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...apple turns many times before it falls. There are still severe human rights abuses, due to a combination of poor accountability in the courts and Islamic injunctions and punishments, including the widespread use of the death sentence for offenses like drug trafficking. Iranians are still scared, even as they dare to test the limits of hijab. Says a young woman who strongly opposes the Islamic regime: "If this is a transitional stage, if we have learned from past mistakes, this may be the beginning of something good." The challenge for Rafsanjani is to turn a revolutionary regime into a popular...
...this is news. Truth or Dare offers an ace manipulator's self-portrait, unmediated by interviewers or pundits. Raw, raunchy and epically entertaining, this is pure, adulterated Madonna. Giving her all to simulated masturbation in the Like a Virgin number. Blithely stripping for the camera. Calling Beatty a wimp (more or less) because he is sensibly shy of her camera. Recalling some erotic nurse play with a childhood girlfriend. Gagging when Kevin Costner says her show was "neat." Consummating an intimate relationship with a bottle of Vichy water. Two hours of dishing and dissing in relentless, bathroom-mirror closeup...
...Europe as she pursues her hobby (rock star supreme) and her full-time job (do-it-yourself mythmaker). This is show biz, remember, where image elbows achievement out of the frame. Madonna knows this. She is the most self-aware, perhaps the sanest, of celebrities. So Truth or Dare doesn't dwell on what she has done. We know she has done plenty, done well and, in her AIDS-relief fund raising, done good. Keshishian shows us what Madonna thinks she is -- and what she, driven by her acute instincts and awesome nerve, might next choose...
...that despite some fine screen work, she has never quite made it in Hollywood, a failure of the moguls, who haven't figured out how to channel her charisma. She is not one to wait for other people to do her a favor. So Truth or Dare serves as a kind of blueprint for alert auteurs. She says, in effect, "Here's a Me -- not the real me, not all of it, anyway, but a movie-marketable Madonna -- that you guys can play with. Now get to work and make...
Work and play, lovers and family are the touchstones of Truth or Dare. Madonna sweats bullets to make her tour sensational, and she bustles behind the scenes too. She leads a group prayer before each concert; she bastes the broken hearts of her staff. Like many strong actress-singers, Madonna has a fervent gay following, and most of her dancers are gay. To them she is a doting den mother, turning stern only when things get bitchy. It's a tough job, juggling dozens of fragile egos along with her armored one, but she has balls enough for everybody...