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...Murray, who created the Ur-reality TV show The Real World for MTV. On the other, a few miles away, Mike Fleiss, the man who brought us The Bachelor, was making The Quest. Both movies had similar casting strategies, focusing on the teen-comedy trope of an eager male virgin, but Bunim-Murray had an edge: female identical twins. It was not a fair fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cue The Tequila | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...comedy. "We grew up seeing the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello movies, and that would seem so corny now," says producer Murray. "There are moments in this movie that if they were scripted, they would feel corny, but when they're real, they don't." If Alan, the teetotaler virgin who is transformed by a few shots of tequila into the nerd king of Cancun, were a written character, he would be a lame archetype. Instead he is hilariously compelling. Sure, we know his newfound popularity is mostly owing to his having a film crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cue The Tequila | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...SCROVEGNI CHAPEL A painstaking renovation has restored Giotto?s frescoes to their former glory. With paintings depicting scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ, this early Renaissance masterpiece is a mini Sistine Chapel. Entrance at Piazza Eremitani. Open daily, 9:00-19:00; tickets 311. Reservations necessary: +39 (0) 49 201 0020, or online at www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Padua | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...need to get people to join earlier and keep them interested." One way is through advertising. In one television spot, a young woman abandons a night of sex for a game of bingo (doubtful). In another, four glamorous ladies with nicknames like Four Leaf (the lucky one) and the Virgin (the first-timer) flirt with good-looking men over their "daubers," the fat felt-tipped pens used to mark numbers (improbable). The idea is that bingo offers all the excitement of a nightclub, but without the flashing lights or the pounding soundtrack. When this reporter embedded in a bingo hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Mother's Bingo | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...virgins’ turn. Dozens of audience members with red lipstick V’s smeared on their foreheads vie to be pulled on stage in a competition to see who can give the best 20-second lap dance. When audience applause deems Vicki the winning virgin, her row of friends stands and cheers...

Author: By A. SCOTT Holbrook and D. J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Midnight Horrors on Church Street | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

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