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...when a major sex-research study suggested that only 1% to 2% of men are homosexual, vs. the traditional assumption of 10%. The findings may be re-evaluated, but their immediate impact has been to make gays seem a far smaller group that could be shortchanged without grave political peril...
...TODESFALLE UNTER PALMEN! SCREAMED THE German tabloid. deathtrap under the palms! In the language of Florida tourism, that had worrisome further meanings: shame and financial peril. After Berlin special-education teacher Barbara Meller Jensen strayed off I-95 near Miami and was brutally murdered in front of her children in a "bump-and-run" robbery, German Consul General Klaus Sommer considered warning other Germans away from the city. Jensen was the sixth foreign (and third German) tourist killed in Florida since December...
...gallant knights and fair maidens, the eccentric old Don Quixote wanders here with his sidekick Sancho Panza. As he arrives on the scene clad in makeshift armor, he discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued by Lorenzo, Gamache and everyone else in the massive cast, Kitri and Basilio flee on a romantic adventure that takes them...
...This isn't very good." I think it particularly struck me [because of] the portrayal of Asian men, whether or not Jonathan Pryce was in it--that crafty Oriental thing. It's taking the international Jewish conspiracy and transferring it to the Asians. It falls into the Yellow Peril idea pretty consistently. There were two issues in conflict: the casting issue and the content issue. You can't, one week, protest, "We want jobs," and the next week go up with signs that say "Racist Musical...
Charlie Haas' script deftly twists three satirical strands together. There is, of course, the movie within the movie, a perfectly pitched and hilarious genre send-up, complete with a woman in perpetual peril (Cathy Moriarty, who is also wonderful as Woolsey's wearied girlfriend). The preview is a riotous muddle at which Woolsey's gimmicks -- Atomo-Vision, Rumble-Rama -- run out of control and literally threaten to bring down the house...