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Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling TV Listings
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TMCe
Wed, May 14, 6:00 AM
A Night at the Roxbury
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TMCe
Wed, May 14, 1:50 PM
A Night at the Roxbury
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OXYGN
Fri, May 16, 10:00 AM
Look Who's Talking Now
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OXYGN
Sat, May 17, 8:00 AM
Look Who's Talking Now
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FMC
Tue, May 20, 6:00 PM
Johnny Dangerously
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OXYGN
Thu, May 22, 1:00 AM
Look Who's Talking Now
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Amy Heckerling Biography
Birth Place:
New York, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign:
05/07/1954, Taurus
Profession:
Director; screenwriter; producer
Amy Heckerling Fast Facts:
Three then-unknown "alumni" from Heckerling's feature directorial debut,
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(1982), went on to win Best Actor Oscars: Nicolas Cage for
Leaving Las Vegas
(1995), Sean Penn for
Mystic River
(2003), and Forest Whitaker for
The Last King of Scotland
(2006).
Conceived of the idea for her box-office hit
Look Who's Talking
(1989) after the birth of daughter Mollie, when Heckerling and her husband, Neal Israel, would stare at their baby and wonder what she was thinking.
Coauthored
The No-Sex Handbook
(1990) with Pamela Pettler, a tongue-in-cheek, anti-dating manual for the '90s.
Won Best Screenplay honors from the National Society of Film Critics for 1995 hit
Clueless
, a comedic update of Jane Austen's
Emma
that launched the career of star Alicia Silverstone.
Three of her films have been made into TV sitcoms:
Fast Times
ran for a few weeks in 1986 on CBS;
Look Who's Talking
became ABC's
Baby Talk
in 1991; and
Clueless
aired on ABC (1996-97) and UPN (1997-99).
Amy Heckerling Relationships:
Mollie Sara - Daughter
Bronson Pinchot - Ex-fiancé
Neal Israel - Ex-husband
College:
New York University, New York, NY; American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (MFA, 1974)
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