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Here's how the world has turned: the new movie version of Lolita is at this moment playing without any particular controversy in Moscow, former capital of hopelessly square Soviet socialist morality. After something like a year of relentless salesmanship, producers of Adrian Lyne's near reverent (but by no means inept or exploitative) adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's modernist classic has yet to find a theatrical distributor in the U.S., where, of course, morally ambivalent entanglements between older men and younger women have lately been hot news...
...agents (ICM). The film was appreciatively received, perhaps more as a 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...
Director Richard Kwietniowski, adapting Gilbert Adair's novel, uses Priestley's fretful blankness to handsome comic effect. But Hurt is the big news here. Dignified and dithery, he makes Giles one of the most charming predators in ages. Like Von Aschenbach in Death in Venice, like Lolita's Humbert Humbert, he is a man of culture finding beauty in youth, in coarseness--in "all that I myself have never been." To Giles, ecstasy comes in small packages. For viewers, this film is one of them...
...came out really flat and let them play while we let things get to us," said senior co-captain Lolita Lopez...
...number of players stepped up in different areas during the game. Hart tallied 18 kills, junior Melissa Forcum had 14 and sophomore Linda Jellison had 12 On defense, Forcum completed 24 digs followed by co-captain Lolita Lopez with...