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...writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows Dillon's character through sweat-soaked brothel scenes, all-night temple raves and a seedy guesthouse where French superstar G?rard Depardieu shines as the gruff hotelier...
...toughest thug in the Rio slum of Cidade de Deus stands impatiently outside a brothel as his gang robs the patrons. Miffed at being excluded from the fun, he strides in and kills everyone. It's his first mass murder--the ideal calling card for a precocious psychopath. Li'l Ze, as he will come to be known, is 9 years...
...near Washington and who kept the world's largest professionally catalogued collection of pornography, carefully labeled in bingo-card boxes that his mother brought home from church. His approach to collecting is far more passionate than that of his new museum friends. "Some Ph.D. will read nine books on brothels and write the 10th one and never go to a brothel. I'm a hands-on archivist," Whittington says. Retired porn star Vanessa Del Rio, 50, star of Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio and Naughty Nurses, gave the museum much of her memorabilia to display, and says she has been...
...comedy or regard it as the poor cousin of drama." Both GamePlan and RolePlay make this case to devastating effect. In the first, a 16-year-old's determination to raise funds through prostitution is made more harrowing by the sight of her tearfully shy friend dressed as a brothel maid. Her exaggerated make-up and outfit provoke laughter - and unease...
...pessimism is borne of experience. Last May, a police raid of a brothel in Cambodia's Svay Pak netted 17 Vietnamese girls, of whom 11 were under the age of 18. Yet Legros points out that none of their pimps were arrested. "They were tipped off," he says. Worse was to come: the girls were ruled to be illegal immigrants rather than victims of human trafficking and were sentenced to three months in jail. Thai Senator Wallop Tangkananurak, chairman of the legislature's Committee on Women, the Elderly and Youth, remarks, "The problem of child prostitution and child abuse...