The Return of the Stews
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.31.03 | 8:57 PM ET
It’s said you can gauge a country’s state of mind by examining its pop culture. So what to make of the recent rash of American movies and books where flight attendants play major roles? According to a story by Greg Morago in the Seattle Times, they take center stage in the new Gwyneth Paltrow movie “View From the Top,” Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can,” the Adam Sandler/Jack Nicholson flick “Anger Management,” Elliott Hester’s book “Plane Insanity” and Johanna Omelia and Michael Waldock’s “Come Fly With Us.” Do these in-the-sky narratives demonstrate that, contrary to popular opinion, we are determined to travel, even in the face of fear? Or are we simply longing for the golden days of flying, when flight attendants were stewardesses and we didn’t have to take our shoes off three times before we got on the plane? Perhaps it’s a little of both.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
