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Catering to male fantasy is seemingly the point of these regressive new police dramas. All three series are vastly more violent than any other cop shows currently on network television, where the trend has been to keep the killing and maiming offscreen. In one episode of Swift Justice, we see more than a half-dozen people get shot to death, blown up and, in one scene, deliberately hit by golf balls. Sad but true. Justice was created by Dick Wolf, the producer responsible for the far more sophisticated Law & Order. "There are guys out there, 18-to-34-year-olds...
Alas, most romances don't survive the move offscreen. A cybersweetheart rarely lives up to the mental image created of him or her. And no wonder, say psychologists, since that image largely reflects the reader's needs and desires rather than the other person's reality...
...First you push the envelope until it splits open by putting pubescent models in lurid poses, then plaster them on billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood" and garner tons of free media exposure. Then watch your jeans, which most teens wouldn't have been...
...himself at 'Hello, Bob.' " Casting Rickles wasn't the only counterintuitive choice. Tommy Smothers plays a Senator, and Sharon Stone, who seems as surprised as everyone else that she's in a Scorsese film, plays casino owner De Niro's wife. It's a Mob film, but everyone behaved offscreen. "In 35 years of working Vegas, I've never gambled," says Rickles. "I wouldn't even know how to play a card game." Some Vegas face. READ MY LIPS: GLUB GLUB...
That's pure Jackie-an engaging presence offscreen and on who, unlike other cinema studs, projects no roiling torment, no existential grudge against the world. He seems a contented guy. And why not? A movie actor since he was seven, stunt man in a Bruce Lee movie at 18, and now Asia's No. 1 star, he is in total control of his films: supervising the stunts, singing the theme songs and, on 11 pictures, directing...