Tweet A friend of mine is currently reading through Joan Didon’s book Play It As It Lays. I haven’t read it myself, and I’m not really conversant in Didon’s work (I did remember she did the screenplay for the 70s version of A Star is Born and I remember seeing stuff about her 2005 book… Continue reading Rules in Relationships and Where They Come From
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It Starts (Or Ends) With a Kiss
Tweet If you watch TV like I do, you’ve seen a whole lot of milestone kisses. Each and every one of them touched something in the viewing public. All of them captivated the audience, usually after teasing them for weeks, months, or years. Real life isn’t that much different. The first kiss, the last kiss,… Continue reading It Starts (Or Ends) With a Kiss
The Lisa Principle: Everything I Ever Wanted*
Tweet Most of the definitive 80s movies I saw, I didn’t see until they hit cable or video. So, I was always at least a year behind the curve. I do remember seeing the ads on TV for Weird Science, though, and I remember wanting oh so badly to see it. Just the basic premise… Continue reading The Lisa Principle: Everything I Ever Wanted*
The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love
Tweet Every now and then a show comes along at just the right time and matches almost perfectly what you’re going through. The Wonder Years was one of those shows for me. Sure, I was a little older than Kevin Arnold when the show started in 1988, but the memories of starting middles school were… Continue reading The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love
Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor
Tweet Like many of my generation, I grew up on a whole lot of TV and movies. Specifically, on TV, I grew up on reruns of sitcoms from the 50s, 60s and 70s and was front and center for the “golden age” of the sitcom in the 80s and early 90s. I was indoctrinated into… Continue reading Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor