(5 out of 5 stars) Martha Coolidge really nailed the soundtrack for this underappreciated 80s gem. Nic Cage and the iridescent Deborah Foreman (what ever happened to this glorious specimen!) light up a clever and funny re-vamp of the Capulets and Montagues in a film littered with spot on captures of 80s youth. A college chum and I caught this movie for the first time on Showtime at midnight in NYC after a night on the town and inexplicably could not turn it off. The movie captures the zeitgeist of the time and the soundtrack is pure distilled 80s no corporate bull (Journey), faceless divas (Anita Baker), or schlock (Hall & Oates), this record delivers the stuff that REALLY mattered at the time. Included are the unconscionably ignored classics Million Miles Away by the Plimsouls, Eyes of a Stranger by the Payolas, and She Talks in Stereo by Gary Myricks. Not to mention the quintessential 80s tune I Melt With You which has only retroactively become a bellw
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In the 2009 engaging memoir A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by author Donald Miller, there is a story about a concerned dad whose teenage daughter is going off the rails. She’s hanging out with the wrong crowd, experimenting with drugs, dating a loser. The dad comes to Miller for advice, and Miller suggests that the girl is stuck in a bad story.
In the absence of challenge and risk, she is choosing a story that offers some level of meaning, some way to assert agency over her own identity. Miller challenges the dad to offer her a more meaningful story. The dad takes that advice to heart and rallies the family to a risky goal. They commit to raise enough money to build an orphanage through a charity that serves the developing world.
George W. Bush’s new book invites America to imagine a better story Dallas Morning News/Tribune News Service © Tom Fox/TNS Former President George W. Bush, center, visits with Rangers co-owner Ray Davis on April 5 as he sits in a field level suite with wife Laura Bush and daughter Barbara Bush during Opening Day at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
In the 2009 engaging memoir A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by author Donald Miller, there is a story about a concerned dad whose teenage daughter is going off the rails. She’s hanging out with the wrong crowd, experimenting with drugs, dating a loser. The dad comes to Miller for advice, and Miller suggests that the girl is stuck in a bad story.