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...Hangover is well past $200 million. Whatever reservations you might have about these movies as works of popular art, the numbers are good news, in the blockbuster-dominated summer market, for the little movies that could. (A new romantic comedy, I Love You, Beth Cooper, raised barely a titter, or a Twitter, pulling in just $5 million.) (Bruno and the Rest: See TIME's complete Summer Arts Preview...
...sexy repartee that screenwriters gave Marilyn Monroe. Bettie was the sole creator of her myth; she was her own auteur. But her gifts were best appreciated in motion, not in repose. To express and exploit them fully, she needed to be liberated from the pages of Eyeful and Titter and be seen in pictures that moved. Enter Irving Klaw...
...mostly female CitySteppers titter as they traipse through the studio. After several self-conscious laps around the room, the bolder CitySteppers start to experiment with leaps and flailing arm motions...
...struggle’s arrival is particularly distasteful considering that this hallowed bank of the Charles has, over the course of its grand history, served as a sanctuary for effete, bloated Brahmins interested in evading combat of any kind. Alas, gone are the days when Cabot and Crowninshield could titter lazily about the Lowells over high tea, leaving the bayonets to the plebs. Our aristocratic predecessors had honed repression to an art, ensuring that the intramural conflict was restricted to a biting comment about outmoded décor, or perhaps spilt sherry...
...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...