Word: spicoli
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...This sort of thinking plays into all the movies I make. When I first saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High, I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day. I didn't know anyone as funny as Spicoli, and we didn't grow up in California, and we had burnouts instead of surfers, but I could relate to working at a shitty job at the mall and poor Judge Reinhold having to dress up like a pirate to deliver food, and also Jennifer Jason Leigh getting an abortion, which was really...
...Though there is often more teenage slang in these volumes than Jeff Spicoli's analysis of the Declaration of Independence at the end of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"("So what Jefferson was saying was, 'Hey, you know, we left this England place because it was bogus'") adults, refreshingly, are the intended audience. Thus "U.S. History for Dummies" is able to quote a Richard Nixon Watergate tape in all its four-letter-word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board...
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...
...Cookies (Robby Benson as a Chicago police detective) are about as dumb and hackneyed as the genre gets. CBS's Fast Times, though based on a smart, funny movie about high school life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film by Sean Penn, Dean Cameron projects nothing more than a 5-o'clock shadow; a baby-faced Sean Penn lookalike, Patrick Dempsey, plays Damone, the school's cool con artist. Bummer...
...then sculpted his observations into a book. Crowe's screenplay reunites his familiar cast: Brad (Judge Reinhold) is the lazily macho chef at the best fast-food joint in town. Damone (Robert Romanus) is the greaser who is about two-fifths as cool as he thinks he is. Spicoli (Sean Penn) is a premature beach bum with a glutinous Valley Boy drawl; he believes that "surfing is a way of life, man-a way of looking at a wave and saying, 'Hey, let's party.' " Linda (Phoebe Cates) and Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) are sweet-faced...
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