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Some restaurants in Houston will start opening at 25% capacity today, and I’m sure so many people are thankful to get back to work.  Our gyms, hair salons, movie theaters, sports, and so many more things are still closed, but there will be a Phase 2 opening in a few weeks if this Phase 1 goes well. I’m praying it does.  I still haven’t gotten to hang out with any of my friends and neither have the kids.  If there’s one thing this has taught us, it’s how important our social connections are!  And how important our hair colorists are!...

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MAY 3, 1985 GYMKATA is another Summer of 1985 release with a Cold War context. On screen, it involves a mission with the ultimate goal of installing an American satellite monitoring station. Behind the scenes, it stars a gymnast who was favored to win gold at the Olympics in Moscow until the U.S. team boycotted. I reviewed GYMKATA for The Ain’t It Cool News in 2007 when it first came out on DVD, so you can read that for more details. I have some pretty good lines in there, for example “this movie and Osama bin Laden are both unintended...

Springtime in the United States looks a whole lot different this year. No kids playing on playgrounds or filing into classrooms. No groups of friends sitting at sidewalk cafes to enjoy the warmer weather. Beaches and public parks? Roped off. But few areas are more altered than the process of home buying and selling. In some places, real estate agents can’t even visit a client’s house until stay-at-home orders are lifted. Since it became apparent that COVID-19 was spreading across the United States, many of the usual spring sellers have opted to hold off listing their properties—whether real estate has...

Live from New York, it’s Saturday night! This line, signaling the end of the Saturday Night Live cold open and start of a new episode, has marked weekends for 45 years. It’s also marked many laugh-filled moments for me personally as I watched reruns with my mom at a horribly inappropriate age. Unfortunately, as COVID-19 (coronavirus) took hold of the world — and especially of New York City, the home of SNL — production of the NBC staple came screeching to a halt. With social distancing orders in place, the SNL cast couldn’t be together, let alone welcome an audience,...