Remember When Movies Were Sexy?

Karina Longworth will never forget the first time she saw Pretty Woman. Her parents had gotten into an argument; in an act of retribution, Longworth’s mother took her 10-year-old daughter to see the romantic blockbuster starring Julia Roberts as a sex worker who gets swept up by a high-powered businessman played by Richard Gere. “It was a bad moment in their marriage and a great night for me,” Longworth says in a phone interview. The film was an awakening, opening her eyes up to the magic of Gere in all his suave, silver-haired glory. That awakening plays a key role… Read Full Article