If you are an avid reader of Air Mail, you are surely familiar with our Attention-Whore Index, where we rank the most offensive attention-seekers of the week. As 2023 draws to a close, the man who compiles that list, our own George Kalogerakis, reveals who takes the prize as the biggest windbag of the year. Then George Pendle tells us how he and Elena Clavarino solved the battle between Gen Z and baby-boomers. And speaking of boomers, Sam Kashner takes us inside American Graffiti, the blockbuster film that no one wanted when it came out, 50 years ago. It was a movie about hormones, horsepower, and hamburgers that shook up Hollywood (and created the modern rock-music soundtrack, too).

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