Something Borrowed, Something Renewed: The Return of the 80's in 'The Wedding Singer'
Ben BrantleyApril 28, 2006: HOW quickly our dreary yesterdays become bright, cute and endlessly repackageable. The 1980's, it seems, are to today what the 1950's were to the 1970's (and to part of the 1980's): a supposedly more innocent, picturesquely dopey time when people wore quaint clothes, listened to infectiously inane music and danced goofy tribal dances. Ah, how we laughed.
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