Eyes Wide Shut, Part 2, and the Sexiest Man Alive in 1999 (Erotic 90s, Part 21)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its quality, and the use of digital effects to evade an NC-17 rating. Where could Hollywood eroticism go from here? We’ll wrap up the Erotic 90s story with some thoughts on Richard Gere’s two-decade journey from American Gigolo to becoming PEOPLE Magazine’s 1999 “Sexiest Man Alive,” and other ways in which time and politics combined to make that which was once transgressive harmlessly mainstream. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:10.0	Go to Patreon.com slash Karina Long longworth or open you must remember this on
0:15.3	Apple Podcasts to learn more You must be a kiss just keep.
0:25.0	A kiss just a kid.
0:29.0	A friend.
0:30.0	A friend was a girl. I was okay. Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to
0:52.3	exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of
0:56.8	Hollywood's first century. I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is the final installment of our ongoing series
1:07.4	erotic 90s. I am too sexy for my life.
1:14.0	You sexy for my love.
1:16.0	Really?
1:17.0	Sex David, just sex, not love, just sex.
1:20.0	And sex just isn't cool without condom for protection.
1:23.0	You're a hooker.
1:25.0	He talked about pornographic material.
1:28.0	He gave me a lot of pleasure.
1:33.0	So we can show the sex act all over the place.
1:38.0	Sex in the 90.
1:41.0	I have seen one or two things in my life but never never anything like this.
1:47.0	Today we're going to complete the story of Eyes Wide Shut and transition from the
1:59.3	fallout of that film's release in the summer of 1999 to examining what else was going on in
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