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Article: Filmmaker Rash plays with morality in teen film
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 16, 1987
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LOS ANGELES Steve Rash is an unassuming, jovial Texan whose
directing career has been inexplicably marked by contradiction and
controversy.
His low-budget feature debut, "The Buddy Holly Story," was one
of 1978's best-received films. Three years later, "Under the
Rainbow," a satire about the making of "The Wizard of Oz," was an
expensive disaster that sent Rash's professional fortunes into a
tailspin. Now, with his third movie, the low-budget teen comedy
"Can't Buy Me Love," now at local theaters, Rash finds himself in the
position of having to justify much of an admittedly "exploitative"
film he's quite proud of.
Originally titled "Boy Rents Girl" and produced by a small
independent ...