How Ferris Bueller Saved Me From Depression
Twenty-five years later, I still enjoy watching ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ even though it reminds me of my parents’ divorce. My parents split up just weeks before the film’s release (on June 11, 1986), and I was inconsolable. I was 19, just back home from my first year of college, still very sheltered and immature. With Mom [...]
Review: Footloose
No disrespect to the estimable Dennis Quaid, but if this faithful, 27-years-on remake ofFootloose were to have had any real point, the producers would have cast original star Kevin Bacon as the uptight preacher who bans dancing from his small town, the better to underscore the eternal truth of yesterday’s rebels becoming today’s conservatives. The new film [...]
