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...there has always been something slightly otherworldly about the man. He is Miriam’s (Catherine Deneuve) lover and dying because she is finished with him. Desperately searching for a way to survive, he contacts a beautiful doctor (Susan Sarandon), but she is too late. In a plot twist that could only have been dreamt up by a man, Sarandon is seduced by Deneuve—leading to one of the hottest sex scenes in recent movie history. This subtle and haunting film is an odd major directorial debut for Tony Scott of Top Gun and Spy Game fame...
Those colorful plastic bracelets popularized by Madonna and Avril Lavigne have taken on a risque new twist. The bangles convey a not-so-secret sexual code depending on their color, indicating different levels of intimacy starting from hugs. In a game some kids call Snap, they yank the rubbery bracelets from the wrists of fellow students to indicate which kind of sex they would like to have. Grabbing a red bracelet is asking for a lap dance, for example, and a blue one can mean oral sex. The code has even spread internationally...
...restaurants in the capital, Vientiane. One of the best is Le Silapa, tel: (856-21) 219689, run by Canadian Frederic Dionne-Vachon who came to Laos because he hated the Canadian winter. Housed in a 1923 shophouse barely three meters wide, the restaurant has a classical feel with a twist of Indochina. The menu includes a local fish, known as panine, as well as a purple sorbet made from local khatiep flowers...
...Love Object, a man in love with a co-worker orders a life-like sex doll that bears an uncanny resemblance to his co-worker, therefore ridding himself of the anxiety that prevents him from fostering a relationship with her. The twist is that the doll develops a persona of her own and becomes jealous of her real-life counterpart, making it unclear whether or not the entire affair is simply a fantasy...
...into place, adjusted it to compensate for the somewhat ‘untraditional’ orientation of Currier House with respect to the cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips, nails and twist-e-ties. Incidentally, due to some quirk of 1970s architecture, Currier House carries its own magnetic charge, rendering a compass useless (though still cool-looking) and further complicating my project...