You couldn’t accuse Jeffrey Manchester of being inconsiderate or impolite. Sure, the former member of the U.S. Army’s 82nd airborne division had fallen on hard times in terms of steady employment, and when you need to provide for your family, you do what you have to do. In Manchester’s case, …
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The Bay Area was a weird place in 1987. You had the remnants of the Me Decade’s cults of touchy-feeliness bumping up against Silicon Valley’s computer-nerd capitalism. Competing D.I.Y. music scenes meant you could surf between S.F. Thrash, East Bay rap, and pockets of punk popping up from everywhere; shows …
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Back when Marvel was first dipping its toes into the waters of television with shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., then-Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb liked to use the phrase “It’s all connected” as a selling point. The idea was not just that the various Marvel series — whether Agents of …
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