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Why Did The Hollywood Romantic Comedy Die?

MEDIA Posted: May 20, 2014 12:40 pm

“I suspect the real reason big studios no longer make rom-coms is hidden in their nicknames — they went from being “date movies” to “chick flicks” and shortly thereafter I dubbed them dick flicks. The genre devolved from a centuries-old comic form about charming fools fumbling their way through life and became ugly, women-hating screeds.”

MEDIA Published: 05.20.14

Read the story in The Tyee Published: 05.20.14

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