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...million. Last week players from Times Square to Paris to Tokyo queued up in stores to buy Mortal Kombat, one of the hottest (and most violent) games ever made. In the next few weeks, Disney/MGM will release the game version of Aladdin; Propaganda Films will debut Voyeur, a new kind of adult-oriented interactive movie; and a start-up company named 3DO will launch the riskiest merger of games and multimedia yet, with a $699 superpowered machine designed to blast the market into new levels of graphic reality and financial risk...
...career hits a new, if bumpy, peak with the erotic thriller Sliver. Shooting is shadowed by rumors of tension between co-stars Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. Then the steamy, voyeur-happy sex in the film threatens to + saddle it with a box-office-stifling NC-17 rating, and dozens of trims are made in the final cut to get an R rating. With extensive retooling going on, the buzz is downright dismal, and Paramount even declines to hold advance reviewers' screenings. In the midst of all this, he leaves his wife of 24 years and takes up with...
...BOTTOM LINE: The reader becomes a voyeur, unable to stop watching as veils and bandages fall...
Reeve has hit on a key difference between stage and screen acting. On the stage an actor can seduce with gifts of voice and gesture; from the rear mezzanine all faces are equal. But the movie camera, that meticulous voyeur, is no respecter of technique. Its X-ray eye scans an actor's face for a fineness or boldness of line. Because most movies are illustrated fables, the camera wants faces that communicate -- in the immediate emotional shorthand of a close-up -- the character's pedigree to the audience. So film stardom is often the luck of the genetic draw...
...wives and girlfriends, who are more self-aware and pragmatically optimistic. But from the opening, when the boys demonstrate masochistic macho by withstanding each other's punches, to the climax, when all three are beaten, bruised and begging for unattainable forgiveness from their women, Aven'U Boys is a voyeur's journey into moral chaos. Sex is easy and often kinky -- the toughest of the boys has a secret taste for transvestites and whippings -- but in this world, love is an embarrassment...