Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the sociologists will happen upon Angel, New World Pictures' latest unsuccessful attempt at integrating cheap comedy with undressed girls and lots of blood. And they'll think, "Ah hah. Right again." But you see, the sociologists will have a problem. Because unlike The Last American Virgin and Private Lessons, where the protagonists spend their adolescence contemplating how to get laid, Angelis not the degenerate we wish she was. In fact, she is just the opposite: a high school honor student who can only survive by prostituting herself to fat, filthy perverts...
Surprisingly, the central problem with Angel isn't its theme, hackneyed though it is. Though several recent movies have focused on high school prostitution, and even more on crazed sex fiends lurking to kill them, none seems to have failed quite so tragically as Angel. The problem lies, ironically, in the director's attempt to legitimize the film by trying to make a serious social statement in between the trite dialogue...
...enough, for example, that Angel (alias Molly Stuart), looks forlorn when riding the school bus to her prep school because she's excluded from the cheerleader clique. And its also pretty bad when she tells the school geek who asks her out that her parents think she's too young to date. But when her college counselor calls her in and tells her "There's more to high school than getting straight A's,"we've had about all we can endure...
Juvenal's nails dug into the hard flesh of Higinio's penis, and with a how! Higinio lashed back at turn. The shaft of his now lifeless member lay bloody....His banal blond angel face with its tight puckered mount, withheld the radiant smile it normally squandered so freely in all directions, except when he was trying to escape the perverse chubby little squint-eyed Zoe, who chased him around urging the other small cousins to take up her terrible accusation. "Higinio has no pathos....Higinio has no paths...
...deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center stage only to belt out three or four of Kander and Ebb's snazzier songs, while the rest of The Rink skates along on the momentum of uninspired professionalism. But Chita Rivera's high-voltage...