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The film title Pleasure begs the question, who’s pleasure? Since first-time feature director Ninja Thyberg’s cautionary drama depicts the journey of a newcomer intent on becoming the Los Angeles adult film industry’s top female performer, the pleasure in question self-evidently isn’t hers, but that taken by the hordes of men who’ll watch her being systematically degraded on Pornhub and its ilk.
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All About Eve, American film, released in 1950, that delighted critics with its acid wit and that starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and George Sanders. The movie received six Academy Awards, including that for best picture. The film opens at a theatre awards banquet held by the fictional Sarah Siddons Society. The theatre critic Addison DeWitt (played by Sanders) narrates the scene and introduces the main characters: Karen Richards (Celeste Holm); her husband, playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe); the theatrical producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff); aging star Margo Channing (Davis); and the recipient of the award for best actress, Eve