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“Uptown Tarts Were Never So Sweet!”
Candy magnate Herschel Savage finds himself in the middle of a whole lot of dirty dealings in this raucous romp. Savage plays the owner of a chocolate company, but lately he's been running up against more than his fair share of problems. His wife Lois Ayres is trying to seduce their own son, his ex-wife is financing a rival chocolate company with his alimony payments, and he's finding himself increasingly attracted to Nina Hartley, the daughter of the rival chocolatier. As if that weren't enough to give a candyman a headache, now it seems that the rival Harlem Candy Company has introduced an aphrodisiac element into their chocolates, making them even more in demand throughout the city.
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Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.
