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...people in need. He not only fights criminals but is indifferent to those vices that so often lead the rest of us astray. Despite his heroic abilities, he is not vain. He is not greedy. He is not an operator, a manipulator, not an inside trader. He does not lust after power. And not only is he good, he is also innocent, in a kind and guileless way that Americans have sometimes been but more often have only imagined themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...suffering from love unrequited. Patience laments her lost childhood sweetheart, irresistibly beautiful rival poet, Archibald the All-Right (Douglas Freeman), who just happens to cruise onstage. Although Archibald loves her fiercely, Patience must reject him because she believes love must be entirely unselfish. For their part, the soldiers lust after all the ladies, who have abandoned the boastful Bunthorne to pine away over consummately cool Archibald. Poor Bunthorne's one remaining admirer is the one woman he can't stand--the plain Lady Jane, brilliantly portrayed as an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual groupie by Alida Griffith...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Ginsberg and Sullivan | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...even flirted with a naughty thought. But Dan is a man, and pathetically ordinary. From curiosity or concupiscence, from boredom or weakness, he goes to her apartment. Next thing, they are making mad sex by the kitchen sink. Dirty dishes clatter under her buttocks. Tap water lubricates their lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...only a movie, Ingrid." Maybe Fatal Attraction is just a nine-weeks wonder. More likely, though, it will linger in the American central nervous system. A single woman may have to go to the personals column for her next beau. A married man may sit on his lust the next time an attractive woman says, "Hi." And next time he and his wife go out on the town, he'll pick the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Could this be the same Glenn Close who scared the lust right out of men's loins as Fatal Attraction's murderously obsessive Other Woman, the one in the wild curls and sexy scoop-front blouse whom a supermarket tabloid calls the "Most Hated Woman in America"? Yes and no. In her TV film, Stones for Ibarra, about an American couple who move to rural Mexico, Close, 40, returns to playing the sort of classy and controlled heroine that won her Academy Award nominations for three of her first four films, The World According to Garp, The Big Chill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Getting Close to Stardom | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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