Word: following
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well with the movie's scenes of debauchery and debasement. A master of capturing erotica, Bertolucci takes advantage of Pu Yi's early imperial splendor and later playboy lifestyle in Tienstin to give cinema some of the most sensual images since Bertolucci's own Tango. Bertolucci and Storaro follow the emperor and empress (Chen) as rich and powerful friends seduce them. While the emperor continues to foster megalomanic visions of regaining the throne, his wife takes to opium...
Ellmann's account of this lamentable affair is candid and sympathetic. "Bosie" Douglas, 16 years Wilde's junior, had a taste for casual, commercial sex and induced Wilde to follow this lead. The older man was the innocent: "What seems to characterize all Wilde's affairs is that he got to know the boys as individuals, treated them handsomely, allowed them to refuse his attentions without becoming rancorous, and did not corrupt them. They were already prostitutes." That Wilde was careless, selfish and inconsiderate toward his faithful wife and his children is beyond dispute. But he did not deserve being...
...Eager to follow up on the phenomenal success of Teddy and a second hit, the Lazer Tag ray-gun game, WOW has introduced a host of high-tech toys, including talking versions of Mickey Mouse and Mother Goose. But the new products have not generated enough sales to cover promotion costs...
...Sharon chose last week to move into a new home: an apartment in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sharon, who still owns a farm in the Negev, decided to live in the Muslim quarter to make it safer for Jews who would be encouraged to follow him. Arabs responded with new protests and a strike by shopkeepers in East Jerusalem. When Sharon threw a Hanukkah party for 300 guests, hundreds of police had to be called out to provide security, and Israeli officials fretted that providing permanent security for Sharon in the Muslim quarter would require...
...fair burden. In one or two other films, this sexy, daredevil performer has renounced his star quality, tamped his radiance, sat on his capacious charm, as if this were a higher form of acting. It is not. Pudgy and hollow-eyed, Nicholson gives the viewer no reason to follow Francis into the cemetery of all souls. But the actor is to be blamed only in believing that this role, robbed of its festering spiritual vitality, could ever come to instructive life. That life teems in the pages of Kennedy's novel -- an American Lower Depths. This Ironweed is the lower...