Word: samanthas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) cried alone in the hallway outside her high school dance, trying to salvage any hope for a good reputation when the popular girls passed by, making plans for a raucous after-party. Our twelve-year old selves cringed, fearing the girls would intensify Sam’s humiliation. The girls didn’t. They weren’t cruel. The world was safe and scripted. This is why John Hughes’ 1984 cult classic Sixteen Candles was beloved by innocent middle school girls who could hope that Prince Charming went to a suburban high...
Sixteen Candles, Hughes’ debut as a director (he cut his teeth writing comedies like Mr. Mom and National Lampoon’s Vacation) was unique in its realism. Samantha,a teenage movie character who was actually played by a teenager, suffered painfully embarrassing moments, including watching Long Duk Dong find some love within five hours of arriving in town. She was gawky, frequently chagrined, uncomfortable at home and at school—she was real, and the movie was real...
...movie’s hopeful message got more annoying as we followed Samantha to homeroom and high school dances in crepe-papered gyms. Sam made silly mistakes—mistakes involving public displays of underwear no less!—but she still got her man in the end. The film gives fumbling teenagers a false sense of security, implying that despite the cattiness and embarassments of high school, there is true love out there. Figuring out that the film’s happy ending is as much a Hollywood fantasy as the rest of the movie wasn?...
...extradition hearing for 34-year-old Kenneth Kin-Yuen Fung—who is also known as Kenneth Chi-Keung Fung and Edward Fong, the name he used to register at the KSG—is scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m., said Samantha Martin, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office...
...next 60 days, a federal judge will decide whether to extradite Fung to Hong Kong, according to Samantha Martin, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office...