Mel's Payback
Check out this week's Film & TV section for three very different reviews of "Payback."

Let the Naked Games Begin!
Tucson's first-ever sex survey turns some serious heads...and stomachs. Get all the gory details.
Jim Nintzel and Jennifer Hard

Mel's Payback
Check out this week's Film & TV section for three very different reviews of "Payback."

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The Reason for the Season
Most men realize that buying chocolate doesn't provide them eternal happiness -- it only provides that their significant other will allow them to live past the holiday.
Anna Hanks

Rushmore Mania
This week it's "Rushmore, Rushmore, Rushmore" in our film section. We've got three reviews of the original new film as well as two interviews with its director.

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Volume II, Issue 34 February 15 - February 22, 1999

	News & Opinion
	Sex is the thing in this week's News & Opinion section. Are you a breast man (or woman, for that matter) or is the posterior the thing? Compare, contrast, and delight in the joys of disclosure from Tucson Weekly's first ever sex survey. Plus more. News & Opinion contents page

Film & TV

Mel Gibson is plugging his enemies full of holes in his latest film "Payback." James DiGiovanna gives the film its dues for being campy and clichéd to the point of hilarity, while Debbie Gilbert doesn't find the movie particularly enjoyable. Chicago Newcity's Ray Pride chats with Mel Gibson about the film's style and substance. This week in Film & TV Blast From the Past (1) Blast From the Past (2) Central Station (1) Central Station (2) Hilary and Jackie Like It Is My Favorite Martian Message in a Bottle Payback (1) Payback (2) Payback (3) Payback (4) Simply Irresistible PLUS Teen Films Rushmore interview TV viewing (1) TV viewing (2) New video releases Sundance Film Festival and more... Film & TV contents page Visit the Film Vault for thousands of reviews

Music

The music business has always tried to duck the "business" half of its existence in favor of the more noble "in this for the art" philosophy. Nashville Scene offers us a look at what happens when the bean counters come home to roost in Industry Shrinkage. This week in Music Roy Hargrove Sam Prekop Richard Thompson PLUS Porn rock Music Biz (1) Music Biz (2) Music Biz (3) Music Biz (4) Music Biz (5) and more... Music contents page

	Arts & Leisure
	Wrestlemania Me, Me, Me! Down to the Islands Year of the Rabbit and more... Arts & Leisure contents page

	Books
	The glamorous world of book binding, plus a review of a book on the subject. Also up this week, a look back at some of the history of smut. Reviews include Dan Vinik's "Blue Paige," "The Story of O," Isabelle Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses," "Elegy for Iris" by John Bayley, and a couple of looks at influential politician Barbara Jordan, plus more. Books contents page

	Comics
	Come down from your Staggering Heights and get to the Red Meat of the matter with this swell set of cartoons that also includes Mueller, Eye of the Beholder, K. Rat and Random Shots. Comics contents page Visit the official Red Meat site

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