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Part in-joke, part social satire and part quickie porno novel, "Candy" is pure Southern. The protagonist, Candy Christian, is one of his finest creations: an update of Voltaire's Candide, this middle-American college girl offers "charity" to every man she meets. Though written in the third person, the...
But for the true scent of romantic obsession, one would have to go east: to the Chinese Peony Pavilion, Hong Kong director Yonfan's love story of two women (played by Japan's Rie Miyazawa and Taiwan's Joey Wong) in a Suzhou noble house. The film is so saturated...
In the finishing area where makeup and nails are applied, a scene both horrible and erotic confronts my eyes: dangling from chains from the ceiling are seven headless, footless, handless dolls of varying shapes of female perfection. They sway back and forth, hypnotizing me - until I notice that seated behind...
Rong says, "I was captivated by Jade's fragrance, her opium, her singing," and the viewer is as well. Rong later has a heterosexual tryst (another hot turn by Daniel Wu), and Jade feels fatally betrayed. But Rong has never consummated her feeling for Jade; she just keeps dangerously near...
On contemporary coins, Cleopatra appears masculine and powerful. Slim and serene in sculptures, she is sometimes portrayed as the goddess Isis, the divine, royal mother whose cult she followed. Erotic Roman caricatures depict her as a harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d...