Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...m.p.g. on the highway at 50 m.p.h., twice the mileage of a decade ago. Winnebago (1983 sales: $239 million) developed a front-wheel-drive model powered by a Renault diesel engine. One version, called the LeSharo, gets up to 24 m.p.g., even though it carries a fully equipped bathroom and two double beds. List price...
...with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...
...noteworthy, but does it really signal or promote a change in attitudes toward women? Joan Collins, Vicki LaMotta, and other mentioned are all "older" women who look like thirty-year-olds; Joan Collins may be able to find the "few lines" she mentions when she looks into her bathroom mirror in the morning, but they certainly don't appear on the pages of Playboy...
...opening scenes, Samantha awakes on her birthday. Instead of the usual birthday bounty, however, Samantha finds that her brother Mike (Justin Henry of Kramer vs Kramerfame) has locked her out of the bathroom and her mother (Carlin Glynn) has forgotten both her daughter's lunch and her daughter's birthday. What's more, Samantha doesn't feel quite as different as she'd like; as she looks in the mirror at her angular form she says disappointedly, "I look exactly the same as I have since summer, utterly forgettable...
...delicate balancing act to keep peace on the set. Since much of the film was set in Texas, Brooks, who grew up in New Jersey, spent four months in the Lone Star state, interviewing people who were like his characters. He would write "In search of Emma" on the bathroom mirror of his house in Malibu, then spend a week watching and talking to teen-age girls in River Oaks, the section of Houston where Emma was supposed to have grown up. He would then return to Malibu, think and write about Emma, then take out the Magic Marker again...