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...recent Supreme Court decisions toughened local prosecution of pornography, and the FBI now has 90 full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core film today is as strictly constructed as a medieval morality play," Friedman complains. "There are just so many positions you can film...
...would my life be without all of you!" he once shouted at a meeting, like a rock star stirring up his fans. Indeed, without a crowd to please, he often sank into the kind of moody lassitude that sometimes plagues out-of-work actors. At Berchtesgaden, to the utter boredom of his staff, he would show favorite movies (among them Gone with the Wind) over and over again...
Banality and Bliss. The truth of certain maxims once thought demode and elitist now reasserts itself: for instance, that a posture of cool boredom can in itself become boring; that a perfunctory infatuation with the signs and portents of "masscult" means nothing unless it is subjected-as by Oldenburg-to a profound change and rethinking; that banality is not always imaginative bliss. And if one happens to find sense in these propositions, it is hard to take all that seriously the marginal artists whose work Alloway has selected. Their work may have this or that to do with signs...
Vandervoort and his staff of 24 counselors tackle the full range of sexual woes from premature ejaculation to simple marital boredom. The approach is novel, to say the least. One of the clinic's most controversial innovations is a weekend marathon of sexually explicit education films shown to as many as 20 couples at once. The screening, which includes a few old stag reels (for "historical interest," says Vandervoort), helps reduce anxiety about sexuality while at the same time demonstrating some typical patterns of sexual behavior. Six hours of movies and a lengthy discussion with counselors are enough...
...film is a variation on the Connecticut Yankee saga. An exterminator enters a vortex, precipitating the events of the movie. The great problem of the immortals is boredom. Boredom is a problem which seems only to get worse, and the entrance of the intruder, excellently played by Sean Connery, promises a rare amusement. Lately, an epidemic has swept through the population, leaving its victims--called "apathetics"--looking like rag dolls. The expression of bemused revulsion on Connery's face when the apathetics, dramatically geritolized by the sweat on his body, paw him with open lust, is a high point...