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Japan's manga culture is awash with sexual fluidity and deviance but few of those grinning gross-out stories have made it to the big screen. One notable exception is 1999's Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers), a feature-film by Akihiko Shiota. Two 17-year-olds, Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) and Satsuki (Tsugumi), start a conventional romance but Takuya's needs are anything but. First he tells Satsuki to treat him like a dog. Then unbeknown to her, he smells her socks, photographs her legs (how Japanese cinema loves voyeuristic kink) and wants to kiss her feet and suck her toes...
Nowhere more so than in South Korea. The country's censors banned homosexuality on screen in any form until 1998, despite allowing hot-action het-sex and an alarming amount of rape. For the hottest het-sex in Asia see Korean debutante Jung Ji-woo's Happy End - which won awards at last year's Cannes - with bonking that bests French director Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue for realistic moan-groan quotient and full-body bump and grind. Today, it seems, Korean directors can do just about anything. 1999's Yellow Hair was a sex shebang with orgies...
...Activities kicked off Friday afternoon with a panel held in the ARCO Forum on the responsibilities of black artists as role models. Featured guests included "Kool" DJ Red Alert, stage and screen actor Obba Babatunde, newly appointed Quincy Jones Professor of Music Ingrid Monson and Stacey Spikes, CEO of Urbanworld Films, the first all-black production company...
...opening frame, sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim took a pass at the blue line on the power play and rifled a shot on net. While setting a screen in front of the net, freshman winger Dennis Packard caught a piece of the puck and deflected the shot past Boucher to put Harvard on the board, 1-0, the Crimson's only tally on the man-advantage in five chances...
...their first video-game experience. And they don't seem to mind the primitive visuals. "You've got people shouting and screaming and having a great time," says Blake Fisher, an editor at the video-game magazine Next Generation, "even though the graphics are just huge blocks on the screen...