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John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon examines the English painter's long affair with a petty thief and his need to be the submissive partner in sadomasochistic sex. The film is broken into shards of images like shrapnel: coupled male bodies mime the exertions of Greco-Roman wrestling; Francis bends over for a whipping, or to be tattooed with a hot cigarette. Which makes the film both exquisitely observed and tough to watch...
...Clinton's practiced reticence was one thing that worked against him -- two-thirds of those polled said he should have come forward earlier. But his long-time love affair with the camera, at least, is still intact: People were 10 percent more likely to believe the President's account if they watched it on television. So that makes two Kennedyesque traits Clinton has inherited...
...help explain his earlier claims of innocence. Even if he said he did it to spare his family, the support he enjoys among a majority of Americans would sink like a stone. It's one thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...
This story, from the Terry McMillan novel that McMillan based on her own affair with a young Jamaican, is the sort of surefire bathos that Hollywood has long loved to dip into; Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson made it float in the 1955 All That Heaven Allows. Stella, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, isn't in that league. With its diffuse lighting and teary sex scenes (the camera can't take its eye off Diggs' extravagant muscularity), the film qualifies as soft-pore cornography. But, heck, Bette Davis spent half her career ennobling similar kitsch. Like Davis and other strong...
...limited. If he continues to deny a relationship with Monica Lewinsky in front of the grand jury Monday, Starr has an armory of evidence that suggests otherwise. Now senior advisers are floating the possiblity that Clinton will admit to sex with Monica without contradicting his previous denial of the affair -- because the definition of sex he was shown in the Paula Jones case was incomplete. This legal loophole, says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Jef McAlister, "presents Clinton with a potential 'get out of jail free' card...