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...experience was not unique. Many guys in my high school, indeed in high schools all across the nation, have found themselves in situations like the locker room scene where they have lied about their sexual status and have kept their virginity in a closet. When I got into Harvard I told myself I wouldn't have to worry about any pressure to have sex. I saw Harvard as an opportunity to live as a male virgin without worrying about the sexual peer pressure that would occur at other, less enlightened campuses. I was wrong: the overbearing machismo is very much...
Virgin males should celebrate their status. They should not hide inside a closet. This liberation, as I call it, will make the decision to have sex, when the right time presents itself, an informed and conscious choice, not a result of peer pressure or the misplaced desire to reach manhood...
...think I will. This isn't a matter of making you pay for what you've done; it's a matter of standing up for myself and for other gay people, out or in, who could just as easily be threatened by your harassment. Your bigotry deserves its own closet...
...guidelines and doesn't buy movies rated NC-17. "A hundred-percent freedom," says Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "They're completely autonomous. And they should be. They keep their costs down and their ideas up. They look rough-and-tumble, but I always knew they were secret intellectuals and closet film experts. They run the business very well." Eisner has reason to be pleased. In 1993 Disney bought Miramax for about $75 million, the cost of a single A-budget studio film. Today, one movie boss believes, the company is worth more than $1 billion...
...remember." A quick trip to the reference shelf reveals the answer: The Towering Inferno, arguably the worst film ever nominated (and the only one starring O.J. Simpson). So maybe there is something to be said for including little art-house movies on Oscar night. And maybe Brenda Blethyn's closet holds something delightfully ill conceived...