I cannot hear the song O Christmas Tree without thinking about a TV Christmas movie my mom and I saw in the 1970s. It was called The House Without A Christmas Tree and although I forgot the storyline, the actors and the name, the overall mood of the film has stayed with me for 35 years. Starring...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The Boston Globe published an editorial about the event over the weekend. Here is an excerpt: Bueller’s quips ring wiser than ever for a Generation X that has settled into life, work, and family: “I...
There is an interesting topic posted on Open File: Who killed the babysitter? The question is, “Are you a young parent? Is this something you’ve experienced? Why isn’t a teenager good enough to care for your kid? Here is the opener: In the 1980s, when the young women of...
“We’re all adults now and we’re all going to die soon.” –From Loveless, 2011 Last night, was the world premiere of Loveless, an independent film by Ramin Serry about Generation X in midlife crisis. This has become a popular theme in movies over the last couple of...
Canadian filmmaker Brian Stockton has created a documentary film about people who were born in the 1960s and came of age in the 1980s, and he’s named it My Dinner with Generation X. It premiered in October at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, and will be screened...
An article by writer Jennifer Graham appeared in Friday’s Boston Globe, The Rise and Fall of Jennifers. It’s a terrific piece about the once-youthful name now in rapid decline. Not only has it fallen completely off most-popular-names lists, but it’s starting to land, albeit only...
A new film called Generation Zero highlights the source of today’s ongoing economic nightmare, particularly for Generation X, Millennials and Generation Z. “We in my generation bear an absolute responsibility for squandering that wealth, and for what we have done to future generations....
A new book, published last month by Ashgate, explores the classic Generation X archetypes in popular film such as The Breakfast Club and Heathers. The book is available from Amazon for around $100. I’ve requested the publisher offer it via Kindle. From the publisher, Ashgate: Screening...
This is my story about how I discovered The Garden of The Finzi-Continis, a story about Italian Jews in World War II by Giogio Bassani. Micol Finzi-Contini I became acquainted with Micòl the year I turned 14. A beautiful, blond Italian Jew, I guess you could say she kept me company every day after...
If the threat of nuclear war wasn’t enough to darken even the sunniest Generation X childhood, there was the doom of Soylent Green, a 1973 science fiction movie about overpopulation, poverty, and unemployment in the year 2022. The movie, starring Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston,...
Another Generation X icon has died too soon. John Hughes is dead at 59. He died today in Manhattan of a heart attack. He’d just finished his morning walk. John Hughes was the director of all of my coming-of-age favorites. My brother, Billy (b. 1962) who just recently became convinced that he...
The Coen Brother’s 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski, is the biggest cult movie since The Rocky Horror Picture Show. According to The L.A. Times, a documentary, The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans, explores the cinematic subculture of the film. Lebowski Fest Eddi Chung, a 38-year-old...
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