/\ I had to watch a YouTube clip of the business card scene to get it straight (just so you don't think I know the entire movie by heart) ....
now I need to get ready for lunch
at Dorsia
they know me there
Remember cutting forms out of newspapers and sending them off with a cheque or money order to buy stuff? Stuff which took two or three weeks to arrive, which you were quite happy with.
Mrs Brooks and I sat down to watch the 1987 film Baby Boom starring Diane Keaton t'other night, the intro of which is probably the most yuppie 5 mins ever put to film. New york in its heyday of new balance trainers, trench coats and brooks brothers suits.
This is the only decent clip I can find, no intro sadly
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hwrELzwQejQ
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I liked this old post: https://80sactual.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-history-of-yuppie-word.html?m=1
My friends often call me a yuppie in jest and American psycho references are very common.
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https://youtu.be/yRhY143MASo?list=PLp5mV3SmVBK_aI68LhzRQg7idk5U3JdKx&t=172
Can’t discuss yuppies without a mention of ‘The Big Chill’.
I believe it inspired the TV show ‘Thirty-something’
Hard to decide which was the more dull, and which had the more loathsome characters.
Both were in the eighties (TS lasted into the early nineties) but for some reason I associate them with the nineties which for me was largely drab and dull decade.
Chums. Nice comments in this thread. Memories. A shirt in the drawer indeed.