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J Roberson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Nov 1994 18:27:07 -0600
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>> I mean, this ignores questions of definition - I'm 21, ostensibly a member
>> of Gen-X, and the films I've gone to see in the past three months are
>> NBK, Pulp Fiction, Ed Wood and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. When Reality
>> Bites came, I was more interested in the writer and how she got her
>> script produced ;)
 
>I think that Ms. Roberson shoots herself in the foot a bit with this
>statement, as both NBK and Pulp Fiction are prime examples of films that,
>although they are not necessarily *about* Gen-Xers, and definitely
>aimed at the Gen-X market.
 
But, silly, I didn't say they were about Gen-X or targets Gen-X.;)
I just said that I am in the age range defined for Gen-X and that those are
the movies I've gone to see.
 
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather
a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new [person], how can the new
clothes be made to fit?  If you have any enterprise before you, try it in
your old clothes." - paraphrase of Thoreau.
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