1980s: I can't access the source, but I'll assume Heckerling knows how to speak English.
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The following year, she directed ”[[National Lampoon’s European Vacation]]” (1985) with [[Chevy Chase]] and [[Beverly D’Angelo]], a sequel to the popular ”[[National Lampoon’s Vacation]]”. With it, Heckerling scored her second solid hit, earning $74,964,621 at the box office. The film, like many of Heckerling’s films, received poor reviews from critics but proved to be very popular with audiences. Heckerling, despite being well educated and loving the work of such intellectual writers as [[Franz Kafka]],<ref name=”theuncool1″/> has admitted that she loves “silly things,” which has proven to make her commercially successful in the comedy genre.<ref name=”charlierose1″>{{cite web|url=http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5856 |title=An interview with Amy Heckerling |publisher=Charlie Rose |date=November 13, 1996 |access-date=November 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022013822/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5856 |archive-date=October 22, 2013 }}</ref>
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The following year, she directed ”[[National Lampoon’s European Vacation]]” (1985) with [[Chevy Chase]] and [[Beverly D’Angelo]], a sequel to the popular ”[[National Lampoon’s Vacation]]”. With it, Heckerling scored her second solid hit, earning $74,964,621 at the box office. The film, like many of Heckerling’s films, received poor reviews from critics but proved to be very popular with audiences. Heckerling, despite being well educated and loving the work of such intellectual writers as [[Franz Kafka]],<ref name=”theuncool1″/> has admitted that she loves “silly things,” which has proven to make her commercially successful in the comedy genre.<ref name=”charlierose1″>{{cite web|url=http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5856 |title=An interview with Amy Heckerling |publisher=Charlie Rose |date=November 13, 1996 |access-date=November 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022013822/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5856 |archive-date=October 22, 2013 }}</ref>
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In 1989, Heckerling had her biggest success with ”[[Look Who’s Talking]]”, starring [[John Travolta]], [[Kirstie Alley]] and a baby voiced by [[Bruce Willis]]. Heckerling got the idea for the film while she was pregnant with her daughter and developed it into a feature. Heckerling says that she loves to write comedies, such as ”Look Who’s Talking”, because she notes that when a film is made, everyone working on it puts more than a year of their lives into making it, so she wants that year to be happy and fun. Heckerling, who loved Travolta, was ecstatic to work with him, though many people consider the film’s release to be during the end of a low point in Travolta’s career.<ref name=”charlierose1″/> The film has been Heckerling’s highest-grossing film to date, earning $296,999,813.<ref name=”mojo”>{{mojo title|lookwhostalking|Look Who’s Talking}}</ref> After the film’s release, Heckerling was able to cross off the second of two goals that she had set for herself in college, the first being to make a studio feature, which she did with ”Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, and the second being: “I wanted to have hits the way boys had hits, not like a ‘girl hit’ that made 50 million, but a boy hit that made 100s of
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In 1989, Heckerling had her biggest success with ”[[Look Who’s Talking]]”, starring [[John Travolta]], [[Kirstie Alley]] and a baby voiced by [[Bruce Willis]]. Heckerling got the idea for the film while she was pregnant with her daughter and developed it into a feature. Heckerling says that she loves to write comedies, such as ”Look Who’s Talking”, because she notes that when a film is made, everyone working on it puts more than a year of their lives into making it, so she wants that year to be happy and fun. Heckerling, who loved Travolta, was ecstatic to work with him, though many people consider the film’s release to be during the end of a low point in Travolta’s career.<ref name=”charlierose1″/> The film has been Heckerling’s highest-grossing film to date, earning $296,999,813.<ref name=”mojo”>{{mojo title|lookwhostalking|Look Who’s Talking}}</ref> After the film’s release, Heckerling was able to cross off the second of two goals that she had set for herself in college, the first being to make a studio feature, which she did with ”Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, and the second being: “I wanted to have hits the way boys had hits, not like a ‘girl hit’ that made 50 million, but a boy hit that made 100s of .”<ref name=”charlierose1″/>
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