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- Sigourney Weaver’s office smoking is selected as terrible on-screen smoking.
Categories & segments
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
Doreen’s implausible reaction; the premise’s extreme implausibility.
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- Doreen’s fake crying during the affair is proposed as unbelievable.
- Tess secretly executing a merger from her absent boss’s office is rated nearly impossible.
What’s Aged the Worst?
Remote work breaks the plot; workplace treatment; hair; Jack undressing Tess; paper trails.
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- Remote work and LinkedIn would prevent the broken-leg absence from enabling the plot.
- Most hairstyles and workplace treatment of women are proposed.
- Reading Motor Trend in bed and gloomy ferry shots are proposed.
- The hot dog crumb on Jack’s mouth is debated and ultimately defended.
- Jack not washing his hands is criticized.
- Sleeping together before closing the deal is proposed but disputed.
- Hard-copy records, dictation, and day planners are proposed as obsolete plot machinery.
- Jack removing Tess’s dress is criticized as unnecessary.
In the discussion (1)
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- Kevin Spacey is selected for overacting.
“OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch
Harrison Ford enters at 36:04.
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- Harrison Ford’s first close-up and lopsided smile at 36:04 are selected. — Joanna Robinson
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Working Girl deserved Best Picture; I’m So Excited is a defining pop-culture song.
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- Working Girl should have won Best Picture over Rain Man.
- I’m So Excited is proposed as the most important pop-culture song of its era.
Casting What-Ifs
Demi Moore, plus many alternate Tess candidates.
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- A Jim Bridges version starring Demi Moore is reported.
- Molly Ringwald was reportedly considered too young; Michelle Pfeiffer, Madonna, and Shelley Long were considered.
- Lorraine Bracco reported auditioning unsuccessfully.
- Mike Nichols reportedly threatened to leave unless Melanie Griffith was hired.
- Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Meg Ryan, and Cher are discussed as other possibilities.
The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award
Philadelphia law-firm employee; Trask actor; Caroline Aaron; Oliver Platt.
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- Oliver Platt is ruled eligible under a younger-audience test.
- The actor who plays Trask is proposed via a Beverly Hills Cop 3 reference.
- A Philadelphia law-firm character actor is favored.
- Caroline Aaron is proposed through Sleepless in Seattle and Maisel roles.
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- Joan Cusack is proposed as eligible.
- Carly Simon is ruled ineligible.
- Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey, and Robert Easton are proposed.
- Nora Dunn is the likely answer.
Recasting Couch
Young Marisa Tomei or Mira Sorvino as Doreen.
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- A young Marisa Tomei is proposed for Doreen.
- “Miroservino” is proposed for Doreen.
Half-Assed Internet Research
Griffith–Baldwin history; Mike Nichols; World Trade Center lobby; White House screening.
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- A reported interview says Melanie Griffith made passes at Alec Baldwin and was rejected.
- Mike Nichols and the Seven World Trade Center lobby are research topics.
- A New York Times account reports a first-week White House screening hosted by George H. W. Bush.
Apex Mountain
Melanie Griffith: yes; Sigourney Weaver: near peak; Harrison Ford: no.
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- Melanie Griffith is at Apex Mountain.
- Harrison Ford is not.
- Sigourney Weaver is at or near her peak between Aliens and this film.
- Female workplace-struggle movies are rejected as an apex because they are evergreen.
- Carly Simon is discussed.
- The Staten Island Ferry is proposed.
- Massive hairstyles and repeated disparaging terms are proposed.
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