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...catch up with Hong Kong cinema--since the mid-'80s the world's most turbulent and entertaining--it may have been suffocated by the censorious new lords from the mainland. So Wong Kar-wai's kicky art movie about two cops on the night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn guys--all caught in Wong's murky...
According to the OFA, Johnson is widely recognized as "the premier trombonist in jazz." His career has included stints with the Benny Carter and Count Basie Bands, and he worked on television and movie scores for such productions as "Shaft" and "The Mod Squad...
Another film which is also relatively tame by today's standards, Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" was shocking mainly for depicting a photographer's wanderings in the mod scene of 60's England, involving a little playful nudity and a pot party along the way. But the film best demonstrates how underlying themes can make actually controversial elements seem worse. On the surface we see him taking photos of partially nude models and tumbling about with giggling teenagers--these "loose morals," perhaps, were controversial enough. Yet the deeper theme of the manipulative power of photography upon the mind affects...
Faithfull always satisfies her regular devotees and manages to bewitch new fans. She is as Establishment as 1960s mod fashion and yet--because she chooses to play intimate venues--she also is fringe enough to be a grand doyenne of the demi-monde. Indeed, much of Faithfull's staying power comes from her double persons...
...summer of 1992 Phiber and four MOD members were indicted for their computer trespasses. Phiber was the last to plead guilty, insisting to the end that he had done nothing wrong. The judge gave Phiber the longest sentence of the bunch -- a year in federal prison -- to send a message to other hackers that computer crime doesn...