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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 23, 2018, 09:47:45 am ---Well, if that meant first going to IMDb and then looking up individual actors and movies one at a time, I was just pointing out that googling is faster. You type in "Molly Ringwald age" once and you not only get her age and birthday but also those of her fellow Brat Pack actors and a bunch of other related information -- all on the same page, all from typing three words. Google, incidentally, lifts the information from places like IMDb and Wikipedia or whatever would be appropriate.
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Yes, I've noticed that about other things, mostly when I need to verify things at work.
When it comes to movies, TV shows, and actors, my default setting ;D is IMDb. If the information there is unsatisfactory, I Google.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 23, 2018, 10:42:28 am ---When it comes to movies, TV shows, and actors, my default setting ;D is IMDb. If the information there is unsatisfactory, I Google.
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I might use IMDb if I wanted to, oh, deep dive into the cast of a movie or look up an actor's earliest roles or see if anyone is still posting on the Brokeback page, if it even still exists. For basic info, Google seems faster.
For instance, I found myself curious about the age of Tad Friend, the guy who wrote that New Yorker article about ageism that I posted somewhere around here. Up popped large font with his age (55), his birthday, his New Yorker staff writer caricature, and pertinent facts lifted from Wikipedia: a brief paragraph explaining who he is, where he went to school, books he's written and the name of his dad, who also has a Wikipedia entry in case I was curious. Which I'm not.
I will say that I once looked up Julia Louis-Dreyfus' age that way, and saw that her father was also in Wikipedia, got curious enough to click his name and discovered that he's one of the richest people in the world. I never knew that about JLD's background.
UPDATE: I thought one of Friend's book titles sounded interesting, so I clicked on that. It took me to the Amazon page, where I learned this: "Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W.H. Auden--to Sylvia Plath."
And that was interesting because I'd just been thinking about how the college admissions process sustains a non-meritocracy system. Not that this is a great example -- Friend's parents sound like they probably do have merit.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 21, 2018, 10:45:06 pm ---
I meant the age of the target audience. I've never seen a John Hughes movie, and one reason for it was because I assumed (perhaps incorrectly?) that the target demographic for the audience was YA.
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Oh dear! Is this embarrassing or what?? ::) ::)
I loved Sixteen Candles (1984)--and I was just over 30 years old when the movie was released. I thought it was the cleverest thing (and very, very funny!)--and I had a small crush on Jake (Michael Schoeffling)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOiRMN5nRO8[/youtube]
(Is that a FANTASY or what!! :D :laugh:)
Nine months later, I also loved The Breakfast Club (1985)--with great soundtrack!--and, of course, the sensitive jock Andrew (Emilio Estevez)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXBvor47Zs[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3CUh8v7MNo[/youtube]
Nearly 6 years after that, a very different, NOT brat-pack, NOT John Hughes film (this one written and directed by Allan Moyle): 36-year-old me loved, loved LOVED, Pump Up the Volume (1990)--with my MAJOR crush Mark Hunter (Christian Slater--sigh!) (and the amazing, totally cool soundtrack also)!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzz-t7ywVM[/youtube]
You know, Jeff--you might find yourself liking some of these 80s film--they certainly have their own charms!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 23, 2018, 03:31:13 pm ---Oh dear! Is this embarrassing or what?? ::) ::)
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John, we all have our guilty pleasures. :)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 23, 2018, 06:49:21 pm ---John, we all have our guilty pleasures. :)
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HA! :laugh: (Thank you for being so tolerant, Jeff! ;D )
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