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...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 of a certain Jane Austen novel. But the touchstone of Clueless is less...
...writer-director of Clueless, is cannier than that. An able architect of loosey-goosey comedy (she directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the Look Who's Talking films), Heckerling wants the viewer to like these girls even as she pokes fun at them. The toughest intellectual challenge for Cher and her friends may be deciphering the Thomas Guide map of Los Angeles streets, but they have an ease and a good nature that ultimately, if at times strenuously, endear...
...mandatory. You can learn most of the jokes by surfing the reviews and get a hint of star Alicia Silverstone's blithe luster by watching MTV's relentless promotions. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable movie that says a lot about the needs of Americans in the mid '90s. As Cher, a popular Beverly Hills high schooler toiling as a matchmaker and makeover adviser to a clumsy friend, Silverstone is the model of conspicuous consumption: wanting, having and wearing, in style. But Amy Heckerling ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High") succeeds in getting the viewer to like Cher and her friends even...
WHEN BONO TOSSED OFF THAT LINE during the fall campaign, he may have been merely poking fun at the save-the-planet folks, just as he used to trade put-downs with his old partner, Cher. But underneath the comic exaggeration was a serious message. The noises coming from Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" signal a radical shift in Congress's attitude toward environmental issues-a shift that may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls and even the human species...
Though they are overwhelmingly white and male, the House freshmen--who include an obstetrician, a florist, an accountant, an insurance agent and a onetime member of Sonny and Cher--can claim to be something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back...