was viewed by over 100 million Americans and remains the highest rated TV movie in history.
The path to primetime for “The Day After” proved nearly as treacherous...
2) Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles’ creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become.
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over
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