Vivian Abramowitz's breasts, like every other part of her life, are completely out of control. From the neck up, she's still a baby-faced, freckly high school freshman. But ever since her sudden, halter-stressing frontal growth spurt, nobody's bothered to notice much about her above her "perfect C-cups." Her dad takes her shopping for industrial strength brassieres, her new neighbor ...   more »

  Down But Not Out in `Beverly Hills'

by administrator on Fri 28 Aug 1998 12:04 AM MST

Ruthe Stein, Chronicle Staff Critic

Friday, August 28, 1998

Even if filmmaker Tamara Jenkins hadn't acknowledged growing up in an eccentric family like the Abramowitz clan in ``Slums of Beverly Hills,'' her intimate connection to the material would be obvious.

Every emotion feels true, particularly daughter Vivian's acute embarrassment at having to go through adolescence in a predominantly male household. ...   more »

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Thursday, August 27

  Kvetch 90210

by administrator on Thu 27 Aug 1998 11:55 PM MST

Slums of Beverly Hills down-and-outers fail to sink to the occasion

By Peter Rainer 

Published: August 27, 1998

Slums of Beverly Hills is the first feature by the young writer-director Tamara Jenkins, and it has its mild amusements. One of those movies that gets bonus points for being "personal," it bops along from episode to episode, as if the ...   more »

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