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"Risky Business" Turns 40 This Month!

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You're getting older, dear. Or you are if you saw "Risky Business" during its first run in movie theatres in 1983. Like many things reaching  middle-age  about now, the movie's turning 40 years-old this month. Have you misplaced your glasses yet? Do you groan when you bend down? Do you, God forbid, know your alcohol limit? Then, yes, don't deny it, you not only saw "Risky Business" in the theatre, you probably saw it again on VHS. And don't even dare pretend you don't know what that is.  "Risky Business," as we know, was a classic teen movie - hypnotically directed by Paul Brickman - about a beautiful, enigmatic Chicago call girl who comes to the aid of a snotty, pampered, suburban teen boy by turning his home into a brothel, enabling him to impress a visiting Princeton recruiter.  The prostitute, as we know, was played the young Rebecca De Mornay, whose performances earned praise from critics, including the esteemed "New Yorker...