Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day every girlfriend in America realized what she really wanted for her birthday was a boom box–enhanced declaration of love. 1980s classic Say Anything hits the quarter-century mark today, and a quick perusal of its greatest quotes confirms what I suspected: it has aged brilliantly. After revisiting puppy-eyed […]
It’s no surprise that Rainbow Rowell chose the 1980s as the setting for Eleanor & Park, her first YA novel. After all, the 1980s were arguably the Golden Age of the teen movie (see The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Say Anything, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Footloose), and Rowell’s novel is an homage to […]