NEWS
January 31, 1991 | DOUG LIST
"Smithereens" (1982), directed by Susan Seidelman. 90 minutes. No rating. In the spirit of the punk movement that inspired it, this film spews raw spontaneity, stars a mostly non-professional cast and looks like it was made for a few thousand dollars. It focuses on Wren, a hyper, just-out-of-high-school Jersey girl trying to be a part of the New York punk scene, and a band called Smithereens (a name used later by a real-life pop band).
NEWS
November 29, 1990 | DOUG LIST
In the aftermath of the explosion of punk music and its accompanying lifestyle in the mid-70s to early 1980s, Hollywood began cranking out teen movies like never before. Yet there is no real correlation to be made between the two movements since filmmakers all but ignored the punk phenomenon and the culture it molded.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 8, 1989 | PETER RAINER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In "She-Devil" (selected theaters), the feminine mystique meets its match. As Ruth, the dumpy malcontent whose accountant husband Bob (Ed Begley Jr.) leaves her for Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep), a famously frilly authoress of romance novels, Roseanne Barr swaggers into frame and wreaks ungodly revenge. Her mission has rabble-rousing mass appeal. She's intended as a humongous stand-in for all the women who have ever been rejected in favor of someone younger, shapelier, fluffier.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 2, 1989 | HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press
While growing up in Philadelphia, Susan Seidelman didn't think much about filmmaking. Chases through Independence Hall never popped into her head. Neither did love scenes at the Liberty Bell. But by the time she had started film school at New York University, Seidelman was an aspiring director on the lookout for material: Manhattan was there for the taking.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 15, 1989 | Leonard Klady
TV's reigning comedy queen, Roseanne Barr, will make her large-screen debut in the title role of Orion's "She-Devil"--tormenting no less than Meryl Streep. Based on the novel "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" by Fay Weldon, the story finds housewife Barr exacting sweet revenge on her unfaithful husband and his new lover (Streep). Described as a very black comedy of infidelity, the adaptation was done by "Married to the Mob" writers Barry Strugatz and Mark Burns. The hubbie's now being cast.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 28, 1988 | BILL DIAMOND, Diamond is a free-lance writer based in New York. and
Maybe if she'd been shooting a war picture out there among the abandoned waterfront warehouses of Brooklyn, Susan Seidelman might have actually welcomed the commotion. But since "Cookie," the Lorimar film she'd been directing almost entirely on location since the beginning of the year, is supposed to be a gangster comedy, the helicopter that was buzzing her set that afternoon wasn't exactly appreciated.