by Sasha Stone | Aug 19, 2011 | WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
My 13 year-old daughter indulges my strange movie-watching habits. For instance, I almost always choose a movie I’ve seen and liked over one I’ve never seen. And I often watch the same movie over and over again until I know all of the dialogue. One such...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 29, 2010 | FILM, Misc, Movies, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
When the Breakfast Club first came out, I was a teenager myself. I was just a year or two out of high school. I don’t even remember where I was or what I was doing. I probably was commuting to Santa Barbara, attending the city college up there, and had some...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 22, 2010 | FAMILY, FILM, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
When did the message stop being, “it’s not whether you win or lose it’s how you play the game” and turn into “everybody’s a winner”? I’ll tell you when. When money started being the primary reason for making kids films...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 2, 2010 | Misc
“I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO I WAS BEFORE THEY SUNK THEIR CLAWS INTO ME!” My daughter is growing up to have great taste in movies. I think I’ve been open and honest about my weird habit of “having movies on in the background.” And usually...
by Sasha Stone | Apr 24, 2010 | FILM, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
One of the things I’m most proud of about the kid is that she loves movies like I do. I can’t believe that she can quote them better and with more precision than I can. The movies we quote back and forth now are Shakespeare in Love, A Fish Called Wanda and...