old days

Between his judging gig on “American Idol” and his role as the principal narrator of Netflix’s hit “We Are the World” doc, Richie hasn’t exactly made it hard of late to hear his stories of the old days.

These were like scenes from the good old days, the Dodgers hitting bombs and laughing as they celebrated.

With abortion still more accessible than in the pre-Roe days thanks to blue states and abortion pills, and with the stigma of unwed motherhood vastly diminished, abortion opponents have a tough road to restoring reproductive norms to what feminists would call “the bad old days.”

"In the old days people would crowd around me looking for the paper. Now I have to chase down clients to try to sell one," he says.

In the old days, writers fashioned scripts to accommodate ads with scene breaks and fade-outs.