"PRETTY' RIDICULOUS.

You can't argue with success. If you do, you won't have a leg to stand on. Yesterday Garry Marshall, A great writer, director ,and comic actor, died. Although he achieved many successes, today's writers who seem to know very little have latched onto only one film, Pretty Woman. This comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere was a huge success, and most people I know like it, or love it. They actually discuss it as if it had social meaning. This surprises me as I thought it was a really stupid, simplistic film, I watched it stupefied. I couldn't believe a word of it. It was like a Harlequin romance about a hooker. Yes, Julia's prostitute was radiantly beautiful, too much so, like a royal princess pretending to be a sex worker. Richard Gere, as a supposedly sane successful man, was far too enamored by this avaricious, attractive, obviously promiscuous and possibly infected, young woman. The setting of Beverly Hills was absurd. Nothing was believable. Nobody was really likeable. Nothing was actually possible. I think it's a shame that the highly talented Garry Marshall is being especially lauded for this tripe. But, then again, you can't argue with success.