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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama is to succeed, the passion must not merely engage the reader intellectually; it must arouse him. For this heterosexual male, who has imagined himself to be the unconventional heroine Moll Flanders and that transcendent bird Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the failure is total. Such a statement will surely be called homophobia, but fear and disapproval are not operating here. In fact, nothing is operating. The reader's reaction is vague exasperation. His mind simply does not have the software to induce the intended physiological response to the author's erotic obsessions, and these are the essence of the book. Such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: No Software | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...drama is to succeed, the passion must not merely engage the reader intellectually; it must arouse him. For this heterosexual male, who has imagined himself to be Moll Flanders and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the failure is total. Such a statement will surely be called homophobia, but fear and disapproval are not operating here. In fact, nothing is operating. The reader's reaction is vague exasperation. His mind simply does not have the software to induce the intended physiological response to the author's erotic obsessions, and these are the essence of the book. Such thoughts, of course, must occur regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: No Software | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...film's first half we watch Jack volley between his inexplicably loyal wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra) and his submissive moll Sheri (Juliette Lewis), all the while wrestling with his conscience. Because the formula would not be complete without a furtive villain force, Medak is compelled to introduce Russian mobster Mona Demarkov (Lena Olin) into Jack's dysfunctional life. Fueled by lust and fear, Jack is either chasing or being chased by this femme fatale from hell...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Bleeding Heartless | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Hoover's presidential snooping included efforts to pin an illicit liaison on Eleanor Roosevelt and culminated, most famously, with eavesdropping on J.F.K. frolicking with Mafia moll Judith Campbell and Marilyn Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partners For Life | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Prizzi's Honor (1985). John Huston's favorite country was the social margin, where improbable characters pursue impossible dreams. A hit man (Jack Nicholson) and a hit moll (Kathleen Turner) seek love and find death in a film that deliciously combines operatic emotions and black comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of the Decade: Cinema | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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