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...wardrobe is such a big deal for her: "I had to wear a uniform through high-school, which was a traumatic experience. Now I have fun every time I get dressed in the morning. My uniform was polyester, though. I love polyester...
...Cincinnati or Florida State, for example, can go after the best high-school football players and can offer them football scholarships, not to mention a less stringent academic requirement...
...generation has adopted Kennedy's voice as the ideal form of its own. Certainly no president--perhaps no person--is as extensively quoted on our public occasions. The words of Washington, Lincoln, or Franklin Roosevelt are rarely heard in our high-school valedictory addresses, but it's a good bet that more than a few concluded with a quote from Kennedy...
Ruby Lee Gissing (Ashley Judd) is a high-school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby...
Though the play maintains a tension between black humor and heartfelt sorrow, the production at times seems amateurish. This is due in part to the unfortunate attempt to create some form of a British accent, which makes Green Fingers resemble a well-acted high-school performance. And although the actors interact genuinely with each other, their movements on stage are often stiff, focusing on one repeated body movement to emphasize what the character is supposed to represent...