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Guardians of the Galaxy. But decades ago, there was no grander spectacle than a big budget musical like
The Sound of Music. In fact, out of the 92 movies that have won the highest award at the Oscars, 10 of those movies were musicals that won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. However, that now seems like a bygone era, as films like
La La Land are so few and far between that you would be forgiven for thinking that Hollywood now hates the musical.
West Side Story, but like I just said, thatâs a remake. From Steven Spielberg. And we also have Jon M. Chu s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda s
THOMAS D. ELIAS
The last time America experienced a pandemic on the scale of what the coronavirus has inflicted upon us, the wildest lifestyle decade in United States history followed immediately.
It was as if the petering out of the Spanish flu after it killed millions of Americans unleashed peopleâs pent-up desires to enjoy life while they could.
So the early years of the 20th Century were followed by the Roaring â20s, almost a decade of flappers and the emergence of baseball as big-time entertainment thanks to Babe Ruthâs home run streak. There were moonshine whiskey and the Teapot Dome scandal, seemingly unending stock market rallies and the arrival of automobiles in millions of garages.