Truth hurts
Movie: Big Fat Liar
Unacceptable losses
Movie: Collateral Damage
Dropping the ‘ball
Movie: Rollerball
A simple black-and-white sketch
Movie: Monster’s Ball
Movie: Together
Our Rating: 0.00 Every character in “Together” seems to be either coming apart, coming of age or coming out of the closet. Although the Swedish film’s emotional scenes are starkly real and well acted, there’s just a bit too much going on in the socialist commune the characters share to create a single coherent story.…
Truth hurts
Movie: Big Fat Liar
Unacceptable losses
Movie: Collateral Damage
Dropping the ‘ball
Movie: Rollerball
A simple black-and-white sketch
Movie: Monster’s Ball
Movie: Together
Together Length: 1 hour, 46 minutes Studio: IFC Films Release Date: 2002-02-08 Cast: Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Gustav Hammarsten, Anja Lundkvist, Ola Norell Director: Lukas Moodysson Screenwriter: Lukas Moodysson WorkNameSort: Together Our Rating: 0.00 Every character in “Together” seems to be either coming apart, coming of age or coming out of the closet. Although the…
5 pop stars on their sexual exploits
1. Britney Spears. “I want to wait to have sex until I’m married. I do. I want to wait,” Britney cooed to US Weekly. “But it’s hard.” So’s Justin, surely, but Britney seems increasingly vague about whether or not she is actually riding the chastity fence. “Have we had sex? That’s something that, you know,…
Actual porn flick titles (some taken from movies)
Dawson’s Crack Porn producers are notorious for cribbing pop-culture references, which makes some of their titles so much more entertaining than the serials “Booty Talk 24” or “College Video Virgins 38.” The possible plot here: On a very special episode, Dawson buys cheap lube and gets a bad rash. Red Riding Crop “The better to…
5 steps to Britney becoming a sex slave
1. Catholic school uniforms. Little plaid skirts most often turn up to reveal big Catholic rebellion, and Britney’s locker-hallway video debut, “Baby, One More Time” (with its subtle call to action of “hit me”) flirted with everything short of the headmaster. Back then, though, she was just a potential slut with a corp of Swedish…
10 things men learn about women by watching “Sex and the City”
1. The chat room is always open. Pity the unlucky fellows dating the TV comedy’s four female protagonists — attorney Miranda Hobbes, publicist Samantha Jones, former gallery employee Charlotte York or sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw. Whether it’s the guy with the small dick, the guy who likes to touch his balls, the guy who loves…
10 things women learn about men by watching “The Man Show”
1. Always know where to find his remote control and beer. It’s a truism advanced by Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla, the hosts of Comedy Central’s testosterone-laden favorite — a show described as “an unapologetic look at things men like, do and think” — that you never know when you might be useful to him…
Just say, ‘Oh-no’
One of the most interesting trends in modern sexuality is the “new celibacy” movement. Followers of this utterly platonic philosophy live lives ruled by chastity. Far removed from the pleasures of the flesh, they engage in more wholesome activities, like macramé and Civil War re-enactments. Their personal relationships subsist on a friendly, handshake level: While…
Line dancing
When we told a male friend we planned to test the success of cheesy pickup lines, he laughed out loud. “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard,” he said. “What guy isn’t going to jump all over that?” We found out the answer: Mike. And Carlos. And Paulie. And that drunk guy who genuinely thought…
Marked man
Matt Zane is trying desperately to leave his porno past behind. You can hear the exasperation in his voice. “It’s been hellish trying to get interviews and such to promote this thing,” Zane, 27, says on the phone from his home in L.A. He’s referring to his spoken-word CD, the latest of his adventurous turnarounds.…
Looking’s half the fun
It’s a marvelous trick of marketing, but dirty pictures can be elevated to art status once bound in cloth, covered with a glossy jacket and priced at more than $50. Photo-graphs combining straight and curvy wonders become “marvelous juxtapositions”; otherwise grainy shots are elevated to “surreal explorations.” Strategic placement of such a collection of photos…
Are you fur real?
You’re browsing through the personals section of a newspaper or website. Maybe you’re looking for someone, or maybe you just look because they’re so much fun to read. Anyway, you’re browsing and decoding the initials as you go along: SWF (single white female), BDM N/S (black divorced male, nonsmoker), C TV DD-free (Christian transvestite, drug…
Sex and our city
It used to be that New Orleans, that gaudy, tacky hole in the earth where sin and smut are marketable attractions, was the one community that Central Florida civic and business leaders feared the most. New Orleans — and its famously seedy streets — was cited as one of the justifications for spending millions of…
A star-spangled celebration
For the past few months the American flag has been even more visible than Britney Spears. The terrible events of last fall put us in a patriotic lather that saw the stars and stripes waving from every flag pole and car antenna in town. We suddenly were mindful of our freedom and determined to celebrate…
Stuck in the middle
Police in Fairbanks, Alaska, charged Gail Bergman, 41, with second-degree assault for stabbing her live-in boyfriend in the buttocks with two paring knives during a domestic squabble. Bergman denied it, claiming that the boyfriend actually showed up at the door that night naked with the two knives already stuck in him. According to police, Bergman’s…
Computers don’t just bear apples
If you think the new Luxo-inspired iMac is hip, wait until you see the L’Equip Citrus Juicer. While gated communities and shopping malls now stand where orange groves used to thrive in Orlando, we still have tons of fruit. And one of the coolest ways of enjoying the vitamin C-loaded darlings is to squeeze ’em…
Willy-nilly with Milli
Maybe I’ve had too much to drink already. Here I slouch in the Hard Rock Hotel lobby, gabbing with silky-shirted old ladies about cigarettes and alcohol, when I find myself tapping my toes to Milli Vanilli’s Fabrice Morvan and his acoustic rendition of “Blame it on the Rain” (as well as a less-than-purple butchering of…
The February kiss-off
Once upon a time there were three little girls. One of them hated Valentine’s Day so much she was checking into vacation flights out of the country on Feb. 14 to a place where the air wouldn’t stink with pudgy cherubs and red-foil hearts that reminded her that she was, if temporarily, single. Another of…
Board on the run
Michael Eisner, please bring the Walt Disney Co.’s annual meeting back to Orlando. We promise we’ll behave better than those jerks out in Anaheim did. That’s the message hundreds of Disney’s Florida-based stockholders, such as Tampa resident Michelene Husted, have been trying to get across to the company’s CEO for nearly five years now in…
The sex issue
What better way to start the month than with tips, stories and little known facts about the most talked about topic … Sex! A star-spangled celebration Sex and our city Are you fur real? Looking’s half the fun Marked man Line dancing Just say, ‘Oh-no’ 10 things women learn about men by watching “The Man…
Novel responses
Sept. 11 was less than six months ago, but the shelves of bookshops, discount stores and supermarkets already are full of material on the tragedy of that day. Many of the volumes are “rush-to-market” efforts that exploit both the events and inquiring readers. Photojournalism with minimal text and narratives of “tribute” and “remembrance” are prominent.…
