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At The Movies
`Loser'
In her new romantic comedy,
director Amy Heckerling does for college
what she did for high school in "Clueless"
and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
Director
Amy
Heckerling,
foreground,
replays a
scene on
the set of
"Loser,"
which draws
upon her
college years.
NAOMI PFEFFERMAN
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
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my so much can be written
about a Jewish girl from the
Bronx, says writer-director
Amy Heckerling. Only so
many scripts can begin, "Interior:
candy store, Queens."
That is why the New Yorker didn't
bother to draw on her own childhood
to create her teen zeitgeist films, con-
sidered classics of the genre.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the
first of the mall-generation movies, for
example, focuses upon a clique of
Southern California teenagers and
begins with an image of the Southland
Mall, a great suburban microcosm
percolating with a full complement of
teen trials.
Clueless, the tale of Cher Horowitz,
a pampered girl who fancies herself
more sophisticated than the younger
teen she takes under her wing, updates
Jane Austen's Emma to modern-day
Beverly Hills.
Now comes Loser, the story of Paul
Tannek (Jason Biggs), an impover-
ished college frosh from the heartland
who is, well, considered a loser —
until he hooks up with another out-
cast, Dora Diamond (Mena Suvari).
If you can take the girl out of the
Bronx, Hecklering concedes, you can't
take the Bronx out of the girl. The
director, who pronounces her latest
film "Lo-sah," couldn't resist making
Clueless' Cher (Alicia Silverstone) a
Horowitz. Dionne, her African-
American best friend, who like Cher is
named after great singers of the past
who now do infomercials," speaks a
word or two of Yiddish.
In Johnny Dangerously, Hecklerling's
gangster-flick spoof, the movie theater
candy counter sells popcorn, jujubes
and whitefish.
And in Loser, Dora Diamond; Paul's
unlikely comrade, is named after a real
Jewish teenager who changed every-
thing for Hecklering's favorite writer,
Czech novelist Franz Kafka.
"Kafka was, like, 40, and he never
left home or had a proper relationship
with a woman until the very end of -
his life," says the director, turning off
a Woody Allen film to conduct this
interview. "Then he met Dora
Dymant, a Zionist who wanted to go
to Israel, and she was the first person
who really got him to break away
from his parents, to live with a woman
and to move past adolescence.
"She was the teenager who got the
great Jewish genius to grow up," the
director marvels. "I related to the fact
that the person who finally saved him
was this Jewish teenaged girl."
Heckerling, the daughter of a CPA,
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