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When the rains failed and the crops died and the locusts came and all hell broke loose, the primitives of old knew why: they had offended the gods. They would offer a sacrifice--a virgin, perhaps--to put things right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL NINO AND US: HELL, HIGH WATER AND HYPE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...moderns are too sophisticated to believe such nonsense. (And anyway, where would we find a virgin?) Instead, we blame all our earthly woes on...El Nino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL NINO AND US: HELL, HIGH WATER AND HYPE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...Yuck!" is left unsaid. And while it is easy to imagine this actress playing television's most famous ex-virgin, Donna Martin of Beverly Hills, 90210, it is less easy to imagine her starring in an independent movie like The House of Yes, a new black comedy from Miramax in which Spelling's character, Lesly, discovers that her fiance has been re-enacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy with his twin sister by way of foreplay. For Spelling, at last, the kitsch is overt, and thus The House of Yes represents what is known in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOT JUST DADDY'S GIRL | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Think of an old-dark-house party catered by Noel Coward. A place as creepy as the Pascals' needs a virgin sacrifice, and that would be Lesly (Tori Spelling), a waitress engaged to the young master of the house, Jackie-O's twin Marty (Josh Hamilton). He's halfway between normal and nuts, while Jackie lives in lunacy as if it were the garden room at high tea. Her favorite delusion is that she is Jacqueline Kennedy on the day of her husband's death. She's just a bit confused about the identity of the assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN INCESTUOUS COMEDY OF TERRORS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...Spice Spice Girls. Virgin. (Platinum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billboard CHARTS | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

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