{"id":1151,"date":"2007-12-20T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/its-the-china-syndrome-meets-three-mile-island-its-wall-street-meets-the-crash-of-87\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T16:01:00","slug":"its-the-china-syndrome-meets-three-mile-island-its-wall-street-meets-the-crash-of-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/its-the-china-syndrome-meets-three-mile-island-its-wall-street-meets-the-crash-of-87.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The China Syndrome meets Three Mile Island. It&#8217;s Wall Street meets the Crash of &#8217;87."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2sF1RbDuKI\/AAAAAAAAA8A\/tzs7r95OfGE\/s1600-h\/juno-couple.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R2sF1RbDuKI\/AAAAAAAAA8A\/tzs7r95OfGE\/s400\/juno-couple.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">\u201cOn film and in real life, two pregnant 16-year-olds spark moral debate.\u201d  So reads a headline on a recent story by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/article.jsp?content=e122058A\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a> \u2014 referring, of course, to the revelation two days ago that Britney Spears\u2019s sister <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamie_Lynn_Spears\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jamie Lynn<\/a> is pregnant, and also to the movie <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/pro-life-pro-choice-could-it-even-be.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Juno<\/a><\/i>, which goes into wide release on Christmas Day after an enormously successful three weeks in limited release.  Both of them were beaten to the punch, though, by <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/keisha-castle-hughes-has-baby-its-girl.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keisha Castle-Hughes<\/a>, who also became pregnant at the age of 16 last year shortly after finishing work on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/nativity-story-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Nativity Story<\/a><\/i> \u2014 in which she played perhaps the most famous pregnant teenager of them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn film and in real life, two pregnant 16-year-olds spark moral debate.\u201d So reads a headline on a recent story by the Associated Press \u2014 referring, of course, to the revelation two days ago that Britney Spears\u2019s sister Jamie Lynn is pregnant, and also to the movie Juno, which goes into wide release on Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s The China Syndrome meets Three Mile Island. 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