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WORKING GIRL. Pert secretary Melanie Griffith climbs the corporate ladder, dislodging career gal Sigourney Weaver and claiming hunky Harrison Ford in Mike Nichols' suave tale about getting it all on your own sweet terms...
WORKING GIRL. Pert secretary Melanie Griffith climbs the corporate ladder, dislodging career gal Sigourney Weaver and claiming hunky Harrison Ford in Mike Nichols' suave tale about getting it all on your own sweet terms...
Sidney Lumet has been here before, directing the 1983 Daniel, a fictionalized look at the Rosenberg spy family. And Phoenix has already played, in The Mosquito Coast, a teenager whose idealistic dad kept his family on the run; Plimpton offered pert consolation in that film too. Those films foundered on their ambitions; this time the pieces fall together. The actors are an ensemble who know each other like, well, family. Hirsch is righteous and funny without ever being Alan Alda; Lahti etches another of her nifty modern heroines; Phoenix shows the strength and range that could make him a must...
Sassy has no such identity crisis. Pert, unnervingly frank and filled with clever asides from "Jane," "Catherine," "Karen," "Christina" and the rest of the staff, it has singlehandedly pioneered a new genre: pajama-party journalism. "The big question we ask is what would a 16-year-old want to learn that no one else would tell her," says Editor Jane Pratt, 25. After being presented with an idea, Pratt hashes it out with her equally young staff, and then, it often seems, simply publishes the text of the discussion. "It was a typical Wednesday morning meeting," begins a feature...
...then there's the cheerleaders--the disgusting human pyramids they form, piling on top of one another in their scanty uniforms, hands slipping and grasping around one another's pert young breasts-rah-rah, indeed...