Article: Life in Beverly Hills - close up

Tom Tugend
Jerusalem Post
01-30-1998
When 19-year-old Stephanie Middler, a product of Beverly Hills schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, is asked by new acquaintances where she is from she answers Los Angeles.

"If I say I'm from Beverly Hills, I get stereotyped right away - you know, rich, superficial and spoiled," says Middler, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School a year ago and is now a music major at the University of Southern California.

People from Bombay to Buenos Aires, who haven't been within a thousand miles of California, know all about Beverly Hills High.

Thanks to the TV series Beverly Hills 90210, they are sure that the town's teenagers talk only about sex, ...

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