Word: dominatrix
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...even on his mind. God love Maria Bello, but the whole relationship is unconvincing, the hood and the hooker sitting in a tree... The whole scenario is a waste of screen time that could be put to better use by Lucy Liu, legal eagle by prime time, dial-a-dominatrix in this celluloid romp. She deliciously performs her duties on Porter's ex-partner and is even called upon to give Porter some gun-totin' lovin. As Pearl, she is Gibson's true foil in this movie, she likes to inflict pain as much as he likes to take...
Shakespeare in Love fancifully retells the creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...
...caring much about sports traditions being travestied in our time. Still, the director and his writing colleagues hit lots of right notes: franchise instability, hyping broadcasters, endless play-off seasons, even the exploitation of Third World children in the making of sporting goods. One team dresses its cheerleaders in dominatrix outfits. Subtle is not Zucker's middle name. But neither is stupid. If his comedy is more useful than youthful, let's count that as a sweet surprise, a minor blessing...
...letter words that serious books had discovered decades ago. It may have helped that they were placed within a New Yorker that never took its eyes off London. British topics and bylines were everywhere. One of the most clucked-over pieces in any recent issue, a profile of a dominatrix, was the work of a distinguished British resident, Paul Theroux. Maybe sex just seems more estimable in English surroundings...
...long relationship with the dominatrix Sheree Rose is a ferocious metaphor for any intense, complex liaison. Whatever welts she inflicted, whatever pain he endured and enjoyed, they surely deserved and loved each other. Flanagan's most poignant work of art--the culmination of a life in agony--is his death at age 43. It is recorded here with a grace that nearly matches the blithe heroism of a man most viewers might, at the beginning of this funny, disturbing, stirring film, have too quickly labeled sick...