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Daily Archives: January 18, 2018

Week #18: C. Thomas Howell

How can you describe the phenomenon of a teenage girl falling so deeply in love with a boy solely from watching him on-screen, reading about him in fan magazines, and starring dreamily at foldout paper posters of him tacked affectionately on her bedroom wall?  Teen heartthrobs. The infamous December 7th, became even more historically important than it already was when Tiger Beat revealed to me, in one of the many 1982 issues, that C. Thomas Howell was born on that date.  It instantly became more significant than the July 4th or Halloween…it was a certifiable holiday that needed…