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Stephen King in the most recent (print edition) of Entertainment Weekly: \nSo what happened in the ’90s? I think we’re seeing an entire generation \nMovie-ticket sales have remained strong, but only because the studios Stephen King in the most recent (print edition) of Entertainment Weekly: [via boingboing] So what happened in the ’90s? I think we’re seeing an entire generation — my generation, the baby-boom generation — turning off the lights upstairs and putting a sign on the door: SORRY, BUT I’M TAKING A NAP. MIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n— my generation, the baby-boom generation — turning off the lights
\nupstairs and putting a sign on the door: SORRY, BUT I’M TAKING A NAP.
\nMIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Pretty much the same deal is going
\non with music sales. Piracy and illegal downloads, although covered to
\na fare-thee-well in the press, account for only a fraction of the drop
\nin $$. I think what’s happening is all too clear: We baby boomers are
\njust too pooped to party. Oh, we do buy some records — you may have
\nheard that we love the Beatles, Rod Stewart, and those funksters the
\nRolling Stones. Just don’t try to get us to listen to anyone who isn’t
\nregistered with AARP! Bob Seger was probably correct when he told us
\nrock & roll never forgets, but it sure gets tired.\n<\/p>\n
\nare selling a product aimed almost solely at Gen-X and Gen-Y. Most
\nR-rated movies go in the tank. PG-13 rules. A film like “The
\nFast and the Furious” strikes box office gold, while Clint
\nEastwood’s “Mystic River” muddles along at the box office.
\nI’d argue that 20 years ago, “Mystic River” would have
\ndone “Chinatown” box office numbers. Now the baby boomers
\nlook at the previews on TV and think, Nah, that looks too serious. Too
\nhard. Guess I’ll stay home and watch “Jeopardy!” And the
\n“Jeopardy!” answer is “Just about the saddest thing
\nSteve King can think of.” The question is “What do you call
\na whole generation going to sleep?”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"