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Better Than Sex, the relaxed and enjoyable directorial debut of Jonathan Teplitzky, is a story of a one-night stand that goes horribly right. When Josh (David Wenham) and Cin (Susie Porter) share a cab ride home after a party in Sydney, it seems only natural for them to have a brief, no-strings-attached fling, especially because Josh will be going back home to London in a couple of days. After they spend a night together, though, they discover that going their separate ways won’t be as easy as they had expected. Wenham and Porter...
...opens in 1988 with city businessman Handong (Hu Jun), son of a Communist Party official, on the make?not for money but young men. In a Beijing gay bar, he's introduced to country boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), whom he subsequently pays for a one-night stand. A testy friendship evolves into a messy 10-year relationship. When Lan Yu catches Handong with another man, they break up and Handong abruptly marries a woman. Soon, however, he regrets his matrimony and returns to Beijing and his former beau. From a generation that preceded his lover, Handong can't decide...
...Cinematically, director Stanley Kwan is a sober man and his film is imbued with the somber shades of romantic doom. He favors subdued over sensational. Handong and Lan Yu's one-night stand, for example, never gets to a state of hormonal frenzy: Kwan finds his thrill in the tender tremblings of first love. Production designer William Chang creates moody, claustrophobic interiors to convey the relationship's confining, emotionally charged intensity...
...Levys have understood when to step aside and stay out of the storm's path. Last week a furor erupted when Condit's p.r. woman, Marina Ein, was accused of suggesting to reporters that Talk magazine was writing a story that would show Levy had "a history of one-night stands." For once, the Levy team stayed nearly silent and let the allegation backfire, which it did when Talk denied that it had uncovered anything of the kind. And for a day, the airwaves and tabloids were dominated by what the New York Daily News labeled a "Chandra smear campaign...
...She’s constantly thinking and looking at contemporary problems and how to bring the University to bear on those issues,” her colleague David Wilkins explained. And thus, on January 23, Gutmann arrived for a one-night stay in New York to meet with the committee...