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...19th century Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to America and thought he had the young nation figured out. But Tocqueville never tried out for a porno film. In this documentary series, English-raised Louis Theroux (son of novelist Paul) samples the strangest fruits of freedom, from pitching infomercials to breaking bread with right-wing survivalists. This sort of participational filmmaking can become cute or self-satisfied, but Theroux maintains a curious, never smug attitude, even toward the most bizarre colonists...
...Dogme is the hot word in serious film circles. Its precepts were first used in Vinterberg's The Celebration, the family-in-tatters drama that was a worldwide success. Dogme 2 was Von Trier's The Idiots, an aggressive comedy with porno elements. Now come Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's easy-to-take Mifune, about a young businessman who goes home to settle his late father's estate; Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive, set in Namibia and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh; and, opening next week, the first American Dogme film, julien donkey-boy, by genius nasty boy Harmony Korine...
...studios have achieved p.r. symbiosis with a newly sanitized New York City, the family-friendly Big Candy Apple--imagine Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer as hosts of GMA from Times Square's porno paradise of a few years ago--and despite its already jammed sidewalks, the city has welcomed the cameras (the networks provide security to help control crowds). Friedman, who conceived Today's studio when he was its executive producer, even gives the show partial credit for the city's image turnaround, and his successor, Jeff Zucker, calls it "probably the best daily advertisement for the city...
Consider. A man breaks up with his new lover, deciding that he prefers his porno tapes to her ("I've only known you for a few weeks. But I've been involved with some of those women for years!"). To win fabulous prizes, a woman mocks her lover's after-sex ritual--"a ham sandwich and ESPN"--in front of a studio audience. A girl loses her virginity to her boyfriend--who turns into an evil vampire. Sex on TV is still plentiful. A study this year by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that...
...sign reading DEAD END. Vinny the hairdresser (John Leguizamo) cheats on his wife (Mira Sorvino), then takes her to Plato's Retreat for a disastrous evening of group sex. His best friend, Ritchie (valiant Adrien Brody), is a newborn punk who moonlights as a dancer-stud in a gay porno house. The local lowlifes think Ritchie is weird; he's not neighborhood. So he must...