Yeah, the character worshipped money and all that, but I can’t see a real-life version of him getting along with the Fox News chickenhawks, Silicon Valley techbros, Wall Street hard-asses, or Steve Bannon. Keaton doesn’t seem like he’d fit in today. Fox after the actor developed Parkinson’s disease. And to tie in with this post, Rush Limbaugh even publicly made fun of Michael J. While Rushton is older than the fellas I’m talking about in this post, he did get his start in the ’80s and taught younger white men that r ich white men have super-duper-powers. Which seems so… modern Right wing.Īlso, Rush Limbaugh died this week. I’m writing this after Ted Cruz abandoned Texas and its power outage problems to travel to Cancun. If anything, his brand of conservatism feels more Wall Street Democrat rather than MAGA and QAnon. Keaton would have a hard time existing these days. When I look around the country, it feels like Alex P. Fox became a major star playing this briefcase-carrying, Wall-Street-Journal-reading teenager. Their oldest son, Alex, also happened to be a Reagan Republican. If you’re not familiar with it, the sitcom Family Ties was about a ’60s hippie couple, Steven and Elyse Keaton, now raising a family in the 1980s. There’s a reason why guys in my age group are so fucked up. To have gone through that stage of life with Ronald Reagan as our president…yeah. I entered the 1980s as an eight-year-old and exited the decade as an eighteen-year-old. Mallory: Everyone, I want you to meet Jamie Carter.Īlex : AAAUGH! Keaton - Photo by: Tony Costa/NBCU Photo Bank
He took a cab to the restaurant, paying the money owed to the driver and heading inside, securing a table for two. After doing the small amount of work he had to complete before the next day, he grabbed his wallet and jacket, leaving the apartment building. Read on the find out about how the Keaton family explores life, watch as the family explores new territory, and as they see what the future holds. The fact is, Alex P Keaton never expected Ellen Reed to show up at his doorstep in the first place.