It looks like Hot Tub Time Machine isn’t going to be the new The Hangover—although the comedy about guys going back to 1986 had a decent weekend at the box office. I knew not to look for right-wing content, though. The movie stars John Cusack, and he spent the ’80s complaining about Ronald Reagan using the Constitution as toilet paper. (I’m thinking that Chris Lemmon—son of Jack—once said the same thing. Maybe they got together at Spago’s to think up that kind of stuff.)

Anyway, the funniest ’80s flashback with Hot Tub Time Machine just ran as a letter to the New York Times. A proud Canadian feminist took great umbrage at a roundtable discussion about the ’80s that ran in the paper last week. The stars of Hot Tub Time Machine were interviewed, and I hope Cusack is proud to have been part of such a sexist endeavor. Enjoy this statement from Elizabeth Collins of Vancouver, and marvel at how the ’80s was full of joyless morons just like her (and all weird grammatical touches are as originally run):

Re: “Remembering Those Awesome ’80s” by Dave Itzkoff [March 21]:

In Mr. Itzkoff’s article four actors are asked “Dynasty: Krystle or Alexis?” and, “Tiffany or Debbie Gibson?”

To what is this referring, and to whom is it of interest? I’m guessing, based on the responses, that it has some male-centric sexual preference quotient, and am offended that The New York Times deems it of interest to its readers.

Perhaps Mr. Itzkoff would like to survey, instead, a high school boys’ locker room and then publish the result on a blog about “hot,” or sexually attractive women. Or, in Maxim, or Playboy magazine.

 

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