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...Killing Fields to offer a take on young love and sex. Roland Joffe's Undressed (weeknights, 11 E.T.), premiering this week, ambitiously interweaves 23 story lines of sexual confusion, selfishness and experimentation--it's Lust, American Style. Shot almost entirely in interiors--the insides of vans, apartments, bunk beds--it has a stuffy, caged-heat vibe, sharing with Eyes the suggestion that if you leave two people alone in a room, they'll be tempted to start rutting like rabbits. Take Dave and Katie, a couple in a sexual slump. Katie shags a bartender while Dave sleeps nearby...
...London's finest black cabs, and I was off to Bayswater to live with Mike, Linda and Joanna. Luckily for me, Joanna had a last-minute change of heart and decided that she didn't mind co-habitating (in the most innocent sense), which left me sharing a bunk bed with pinkhaired Linda. Pink-haired Linda, who was (thankfully) meticulously neat, who had to sleep with the door open because of her allergies, and who came home grumpily one day from a job interview, startled that her potential employer had asked her to dye her hair back to its natural...
...bunk bed, I think, that did me in. As much as I may have learned from sharing a kitchen and living room with people I didn't know, there were some lessons I simply did not care to learn. Though I had managed to avoid Mike's room, I finally decided that a fulfilling summer experience did not require mastery of the art of falling asleep while the bed shakes back and forth. It may be fine for summer-camp or the first year of college, but I've already served my time in the bunk...
...entitled to at least a couple nights of sulking on your bunk bed when the rest of the proctor group forgets to invite you to watch "Dawson's Creek" with them or your teaching fellow puts you down in section--again. Enjoy the melodrama of these moments. Write a poem or two. If they're good, join the Advocate. If not, go back out into the wild unknown and chart your path...
...They're quite serious to understand the American past and do not say that history is bunk," he says...