CNN  —  There are few patriarchs within the teen film genre like Mel Horowitz in “Clueless.” The straight-talking litigator portrayed by Dan Hedaya terrifies everyone in his path – with the exception of his daughter Cher, played by Alicia Silverstone in the beloved 1995 film. He’s a man of multitudes. Direct and assertive, yet attentive and loving. The heavily New York–accented Mel is an outlier to the breezy Beverly Hills setting of the movie. Although “Clueless” is loosely based on Jane