Word: ageing
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...promise or warning: "It will change your life." Like me, they were FOOFs - friends of old films - and in the late '90s, the repertory cinemas of our New York youth, the oldies houses, had pretty much vanished. There were exceptions: one could see many artifacts of Hollywood's golden age on videocassette, the eight-track of its day. And the commercial-free American Movie Classics channel was still showing Paramount and Universal goodies from the '30s and '40s; it also staged annual Film Preservation Festivals of, say, silent and early-talkie John Ford pictures. (Then AMC changed its format, emphasized...
...Short films. In the golden age, an evening at the movies was just that: an A feature and a B feature, buttressed by selected short subjects. In the first years of sound, dozens of vaudeville acts achieved their only immortality. Blacks rarely had prominent roles in feature films, but Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and a seven-year-old Sammy Davis starred in shorts. TCM runs Robert Benchley and Joe McDoakes comedy shorts and Fitzpatrick travelogs. The weirdest series: MGM's early-'30s Dogville Comedies, one-reel movie parodies (The Dogway Melody, The Big Dog House, Trader Hound), in which pooches...
...what is wrong with contemporary migration policy in the United States. For anyone familiar with this aspect of the migration debate, the stories of unauthorized youth are ubiquitous: 65,000 unauthorized youth graduate from our high schools every year. They are brought to this country at a young age; some arrive before they can even remember living anywhere else. The struggle of unauthorized youth is unique in U.S. history. They are fighting for the basic right to exist in the only country they know as their home. It frustrates me that Harvard isn’t doing more to help...
...inspired by the courage of the numerous unauthorized youth who choose neither path. Instead, they choose to forge their own path by advocating for legislation like the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act would grant legal status to unauthorized youth who arrive in the United States before the age of 16 and meet strict requirements: In order to receive a green card, they would have to complete two years of college or two years of service in the military...
...dubbed a “supergroup” when they are anything but. To mention two supergroups of this decade, Audioslave euthanized the fury and passion of Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine into dull, MOR post-grunge, while Velvet Revolver strengthened the case for a mandatory retirement age for heavy metal musicians. On the evidence of this eponymous debut album, Tinted Windows fits the bill of the 21st century supergroup, not its 1970s counterpart.The first rule of the 21st century supergroup is that it is less than the sum of its parts. To be fair to Tinted Windows...