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...Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes at the end of the movie to their grown-up tormentor. In You Couldn't Ignore Me if You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact...
...feel after watching your first Brat Pack movie? I was too young to have seen it in the theaters, but I saw The Breakfast Club on VHS when I was in eighth grade, and it just blew my mind. I couldn't believe that there was a movie about the very things that I was concerned with at that moment in my life...
Ironically, despite their being at a firm that needed a lifeline at the height of the financial crisis, many former Merrill Lynch executives have ended up in what most of us would consider to be lucrative jobs. Last June, top Merrill Lynch investment banker George Young was hired by Lazard to be a vice chairman of its U.S. investment bank. Lazard paid its employees an average of $505,000 in 2009, slightly more than Goldman Sachs. Young, most likely, got considerably more. Thain, for his new job, will be getting an annual salary of $6 million, of which...
...Three Days Before the Shooting..." tells the story of a young man of ambiguous race named Bliss who is raised by a black preacher and as an adult becomes a white, race-baiting United States Senator named Adam Sunraider...
Some naysayers pontificate about the imminent death of literature because young people don’t read anymore. They often cite the waning attention span of younger generations arising from technology. Harold Bloom said in an interview that the problem is primarily a result of technological change: “People are trapped in the age of what you might call the triple screen: the motion-picture screen—and this is in ascending order of evil in terms of what it does to their minds throughout the world—the television screen, and finally the computer screen...