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Reviving the All-American Hero(ine) Ok, I have to admit it: I got seriously tweaked when I went to see G.I. Jane. I thought I was the all-time lover of irony. The deeper the better. The stranger the apparent contradictions, the greater my glee. I loved Silence of the Lambs because Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins), […]
In the Garden of Tabloid Delight “Sex and Americans: Our recent parade of sexual scandal can best be seen not as a set of moral lessons but as a series of entertainments. Among people accustomed to living in a haze of quasi-pornographic images, who can pretend to be truly shocked that the President of […]
A New Prostitution Musical Comes to Broadway I was just in New York for a week, and while I was there I went to see The Life, the latest in what seems to be a grand tradition of Broadway musicals about street prostitution. I don’t really know all the details about the previous shows […]
Military Monogamy on the Line It is, you might say, the classic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object: The basic urge to be sexual with someone other than your spouse — adultery, to use the Biblical term, or extra-marital sex, speaking therapoclinically — meets the intractable attitudes, the Judeo-Christian harrumph, and […]
Embracing Passion and Obsession: A Crash Course in Kissing Of course I went to see Kissed the first night it came to town. The trailers for the film looked positively compelling, after all, and the issue — the erotic component of death — is pretty compelling in its own right, and deliciously forbidden to […] |
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