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"FOREMAN,JEANETTE MARIE" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:21:06 -0700
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There's always "Night Shift," in which two morticians turn the city morgue
into a brothel.

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Daniel I Humphrey wrote:

> While hardly typical, one might want to check out the laughably earnest
> (and strangely dull) Canadian film "Kissed" (Lynne Stopkewich, 1996).  In
> it, a beautiful female necrophiliac becomes a mortician in order to better
> indulge in what is presented as, essentially, her ultimately fulfilling
> lifestyle choice.  (The end credits, where Sarah McLachlan can be heard
> singing "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" as our heroine finally has sex with her
> boyfriends corpse--she wouldnt sleep with him when he was alive so he had
> to kill himself in order to score with her--cracked up the audience at the
> film's US premiere at Sundance.)
>
>         Daniel Isaac Humphrey
>         Department of Art & Art History
>         University of Rochester
>         424 Morey Hall
>         Rochester NY 14627-0456
>         www.rochester.edu/College/AAH/people/grad/humphrey.html
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