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...mink eyes" on the cover of Elle. She bridges the gap between the white employers and her aunt and uncle, but the only mystical images which this gap produces are stereotypes. The other native women who periodically work for the Streets watch Jadine closely. They call her "fast-ass": she calls them all Mary because "all the baptized black women on the island had Mary among their names." Jadine is young, beautiful, talented but orphaned; she has lost her sense of past. Her traditions died with her mother, and those Black people who dwell comfortably in legend do not trust...
...People, is the odds-on favorite in the Oscar sweepstakes, asserts that the industry's "obsession with demographics has produced mass-market films-and people finally get used to what they're fed." Universal's Tanen, 49, sees today's audience as "young, cynical, smart-ass and jaded." Paramount's Barry Diller, 39, who has the longest tenure of any current top studio boss (six years), shrugs and says, "We are in a relatively uninteresting period. It goes in cycles...
...missing since March 3, was added to the list. Atlanta has a worsening problem in other crimes as well. The city's black police chief, George Napper, who has a Ph.D. in criminology, sees his job in grim cartoon-like terms. Says he: "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your purpose is draining the swamp...
Pantuzzi: He's been kissing ass so long, he wipes his nose with toilet paper...
...repetitive emphasis on the double entendre and its series of short stories, Sunday Lovers rips off the strategy of "Love American Style," an early 70s television show, which succeeded where this film fails. "Love American Style" managed to stimulate interest without pornographic sex or the recurrent tits-and-ass motif which dominates television today and which the writers of Sunday Lovers invoke as a last resort to save their movie...