Ringwald's marketability was her ability to communicate absolute averageness -- average looks, average intelligence, average personality -- and to embody adolescent desires and anxieties which zoomed right past "average" to the point of proud banality.

Page, so far, has been making a minor specialty of playing 16-going-on-60, with a precocity more reminiscent of Jodie Foster than of Ringwald. Like the young Foster, she already seems as "adult," in terms of intelligence and poise, as most of the adult actors around her (and more so than some). And it doesn't hurt that, also like Foster, Page is blessed with the kind of looks that are unlikely to fade anytime soon, or to mature awkwardly; in a few more years, I expect she'll probably move from cute teen to absolute knockout, although -- AGAIN like Foster -- it's easy enough to imagine her dodging the "starlet" trap. I'll be surprised, as well as saddened, if Page's career doesn't progress quite nicely indeed from here on.