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Sad News for Children of the 80's: John Hughes has Passed

If you are the child of a baby boomer, born sometime between, say 1965 and 1980, chances are, the films of John Hughes played a fairly decent-sized role in your adolescence.  He passed yesterday at age 59. Hughes was the man behind Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Home Alone, Weird…

Ben Stein on Father's Day in the Times

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2777472&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Happy Father’s Day to all my readers and their dads. My gift today was a babysitter so I can go see The Hangover in the theater with Mrs. TRB. Just caught this article in the New York Times business section this morning, it’s Ben Stein musing on what his father would have thought…

A Day in the Life: Hank Greenberg

A Day in the Life of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg 7:00 am:  Wake up.  CD alarm clock plays “It’s All Over Now” by The Rolling Stones. 7:05 am:  Mutters “wasn’t my fault” on the way into the shower. 7:30 am:  Breakfast, includes 2 egg whites, one half grapefruit, one heaping bowl of Gorilla Munch cereal (from…