The director of 1980s movie staples ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’ and ‘The Great Outdoors’ has decided to help advance the squalid cause of Hollywood’s nu-sex comedy.
The director of 1980s movie staples ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’ and ‘The Great Outdoors’ has decided to help advance the squalid cause of Hollywood’s nu-sex comedy.
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G’day mate. Americans love the land down under. We also love fish-out-of-water stories. Crocodile Dundee delivers both.
We have very little to say right now about pretty much anything other than that we are grieving. Our prayers and our hearts are with those in Connecticut today.
I’ve had my small share of public humiliation, most of it coming my way in middle school and high school. I’ve gotten red in the face. I’ve walked away from a group of “friends” while trembling violently. But my “public” has always been restricted to a …
Rich Bennett writes on the Plugged In Facebook page, “When visiting the Indianapolis area a few years ago, I walked the floor of Hinkle Fieldhouse, home to Butler and the site of Hickory’s upset victory in the movie Hoosiers.” Wendy Lynn Brion says, “A …
My family and I have been known to watch a show or two on the Food Network. My wife finds it inspirational. She loves to cook (and she’s quite good at it), and the shows on that channel often give her ideas she tries out on our family. So far be it fro …
Do you still miss Little House on the Prairie? Did you name your family’s goldfish Laura? This fourth Michael Landon Jr. adaptation of a Janette Oke book is just the thing, then.
Sometimes I like to think I’m a pretty good person. That I’m aging gracefully, not grumpily. That I do a little better than average. That I give a little more come the end of each year. That I make fewer mistakes than the guys who sit next to me. And a …
I’ve been diligently digging through cause-and-effect stories about media for more than a decade and a half now. It’s sort of a Plugged In tradition, sometimes even an obsession to find connection points between entertainment and the way people act. We …
The late Douglas Adams, of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame, wrote, “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” How we ac …
Lance Armstrong is a cheater. The International Cycling Union says so, his teammates say so and 1,000 pages of documents say so. That makes me very, very sad. And maybe a little mad. But not everyone feels that way. In fact, some people don’t believe t …
I don’t have a Facebook page. And I’m starting to feel pretty bad about that. After all, out of the 2.5 billion or so folks who have Internet access on our planet, 1 billion of them now apparently have a Facebook page. Or maybe it’s only 900 million, i …
Think of “The Last Samurai” as “Braveheart” in Japan, and you’ll be close to grasping what brand of war epic this movie is.
