One of the best parts of summer is cooling off in a movie theater with the A/C so high you wish you wore jeans. No one’s doing that this 4 th of July weekend. *sigh* I’ll let the cinephiles debate if we’re missing much now. But in 1989, the New York Post asked and answered: “Was 1989 the best summer for movies ever? Yes.” You had quite the choice of future classics at the Cineplex that holiday when Batman starring Michael Keaton was #1 at the box office, along with: · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · Dead Poets Society · Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier · Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing · Honey, I Shrunk The Kids · License to Kill with Timothy Dalton in his second (and final) performance as 007 And these films were all released before t...
A rewind of my coming out and coming home to New York City in 1989.