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...Young Joey Milano, played by Giovanni Ribisi, has left his native Brooklyn for what he terms a "vacation" in Louisiana. A rather detached teenage boy with little direction in his life, Joey has shacked up with the alluring Sissel, a seemingly feisty girl whose parents' recent separation makes her feel as though she no longer has a place in the house in which she was raised. Sissel's father, Henry, is fully aware of the fact that she and Joey are "living in sin," but he tacitly approves--in fact, their relationship gives him access to Joey's energy...
Needless to say, Sissel sees her father's manipulative tendencies all over this proposed business scheme, and she emphatically disapproves. But as Joey becomes more and more involved in his work, she draws further away, choosing to take a job at a local sugar factory rather than wait for him at home. Their relationship deteriorates to the point that conversation becomes more painful than meaningless sex, and an inevitably passive confrontation over their situation looms just in the distance...
...have to be Drew Barrymore to become a movie Cinderella. With her Dawson's role as the dewy but sensible Joey and her film debut in the thriller Disturbing Behavior, Holmes could be the hottest multimedia teen since--hey, remember Neve Campbell...
...slept here," says boy-genius programmer Joey Liaw, 19, who deferred a scholarship to Stanford to work here. In one year, he says, he's made enough money to cover two years at Stanford, which he says costs $32,000 a year...
...cites an offending item from a long ago Earl Wilson column: "'Would you believe that not once has Joey Bishop sat down to dinner or drinks with Frank Sinatra without being invited?'" The slight isn't that Wilson got it wrong, exactly. What rankles Bishop is Wilson's mocking disbelief. "I'm the comic on the bill. He's having dinner, O.K.? If he wanted me present, he would invite me. How do I know he's not talking business? I knew my place. You people"--journalists--"don't believe the truth...