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Word: golino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potentially the big problem, is that Big Top simultaneously defines Pee-wee as a child and an adult. He has a fiancee, the sweet, prissy Winnie (Penelope Ann Miller). And when a traveling circus parks on his farm, he falls in lust with an aerialist named Gina (Valeria Golino). Pee-wee's first sexy screen kiss, with the voracious-mouthed Gina, will surely raise temperatures -- though, as Winnie notes sadly, it was inevitable. "You're a man. She's Italian." But what are we to make of Pee-wee's deflowering, symbolized by shots of fireworks, trains zooming into tunnels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Prince of Prepuberty Grows Up BIG TOP PEE-WEE | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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