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NAME: Bob ("The Gooch") Guccione Jr. OCCUPATION: Producer of anti-intellectual magazines BEST PUNCH: Listed Spelling as a senior editor in an issue of Gear magazine featuring a semi-nude Jessica Biel, 17, star of the wholesome Spelling-produced show Seventh Heaven...
...special if it doesn't remain secret. Before heading for the island, Richard had left a map with some other Americans. Now they are trying to enter, and it is his duty to keep them away and get the map. It is also time for a semi-idyllic Beach Party to morph into Apocalypse Now. Richard descends, or rather soars, into savagery. This handsomely made film--as attentive to Nature's predatory beauty as any film since Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line--goes a bit nuts, along with him. It sheds plausibility like a snakeskin, even...
Chatwin's addiction to embellishment was especially strange because the facts around him were extravagant enough: born into a family of colorful semi-scoundrels, Chatwin had an ear for the obscure and an eye for the rare and the fake that were the envy of the art world. Yet swanning around New York City in dinner jacket, jeans and high-heeled yellow boots, he made people doubt what they should have believed and believe what they should have doubted...
...Internet--the greatest and most influential is, perhaps, the American teenager. Think about it. While the country has always had adolescents (human beings between the ages of 12 and 18, that is), it was only in the past 50 or 60 years that it had tens of millions of semi-grownups living in a developmental buffer zone somewhere between childish innocence and adult experience...
...could anyone resist? It actually should have been called "Who Wants to Be a Prostitute"--girls agree to sell their souls and body for the money of an anonymous millionaire (all we know about him is he's old, rich and quite desperate). Tasteless, tacky, totally trashy--but also semi-entertaining and amusing. But somewhere around 9:05 p.m., the show stopped being funny. I wanted to just scream out over and over, "Do you have any shame! Children are watching this! I'm going to call your mother!" (Then again, I suspect that all the contestants' mothers were...