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They Don't (Re)Make 'Em Like That Anymore: Formerly-Popular Hollywood Remakes

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Daniel Lavery
Dec 2, 2021
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They Don't (Re)Make 'Em Like That Anymore: Formerly-Popular Hollywood Remakes

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I came to a number of widespread-but-already-fading 20th-century cultural touchstones indirectly — as I think did many of my generation — mostly through Peanuts and The Simpsons. The first time I heard the Roy Cohn gag in the “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet” episode (season 5, aired 1993), I didn’t know who Roy Cohn was, but I understood the cadence of the joke and the implication of the old-fashioned radio.

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