Word: jadedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film "Kiss of Death." Nicholas Cage stole the movie from the light-weight Caruso as deftly and totally as Richard Widmark stole the original from the feather-weight Victor Mature. But having your first movie stolen by Nicholas Cage is not such a defeat. If your second movie is "Jade," however then you are in real trouble...
...Jade" is written by "Basic Instinct" screenwriter and quintessential dirty old man, Joe Esterhas, who also was responsible for the early-'80's hit "Flashdance." That movie was just as badly written as Esterhas' later work and has an equally offensive storyline (about an eighteen-year-old woman who is a welder by day, sexy nightclub dancer by night), but has something which most movies do not: Jennifer Beals. In the nineties, Esterhas' biggest movies ("Basic Instinct" and the recent "Showgirls") have recieved a great deal of publicity as being terribly offensive and demeaning to women. The truth is, they...
...that the businessman has various collections: objects of ethnic art (like the axe), antique furniture and (class guy that he is) public hair from the women that he has bedded, which he keeps in jeweled boxes on his dresser. On one of the boxes is the Chinese character for "jade...
...tells him that she used to take money to sleep with powerful men, but that she "likes girls, mostly," which takes care of Esterhas' requisite lesbian sub-plot. She also mentions a woman who the governor used to visit regularly who "rocked his world." The woman is called Jade...
...merchandise was no less varied. Central Square stores emptied their insides onto the sidewalk, and merchants came from as far as Vermont to hawk Guatemalan bags and vests, jade statues of Buddha and faberge thimbles (two for five dollars...