Slacker cohort re-'X'amined; Gen-Xer ideas seen boosting American culture.(SHOW)(ON THE EDGE)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: May 2, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In last year's hit comedy "Juno," the teenage title character played by Ellen Page discovers that the thirtysomething man to whom she has agreed to entrust her baby is himself an overgrown baby and, what's worse, likes tuneless alternative rock bands such as Sonic Youth.

Yet another dis of a generation - X - that has gotten used to being dissed. ("Slackers," anyone?)

Jeff Gordinier, editor at large of Details magazine and the author of "X Saves the World," feels it from both sides: from baby boomers and Generation-Yers, or ...

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