Saturdays are busy cultural and entertainment news days.  It is a lot more news and info to sift through, and that is after late onsite reporting from various St. Patrick's Day celebrations we reported on yesterday.  Today we talk about movies turning 30 and how a movie trailer is designed.  We follow that with a don't worry, eat dessert highlight and an opportunity to rethink awards and accolades in music. 

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Since we are putting this highlight under the Inspiration section, the top three movies we pulled from the article on movies turning 30 are:

The Sandlot is a forever classic, a movie that feels like it’s always been around like It’s a Wonderful Life.”  Created in 1993, no matter how old you are, if you are lucky, you know people like that.  Remember.  "Smalls, you're killing me."  Philadelphia, a movie or an acting masterclass put on by Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.  And finally, Rudy, if you ever want to channel your inner get back up again – watch Rudy.  We classify Rudy as Rocky's younger brother; nothing keeps either of them down.

Vox helps us understand what a movie trailer is supposed to do.  You only think about so many things, like how much effort goes into a movie trailer.  Bill Neil tells us how the sauce is made; he describes those fabulous fast fight scenes in trailers as "Click-Click-Wer-Wer," which makes more sense when you see it.  He also said a studio exec told him that a trailer is like selling a jigsaw puzzle.

You don't even have to eat your feelings to increase calories.   A report from Axios tells us that stress in itself adds calories.  Axios cites another report from The NIH that stress can add up to 104 extra calories to your meal.  With that knowledge, go out and eat dessert, telling yourself you can afford the dessert calories as long as you don't stress about it!

The Guardian ran an Opinion Piece written by Courtney Love about the underrepresentation of women in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  It created a more extensive discussion of awards and spotlights.  We agree with the representation, and we wrote a story earlier about Kate Bush, who has been nominated too many times.  The deeper discussion around our virtual tables was about the music and the bands we love, most of whom will never be considered for the Hall.  Even the rare alternative and indie bands we love never had an award or general accolades as a reason they create music.  They make music for people, in many cases for a small group of people who share and relate to the words, the vibrations, and the emotions they create together.  It is difficult to condemn the groups and ceremonies you spent the majority of your career screaming against.  The Hall is another establishment; it's hard to be anti-establishment unless and until they "let you in."

Chrissie Hynde has been saying the same things for years and faced much worse sexism when she first set out to play music.  We assume that Hynde never spent any time thinking about awards and threw all the negative energy she had to endure to play music and threw it into her songs.  That's what we love about our favorite artists; the Hall has nothing to do with it.

A host of good intentions and improvements people are trying to make. It doesn’t mean it’s easy or will work on the first go around. Ask U2, as they spin through interesting versions of old songs, will we ever get it right?

Please.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

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