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Cruising is unsatisfying as drama and disturbing as a sexual statement. Several brilliant moments of cinematic tension get lost in a rush of misguided, Puritan moralism. Pacino's shave in his final sequence connotes the removal of Cain's permanent scar or Hester Prynne's letter, as if homosexuality were a blight on American society that must be removed through violence. Friedkin claims Cruising "is not an indictment of the homosexual community," yet tacked-on words cannot temper his dangerously powerful images. There are real demons to exorcise--beyond Christopher...
...Close Shave...
...Close Shave...
...squat to scrutinize like the Rosetta stone. He has never caught up with the class; school figures remain his weakest point. But naysayers who insist that the double lutzes and triple salchows are jumps that have to be grooved into muscle memory before a boy is old enough to shave have been proved wrong: a typical Tickner free-skating program contains just as many crowd-pleasing pyrotechnics as any on the skating scene...
...Indiana, the Easterns, and NCAAs. And somewhere along the line, a shave...