From the In Box: Today Is My Birthday
Happy birthday! As I approach my own 29th birthday (later this summer), I share your sense of melancholy. Seven years ago (!) there was that rush of being fresh out of school and feeling like a wunderkind of sorts. Now I'm obsessed with every story I read about another successful 24 year old who has just sold his first script or a 27 year old who has been named vice president of whatever at a major studio. But I guess I've been feeling old ever since Madison Avenue gave up trying to market to Generation X and instead turned its attention to Gen-Britney. -- Michael Schneider