Sliver and Sharon Stone as Superstar (Erotic 90’s, Part 12)
Sharon Stone and Joe Eszterhas’s post-Basic Instinct reunion film was one of the most troubled productions of the 90s. A post-Hitchcock tale of sexual surveillance given a technological update for the...
13 Juni 20231h 16min
Indecent Proposal (Erotic 90’s, Part 11)
Are men okay? Several films from 1993 answered that question with a resounding no. One of the highest grossing movies of its year, Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal was misunderstood as a gimmick, and i...
6 Juni 20231h 26min
Sex, Erotica and Body of Evidence (Erotic 90’s, Part 10)
In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the minds of some, squandered – her star capital to launch a multi-media exploration of sexuality: the album Erot...
30 Maj 20231h 24min
Red Shoe Diaries and sex on TV in the 90s. (Erotic 90’s, Part 9)
While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening up new possibilities for erotic content. Today we will offer a br...
23 Maj 20231h 5min
90s Lolitas, volume 1: Drew Barrymore, Amy Fisher and Alicia Silverstone (Erotic 90’s, Part 8)
Culture in the 90s was obsessed with the sex lives of teenagers. This is a theme we will come back to several times throughout the season. In this episode, we’ll talk about Drew Barrymore, who became ...
16 Maj 20231h 23min
Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle and Damage (Erotic 90’s, Part 7)
In the early 90s, one of the biggest scripted shows on TV was Murphy Brown, starring 40-something Candice Bergen as a product of the 60s whose high-powered career precluded marriage and family. When t...
9 Maj 20231h 22min
Basic Instinct (Erotic 90’s, Part 6)
One of the biggest hits of 1992, Basic Instinct was sold as Michael Douglas’s return to Fatal Attraction territory, but its success owed to an alchemy of three other creatives: a writer (Joe Eszterhas...
2 Maj 20231h 23min
The Blanks From Hell: Fatal Attraction’s Children (Erotic 90’s, Part 5)
In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes and workplaces invaded and threatened by sexy outsiders. Today we’ll talk about...
25 Apr 20231h 8min
