Word: whore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explicit love poems by Swinburne that young Richard Miller has smuggled to his daughter. Heart-broken, Richard goes out for a night on the town with a friend of a friend whom he discovers to be a common prostitute. Daniel Sherman, the director, miscast Lydia Alix Fillingham as the whore. She perches on Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent fails utterly. Though drinking steadily, she never allows presumably progressive tipsiness to impede her finicky, wooden speech patterns. Admittedly, the old-fashioned slang hampers Fillingham. "I'll blow you for a drink" gets...
...DEBAUCHED atmosphere of the German nightclub scene before World War Two, a young American singer loses her mind and her baby. A Jew, a widow, a writer and a whore try to make sense out of their lives, but a Nazi outsmarts them all. When nothing remains but the cozy Kit Kat Club, the Master of Ceremonies tears the bandages from everyone's eyes, revealing the ugliness of their lives...
...Hecuba plays the blame game, Helen, "the whore of Troy," is responsible for everything. Helen (Suzman) appears, as haughty as an international star. She seems to regard the Trojan War as her biggest hit ever. Menelaus is ready to butcher her for adultery, but he is so afraid of Helen's siren sway that he does not look at her. Silkily, she makes her excuse. She was in the power of Aphrodite-her will was not her own. Menelaus' meat-cleaver hand drops, Helen sashays away, whistling in sultry triumph...
Richard Gere is the American gigolo, a gorgeous man whose labia-lipped half-smile can turn on a hydrant at 40 paces. A prostitute, a hairy, hunky whore, he slinks from bed to bed, selling orgasms by the bushel. Tanned like a sowhide wallet, he hides behind Annie Hall sunglasses and a wardrobe of pertly collared shirts, thin neckties and sharp jackets, always trim, cut, trained. He steps on the balls of his feet, his hips leading his chest, for single older women who want it. He has trained brains, he knows antiques, he has more than Looking Good...
...Days of Heaven and he is now lugging rocks to raves in Bent on Broadway. But his gigolo moves in low gear, too serious if Schrader's attempt was satire, too absurd if the attempt was straight-faced. Michelle's Senator-husband summed it up perfectly: "I know a whore when...