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Time Out New York / Issue 658 : May 7–13, 2008

The horny issue

Scrotal recall

Do the movies that turned us on as teens still rev us up as adults? Six TONY staffers revisit the flicks that rocked their pubescent worlds years ago.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Joshua Rothkopf, film critic
THEN
I still remember VHS copies of this teen comedy that got extremely wobbly around the 52-minute mark, when that fabulously proportioned creature, Phoebe Cates, rises up out of the pool. She smiles (just at me). Water glistens on her body. A power chord shimmers and that red bikini top is history. Yes, the dream sequence ends with Judge Reinhold jerking off in the bathroom. I bet he wishes he had a remote.

NOW
These days, I see so much in Fast Times that I admire in a dorky professional way: the absurdly talented cast (Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, etc.), screenwriter Cameron Crowe’s taste for new-wave pop, the daring abortion subplot, the brilliance of Jeff Spicoli’s stoner persona. But yes, Phoebe still works. Phenomenally. I went on to seek her out in Private School and Gremlins, but this is her puberty-inducing high point.

Residual hotness: 5 out of 6
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