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POP CULTURE

George R. R. Martin at Worldcon 75, Helsinki, before the Hugo Awards.

When the 704-page 'A Game of Thrones' hit shelves on August 1, 1996, it received positive notices and respectable sales, but there was little hint of the hysteria that would follow.

Jake Rossen


By Bjørn Fjørtoft - National Archives of Norway, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

"I've still got the same attitude I had when I started," the iconic tough guy—who was born 100 years ago today—once said, "I haven't changed anything but my underwear."

Jennifer M Wood






ABC

From 'Full House' to 'Perfect Strangers,' if you turned on a TV set in the 1990s, it was impossible to escape ABC's Friday night "TGIF" lineup.

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Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984).

You'd better start practicing those crane kicks again! More than 30 years after Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence faced off in one of cinema's most iconic showdowns, The Karate Kid has officially made a comeback.

Tim Lybarger
















Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET

Jason Statham's real-life career as a con man led to his first big break, which turned him into one of the preeminent action heroes of a generation.

Jason Serafino
Paramount Pictures

It takes just 14 words—“Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?”—to make a ‘90s kid swoon with nostalgia.

Tara Aquino