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- <text id=92TT0576>
- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: Fried Green Success
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 57
- Fried Green Success
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- <p>By Michael Quinn
- </p>
- <p> Take a group of actors who are gifted but have the drawing
- power of a dental-hygiene documentary. Add some decidedly mixed
- reviews and lackluster Oscar nominations (like such, uh...crowd-pleasing categories as Best Screenplay Based on Material
- Previously Produced or Published). What do you get? Sleeper hit
- Fried Green Tomatoes. Ten weeks into its run, this fable of
- down-home feminist friendship is outperforming such splashier
- efforts as Medicine Man and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
- Norman Lear, whose Act III Communications made the film, says
- its success says something about America. "People are seeking
- a renewed sense of community and spiritual nourishment, and
- that's why the film is striking a chord."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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