The critic Michael Koresky has a memoir out--"Films of Endearment." It's a fun concept. Koresky is mainly telling the story of his mother, but his own story also works its way into various paragraphs. The "frame" is this: Koresky and his mom rent one Hollywood movie for each of the ten years of the eighties, and each rental features a woman in the lead role. Koresky says that Hollywood seems designed for straight men; many blockbuster films of the eighties, such as "Terminator," "Lethal Weapon," "Die Hard," and "Predator," left Koresky cold. But, in the eighties, a little experimentation could still occur. Audiences would still pay to see adults working together on adult problems--in front of the camera. (Today, your main option is superhero movies.) In the eighties, you could still occasionally see big literary gifts in the possession of Jessica Lange, Whoopi Goldberg, Sissy Spacek, Sigourney Weaver, Kathy Bates, Michell...