Word: alicia
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This year, though, a lot more people are paying to see that once endangered species, women's pictures--and not always out of a sense of sacrifice. The summer movie season, usually a men-only province, was commandeered by a phalanx of women: teen dream Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), lonely heartthrob Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping and The Net), ex-Marine schoolteacher Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) and a feminist princess named Pocahontas. Right now, with How to Make an American Quilt, Now and Then and Home for the Holidays, the plexes are awash in sisterhood cinema. And male moviegoers aren...
...also implicating unnamed senior executives at the bank--the world's 13th largest--in a conspiracy with him to keep the catastrophe secret from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. In London interbank lending rates jumped to reflect this latest blow to the Japanese banking system. Says Alicia Ogawa, an analyst at Salomon Brothers in Tokyo: "This new development serves only to increase distrust of Japanese banks...
...starring Alicia Silverstone...
Welcome to the world of Cher and Dionne, "both named for great singers of the past who now do infomercials." It's the world of Clueless, the surprise comedy hit of the summer, in which Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash) have Beverly Hills High School wrapped around their perfectly manicured little fingers...
...moments of stress, Alicia Silverstone has the adorable and quite marketable habit of squinting -- as if trying to read a TelePrompTer or possibly hatch a thought. This makes the 18-year-old actress the ideal vessel for Clueless, an enjoyable movie that says a lot about the needs of Americans, and not just teens, in the mid-'90s. The tale has Cher (Silverstone), a popular high-schooler in Beverly Hills, toiling as a matchmaker, as her father's confidant, as a makeover adviser to a clumsy friend (Brittany Murphy) and as her stepbrother's nemesis. All this echoes the plot...