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...Though it aims to take an unflinching look at the lives of working girls, Bar Girls also manages more than a few lingering looks up their skirts. Pleased with the antidrug message, censors allowed an unprecedented amount of skin and sin. Sure, there are gritty scenes of vomiting in toilets and a heroin overdose, but there are also two catfights (one in mud), girls in bikinis jumping up and down, and Vietnam's first government-approved topless shot. "It's true I focused on the entertainment value of the film," says director and co-writer Le Hoang. "If your film...
...medical-marijuana movement flowered and weed's p.r. improved, I often wondered if I shouldn't have relished it as a kid, before I had a personal trainer to tsk-tsk my every vice. Shrinking testicles? Mushy brains? I came to see these as grotesqueries invented by antidrug propagandists...
...says. "It was a case of improving and coming back again." The Munich victory prompted a churlish journalist from the French sporting daily L'?quipe to question the sudden improvement in her performances. But he picked the wrong target. Radcliffe is one of the sport's leading antidrug campaigners, and runs with a red ribbon on her vest to show her opposition to drug abuse. After L'Equipe's innuendo, she made a point of asking the International Association of Athletics Federations to test her outside competition - though she had already tested negative five times in the past year. Radcliffe...
BaadAsssss also examines the music, which the larger (i.e., white) audience probably knows better than the movies. There is archival footage of Shaft's director, Gordon Parks, coaching Hayes as he records the movie's funk-legend theme, and critic Elvis Mitchell explains how Curtis Mayfield's antidrug score for Superfly subtly rebuts the movie's pusher-glorifying plot (the same tension as exists in much gangsta rap). The documentary confirms blaxploitation's lasting influence on music and movies by interviewing Afeni Shakur (mother of late rapper Tupac) and Quentin Tarantino, the white boy whom blaxploitation made. The Oscars...
...BaadAsssss also examines the music, which the larger (i.e., white) audience probably knows better than the movies. There is archival footage of Shaft's director, Gordon Parks, coaching Hayes as he records the movie's funk-legend theme, and critic Elvis Mitchell explains how Curtis Mayfield's antidrug score for Superfly subtly rebuts the movie's pusher-glorifying plot (the same tension as exists in much gangsta rap). The documentary confirms blaxploitation's lasting influence on music and movies by interviewing Afeni Shakur (mother of late rapper Tupac) and Quentin Tarantino, the white boy whom blaxploitation made. The Oscars...