Word: porn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film society is "in the hole for a lot of money," he said. The only way out seem to be a porn flick...
Lifting the incest taboo is consistent with the new emphasis on child sex-symbol movie stars and child porn filling "adult" bookstores. I believe the trend is related to the concept of sex as an allegory for power...
...save-the-palaces movement burgeoned too late to spare some of the great houses, notably Manhattan's Roxy, the Orpheums of Seattle and Portland, Ore., and the Paradise (lost) of Chicago. Many that still exist have become porn houses. Others were stripped and chopped into two, three or even four cinemas. Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the grande dame of U.S. movie palaces, only narrowly survived last year. Nor do all those that remain cater to the arts. Chicago's old Century Theater metamorphosed into a multilevel shopping center. The old Loew's Valencia...
GIGOLO could have been an orchestrated rock-teasing paean to American sexuality of barely sublimated desire, bulging jeans and watery eyes, sex sans porn, pulse without flesh, a lean, lacquered look at the demons of the California Dream. Instead, Schrader concocted a laughable montage of silly sequences, an absurd plot and bad lines that reaches climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder...