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Article: From Stallone to 'Full Monty': Pondering the male phsyique on film.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 28, 1997
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There was an amusing alignment in the movie schedule that saw the near-simultaneous release of ``The Full Monty'' and ``Cop Land.'' Not that the movies are alike; the former is a British working-class comedy about unemployed steel workers making a quick pound by stripping, the latter a modern crime thriller about corrupt cops.
Yet through the theme in the one and the casting in the other, these two movies have something to say about the male physical ideal that pervades Hollywood these days and how it's perceived in less tinseled spheres. Concern, even obsession, about appearance, it seems applies as much to males these days as it does females.
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