
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 30, 1994                   TAG: 9408190109
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: KATHERINE REED STAFF WRITER
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STARDOM HAPPENS TO FONDA

Ladies and gentlemen, a movie star is born. Or perhaps made, is a fairer way to describe what Bridget Fonda has achieved with her performance as the lucky-unlucky waitress in "It Could Happen to You."

In this pretty terrific, fairy tale of a movie from director Andrew Bergman ("The Freshman," "Honeymoon in Vegas"), Fonda earns her success with a lot more than great cheekbones and winsome charm. Somewhere in the middle of her first, big scene - when poor Yvonne the struggling waitress is trying to explain to a judge how her Master Card bill got rung up to $13,000 - Fonda turns appeal into something more like power. And she demostrates a surprising gift for comedy.

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