{"id":9,"date":"2002-09-14T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2002-09-14T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-14T17:41:00","slug":"cant-buy-me-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/cant-buy-me-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/CBML2.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" border=\"3\" alt=\"Amanda Peterson\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds a foggy Saturday morning. I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdve got the day to myself to do whatever I want. Primarily, that\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds going to involve reading, writing and panicking, not in that order. Probably some watching in there as well. Last night\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds movie was <i>Can\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt Buy Me Love<\/i>, just recently released onto DVD for our nostalgic enjoyment. It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds really a terrible movie. It came out in 1987, well after a host of superior teen-flavored films had come and gone. Yet somehow, we love it, it endures. It remains a cult renter, especially in the college town video store where I spend much of my time. Why does it still work, while, for example <b>Phil Joanou\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds <\/b><i>3 O\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdclock High<\/i>, which came out that same summer and had a similar high school setting and hangdog, nerdy protagonist (<b>Casey Siemaszko<\/b>), gets a little fainter with each passing year? I suspect that it\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds because in spite of its crudities, it has a warm, beating heart. <i>3 O\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdclock High <\/i>was a dazzling, technically whiz-bang movie, but all its kinetic ferocity was wrapped around a cold interior. To be fair, it was a different kind of film, a sort of common-man driven to extremes by the threat of a real face-pounding film, while <i>CBML<\/i> was never meant to be more than a Pygmalion-in-reverse sort of thing. <b>Patrick Dempsey <\/b>and <b>Amanda Peterson <\/b>are the main reasons the film is so watchable. And <b>Courtney Gains<\/b>. And <b>Seth Green<\/b>. And <b>Dennis Dugan<\/b>\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdAnyway, it was a fun trip down the proverbial memory lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds a foggy Saturday morning. I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdve got the day to myself to do whatever I want. Primarily, that\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds going to involve reading, writing and panicking, not in that order. Probably some watching in there as well. Last night\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds movie was Can\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt Buy Me Love, just recently released onto DVD for our nostalgic enjoyment. It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}