Word: lucullan
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...hangover. At some point in the middle of our Lucullan outburst, gays willingly - joyously - stopped talking about AIDS. I don't mean it never came up - there were plenty of Angels in America screening parties in 2003 - but an awkward silence descended in the bedroom. Gay men of my generation had never really known AIDS, so it seemed weird to bring it up when you were about to have sex with someone...
...gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal, the corrosive and haunting film version of Thomas Harris' sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. One man is disemboweled and hanged in public, his entrails dangling like a watch fob. Another is thrown to ravenous wild boars as a Lucullan snack. A third malefactor is condemned to dine on a little brain food (his own); it's Lecter's idea of just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius and his righteous...