Pretty boys: they were the alternatives to hip-grinding Elvis and swaggering Brando: male sex symbols you could bring home to mom

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Troy Donahue and Perry Como were marketed as safe alternatives to the glowering sexuality beginning to threaten American popular culture in the 1950s and early 1960s. Como was bland but professional, and respected by the peers who nevertheless tweaked his spotless image. Donahue never tried to move beyond the facade of his image.

Obituary, Marketing, Cover Story, Actors, Singers, Sexual attraction, Como, Perry, Donahue, Troy

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As a Jew

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A non-practicing Jew describes recent events that have made reconsider his heritage: the bar mitzvah of his son, the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Personal narratives, Jews, Jewish identity, Jews, American, American Jews

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Clintonian cinema

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The popular films 'Unforgiven,' 'A Few Good Men' and 'The Crying Game' portray the current antiwar and antimachismo mood of the US. The pacifist has become more of an ideal than the military hero.

Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures, Movies, Unforgiven (Motion picture), The Crying Game (Motion picture), A Few Good Men (Motion picture)

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