The Bangles the 1987 film "The Allnighter", directed by her mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs, and was poorly reviewed by critics. That, and the firing of their manager Miles Copeland III, further exacerbated the dissent although they had another US hit with a remake of Simon & Garfunkel's "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (number two in February 1988) from the soundtrack of the film "Less Than Zero". The album "Everything" (1988) was produced by Davitt Sigerson, as the band had a negative reaction to working with David Kahne on "Different Light". The album was another multi-platinum hit and included the top five hit,
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