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...issue is stirring up trouble in Washington, it's nothing compared with what's going on at home. By most accounts, Vietnam is in the midst of a multi-faith religious revival. Buddhist festivals are common nationwide. And Catholics take their own annual pilgrimage to a site where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared. Last year, 200,000 of Vietnam's five million Catholics attended. Like China, Vietnam tolerates religious devotion in churches that are under effective Communist Party administration, but the government appears anxious about the rise of renegade sects. The advocacy group Freedom House recently published...
...Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of "I Love the Nightlife" in Last Days of Disco; Abba songs punctuating Muriel's Wedding; that inimitable discussion of "Like a Virgin" in Reservoir Dogs; "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the background as Wiley Wiggins gets paddled in Dazed and Confused; Faye Wong dancing to "California Dreaming" (Chungking Express); Tom Everett Scott hitting the drums too fast but just right in That Thing You Do!; and "Play it Sam. Play...
...guardians of American morality more than anything that had gone before, and pressure on the studios began to build until Code compliance became standard in 1934. The self-censorship mechanism was in place, and it dominated major U.S. releases without exception until 1953, when Otto Preminger used the word "virgin" in "The Moon Is Blue" and got away with it. Even David O. Selznick had to beg Hayes Office approval for the final "I don't give a damn" in "Gone With the Wind." The Code insured that all married couples used twin beds, that no kiss lasted longer than...
...EARLY, TOO YOUNG Studies compiled by the Ladies' Home Journal indicate that children have sex more often than parents had thought. The current issue reports that by age 13, 1 in 12 kids is no longer a virgin and that by 15 a third of girls and 45% of boys have had sex. The article notes that many kids who haven't had intercourse have had sexual experiences. Half of all teenagers have engaged in oral sex, an activity many consider less serious than intercourse. Some experts suggest the Lewinsky scandal may have fueled this trend...
...eerie music, you'd think you were watching a '70s horror flick. But the understated leads shine. Elisabeth Shue brings out mom Isabelle's repression without turning her into a mere set of conventions; Hanna Hall plays Amy with a subtle concupiscence that recalls her previous movie, The Virgin Suicides. Amy's adapters should rent it sometime...