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Once again, it's Who's That Actress, with your host, the Aging Crone of Lost Memory! *applause*

Once again, thank you for reminding me Deborah Foreman exists and was in... everything. My fave memories of her were that she was on MacGyver. I always thought she had the sweetest face, and looked like a Genuine Real Person I Wanted To Know.

I LOVED watching snippets of this film because MALLS. Since I haven't left the house since 2018, it reminds me how they were just this huge part of the American landscape on the West Coast... just ...wandering around in them when it was hot outside, watching everyone else wander around. Like the roving herds of buffalo, now forever gone...

It's HILARIOUS that these kids were supposed to be in JUNIOR HIGH, though. I mean, what!? (Foreman was 21, and she pulls it off, but a lot of other people, including the person playing her original boyfriend REALLY didn't.)

I'm always a little weirded out about movies about the Valley, though; living in the State where it truly exists means you always squint at movie versions of it and say, "Um...what?" but the way the people talk in that scene is a variation on how I *still* talk, like, two English degrees later, and I'm from the NORTHERN end of the State. Meanwhile D - who IS from SoCal and would drive over to the Valley occasionally, still says "grody" unironically. I snicker.

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