Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit OCCUPATION: Scouring news for plot lines BEST PUNCH: On a recently aired episode of the NBC spin-off series, which focuses on sex crimes, a character none too euphemistically referred to an intimate act as getting "a Lewinsky...
...season--prime time has seen an influx of popular, prominent and well-rounded gay characters without Ellen-esque audience or advertiser cavils. Indeed, there's so much cachet in being gay that even straight characters are trying it. On Fox's Action, scheming movie producer Peter Dragon received oral sex from a star to whom he passed himself off as gay, and in what promises to be a head-turning second episode of Fox's Ally McBeal on Nov. 1, Ally engages in steamy lip-wrestling with another woman...
...rape all occur in the first fifteen minutes. At others, it attempts to be the defining film concerning love at the end of the millennium (cringe). In the inimitable style of a Calvin Klein commercial, actors speak directly into the camera, offering insightful comments such as "it's just sex" or "sex without love is violence," a maxim which, repeated the fourth time is simply hilarious. From these two juxtaposed themes, we watch tale of one evening in the night-club hopping, heavy drinking 20-somethings, all obviously (or supposedly) gorgeous, all largely indistinguishable from one another...
...details how, in their conquest of a hookup, some encounters go right, and how some result in terrible tragedy--the most noticeable being the date rape of Sara (Tara Reid)--but from there simply degenerates into melodrama. Body Shots attempts to impress upon the audience their social commentary of sex in the '90s, and by the end it is a tiring cacophony of discordant themes...
...This is not to say that Body Shots is devoid of interest. There are some genuinely funny scenes, such as when one character is introduced into a new sexual theater, and it does portray sex in all its awkwardness and difficulty. But in the end, from being beaten over the head with pop psychology, the result is not a revelation, simply a pounding in the ears...