Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hunk she's secretly sleeping with and the hunk she's engaged to, has just committed suicide, and her fiance reads the journal after her funeral. That pretty much wraps up the plot of this Showtime movie, directed by soft-core wizard Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid). The film's heavy-breathing style -- sensuous slow-motion, arty dissolves, fetishistic close-ups -- is too studied to be erotic, but there's one thing in its favor: it looks like nothing else...
...million industry centered in the Mississippi Delta and is a cosseted cousin of the wild redfish that was fished to near extinction in the '80s craze for Paul Prudhomme's cast-iron Cajun cuisine. The succulent oyster on its bed of ice could have been pampered like an orchid in Quilcene Bay on the Hood Canal in Washington, or in Tomales Bay near Marshall, Calif. The two fish that Jesus served to the multitude in the New Testament parable may well have been mild-flavored tilapia. The species is native to the Sea of Galilee, but it is now farmed...