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Not Just Another Pretty Face: Raquel Welch, RIP

By Steve Beard “Contrary to popular myth, I didn’t just hatch out of an eagle’s nest, circa ‘One Million Years B.C.,’ clad in a doeskin bikini …,” wrote Raquel Welch about her provocative cavewoman publicity photo for the 1966 film. … Continue reading

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Wanda Jackson: Rockin’ to the Light

Steve Beard March/April 2018 It must have been a surreal scene for a teenage girl to be cruising down the highway in 1956 wedged in the front seat of a Pontiac Star Chief between her father and Elvis Presley. But … Continue reading

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Queen Latifah and the walk of faith

By Steve Beard 2006 In the film Last Holiday, Queen Latifah plays Georgia Byrd, an unassuming, churchgoing woman who sells cookware in a department store. She never misses choir practice and has a secret crush on a timid coworker played … Continue reading

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LL Cool J on tithing and career longevity

By Steve Beard 2006 Good News “Every dime I get, no matter what it is, I give 10 percent to the church,” rapper and actor LL Cool J recently said. The interviewer from Hot 97, a hip hop radio station … Continue reading

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