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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...
...World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids by Jack Kramer (Abbeville; $65). Bursts of magenta, delicate pastel-tinged whites, a green so dark it is nearly black. Blossoms fluted or fringed, mottled or striped, on plants 30 ft. tall or pendulous stems dripping with 30 flowers. Dazzling in its diversity, the orchid boasts some 35,000 wild species, found as far north as the Arctic Circle...
Diversity is the raw material of earth's wealth, but nature's true creativity lies in the relationships that link various creatures. The coral in a reef or the orchid in a rain forest is part of an ecosystem, a fragile, often delicately balanced conglomeration of supports, checks and balances that integrate life-forms into functioning communities. Given the complex workings of an ecosystem, it is never clear which species, if any, are expendable...
...often seems, in fact, as if ancient gods -- Bacchus, Neptune, Zeus and Venus -- conspired to make the land a composite of holidaymakers' fantasies. Here is a never-never land built on solid ground; a fairy-tale monarchy ruled by a Renaissance King and his classically beautiful Queen; an orchid-scented garden of scintillant temples, lush jungles, palmy white beaches and a capital built along tree-shaded canals; and a gentle Buddhist retreat filled with smiling, gracious people who make "tourist industry" sound like a contradiction in terms. The most pressing problem with the "Land of Smiles" may be simply that...