Or, How I Bought Into Princeton by Getting a Pimp. No other teen flick of the 1980s devilishly skewers the yuppie consumerism and vainglorious push on the era although also basking in it. Joel (Cruise) does arm curls and stresses more than enterprise college. He bangs a hooker having a heart of gold (De Mornay), which results in the theft of his da