Word: corliss
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...Richard Corliss...
Reviewer Richard Corliss maintains that sexually violent movies do not influence viewers toward similar acts and that suppressing such films will not end violent behavior [CINEMA, Oct. 29]. However, the youths who raped a young girl in imitation of the movie Born Innocent and the spouses who tried to kill their mates after seeing the TV movie The Burning Bed are examples of how some personalities are affected by these films. They see the movie as a rationale for their own violent impulses. While I do not believe in censorship, I do not think everyone is capable of separating fact...
Perhaps Critic Corliss would have more sympathy for the "porn vigilantes" if he were constantly assaulted with depictions of members of his own sex being brutalized, mutilated and humiliated in the name of sexual entertainment. The only point of view these film makers ignore is the woman's point of view...
...create, with each film, a new chapter in the emotional biography of the modern European woman. A Love in Germany reveals Schygulla as a superb, fearless actress and an international star ready to take Hollywood. Wake the town, tell the people. Frighten the horses, even. -By Richard Corliss...
...press conference after the arrests, FBI Spokesman Joseph Corliss said the bureau learned of the plot in July from an unnamed "cooperating witness." The informant introduced FBI Special Agent Eduardo M. Sanchez to the plotters, who hired him as the assassin. In addition to a $300,000 fee and 22 lbs. of cocaine, the conspirators promised Sanchez weapons, night-vision equipment, explosives, tanks, airplanes and miscellaneous military ordnance for the proposed coup. The agent was instructed to hire four other hitmen to help carry out the assassination...