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Family Ties ran for 8 years and starred Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton, the conservative, business-oriented son of liberal parents Elyse and Steven (Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross). Elyse was a successful architect, while Steven ran a public television station. They lived in suburban Columbus, Ohio with their children: Alex (Michael J Fox, Mallory (Justine Bateman) and Jennifer (Tina Yothers). Another child, Andrew (Brian Bonsall), was added later.
The majority of the show's humor was derived from the tension between Alex's conservative, Republican mindset, Mallory's uninformed consumerism, and their parents' attitudes as liberal Democrats, who grew up as hippie flower children in the 1960s. This show gave Michael J Fox his shot at superstardom, and aren't we all glad it did!
This show began two spinoffs, Day by Day, which lasted two seasons, and The Art of Being Nick, which was produced as a pilot but never picked up as a series.
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Added: 28th September 2007
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Posted By: Guido |
 
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Here's a clip of Bob Hope in the movie "The Ghost Breakers," where he says what is considered to be one of his funniest lines ever. Politically sensitive folk beware; he knocks democrats. Keep in mind, however, that politically parties represented an entirely different set of beliefs in the 1940s. That said, it is interesting to see a movie from 1940 crack a joke about democrats when it is more commonplace in today's films to see the same jokes said about republicans.
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Added: 4th February 2008
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Think presidential election campaigns are nasty now? They're quite tame compared to the good old days. In 1884 the Democrats learned that Republican candidate Grover Cleveland was making chid support payments to a young woman named Maria Halpirn. Cleveland admitted he may have been the child's father, but there were numerous other prominent men who had sampled the horizontal refreshments in the willing Miss Halpirn's boudoir. (Cleveland apparently took responsbility because he was the only bachelor among Miss Halpirn's plentiful beaus!) Democrats mocked Cleveland with the chant, 'Ma! Ma! Where's my pa?' After Cleveland won the election, the Dems added, 'Gone to the White House...ha, ha, ha!'
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Added: 25th April 2008
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Test your civics knowledge with this online quiz. The test includes 33 items "designed to measure knowledge of America’s founding principles, political history, international relations, and market economy."
A few findings from a random sample of 2,508 adult Americans who took the test:
Average score: 49%
Elected office holders: 44% (not a typo)
High School: 44%; Bachelor's: 57%; Master's: 64%; Doctorate: 72%
Liberals: 49%; Conservatives: 48%
Republicans: 52%; Democrats: 45%; Independents: 52%
Age 25-34: 46%
Age 65 & over: 46%
Annual Income: < 30K: 40%; 30-50K: 46%; >100K: 55%
Attend church weekly: 48%
Never attend church: 50%
Warning:
Comments may contain spoilers. Take the quiz before you read the comments.
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
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Added: 27th December 2008
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