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...permeated the culture. And when two of the season's most talked-about films, Summer of Sam and Eyes Wide Shut--the latter a gothic sexual hell that would do a medieval allegorist proud--center on orgies that go terribly wrong, a horny romp like American Pie seems quaint. So it's only fitting that TV, long charged with glamorizing lust, is airing images of sex that are not just unglamorous but also neurotic, guilty, antagonistic, even scary...
...ancient Teletype machine looks ready to do battle once again after little more than a nap, spitting out headlines to chain-smoking reporters, getting even the most hard-boiled excited as it prints out "Flash...!" Anyone who stops to look closer at the immovable museum piece will see another quaint reminder of a time gone by in the newspaper business: the Teletype is stamped United Press International...
...idea that never quite panned out. Or the idea succeeded, but it's one that makes us uncomfortable. Chiang Kai-shek was a contender for a billion people's loyalty but played his cards wrong. Marcus Garvey preached racial separatism and opposed interracial marriage; his ideas seem almost quaint now. Whether Hugh Hefner was a pioneer of the sexual revolution or just piggybacked on it is impossible to know, but in the age of AIDS and poverty caused by out-of-wedlock births, his hedonism-without-tears philosophy makes him look like Austin Powers with better teeth. Timothy Leary preached...
There's a quaint little train station in the village of Kingston, Rhode Island (home of the University of Rhode Island). The station offers free parking and is only a 20-minute cab ride to the properties. Amtrak provides all-weather transport, 7 trains daily, from major cities along the Boston to Washington track: Boston (Route 128 Station, 55 minutes); (South Station, 75 minutes); New Haven, 1 hour 50 minutes; Manhattan, 3 3/4 hours. Driving time from Boston (AAA estimate) 1.5 hours; same as Boston-Hyannis (without the Route 93/3 hassle...
What to Look For This is the U.S. debut of Hong Kong director Peter Chan. Filming took place in the quaint, idyllic, sleepy, picturesque town of Rockport, Mass. Star Kate Capshaw, best known as Steven Spielberg's wife, best remembered as the second Indiana Jones girl, long ago made The Love Letter her pet project when she optioned the movie rights of the book. Expect it to have a pleasingly female perspective on what it means to fall in love. The Buzz Dreamworks is taking a gamble by releasing the film during the first Phantom Menace weekend, the idea being...