At my last job, I got a severe concussion during the workday (I hit my head on the conference table) and when I came back from medical leave, I found a bicycle helmet on my desk and my boss pretending not to know anything about it in his office.
Possibly the worst example of this is how Stanley Kubrick tortured Shelley Duvall during the filming of The Shining. He made her film the scene where she’s swinging the baseball bat at Jack Nicholson on the staircase in 127 takes. She was so traumatized by the shoot that clumps of…
He also ruined her career and kept her from taking roles for two years due to a contract she signed, threatened to deprive her of the means to support her parents and her daughter if she didn’t have sex with him, treated her like she was his property, and sexually assaulted her.
We had film reels in school! I learned the difference between latitude and longitude and stalactites and stalagmites from a Harlem Globetrotters film.
And that smell that overhead projectors made when they were left on too long? Memories.
I grew up with encyclopedia sets and Encarta, and it blows my damn mind that what once was a few hours in the library to look something up has turned into “hang on and let me google that on my phone” which fits in my pocket.
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