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1977 Redux

August 15, 2007

This year marks the 30th anniversaries of the films Star Wars and Annie Hall, both cultural milestones in their right, which affected at least one member of a certain generation. Once upon a time in a galaxy, far, far, away – 1977 specifically – girls wore jeans that had to be zipped with pliers and [...]

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Atomic Hangover (Or, How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb)

January 11, 2006

I can remember when I first started obsessing about the bomb. It was Nov. 21, 1983. The day after The Day After. The fulcrum of the so-called X-Generation, those of us who experienced puberty in the ’80s under the tenure of President Reagan had inherited the Cold War in full bloom, like an atomic hangover. [...]

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L.A. Confidential

August 24, 2005

Everywhere in the world a green light means “go.” That is, everywhere except Hollywood, where a green light means “Take a number, have a seat, the executives will see you shortly. After Eternity.” Such temporal phenomena permeate every aspect of the entertainment business. Given the molasses movement of time on film sets, production personnel are [...]

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Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood

August 15, 2005

In honor of “Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus” author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s August 30th birthday, below is the first of a handful of Frankenstein-themed miscellanea soon to appear in this blog. It may be worth noting that Shelley would have been 208. Her novel, incidentally, is 189, which means she wrote it at the tender [...]

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