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...genres combined to create 70s porn. One, shown in theaters, was the soft-core sex film: basically a low-budget fiction feature with heavy-breathing innuendo, simulated lovemaking and the occasional, calculated exposure of skin (They were called skin flicks.) The genre boomed in 1959 with the smash success of Russ Meyer's nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cued a five-year run of so-called nudie-cuties. Says prime sexploitation showman Dave Friedman: "Nudie-cuties were very rigid in their construction -you had the boy/girl scene, the girl/girl scene, the orgy scene, and then the kiss...
...brand identities that Hispanics recognize. Casting agents often seek neutral accents and ethnically appropriate actors who appeal to a broad spectrum, a task more complicated than it seems, even though about 67% of U.S. Latinos are of Mexican heritage. In some Latin American countries, people with the lightest skin color make up the elite and dominate the media, including ad images. This jars with the American take on diversity, says Andrew Speyer, of the Zubi agency in Miami: "Most advertisers in Mexico are not portraying the average Mexican, so it gets tricky when the [American] clients see casting that doesn...
Aloe has been a staple in home medicine cabinets for skin health since Cleopatra's time. According to a report in the journal General Dentistry, there is growing evidence that the plant's sap can also treat many mouth maladies, from cold sores to painful gums after a tooth is pulled...
...possible for death under those conditions to be peaceful, at least as far as outside observers can tell. (Indeed, taking to one's bed and refusing to eat while drinking little or nothing was until recently a common way to die.) Moistening the lips and mouth will keep the skin in this area from cracking. The lack of fluid leads to a buildup of ketones that induces a coma, along with kidney failure or cardiac arrest--a deceptively dramatic-sounding breakdown that nonetheless can release a patient from life quite gently. --By Christine Gorman...
Inspired by the finest 1950s junk fiction--Mickey Spillane's gun-crazy P.I. Mike Hammer and Al Feldstein's EC SuspenStories comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen...