Word: gille
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...running erotic stage musical," as it is now billed, has changed little since those Pleistocene days, and today's critics would probably make the same judgments as their predecessors. "With all my heart, I recommend staying away from the slick and repulsive come-on called Oh! Calcutta!, "wrote Brendan Gill of The New Yorker. "Voyeurs of the city unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains," added Clive Barnes in the New York Times. "Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac," declared TIME's T.E. Kalem...
This well-directed B movie (and its two sequels) told of a primordial 7-ft. amphibi-man. A half-century later, one image sticks to the moviegoer's retina: Julie Adams in a bathing suit of iconic white, swimming gracefully in an Amazon lagoon and, unseen by her, the Gill Man miming her strokes a few feet below, like the hidden id ready to surface. In this eerie pas de deux, the creature's attentions are both predatory and appreciative. He could be her destroyer or her lover: Swamp Thing or Wild Thing...
...EADS, still dropped 2.35% on analyst fears that Airbus invested too much in the super-jumbo market. "Bulls__t," Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard said in response. "I don't think we'll really see whether the massive A380 gamble pays off until 2007 and beyond," comments Joe Gill, head of equity research at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin . "Any sign the A380 won't pan out will also shape new airport construction, since the 787 can be serviced with the kind of infrastructure we already have." Either way, airport expansion needs to take off; European airport operators group...
...Richie's report on Japanese eroductions, Ray Durgnat on Jess Franco, Stephen Farber on sexual censorship in California, my long interview with Metzger and Ebert's definitive study of Meyer (which is quoted in the first pages of The Other Hollywood. My favorite essay, a real startler, was Brendan Gill's on porno films. Brendan, a New Yorker staff writer for a half-century, and author of the magazine's unofficial history, Here at the New Yorker, was a man of many passions, from theater to architecture to women, and in a sweet seizure of ardor his speech and prose...
...true!" What is true is that erupting sperm is the money shot of porn films. It's not just that porn is made for the sexual excitement of men; it's that the arousal of the penis is easier to display visually than arousal of the clitoris. As Gill noted in the "Blue Notes" essay: "Simply as theatre, cunnilingus isn't a patch on fellatio, and it is difficult to see what even the most ardent Women's Lib maker of blue movies can do about...