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Past is present: David Sirota’s bedroom at his childhood home in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., is filled with memorabilia from the ’80s. To this day, the author says, people are “still looking through an ’80s mind-set.”
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PHILADELPHIA — David Sirota is tooling around his hometown,
giving what he calls “his ’80s tour.” He points out a billboard for the
Philadelphia 76ers that boasts the basketball team’s logo. One
recycled from the 1980s.
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“There’s ’80s synergy right there,” he says, nodding
to the 1980 statue of boxer Rocky Balboa of Rocky
fame.
The tour continues, right down to the white-tiled men’s room at
the city’s 30th Street train station where an Amish boy saw someone murdered — in the movie Witness (1985).
To Sirota, 35, a syndicated columnist, author and radio talk-show
host based in Denver, the ’80s are where it all began. And where it
all continues to be. For better or worse.
He makes his case in his book Back to Our Future: How the 1980s
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make it impossible” for director, co-creator
and librettist Julie Taymor to continue with
day-to-day duties, the statement said.
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leaving,” but director Philip William McKinley and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
are being added “to help implement new
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“With changes and extra rehearsals,
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the record for most previews of a musical
(71) before Spider-Man. She understands
the desire for a fresh creative perspective:
“You reach a point where it’s hard to have
objectivity about what needs to be fixed.”
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got slapped down,” Feldman says. “This is a
chance to turn the narrative around — to
be the underdog. If they can work out their
problems, they’ll have a great comeback
story — and everyone loves that.”
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Remember the ’80s? Greed.
Narcissism. Size.
“Everything was big — really
big,” Sirota writes. “Big hair. Big
defense budgets. Big tax cuts. Big
shoulder pads. Big blockbuster
movies. Big sports stars. The Big
Gulp.”
Returning to his childhood
home in Huntingdon Valley, a
Philadelphia suburb, Sirota becomes even more animated as he
sits on his old bed, covered with
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
sheets. The room remains untouched since he left for college in
1994.
He’s wearing his Save Ferris
(Bueller) T-shirt (1986), showing
off his set of E.T. (1982) bedding,
playing with a Rubik’s cube
(American debut: 1980), and
pointing out a pair of basketball
shoes signed by Charles Barkley,
the ’80s basketball superstar.
Ghostbusters:
Harold Ramis, left,
Dan Aykroyd, Bill
Murray and Ernie
Hudson try not to
cross the streams.
‘The past is never dead’
Sirota (who was born in 1975)
says the ’80s speak to us today for
one simple reason: “Because it’s
still the ’80s. The calendar
doesn’t say ’80s, but we’re
still looking through an ’80s
mind-set.” Think Charlie Sheen.
Think Lehman Brothers. Think
McMansions.
As William Faulkner said: “The
past is never dead. It’s not even
past.”
The ’80s set the stage for our
lives today, Sirota says, and he explains it best in his introduction:
“Almost every major cultural
touchstone is rooted in the ’80s.
. . . The Sopranos was an update
of an ’80s Scorsese flick (Raging
Bull and later Goodfellas). The
Wire was Baltimore’s own Colors.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is a Los Angeles-set Seinfeld. American Idol is
Star Search.” And so on.
TNT is even planning a remake
of the over-the-top ’80s hit show
Dallas, Larry Hagman in tow.
While Sirota’s investigation of
the ’80s is more academic, the
decade is ripe for the picking
from a kitsch standpoint.
VH1’s I Love the ’80s was a
huge hit in 2002, with 10 episodes taking viewers on an
amusing pop culture tour of each
year and covering everything
from Michael Jackson’s wardrobe
to Spicoli from Fast Times at
Ridgemont High, yet another ’80s
film that has inspired today’s
filmmakers.
“The reason you see so many
remakes is not just because nostalgia resonates,” Sirota says, “but
because (’80s movies) are still
culturally relevant.”
The just-released Take Me
Home Tonight, for instance, is a
movie set in 1988 that The New
York Times calls a period piece
and which plays off the comingof-age themes in many of John
Hughes’ Brat Pack films of the
’80s, including The Breakfast Club
(1985).
“A lot of the changes that happened (in the ’80s) weren’t
good,” Sirota admits. “The deification of celebrity, for instance.
The individual. Michael Jordan
could soar above all the rest. It
wasn’t about the team anymore.
That wasn’t so good.”
But he believes the fact that
race was being publicly discussed
and black cultural figures were
ascending in the ’80s was a good
thing. “You saw more African
Americans in entertainment.
Bryant Gumbel. Bill Cosby. Oprah
Winfrey.”
Who you gonna call?
But what rings most true today
is the ’80s trend against government, led by President Reagan.
Sirota cites the hit movie Ghostbusters (1984), in which three
professors set up a shop dealing
in “ghost removal” services.
“You needed to hire the private
corporation to solve any problem.
The police can’t do it. Government can’t do it. The FBI can’t do
it.”
But ghostbusters could. Being
rogue became vogue. Sound
familiar?
“It was the outlaw with morals.
The guy working on the inside for
the common good,” Sirota says.
He says that trend translated to
sports, pointing to a poster of
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Here’s the beef behind ’80s icons
The Cosby
Show:
Bill Cosby,
Phylicia
Rashad and
a sweater
of many
colors.
What made the 1980s “the ’80s”? Here are 10 icons from the decade, along with
their cultural significance, according to author David Sirota:
Rambo:
Sylvester Stallone
created a need
for a good supply
of body bags.
uAtari: Best-selling videos Missile Command, Combat and Space Invaders sold
techno-militarism to a generation of future drone pilots.
uRambo: Embittered vet refought America’s wars and “gets to win” this time.
uGhostbusters: The movie’s lesson: When government fails, these private security
contractors saved us from interdimensional “terrorists.”
uWorld Wrestling Federation: Theatro-sport in which American good guys like
Sgt. Slaughter body slammed foreign bad guys like the Iron Sheik.
uMr. T: No matter what character this Mohawk-wearing strongman played,
he represented racial stereotyping and threw it back in our faces.
uThe Cosby Show: The pre-Obama image of the “post-racial” brand, the Huxtables
were the first black family to dominate TV.
uFerris Bueller: John Hughes’ cheeky truant glorified “going rogue” years before
Sarah Palin.
uAir Jordans: Best-selling sneakers pushed the idea that we can each be superstars
if we “just do it.”
uThe Yuppie: Upwardly mobile wealth-obsessed Alex P. Keatons rejected ’60s
idealism for modern materialism.
u“Greed is Good”: Gordon Gekko’s line from Wall Street became the decade’s
most famous phrase — and its most enduring ethos.
Ghostbusters by Columbia; The Cosby Show by NBC; Rambo by Tristar Pictures
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bad-boy Barkley. “He broke the
rules but he was a good guy.”
As for ’80s greed, the examples
are endless both then and today.
He cites Michael J. Fox’s The Secret of My Success (1987) as glorifying the ’80s goal of “working
your way up to huge sums of
wealth.”
But another 1987 movie perhaps summed up the era best.
Wall Street (which co-starred
Sheen) lives on because of three
difference now, Sirota says, is that
kids played video games together
in the ’80s, unlike today, when it
is a solitary activity.
“It was the beginning of us becoming isolated,” he says.
Before the ’80s, TV and radio
audiences all ate from the same
news menu. But as soon as CNN
went on the air in June 1980, the
audience became fragmented,
going in as many directions as cable TV can take you. The nights
when vast portions of the
country watched Cosby
or M*A*S*H were over.
“Nothing matters as
much now as what Cliff
Huxtable said back
then,” Sirota says.
The good news was
that higher- quality
shows, marketed to
— From Back to Our Future smaller-niche audiences,
began to emerge. Hill
famous words uttered by Mi- Street Blues, which arrived in
chael Douglas: “Greed . . . is 1981, for one.
good.” The sequel, Wall Street:
Meanwhile, the ’80s are alive
Money Never Sleeps, was released and well on the Internet. There
last year. Still relevant. Bernie are dozens of ’80s sites, including
Madoff, anyone?
LikeTotally80s.com.
“The young of the ’80s didn’t
Alli Denning, 38, a Web designwant to save the world,” Sirota er in Birmingham, Ala., owns that
says. “They wanted to get rich. It ’80s-inspired site and often blogs
became the norm, and it’s the about the lure of the decade, as
norm today.”
she did recently on FoundItem
The “we want more” mantra Clothing.com, which sells ’80s
spilled over into the music world. T-shirts (Ghostbusters, Bueller).
Anthony DeCurtis, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone mag- The decade’s dark side
azine, says the ’80s were the beginning of what he calls a
She says the interesting thing
“blockbuster mentality,” with about the decade for her is that
Jackson leading the charge. Re- while people see it as a fun time
member, BIG is the operative ’80s — “brightly colored, big, bold and
word.
bouncy” — it had a dark side, too.
The idea was that every album The Cold War loomed.
Denning, who is reading an
was supposed to have six singles
and a smash video, he says. early copy of Sirota’s book, says
Thriller, Born in the USA, Purple the 1983 TV movie The Day After,
about nuclear war, kept her
Rain come to mind.
awake at night for weeks after
she saw it as an 11-year-old.
Living in a lyrical world
So why the fascination?
“Overall, the ’80s were a time
But DeCurtis says a certain
Madonna lyric — “Living in a ma- of change,” Denning says. “Exterial world, and I am a material ploding technology. Women joingirl” — sums up the decade best. ing the workforce in droves, leav“You can boil the ’80s down to ing latchkey kids like me alone.
There was a lot of change, and
those two lines,” he says.
Today’s college students — change is scary. But the ’80s faced
who were born in the early it head-on,” she says.
Her favorite ’80s song? The
1990s — can’t seem to get
Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear
enough of the decade.
“The 1980s is a hugely popular Shades by Timbuk3.
She likes the fact that people
period with my students,” says
Matthew Donahue, an instructor decided not to let the Cold War
in the popular-culture depart- get them down and defied the
ment at Bowling Green State Uni- dark cloud with big hair and a
versity in Ohio. “Part of that is the commitment to partying like it
nostalgia factor and part of that is was 1999. “There’s something to
from artists like Lady Gaga who be said for that.”
Sirota understands well what
represent a newer version of the
1980s electro-pop sound and Denning is saying. Looking
around his bedroom — an ’80s
fashion spectacle.”
Donahue’s students can’t “museum” that his mother has
imagine a world without video allowed to remain intact — he,
too, is wistful.
games, of course.
“In some ways, I’m hanging on
Children of the ’80s couldn’t
believe such a world was opening here,” he says. “When this is all
up to them. Remember Atari’s gone, a piece of my childhood
original war game, Combat? The will be gone.”
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LEGAL NOTICE
IMPORTANT NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION
CONCERNING BEST BUY’S PRICE MATCHING POLICY
PLEASE READ – YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED
What Is This Notice About? This Notice is about a lawsuit which has been filed in the United States District
Court, Southern District of New York, entitled Thomas Jermyn vs. Best Buy Stores, L.P. On March 19, 2009, the Court
certified this case as a class action on behalf of all New York State citizens and residents who, from January 10, 2002
through the present, made a purchase at Best Buy and within 30 days after the purchase (14 days for computers,
monitors, notebook computers, printers, camcorders, digital cameras and radar detectors), found a lower price from
an entity qualifying under Best Buy’s published price match guarantee on an available product of the same brand and
model, and provided verification of the lower price to Best Buy, but were denied the benefit of Best Buy’s price match
guarantee. There is a subclass of persons whose claims under the New York General Business Law are ineligible
because their injury occurred prior to January 10, 2005.
What Is This Lawsuit About? The lawsuit alleges that Best Buy Stores, L.P. uses false and deceptive trade
practices in advertising and applying the company’s well-known “price match guarantee” policy. The lawsuit also
alleges that Best Buy uses its “price match guarantee” policy as a ploy, to lure unsuspecting consumers into its stores
and to induce them to purchase its merchandise, while allegedly having an undisclosed policy pursuant to which
employees aggressively deny and discourage consumers’ legitimate price match requests. Best Buy denies these
allegations and asserts that its actions and business practices have been lawful and appropriate. The Court has not
ruled on the merits of the claims.
Do I Need To Do Anything? If you wish to remain in the Class, you are not required to do anything at this time. If
you remain in the Class, you will be bound by any judgment that may be entered in this action, whether it is favorable
or unfavorable. This means that if there is a recovery, you may be entitled to share in the proceeds of that recovery.
However, if there is no recovery, you may not pursue a lawsuit on your own involving any of the same issues in this
lawsuit.
If you wish to be excluded from the Class and forego any benefits, you must send a written request for exclusion
to the Notice Administrator at: Best Buy Price Match Class Action, c/o Berdon Claims Administration LLC – Exclusions,
P.O. Box 9014, Jericho, NY 11753-8914 in accordance with the directions set forth in the long form Notice available
to download at either www.NewYorkBestBuyPriceMatchClassAction.com or www.berdonclaims.com. Requests for
exclusion must be postmarked by April 18, 2011.
Where Can I Get More Information? This is only a summary notice. You should go to
www.NewYorkBestBuyPriceMatchClassAction.com or www.berdonclaims.com to obtain more detailed information.
How Do I Contact the Lawyers for the Class? The email address for the lawyers representing the Class is
[email protected].
Dated: March 3, 2011
BY ORDER OF THE COURT
March 10, 2011 12:40 pm / Powered by TECNAVIA