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A classic from my early teen years. Highly quotable, too: "Pimp is an ugly word, Chuck. We could call ourselves 'love brokers.'" "You want a Snickers? It's not frozen because my refrigerator broke." "They barred me for being too good a player." "How hard is it to pass out towels?" -- "It's a skill like anything else." "Edible paper." Is it too sad that I wrote those from memory? Also, Kevin Costner plays one of the frat guys at the party in the morgue. Thanks for the memory trip, Daryl.

I'm pretty sure this was one of my first "adult" movies I saw at an open-air theater in the summer of 86 in Greece. I was 9. The next after that was Octopussy, then Beastmaster (first set of boobs), then Making the Grade (2nd set of boobs), then Top Gun. In that order. How weird this reminded me of all that.

"Barney Rubble. What an actor." Loved this movie!

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