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...Esther--strong narrative, cool heroine. But that it should become the No. 1-selling children's video in America as reinterpreted by wisecracking vegetables is a little discombobulating. We are, after all, talking about kids' least-favorite food group. And the Bible. But that sales spike was no freak occurrence. VeggieTales, a video series populated by moralizing computer-animated vegetables, is America's best-selling direct-to-video series, having sprouted 28.5 million tapes since...
After Lane's first tryst with her lover, the camera sits quietly on her, displaying her quicksilver emotions: a pang of guilt, a flicker of pleasure, finally tears and hysterical laughter. Lane downplays this acting feat. "I was tired, and that's how I freak out," she says. "Now I know what I look like when I do it." Gere, however, is impressed. "I've never seen an actress pull off something like that," he says. "It's one of the great scenes ever filmed." We'll let the hyperbole stand...
...LISTEN WITHOUT JUDGING Fathers sometimes want to rush in and fix problems; daughters don't always need solutions but want to air their feelings without fretting that Dad will freak...
...possibly recommend The Salton Sea? If it could, this nasty film would make you smell the disgusting food on the table. And that says nothing about its casual sadism. One spaced-out speed freak has his female companion sandwiched between mattress and box spring, her legs twitching convulsively while he conducts a drug deal. The bad people in this film are, frankly, morons. They are not theoreticians of the theater of cruelty. It is their creators who are confusing the administration of giggly shocks with aesthetic ambition...
...lost even low-paying jobs when her past surfaced. "Every time someone watches that film," she said in 1983 hearings for an antipornography civil rights law she inspired, "they are watching me being raped." But survivors of sexual abuse everywhere broke silence because she had. From forced "sex freak of the '70s," she became a beacon of resistance and hope?and changed the debate on pornography forever. Brave, gentle, miraculously resilient and valiant beyond words, Linda never accepted that her violation was constitutionally protected as was her violators' speech. "Why," she asked me, "do pimps' rights matter and mine...