Tag: teenagers
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Vintage Cable Box: Boarding School, 1978
“You look like a strong boy. Do you think you could help me with my luggage when we arrive?” Boarding School, 1978 (Nastassja Kinski), Atlantic Releasing The first image of 1978’s Boarding School (renamed from the more snooty The Passion Flower Hotel for smutty U.S. audiences) shows a young woman’s flaccid, flat nipple slowly becoming…
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Vintage Cable Box: Sixteen Candles, 1984
“You grabbed my nuts.” Sixteen Candles, 1984 (Molly Ringwald), MCA/Universal If ever there was a filmmaker so attuned to the yearnings, the vulnerabilities, and the desires of young people (specifically teenagers) in the 1980s, it had to be John Hughes. Initially a Chicago-based freelance writer and advertising copywriter, Hughes dived into assignments for the Harvard…
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Vintage Cable Box: My Bodyguard, 1980
“It’s not the gum that’s the worst. It’s the boogers that scare me.” My Bodyguard, 1980 (Chris Makepeace), 20th Century Fox Chris Makepeace is the epitome of what is now being called, the “beta” male; sinewy, bony, full of emotional mush, eternally trapped in the wonder years, and always praying for thicker muscle tone. He’s…
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Vintage Cable Box: The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982
“All of you are very pretty. I love you. It takes a lot of love for a person to… do this. You know you want it. You’ll like it.” The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982 (Michele Michaels), New World Pictures I’m going to have to get analytical now. I knew this day would come, where I…
Misadventures in Blissville 