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...Mainstream newspapers (the Timeses of New York and Los Angeles, the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert) and magazines (TIME and Newsweek) reviewed the more ambitious soft-core movies in the 60s and then hard-core, when it was legally exhibited. Why? Because it was sufficiently dangerous, popular, newsworthy and, frequently, ambitious to warrant the interest of reviewers. The opinion of many of them, including me, was that there might be a meeting of pornography, which had quickly established a kind of artistic pedigree, and Hollywood, which was striding toward explicit sexuality. That was also the belief of Deep Throat...
...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...
...about democracy vs. nondemocracy, as it is in the stereotypical U.S. world view. It is about Chinese memories of centuries of humiliation by foreigners who invaded and divided China. No leadership in Beijing could withstand the political force of Chinese nationalism if it were perceived to be soft on Taiwan...
Bartosik has an intuitive sense of which points in a piece require slowing down and which require speeding up, and as a result she expertly transitioned between loud and soft. As her body swayed gently back and forth with the music, the audience could feel the grace of Beethoven’s composition consume her. Nonetheless, there were sections of the piece that seemed to call for more aggression than she was able to muster...
Gen’s mother, Kim Cattrall, the tough-love skating coach, escapes her roles as Sex and the City’s sex-crazed Samatha in favor of the win-at-all-costs, but hide-your-soft-side character she plays here...