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Three flights up at the Galleria mall in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where Sean Penn played a surf dude whose diet consisted entirely of junk food and dope in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the food court was dead. You almost wished Spicoli, the crazy pothead, would show up, and scrounge a few burgers...
...malls in all the land--nearly 1,700 climate-controlled bubbles of raging hormones, Gap jeans and plastic trees--the Galleria was once the most famous, and those early-'80s movies glorified a national culture. But the Galleria, like those movies, is dated now. If you haven't guessed, you are reading a mall's obituary. So don't say the media never give you any good news...
Here's where our approaches differ. I've known for a long time that people who adhere to the Southwest High School verities are no longer in the majority. Anytime I go to the movies in a mall I can see with my own eyes that the deviationists are thick on the ground. I go anyway; I like movies. I confine my comments on the other moviegoers to some grumbling heard only by my wife. I'm confident that I'm personally invulnerable to the charms of Calvin KIein or Tommy Hilfiger, but I'm not up to telling other...
...Cohen, who served as the council's vice president last year, said he envisioned "a mall-type area" that would house small businesses such as photocopying services and a mail depot, as well as a casual study space...
sioned "a mall-type area" that world housesmall businesses such as photocopying services anda mail depot, as well as a casual study space...