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...last few years, critics have begun to dismiss many of the prurient and personally vindictive accusations that plagued Lang. Colin McArthur’s book on The Big Heat, Tom Gunning’s new book on Lang and a recent retrospective of Lang’s work at England’s National Film Institute, are just a few examples of his rehabilitation. Harvard is also doing its part to give Lang the credit that he deserves with this new film series at the HFA, with the assistance of the Goethe Institut Boston. I highly recommend that everyone...
...kind of I Know Who You Did Last Summer whose real subjects are competition (with other guys) and humiliation (by women). AmPie 2 also has little redeeming priapic interest: on a warm June day, two college kids have sex--under the covers! When push comes to love, even prurient U.S. filmmakers turn into Puritans...
...knew that people were fascinated by the story in the slightly prurient way that we all can't help but look at the slow-motion video of a car crash. And, yes, I knew that as an editor I could fashion some journalistic angle that would justify dwelling on the morbid tick-tock of the killings. We could look at post-partum depression or why she "snapped", or the role of the father or her doctor or any number of possible explanations...
...Chandra Levy was - I mean, is- not a child, but a 24-year-old woman: her parents' child in any case. They must bear the added mystery of her relationship (whatever that was) with the Congressman - a smear of prurient Washington intern-scandal. Evil, which can be so crummy and ordinary, always enjoys a tabloid touch. If it were not for the business about the Congressman, Gary Condit of California - made more titillating by his evasiveness - Chandra would have disappeared from the newspapers almost as abruptly as she vanished from her Washington apartment...
...Museveni's ex-physician and former comrade-in-arms. He has nothing of Museveni's charisma. But he does happen to have a very interesting woman at his side-his wife of 2 1/2 years, Winnie. She has charisma to spare. Once even Museveni thought so. The pertinent and prurient detail here is that when Museveni became President in 1986, Winnie moved into the State House with him, though Museveni was already married. The following year, however, Museveni decided he wanted to accommodate their relationship by keeping Winnie as wife No. 2, leaving the No. 1--and the legal--spot...