Nathan Rabin
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Host at Travolta/Cage
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EX-A.V Club and The Dissolve. Currently, Happy Place/Bad Ideas/Every Episode Ever books, dad, autistic, ADHD, Travolta/Cage, and other stuff. I need teeth!
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If you look very closely at the background of Lilo and Stitch, you can see Tom Cruise performing death-defying stunts. Sometimes he’s leaping out of an airplane without a parachute. In other scenes, he’s wrestling a very angry, very large grizzly bear. I hear that in the latest and final entry in the series, Ethan Hunt embarks on a truly impossible mission: finding an honest politician! Cruise isn’t credited in either film. He wasn’t even compensated.
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In 1981’s Blow Out, Brian De Palma layers one level of voyeurism on top of another, like a Russian nesting doll. At one point, we, the sickos in the audience, are watching from the perspective of a slasher ogling coeds while simultaneously watching a police officer leer at the gyrating nymphets in his midst.
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For the past few years, my older sister warned me to expect the worst when I visited my now seventy-seven-year-old dad in the nursing homes where he has lived for the past decade or so. Because I had low expectations, I was always pleasantly surprised by my father’s condition. He’s had Multiple Sclerosis for over half a century. He had not taken good care of himself, yet he was lucid, conversational, and happy to see and talk to me. That, unfortunately, was not true of my last visit.
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That’s part of the reason that I’m writing this blog post. I want to process what’s happening to my dad in a manner other than staring grimly into the distance and feeling simultaneously numb, depleted, and overwhelmed with emotions and memories. So much of who I am and what I love comes from my dad: my sense of humor, my love of history, my terrible jokes, my politics, my love of movies, music, and pop culture.
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