If Office Space was a rallying wake-up cry to Gen Xers who going to have to be forced to sit in cubicles at meaningless jobs for meager wages, then 9 To 5 was the Great Mother that birthed office comedies. Released in 1980 at a time in which many women had entered the workforce forContinue reading “‘9 To 5’ Shows Changes Still Need To Be Made To The Workforce”
Category Archives: Op-Ed
‘The Dropout’ Wants To Sympathize The Devil
I’ll be blunt. The Dropout, the latest limited series romanticizing Millennial con artists and fraudsters, wants to have it both ways. It wants to portray Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried), the CEO of the now defunct Theranos, as a woman playing tough in the Boys Club World of Business, but also as a victim. She’s aContinue reading “‘The Dropout’ Wants To Sympathize The Devil”
In Memoriam
When I first stepped into the office of the George-Anne, the student newspaper of Georgia Southern University, Kelley was the first person I saw. She handed me an application which I quickly filled out and she told me they needed some help with Features and call the editor of that section. Kelley was the editor-in-chief.Continue reading “In Memoriam”
The Candy Man Can And Did
It’s crazy to think John Candy was my age, 43, when he passed away on this date, March 4, 1994. He was filming Wagon’s East, a not-so-good movie Candy reportedly didn’t like doing. He had also filmed Canadian Bacon, Michael Moore’s only feature film, a satirical look at a new Cold War between America andContinue reading “The Candy Man Can And Did”
Futility Of War Buried In Pro-Nationalism Of ‘Red Dawn’
Like most Gen Xers during the Reaganeighties, there was this silly threat that the Soviet Union was going to nuke America and everyone who supported this theory to prove it was the toughest kid on the street. Ironically, by the time Red Dawn premiered in the summer of 1984, the USSR was running on fumes.Continue reading “Futility Of War Buried In Pro-Nationalism Of ‘Red Dawn’”
There Are No Small Roles, Only Small Actors
You may not know the name Ned Eisenberg, but you probably remember his face. He was the textbook actor for “that guy who was in that movie that was out last year.” With a resume as long as the Baja Penisula, Ned Eisenberg who passed away on Feb 27 from cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer of theContinue reading “There Are No Small Roles, Only Small Actors”
Olympics Figure Skating Scandal Reinforces Pressures We Place On Youth
For what it’s worth, the women’s free skating competition at the Olympics was a no-win situation. The scandal and controversy all week is that Kamila Valieva, who is only 15, had tested positive in December for the banned drug trimetazidine. But here is the issue? Did she knowingly take it or was it given toContinue reading “Olympics Figure Skating Scandal Reinforces Pressures We Place On Youth”
Super Bowl Halftime Shows Generational/Cultural Gaps Still Wider Than Ever
It’s hard to believe for some people, but Dr. Dre’s seminal album The Chronic turns 30 this year. It was one of the first CDs I bought through Columbia House or BMG. And there was nothing that sounded like it before and nothing that has sounded like it since. Dre had risen to fame throughContinue reading “Super Bowl Halftime Shows Generational/Cultural Gaps Still Wider Than Ever”
Ivan Reitman Revolutionized Irreverent Comedies
It’s an odd coincidence the same day Ivan Reitman passes away, a Super Bowl commercial airs starring Eugene Levy as an action star. Levy had appeared in Cannibal Girls, a horror comedy that was Reitman’s first movie as a director. Born in Czechoslovakia in the post-WWII era the son of Jewish Hungarians, his mother hadContinue reading “Ivan Reitman Revolutionized Irreverent Comedies”
Have The Oscars Jumped The Shark?
This past week, the Academy Award nominations were announced and people are probably scratching their heads. Don’t Look Up was nominated for Best Picture, making it possibly one of the worst, if not worst reviewed, movie to be nominated. And people though The Towering Inferno was not worthy. The problem is simple. The Oscars areContinue reading “Have The Oscars Jumped The Shark?”
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