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Indiana Fortuna: The Homegrown Roots of ‘Rudy’

Twenty-five years ago, an archetypal underdog story about an undersized Notre Dame football player hit theaters—but the movie was born long before that, when two wayward Indiana natives met in college

By Jake Kring-Schreifels

The Heart and Soul of the ‘Big’ Piano

Thirty years ago, one inventor’s lifelong passion for combining music and technology collided with a renowned but struggling toy store, Tom Hanks, and a body-switching movie, giving birth to one of the most iconic scenes in film history

By Jake Kring-Schreifels