Tag: Amy Heckerling
Mondo Ironico #11: Despite Her Disgust With Their Style, Cher Horowitz’s Generation Now Looks Positively Dapper (Or At Least More Audacious)
In a series called Mondo Ironico, let us discuss how fucking antithetical something in pop culture is (in this case, to the present state of [Read More…]
Charli XCX Focusing on the High-Fashion Clothing Angle of the L.A. Wildfires Is More Cher (Horowitz) Than Brat (And Ignores the Larger Issue)
In 1995’s Clueless, one of the most seminal films “about” L.A. (and, more to the point, its priorities), Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) famously drags a slew [Read More…]
Elphaba + Galinda During “Popular” = A Foil for Cher and Tai in Clueless
Perhaps fittingly, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked both came out in 1995. For while Maguire’s book wouldn’t offer any songs that made the [Read More…]
It’s Not the Fountain From Clueless, It’s the Fountain From the “Our Lips Are Sealed” Video
Although the Electric Fountain near Wilshire and Santa Monica rarely gets called by its actual name, one long-running way to refer to it is: “the [Read More…]
Regina George Fucked The World, Or: Popular Girls Should Be Deemed Losers For Promoting Fossil Fuels
It is the high school trope that any girl who is popular has a car, and, obviously, the most au courant model, to boot, depending [Read More…]
“We’re Gonna Have A Nice Family Dinner”: Clueless & The Highlight on a Moment of Peak White Suburban Repression
Dan Hedaya has played many parts in his decade-spanning career, among the most important being Richard Nixon in Dick, but his most valuable of all [Read More…]
Like So Many Pop Culture Moments From the 90s, “As If” Was Grafted From the Gays
Upon reviewing the recently released list of Hollywood’s 100 Favorite Movie Quotes, it’s clear that Clueless is the only representative of “the youth” on the list (there [Read More…]
Hello? Am I The Only One Who Thought It Reeked?: The Plight of Ambular
For some people, feeling like the only one who ever seems to see reason is a rare occurrence. For others, like Amber ‘Ambular’ Mariens (Elisa [Read More…]
Movie Reunions: A Sad Homage to the Films Themselves
The popularity of movie reunions is telling of the surge of nostalgia people feel for an era in cinema they (rightly) deem to be better [Read More…]
Is There A Point to Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” Video?
It used to be that people (read: pop culture snobs) would roll their eyes if someone only subtly ripped off the pastiche of a movie [Read More…]
