Word: harlequins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...
Allusion aside, it must be noted that Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii bears absolutely no resemblance to Sartre's dark existential classic about overcrowding. What we really have here is a better-than-average sex farce about a geology teacher (Tom Hughes) who brings home a Harlequin romance hack named Vivien Bliss (Lynda Cohen) for a weekend tryst...
...wonder literature, broadly conceived to include even Harlequin novels replete with cover couples in various modes of disrobing, so obsessed with the glamour of the most exclusive gaming tables, never pauses to take in the amours of the teacher on the 3 day 2 night junket playing the dollar slot machines Boring...
...another tale of the beach, the book-loving Amadeo drags some vacation reading to a beautiful, solitary cape and espies a beautiful, solitary sunbather, beginning "The Adventure of the Reader." The summertime pas de deus between the two would be a textbook Harlequin romance, except Amadeo is reading a different book, one more interesting than the pedestrian sexual encounter that his beach mate wants to create with...
...more than 1.1 million Americans go behind scenes like that each day. USA Today is a success. But so are Harlequin romances and fad diet books and they don't claim to be the country's first and only national paper...