The Cultural Obituary Page: 21 Things That Have Passed On

We say goodbye to crappy Treos, Borat catchphrases, Facebook's street cred, and eighteen other things from the last two years that have shoved off this mortal coil.
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Romantic Comedy, 81, Dies

A once beloved film genre about two strangers who overcome a seemingly insurmountable obstacle and end up as a happy couple, romantic comedy died in a conference room on the Warner Brothers studio lot Friday, as screenwriter Joe Bernstein was pitching a Kate Hudson vehicle about the romance between a dairy farmer and a lactose-intolerant woman. The cause was exhaustion. Observers close to the genre feared romantic comedy would die upon the release of the 2005 Reese Witherspoon/Mark Ruffalo movie Just Like Heaven, about the unlikely courtship between a ghost and a landscape architect, but it persisted in a vegetative state for three more years.

 
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:17:37 AM
Stupid!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:51:22 AM
That comment about Glenn Beck's book, The Christmas Sweater, made me particularly angry. It's obvious that the author of this article - 1)has never read the book, 2)has no idea of the story behind it, and 3)if he's reduced to writing useless dribbles for Esquire, it's obvious he's a no talent hack who wouldn't know a good story if it bit him on the arse.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:52:57 AM
Music may be dead but 'Miss American Pie' lives on. Haha... kudos to the music comment.
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