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...could tell you that. But Sports Illustrated is different--so its publishers say. "If we'd wanted to go girlie, I could have given you 34 pages of nudity," managing editor Mark Mulvoy told USA Today, his comment revealing an all too familiar mixture of bravado and sexism. Managing pimp Mulvoy's macho boast should read: if I'd wanted to, I could have ordered those women to disrobe in front of the camera. Now that's exploitation, right Mark? And hey, its all a matter of money anyway...
...behalf of a press that was far more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave, Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Abraham Lincoln was termed a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla and a ghoul. Yet none of the nation's early leaders even attempted to sue, although some may have shared Benjamin Franklin's professed desire to balance "the liberty of the press" with...
...gets none of the cinematic support that made the management case study of an aspiring businessman in "human satisfaction" into a success in Risky Business. Where that film, for instance, used exaggerated shots to distort Joel's parents visually, matching their distortion in the mind of the aspiring pimp, here Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond displays none of the visual creativity he and steven Spiclberg brought to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is as if he simply ran the production like a Broadway show and set up a single camera in front of the stage. Whenever the film...
...humorist and Roman Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc, is a lightning plotter. The action, however, is never as arresting as those who initiate it. The smitten Hughie is a striking example of what the author calls "an overdeveloped inner life." Bernadette is a stinging portrait of stupidity (a pimp recruits her with veiled threats, and she mistakes him for a social worker). Blore is an overbearing ass who makes a big production about serving a modest Spanish wine and talks of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence as if he has discovered the latest bestseller...
...story itself seems designed to be incomprehensible. A convoluted mess of recurring clues, recurring thugs, and recurring murders, the plot features a murderous priest, a mystery-lady in a leopard coat, a grotesque pimp and a complete cast, shuffled and re-shuffled, of the stock characters. Throughout the film, in fact, the plot contains all the typical characteristics of film noir...