It’s gotta be a great gig. Sure, there’s a lot of garbage you have to sit through, but who gets to write sentences like this? In the NYTimes, no less! Here’s from Manohla Dargis’s review today of Sharon Stone’s “Basic Instinct” sequel (which sounds like it ought to be called “Basic Instinker”:

“The conceit of a beautiful woman who kills her lovers by lethally jabbing them with an ice pick helped turn ‘Basic Instinct’ into a hot-button success (no panties helped). At once seductively female and fatally male, an outsize vagina dentata and a freakily phallic woman, the original Catherine was an elaboration on the sex-equals-death fantasy spun the previous decade in ‘Fatal Attraction.’”