Word: girls
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...humans enjoy. On his home VCR (a Betamax!), he plays and replays two numbers from the 1969 movie musical Hello, Dolly!: the brassy Put on Your Sunday Clothes and the ballad It Only Takes a Moment, which moves him with a closeup of a boy's hand holding a girl...
...sentiment of a natural storyteller. Stanton says he has seen Luxo, Jr. dozens of times, yet, "Miraculously, I get caught up every time" in the wordless story of father-and-son lamps. Take that 2-min. experiment from 1986, and WALL?E is the logical romantic extension: toy meets girl...
...stories are set in sub-Saharan Africa--Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya. Akpan's method is to present scenes of extreme violence and degradation from a child's point of view. A young boy watches his sister practice prostitution; a man sells his niece and nephew into slavery; a girl looks on as her Tutsi father kills her Hutu mother with a machete. And so on. These stories are so frightening and upsetting, and offer so little in the way of closure or consolation, that you wonder what the point is of subjecting yourself to them--they exist at the border...
...even more interesting question, yet one less scrutinized in the news coverage, was, What kind of women get into this business and why? Luckily, pay cable was made to answer such puzzlers. hbo is adapting the novel Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl into a series by Darren Star, creator of Sex and the City. But Showtime is first into the sack, with the British comedy Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Mondays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.), which asks, What's a nice young girl like you doing in an oldest profession like this...
...feels no shame that she has sex for a living; nor does Showtime, whose Call Girl ads have a retro-glam shot of Piper reclining in a martini glass. An Amy Winehouse theme song adds to the gritty-chic vibe. In a way that is sure to offend liberal feminists and conservative moralists alike, Call Girl is glamorous yet not glamorized. Belle has expensive clothes and a fab flat, but she doesn't have a fantasy life--just a well-paying job embodying men's fantasies...