‘Kid 90’ and the Pull of the Last Great American Decade

The Clinton years aren’t what we really miss — it’s the power of being older and knowing better

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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6 min readMar 30, 2021

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Cuba Gooding Jr., Soleil Moon Frye, and Jared Leto in 1991. Photo: Barry King/Getty Images

Soleil Moon Frye’s documentary Kid 90, which premiered on Hulu this month, is an exercise in resurrected childhood. Frye was a child star in the early ’90s, the eponymous character in the show Punky Brewster, and…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.