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é ^ T ? * inside: The Brat 'The Hunger 'Valley Girl ' Sparks Heaven 17 2A Thursday, May 5,1963 Daily Nexus Lighthearted Romp Through the Valley 'The Hunger' By JOHN KRIST brains) saunters up to Julie, who gives him the bad news. Shakespeare would, like, be totally grossed out. “ Like, I’m just totally not in love with you anymore.” A Visual Feast Although the beginning of the film is somewhat less than Then again, if he had lived and written in Los Angeles, By JONATHAN ALBURGER auspicious, things pick up a bit when Randy (Nicolas Cage) perhaps he would have cast a punker from “ Hollywierd” If a film can be voluptuous, then The Hunger is a sexy enters the scene. Dragged to a party by his best friend, who and a princess from the San Fernando Valley in the roles of visual feast. It is a glossy, campy, high-chic movie Romeo and Juliet. Either way, the Bard’s timeless story of overheard the address while at the beach, he puts on his fashioned around gorgeous star personalities, tauntingly adolescent love has found new expression in the unlikely best evening dress and crashes the party. tailored and voguely coiffed, who vamp through scene after The two of them are greeted by a strange sight — a form of Valley Girl, a genuinely funny and lighthearted scene with all the cliche affectations you would associate milling crowd of valley clones drinking soft drinks, dancing romantic romp through the Southern California subculture. with their names. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is an angel with a charge gingerly lest they muss their hair, and eating sushi.
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