It Came From the ’80s: Movie Review – Liquid Sky (1982)
Here’s a guest post from Sheri White. You can (and should) check out her blog “Chaos and Contentment” here. This post is a personal essay about her experience growing up as a teen in D.C. during the...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Movie Review – Happy Birthday to Me
by Sheri White When I was a teen back in the early 80s, I loved going to horror movies (I still do). Guys I dated loved this because I wasn’t dragging them to “chick flicks.” And of course I would...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Midnight Movie Memories, Or Why Caligula Makes For an...
by Sheri White I have a first-date story that can top many others’ first-date stories. I saw what was essentially a porn film with a guy named Mark. I did not do this on purpose; however, I don’t...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Friday the 13th (1980)
by Sheri White (Editor’s Note: If you haven’t seen the original Friday the 13th (what’s wrong with you?!?), and you don’t want to know how a major character dies or how the movie ends, beware… here...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
by Sheri White During my Senior year of high school, I was seeing someone named Kevin (not the Kevin from Friday the 13th) who had gone to Marine Corps boot camp after Christmas. I missed him, and...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: How ‘The Exorcist’ Corrupted Two Catholic School Girls!
by Sheri White If you’ve been reading my essays, you’d think that I only saw movies with boys when I was a teenager. Not so! One of my best friends, Marybeth, and I saw The Exorcist together at a...
View ArticleIt Came From the 80s: How Valley Girl, Like, Totally Cured My Broken Heart!
by Sheri White In July of 1985, I had been seeing John for about a year. He was cute, very nerdy (majoring in computer programming), very possessive, and usually got his own way about stuff. For...
View ArticleIt Came From the 80s: What Do You Get When You Mix Pizza, Beer, and… The Fly?
By Sheri White In the summer of 1987, I flew to Texas to visit with my dad. I was married to the Marine at the time, but he had been to deployed to Okinawa (I did get to go visit him there; it was...
View ArticleIt Came From the 80s: Stripes and the Art of Popcorn Throwing!
by Sheri White The Summer of 1981 was the best summer of my teen years. My on-off relationship with Kevin the Lifeguard was on again, I didn’t need to get a job yet, MTV debuted, and most of my time...
View ArticleIt Came from the ’80s: Where Were You in ’82?
by Sheri White In early Fall of 1982, Marybeth and I (and a few other friends) were working at a local amusement park called Wild World. What cooler place was there for a teenager to work? It was a...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Neighbors (1981)
by Sheri White December of 1981 was a heady time for me. Kevin and I had been on-again since November, and he and I went to my school’s Christmas dance. This was my first semi-formal dance, and I was...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: The Shining (1980)
by Sheri White In the Summer of 1981 (my favorite summer in my teen years), Kevin and I were on-again. However, my mom caught us making out on the porch one night and I wasn’t allowed to see him...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
by Sheri White The year 1986 brought a lot of changes to my life. I was with Mitch now, a Marine stationed at the 8th and I Barracks in DC. I had met him in Georgetown at a bar called “Annie’s” and...
View ArticleIt Came From the…’90s! City Slickers (1991)
by Sheri White This is a bit of a change from the usual, but it’s an important one. In the Fall of 1991, I was a divorced single mom. My little girl and I lived with my parents since I couldn’t afford...
View ArticleIt Came from the ’80s: Midnight Movie – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
by Sheri White In the Winter of 1983, I was dating another guy named Kevin (not to be confused with first-love Kevin), who had joined the Marine Corps before we met. He was sent to boot camp right...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Top Gun (1986)
by Sheri White In the summer of 1986, I was engaged to Mitch who was in the Marine Corps. My best friend at the time, Lisa, was dating a guy who was in the Army (for the life of me, I can’t remember...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: It’s Just a Thriller! (1983)
by Sheri White You may argue that Thriller is a video and not a movie, and you’d be partially right. But I would argue that Thriller was so much more than a music video – it was an event. I had just...
View ArticleIt Came From the 80s: Dirty Dancing (1987)
by Sheri White In the Summer of 1987, Mitch and I had been married less than a year. We had gotten married in September 1986, and in December, he was sent on TDY to North Carolina. Since there...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
by Sheri White On July 4th, 1984, a group of us went to Washington, DC to celebrate Independence Day on the Mall. My friend Joanne brought her boyfriend, Joe and his brother John. Although my friend...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Scrooged (1988)
by Sheri White On December 5th, 1988, I gave birth to an 8-½ pound beautiful baby girl, Sarah. I was a mom for the first time, married to someone I wasn’t happy with. I wasn’t working; the plan was...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Endless Love (1981)
by Sheri White The summer of 1981 was the best summer of my teen years; I’ve mentioned that before. Kevin and I were wildly in love, school was out and life was good. Except for the fact that my mom...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
by Sheri White I didn’t see this movie in the theater; my brother and I rented it when it was available on video, about a year or so later. Renting a movie back then was both cool and frustrating –...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Mannequin (1987)
by Sheri White In April 1987, Mitch and I were married, but living apart since New Year’s thanks to the United States Marine Corps. I thought that was bad enough, but then Mitch got even worse orders...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Urban Cowboy (1980)
by Sheri White Is this movie really thirty years old now? Have I been obsessed it with for that long? I was fourteen when that movie came out – and I was dating Kevin. Talk about young! My youngest...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: The Day After (1983)
by Sheri White My parents had the Cuban Missile Crisis when they were in school; I had the threat of world nuclear annihilation during my school years. Occasionally a warning siren would be tested...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1982)
By Sheri White At some point in a girl’s life, she will date a creep. She may not realize that the guy was a creep until well after they’ve broken up, but trust me – every girl dates one. My creep was...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: The World According to Garp (1982)
By Sheri White Last week I said that every girl dates a creep at some time in her life. Well, she will also date a really cool guy at some point. My cool guy was Andy. I met him when a group of us...
View ArticleIt Came From the ’80s: Superman 2 (1981)
by Sheri White In early summer of 1981, I was a member of our church’s Teen Club (shut up). I mostly joined to please my mom, who figured I wouldn’t be doing anything I shouldn’t if I were a member. I...
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