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...sidelines and serve as a track-and-field commentator for NBC in Barcelona, a task he took on with characteristic good cheer. "It was heartbreaking and crushing," he says now, "but the thing about it was, I would wake up and I could look at myself in the mirror and just go, 'I had a great go at it.' That was the cool thing about...
...with their blue-green eyes, tan bodies, open shirts and light colored pants. In perhaps the most disturbing scene of the film, Tom, alone in Philipe's bedroom, puts on Philipe's clothes and starts speaking as Philipe, pretending to address Marg and kissing his own image in the mirror. Philipe discovers him and orders, "Take off my clothes", which to contemporary ears sounds like a sexual demand. Incredibly, the homoeroticism of this scene was not apparent to the audiences of the sixties, but this coded tension is vital to understanding the vehemence of the two men's emotions...
...idea that sci-fi is not so much a window to the stars as a mirror of our dark selves is supported by David Hartwell, an editor at Tor Books. "The alien represents metaphorically what's in the real world. The aliens in '50s films often represented communists--faceless invaders who were going to take over our country. The mysterious beings of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 represent our transcendent future. Independence Day sounds like the old form of sci-fi: the foreign invaders intend to wipe out our cultural heritage--ethnic cleansing. They don't want to come...
...even gliding motion that they are not walking at all but being towed on a dolly, though the shot shows only their upper halves. An attempt to innovate on the diaolgue scene has one of the actors singing directly into the camera while the other is shown in a mirror; the problem is that the utter lack of emotion of the actor addressing the camera contradicts the schmaltzy lyrics and the resulting effect, rather than being striking, brings the house down...
JOHN KERRY (D., Mass.), above left --Mirror with framed Kerry wedding announcement from Mr. and Mrs. A. Schwarzenegger --Porcelain watermelon wedding gift --Silver collar for red wine --Antique ketchup and soy bottles...