Word: heavenly
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This story, from the Terry McMillan novel that McMillan based on her own affair with a young Jamaican, is the sort of surefire bathos that Hollywood has long loved to dip into; Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson made it float in the 1955 All That Heaven Allows. Stella, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, isn't in that league. With its diffuse lighting and teary sex scenes (the camera can't take its eye off Diggs' extravagant muscularity), the film qualifies as soft-pore cornography. But, heck, Bette Davis spent half her career ennobling similar kitsch. Like Davis and other strong...
Leonard Knight, 66, has found heaven, picking Hank Williams tunes on his guitar, pumping his rickety bike into Niland and laying down coat after coat of paint on his hillside GOD IS LOVE shrine, a 14-year project at the entrance to Slab City...
...play's finale that is both the most obscure and the most disturbing scene in the entire production. Aleksii and Serge play cards in heaven and try not to look down on the former Soviet Union to see what's going on. Once they are joined by Vodya, who has ironically enough gained her voice (which makes her even more frightening than when she was silent), they all contemplate the purpose of one's existence and the use of fighting for beliefs in a world that, ultimately, leaves almost all of its inhabitants asking, "What is to be done?" Leaving...
...annual report on the year's most (and least) offensive shows, which is always a fun read, filled with lots of dirty words. This year, the WB scored a unique double: Its "Dawson's Creek" was named the filthiest of PTC's "dirty dozen," while its squeaky-clean "7th Heaven" placed high on the group's "diamond dozen" list. "Creek" earned Most Objectionable honors with its Pacey-beds-his-teacher plotline...
...outrageous to stand out among the many references to raging hormones, penis size, masturbation, and the like," notes PTC. "7th Heaven," however, got PTC props for showing "the importance of supportive families... and parental involvement in the moral, spiritual, and academic education of their children." But back to the bad shows: The dirty dozen also included "Ally McBeal," (for featuring "penis size, oral sex, and the differences between marital and nonmarital intercourse"); "Spin City" ("condones heterosexual promiscuity and homosexuality"); and "Ellen" (you can figure that one out yourself...