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...American public's ideal induction ceremony into hard-core. Sex-film history was repeating itself. The break-out soft-core film, Teas,, had been a comedy with a gimmick (a man is able to see women naked); Throat had a more ingenious twist, was a cleverer film and a genial buoyancy. And where else were audiences going to see a woman with such control over her gag reflex? Granted, when they saw the film, some viewers couldn't control theirs, but most were diverted. It soon became the date movie du jour...
...their payroll. But even at this early point in the trial, it must be getting through to Jackson that not only could he lose his liberty, perhaps until he's in his 60s, but that--win or lose--he will never again be seen in the old, genial way. The testimony of a boy who was one of his biggest admirers a few years ago will deprive Jackson of fans in the future. --Reported by Matt Kettman, Cathy Murillo and Ethan Stewart
Judy Garland lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss
...competitor institutions make do with presidents who understand that their comments must be blander than my four-month-old child’s rice cereal. Controversy can create difficulties, and if avoiding controversy is more important than intellectual discourse, then the University would be better served by a genial figurehead than by a scholar-president...
...comfortable with managing a vast enterprise - and the corporate jargon that goes along with it - believes the organization is doing remarkably well, citing as successes the Bali investigations, a key role in the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, and this month's deployment to P.N.G. At home, the genial and softly spoken police chief points with pride to counter-terrorism charges laid and drug busts made, as well as the A.F.P.'s low staff attrition rate and a major business award for family-friendly policies. "Our results speak for themselves," he says...