You’ve Got Mail and the Internet of Ordinary People
The Internet taught me how to type, and FOMO—fear of missing out—remained my biggest motivator. I was in middle school and I wanted to keep up with the conversational flow in eighteen-and-under,...
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Beverly Hills, 90210 taught me how to have sex. In the penultimate episode of the first season, back in 1991, Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty), the seventeen-year-old female lead, lost her virginity to...
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In 1994, a small-budget film called Four Weddings and a Funeral made a floppy-haired, Oxford-educated actor a star. From this moment on, Hugh Grant was established as the quintessential posh...
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