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Sugar longs to climb the well-defended ramparts of English society, and her ladder up arrives in the form of William Rackham, the dreamy, indolent heir to a perfume empire. She turns his head with her literary prattle--she's like Lolita and Humbert Humbert in one body--and he installs her in a fancy apartment. Sugar's rise is rapid, but as a great man once said, mo' money, mo' problems. On her way up she has to deal with Rackham's dysfunctional family, including his half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while...
...Take You to the Moon by Maëva Poupard, 16, and Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor, 14. Cynics say their presence in the rentrée littéraire typefies the popular appeal of youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year-old Lolita Pille. Her novel, Hell - a self-obsessed, semi-autobiographical gaze into the drug-sodden and libertine demimonde of rich Parisian adolescents - has been on the bestseller lists since May. Despite a literary merit Assouline puts at "zero," Hell sells, he says, "because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want...
Portman, 20, gained the respect of critics as a low-key Lolita in The Professional (1994), Beautiful Girls (1996) and Anywhere but Here (1999)--roles that showcased her ability to appear wary and wide-eyed, seductive and silly. Lately, when she hasn't been playing Padme Amidala, she has been going to college and keeping a low profile. "When I'm at a restaurant with my parents, I don't want to be stared at," Portman says. (Last week, however, Portman turned the spotlight on herself by writing a letter to the Harvard Crimson. The actress, whose family immigrated from...
...that banned all representations of sex that appeared to contain children. This included both a ban on computer generated child pornography as well as a potential ban on the representation of sexual acts by consenting adults appearing as minors, as happened in the movies Traffic and Lolita...
Looking at commercials today, Bob Dole is drooling over a gyrating Britney Spears in order to sell Pepsi—an incarnation of the Lolita phenomenon. Though Mitchell feels that in the past children’s films have been less than pleasurable experiences for older moviegoers, he states that films aimed towards children have recently become very savvy and now try to integrate two levels of humor—one aimed at children and another aimed towards parents. Monsters Inc., Shrek, Toy Story 2—all of these films are very clever and include humor that older audiences...