THE BEST
FAMILY DEAL EVER.

It's difficult to find quality family entertainment,
but McDonald's and the Tigers have a GREAT deal for you!

Barry Gibson

was a very different kind of Jewish
teenaged girl, one who was hardly
as self-assured as the real-life
Dymant or the fictional Cher. She
was quiet and confused, artistic
and alienated. Growing up among
Holocaust survivors in the Bronx
didn't help, she suggests.
"My mindset was the world is a
place that doesn't like Jews," says
Heckerling, whose Yiddish-speak-
ing grandparents lived two floors
up from her parents' modest apart-
ment. "Definitely I grew up think-
While they don't quite cut it in terms of
ing that the Holocaust could hap-
coolness at 1VYU, nerdy, good-natured Paul
pen again at any time."
Tiziznek (Jason Biggs) and down-on-her-luck
"Beyond awful" is the term
fellow student Dora Diamond (Mena Suvari)
Heckerling uses to describe her
schools in the Bronx and, later, in fall for each other in "Loser:"
Queens, where she felt rather like
people who don't have it all, who don't
the befuddled character of Ratner in
fit in, the sort of lonely outsiders who
Fast Times, wondering why everyone
are not invited to the party."
else was having fun.
Ironically, Heckerling, 46, writer-
"There was a lot of fighting, not a lot
of learning and the teachers spent most of director of the hit Look Who's Talking,
starring John Travolta, says she "felt
the time disciplining certain people," says
more like a teenager" when she was in
the director, who laughs and corrects her-
her
30s and earning enough disposable
self— "most of the people?
income for clothes and sundry frivoli-
"I just wanted to be left alone, to
ties. Making movies about teenagers,
fly below the radar, to draw some pic-
she admits, has been a way to make up
tures."
for the youthful years she lost.
She escaped to the High School of
Hecklering didn't want to talk
Art and Design in Manhattan, where,
about the status of women directors in
she recalls, "people did not concentrate
Hollywood. She said she doesn't like
on how tough you were or how cute
to think about gender and showbiz. It
you were or what gang you hung with
doesn't bother her.
or how big your breasts were. All that
What does bother her are all the
mattered was how good you were at
negative images of Jewish women in
your chosen art."
film: "I can't stand the loud, pushy,
How good was Hecklering? "I
whiny stereotype," Hecklering says. "It
sucked," she admits.
makes me ill."
Before long, young Amy gave up
Another pet peeve: Too much "too-
drawing for filmmaking and began to
Jewish"
in the casting process. "You
obsess about how to collect the money
can be Jewish, as long as you're not
for film school at New York
`Jew-y,'" Hecklering complains.
University. Her father wasn't about to
Can a Jewish woman director make
give her any.
a difference? "I try," says Hecklering,
"At the time, there was no such
adding that she has written scripts fea-
thing as a woman director," she says,
turing well-rounded Jewish female
"so it was a very irrational thing to tell
protagonists.
"But you've seen what
an accountant."
gets produced, and what doesn't."
Loser, the anti Clueless, draws upon
Heckerling isn't worried about her
Hecklering's college years, when she
daughter's Jewish self-image, however.
worked three jobs at a time and corn-
When 14-year-old Mollie was 6, her
muted two hours each way from her
favorite TV show was Rhoda, the series
parents' home, then on Long Island
about a street-smart Jewish woman
— "a really big schlep, she says.
from the Bronx. "She used to run
"My whole life revolved around
around
the house with a schmata on .
money. How I was going to get it, how
her head, like it was Rhoda's kerchief,"
not to spend it," she recalls. "I was jeal-
Heckerling recalls, with a laugh, "I
ous of people who could just go to
think she recognized something." El
school and live with friends in the dor-
mitories. I could not afford to be con-
cerned with the social life and the mate-
Loser, rated PG-13, opens today
rial things that many teenagers have and
in area theaters.
want. I never really felt like a teenager."
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"Loser," she says, is "the story of the

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Detroit Tigers, Director of Ticket Sales

e sat down with our management
to _come up with a deal that a
family could not refuse. The
Detroit Tigers. have teamed with
McDonald's to bring you our "McDonald's
Family Night", which could be the best
family deal ever.

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Here's the Deal
For only $39, you'll get four tickets, two
hamburger Happy Meals, two Extra Value
Meals, one game program, two Tiger pen-
nants and two ride coupons for the Ferris
Wheel or the Carousel. It's an $85 value
for just $39 - save $46! Want better seats?
A $49 and a $69 package are also avail-
able. See the chart below. You'll have a
great time watching the Tigers take on the
Tampa Bay Devil Rays and going to the in-
park McDonald's for some great food with
the family.

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1 Game Program

2 Tiger Pennants

Total Value
I YOUR PRICE
Total Savings

Huge Demand
We anticipate a large demand for these
packages. We have our phones fully
staffed and will be waiting on your call.
We will do everything possible to take
your order as quickly as possible.

If you want to take advantage of the best
family deal ever, we suggest you order
today. Simply give us a call at (313) 471-
BALL.

Tigers vs Devil Rays

Wednesday, July 26th I 7:05pm

Call (313) 471-BALL

Mon - Fri 9 arn to

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pm I Sat 10 am to

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$12 Seats $14 Seats $20 Seats

$5
$6
$85
$39

$5
$6
$93
$49
$44

$5
$6
$117
$69
$48

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A limited number of Family Night tick-
ets are available for the $39, $49 and
$69 packages. Seat locations based
on availability. A $3 handling fee
applies to all orders. McDonald's food
coupons are good for specific food
packages. See in-park store for more
details.

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