WHERE IS AMANDA PETERSON?
So, it was last Saturday night and I was watching CAN’T BUY ME LOVE. Sparked by a conversation I had with Movie Poop Shoot’s own Josh Jabcuga, I relished the opportunity to indulge in my 80’s cinematic sweet tooth. I looked through my many DVD’s to find the right mix of jaunty Saturday night easiness with a little acidic flashback. CAN’T BUY ME LOVE was an all too easy choice. I watched that movie with such attention and rapture you’d of thought that ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND was playing in the house. What I don’t understand though, and why I bring it up, is that I am amazed by Patrick Dempsey’s seemingly pull back into the modern zeitgeist once more, nearly two damn decades after he was in a film that had him acting opposite a mexi-mulleted “Rico Suave” Gerrardo and a real nice looking actress by the name of Amanda Peterson. What I don’t understand, and there are a few things I’ll get into, is that Amanda was perfectly cast in the role of popular high school cheerleader an
