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Tanya Roberts Retrospective, Part 1

It’s been over two years since one of our greatest thespians, Victoria Leigh Blum, known to the world as Tanya Roberts, was taken from us not once, but twice, the first instance by way of a premature announcement by her itchy-trigger-fingered publicist and then, just days later, the definitive word from Cedars-Sinai Hospital: our angel spread her wings for heaven at the tender age of 71.

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B-Movie Cult Classics Unearthed Watching Late-Night HBO in College (pt. 1)

Two recent untimely deaths–those of 43-year-old actress Amanda Peterson and 61-year-old ex-pro-grappler/actor Roddy Piper (the former not entirely unexpected, the latter of natural causes)–got me thinking about the movies that made them famous*, Peterson acting** in 1987’s Can’t Buy Me Love (co-starring the nerd who would one day grow up to be auto-racing enthusiast 

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