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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil liberties cause manque (you know how Hollywood loves those) than as a presumptive work of art (you know how anxious those make Hollywood). A couple of days before the screening, the press had reported that Lolita's backers were discussing a straight-to-cable release of their $50-ish million product with Showtime (you know how humiliating that is in Hollywood), so the discussion period turned into a "Let's get behind Adrian" rally rather than a serious consideration of the film he actually made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Taking a Peek at Lolita | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Black Grape fills the album with a premeditated bounciness. Backed by a sharp electric guitar scale, Shawn Ryder enunciates "Dinnuh's in the cellar, I can smell 'er" with an almost Kurt Cobain-ish seriousness, then shifts into the light-hearted teenage chorus "I wanna get cheeky with ya, I wanna get squeakly inside ya--lying through your teeth for a week!" on "Squeaky." If you come to Stupid, Stupid, Stupid with certain antigravity expectations, these lyrics will make you jealous. Distancing themselves from their subject matter through sarcasm, Black Grape come over to the audience, throwing a post-rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Stupid' Album Anything But | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...made on a studio sound stage or back lot.) Around the same time, Weegee entered a short-lived marriage and moved to Hollywood for a few years, where he played bit parts in B-movies and took candid shots of the stars. Some of them, like his Hollywood Babylon-ish picture of Jayne Mansfield with her teeth and her bra in full forward thrust, have the lowdown feel of his tenement days. But when he came back to New York in 1952, he didn't understand the postwar city of slum clearance and social workers, the one that the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Dames! Stiffs! Mugs! | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...although in a different way than Catherine Walker's production intended. Here, Dionysos is a man, which is quite appropriate in the patriarchal society of Greece (and today). He has the ultimate power literally and figuratively; and although they lust after him, the Maenads also sometimes engage in lesbian-ish petting of each other. In addition, a great twist is added to the "Pentheus In Drag" scene as Pentheus is suddenly 'reduced' to becoming another woman drooling over Dionysos. He surrenders his sexual power, and as a result, his political power as well. The mocking of Pentheus in a dress...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mighty Morphin Power Maenads: | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...CHRISTMAS WISH] Enhance 1995 film's wow-ish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE HOLIDAY STOCKING IS TOO FULL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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