Michael Griffin
Expertise
Entertainment, Sports, History
- Michael is excellent at researching things and then writing about them in an easy way to understand.
- Michael can do a very fast turnaround when assigned a piece.
- Michael can also follow directions and take constructive criticism, then use that to better his writing.
Experience
Michael has written about many topics over the course of his writing career. The topics have ranged from dentistry to baseball to boating to art. Over the course of that time, he has built up an understanding of many fields. Although he knows a lot about dentistry, he still would not be able to perform any dental work.
Education
Michael has a B.A. in English and a M.S. in Journalism from Boston University. He learned about sportswriting from a former Sports Illustrated writer.
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Stories By Michael Griffin
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Movie sets can be high-stress environments for everyone involved, from caterers to the director. Actors can feel it, which sometimes leads to poor choices.
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Over the decades, John Mellencamp has thrilled music fans all over the world with his unique brand of American music. So what was his first hit song?
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It's one thing to walk around the various environments of Earth — a meadow, an ice floe, a desert. But once you got there, what would the moon be like?
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Marriage has its challenges, no matter the love involved. Marriage in the public eye, between celebrities, can make the relationship very difficult.
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So how exactly do players like David Ortiz manage to get the call that they have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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When people think of 1980s music, Men At Work comes to mind immediately. The Australian group made infectious songs like "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under."
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Pink Floyd members Gilmour, Mason, and Wright used a surprising spot to record songs that ultimately wound up on the "Momentary Lapse of Reason" album.
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Dick Van Dyke has forged a long career in show business playing nice guys — in sitcoms, mysteries, and musicals. He almost broke that string.
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There are many actors who forge lifelong, genuine bonds. Angela Lansbury met Bea Arthur on the set of "Mame," and the two became fast friends.
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As the free expression movement really took off, Pink Floyd formed in 1965. Like other contemporaries such as the Beatles, they made many unusual songs.
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Babe Ruth was a baseball slugger who left several marks on the sport's record book. Ruth was married twice and had two daughters, both of them adopted.
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Dallas-born musician and actor Marvin Lee Aday, better-known all over the world as Meat Loaf, has died at the age of 74.
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The Phil Collins' song "Against All Odds" was a hit from the start, with heart-rending lyrics capturing people's attention from the very start.
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Steve Perry became famous for being the frontman for the rock group Journey. "Oh Sherrie" was one of the first singles off Perry's 1984 debut solo album.
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Lots of actors work for decades without winning an Academy Award. Lots of bands sell lots of records without a lot of Top 100 airplay — Pink Floyd among them.
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There are few people who are more well-known than the late Martin Luther King Jr. But he wasn't always known as such. Here's why his name was changed.
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So what's it really all about — the music, or that indefinable artistic relationship? And how did that start for Slash and Axl Rose, all those years ago?
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Eddie Van Halen was a rock musician to his very core, a unique artist who expanded the frontier of guitar performance. What could the guy not do?
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The house from "The Golden Girls" was recently sold for over $4 million, and it's nothing like you'd think from the show. Here's what happened to the house.
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Pink Floyd, the band that plumbed the depths of the human psyche, was once contacted by director Stanley Kubrick about using a song in one of his movies.
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True friendships can have their impact on how we live our lives. Some, like Lucille Ball, claim those friendships continue even after death.
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Over the years, John Lennon and the Beatles wrote many songs with women as the target audience for their lyrics. "Woman," however, had only one in mind.
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Keanu Reeves has said that River Phoenix was one of his closest friends before the "Stand by Me" actor died at 23. Here is the truth about their friendship.
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Singer Janet Jackson and rapper Tupac Shakur starred in the 1993 movie "Poetic Justice." During filming, Jackson reportedly refused to kiss Shakur.
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While Def Leppard did have someone who looked like Marilyn Monroe in the "Photograph" video, there is another part of the story of who is behind the song.
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The Fosbury Flop is pretty much the standard for athletes competing in the high jump. Everything starts someplace, and the Flop started with an Oregonian.
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Poitier left not only a tremendous legacy as an actor, but he also brought several children into the world — all daughters.