Lessons I’ve Learned From 80s Movies
This December, I’ll be turning 35. My date of birth was December 22nd, 1982, and I started becoming aware of my surroundings in 1987, around the time I was 4 and 1/2 years old. I had no idea at that young age that the pop culture of the decade I was born in would become a guiding force in my life, but as I grew and matured, the decade’s films taught me valuable lessons, some of which wouldn’t impact me until adulthood while others struck me immediately. I’d like to share some of those lessons and the films they came from. As I mentioned to Sally Kellerman, Carroll Spinney and Eddie Deezen when I met them at Chiller Theatre in October 2014 (for Kellerman and Spinney) and October 2016 (for Deezen), respectively, the first movie that I can recall making an impact on me was Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird. When I was young, and going well into my adulthood, I was a big fan of Sesame Street. As