Amy Heckerling grew up in the Bronx watching the same James Cagney movie every night. That was the deal with Million Dollar Movie, the local New York broadcast that aired a single film on repeat all week: the same picture, same time, over and over until you could recite every line of dialogue and anticipate every cut. Most kids were outside playing in the park. Heckerling was inside, watching.
“By the end of the week, you knew all the dialogue and all the shots,” she says on the newest episode of It Happened in Hollywood. “If you were a little kid, that was what I wanted to watch.”
That education — supplemented by subway trips to foreign film houses and a cheap membership at MoMA at age 14 — meant that by the time Heckerling arrived at NYU film school, she had already seen most of what her
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