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...quintessential dirty old man, Joe Esterhas, who also was responsible for the early-'80's hit "Flashdance." That movie was just as badly written as Esterhas' later work and has an equally offensive storyline (about an eighteen-year-old woman who is a welder by day, sexy nightclub dancer by night), but has something which most movies do not: Jennifer Beals. In the nineties, Esterhas' biggest movies ("Basic Instinct" and the recent "Showgirls") have recieved a great deal of publicity as being terribly offensive and demeaning to women. The truth is, they aren't really all that offensive, they...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: JADE | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

City Step, Executive Director; South Asian Association, cultural show committee, choreographer, dancer; HRDC and Mather House Drama Society; Let's Go Publishing, editor and researcher writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1996 CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD & RADCLIFFE CLASS MARSHALS | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...never lets plausible characters stand in the way of information; not much of a novelist but a hell of an educator. On the other hand, scientists have been known to say he saws the limb off behind him; no hotshot in the lab but a hell of a tap dancer with a word processor. Crichton is used to the charges. "Feeling conflicted, different, has been a fact of my life," Crichton told the Los Angeles Times. "Someone once compared me to a bat. 'Put a bat among birds,' he said, 'and they call it a mammal. Put it among mammals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEET MISTER WIZARD | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Nomi dreams of becoming a professional dancer but has to settle for stripping and doing lap dances at the seedy Cheetah club in order to make ends meet. Still, she entertains loftier ambitions: namely starring in "Goddess," a cheesy S & M revue at the Stardust...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Divas Las Vegas | 9/21/1995 | See Source »

DIED. DOROTHY MCHUGH, 87, whose career included a stint as a Ziegfeld Follies dancer before reaching its pop-culture apotheosis with the instantly camp cry of "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" in a TV spot for an emergency-alert system; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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