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...film is determined to be about something less interesting than sexual combustion. Max is a neat freak, Nora a slob, so for a reel they play Oscar and Felix. She has no friends, his are nudgy -- this movie hates middle- class Jews a lot. Then the lovers must break up and make up, and the ho boy! becomes ho hum. White Palace settles into stolid ordinariness, after flirting with being a handsome essay on the grandeur of reciprocal lust...
This life-style carries risk. "People freak out when they see us interact as a family," says Maria. Neighbors in their Hispanic district have escalated from hurling insults to flinging garbage to tossing firecrackers through an open window. Even in more tolerant communities, lesbians may face subtle discrimination. Angela Bowen, 54, a divorced, free-lance writer in Boston, has maintained a union with Jennifer Abod, 44, a media producer, for 11 years, but because the relationship has no legal status, Abod's health insurance will not cover Bowen or Bowen's daughter...
Other performers might talk a little about the bad times and all the frustrations; Brooks describes a scene that sounds like Jack Nicholson's famous freak-out in Five Easy Pieces. "Sitting in the parking lot of a damn fire station back in Hendersonville, Tenn., beating my head as hard as I could because I had snapped, and Sandy screaming at me to quit. I was crying, she was crying. I calmed down, and we went back home." Half a year later, Brooks signed with Capitol Records...
...career, but now he's everywhere. His Twin Peaks brought flaming weirdness to prime-time television. He has directed TV commercials and a 25-minute music video. This fall he is co-producing a documentary series for the Fox network. And here's Wild at Heart, another three-ring freak show that won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and serves as an entertaining anthology of Lynch oddities...
...quite natural. Hammer became a born-again Christian in 1982, and he's simple and sincere when he says, "I attribute all my success to a blessing from God." But the softening is also calculated. U Can't Touch This takes a strong riff from Rick James' 1981 Super Freak (co- writing credit acknowledged and royalties paid) and works all kinds of electronic mixing wizardry on it. That "sampling," as the business calls it, produces an up-to-date, eminently danceable sound...