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...increasingly dominant force on cable TV. The cartoonishly staged wrestling programs airing on USA, TNT and TBS continue to draw millions of young male viewers, occupying a majority of the top spots on lists of cable's most watched shows. Next month the FX channel will launch The Toughman Championship Series, a program that will pit real-life paunchy men against each other in purportedly unscripted boxing matches. Since January, TNN has offered RollerJam, a venue for voluptuous women in Lycra to go at one another on Rollerblades. Dancing women without Rollerblades--or much clothing--are the main attraction...
John Garfield is so familiar in the toughman role that his mere presence threatens the audience's capacity for belief. Lana Turner is a very highly charged and appealing girl, but too much in this role is far beyond her experience, her understanding, even her sincerely overworked imagination; her only fine, authentic moments, barring one searing flare of jealous hatred, are casually domestic and flirtatious. Much of the Turner-Garfield dialogue, which needs the flickering intensity of adders' tongues, is paced and keyed like an erotic discussion between a couple of cats. Finally, a kind of overall rigor...
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