January 1, 2025

January 1, 2025

ANNIVERSARIES FOR THE NEW YEAR

• 10th Anniversary:  A Supreme Court decision that would result in the worst political train wreck in American history, which made the train wreck in 1993’s The Fugitive look like a minor fender-bender. / The Star Wars world, both filmmakers and fans, walking into a cosmic joke.  (Entertainment Weekly.  June 3/10, 2011.  pg 16) 
• 25th Anniversary:  “Are you not entertained?” / Plenty of key events for an ungrateful & faithless imbecile.  Many close encounters with God for that faithless imbecile. / “…To reject the possibility that God could love us.” / Turbulence for Tom Hanks, before years of isolation.
• 50th Anniversary:  Not exactly 27 anymore. / America loses its first war. / Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster, also the first of three box-office hits that would put Spielberg on top of Hollywood. (The timing of which is very relevant to television…and to big tech and the media, apparently.  They can’t seem to handle this one too well.  Nor can Spielberg.)
• 75th Anniversary:  America makes a deadly miscalculation in a foreign war during the earliest years of television.
• 100th Anniversary:  First publication of a future bestseller in Germany.  “Except for the Bible, no other book sold as well during the Nazi Regime, when few family households felt secure without a copy on the table.” –William Shirer

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