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About Me
- Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
- I'm an entertainment editor at MSNBC.com, and have maintained Pop Culture Junk Mail since August, 1999. The New York Times called the site "one of the best places to explore pop culture online," and Entertainment Weekly included it on their Top 100 Web Sites list. If you like weird food, strange products, and 1970s and 1980s nostalgia, PCJM is your home away from home.
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I grew up in Staten Island. When I was pretty young (in the '70s) I remember being in my friend's backyard and we were digging a hole so we'd have somewhere to hide from "the man who kills children." I also recall some worry from my mom, and repeated warnings about not going with or talking to strangers around that time. Though I can't recall what was going on in the real world then to instill this fear. I did some minor Googling, and found that Rand (going by another name back then) might have had something to do with a child disappearance or three in the '70s.
Rand worked for a time at Willowbrook, a hellhole that gained Geraldo Rivera national fame for his doc/expose of conditions there. I think I recall seeing something about a film being made about Willowbrook, in the "Blair Witch" vein, not long ago. Though this may be the same film as "Cropsey."
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