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Rate   Meet In the Lobby | by Norm Schrager | Tue, Nov 6

Tue, Nov 6 Twenty-five years ago, I giggled my way through Fast Times at Ridgemont High, director Amy Heckerling’s all-too-real take on high school life in the 1980s. I was just about to enter high school, so this was damn important stuff. Two-and-half decades later, it remains important (added to t...

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