(He was an equal-opportunities punisher: male interns were spanked by a gay male employee).
Mother gives daughter lessons in bulimic vomiting; daughter kills her own baby and is spanked by Grandpa.
After all, her part in the movie -- her first starring role -- is that of a troubled young woman who is tranformed after being spanked by her boss.
In the absence of any gore, the spectacle of Knightley first raving hysterically, then being spanked by Jung in masochistic delight provide the film's abiding images.
Helen (Mikel Sarah Lambert) remembers being spanked by her father when she was growing up well-to-do near Detroit, where she went periodically for shopping sprees.
At the National Board of Review awards, where he later won the Spotlight Prize for ubiquity, Ms Knightley apparently assured him, "Michael, if I had to be spanked by anybody, I'm glad it was you".
Personal Services (1987) lightly fictionalises the story of Cynthia Payne, the real-life madame of a Streatham brothel who hit the headlines in 1987 when police raided her premises and found elderly gentlemen in lingerie being spanked by young prostitutes.
The picture has its juicy, extravagant moments, like a glimpse of a Hasidic Jew (Peter Appel) being spanked by a large, sexually ambiguous prostitute, but mostly it consists of stilted dialogue from the Off Broadway metaphysical school.
I remember Mr. Weidel spanking his children until they screamed (though I wasn't a witness, was I?), but I don't remember being spanked by my parents, and in any case, if I was, it was no more than I deserved.
The pacing of the pilot seemed off, and now I know why: after it aired, I read that Fox had reëdited all the episodes and taken out the naughtiest bits, only hints of which remain in the pilot, in order to avoid being spanked by the Federal Communications Commission — the agency that is currently starring in its own reality series, "Washington Squares".
