In this story, Barrymore, the film's executive producer, plays Josie Geller, a twentysomething newspaperwoman, and former high school dweeb ( they called her " Josie Grossie " ), who goes back to teenville as an undercover reporter, relives her high-school hell and bumbles her way to popularity.
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Derek Elley of " Variety " stated, " It's slickly packaged, looks good in widescreen and toplines Cate Blanchett, but producer Jerry Bruckheimer and helmer Joel Schumacher . . . seem boxed in by the very recent story and by the challenge of making a driven, rather foolhardy newspaperwoman into a sympathetic figure.
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On one occasion, Rivero denounced and lambasted a foreign newspaperwoman who had published an article in the U . S . stating that " Puerto Rican men sold their women to the American servicemen ", exhorting his countrymen to expel her from Puerto Rico ( which they did ), during a radio broadcast of " El Tremendo Hotel ".
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Her role is a perverse variant on the classic Capra heroine as played by Jean Arthur ( in " Mr . Deeds Goes to Town " and " Mr . Smith Goes to Washington " ) and Barbara Stanwyck ( in " Meet John Doe " ) : the cynical newspaperwoman who, having started out mocking the idealist hero, ends up finding his goodness irresistible.
