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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even among hard-core pornographers, Rob Black is considered a sleazebag. His movies are packed with images that the porn industry itself has long censored (rape, drug use, hitting women with dead fish), and he gleefully rebels against the industry's recent agreement to have its stars use condoms. At last month's Video Software Dealers Association convention, held in 115[degree] Las Vegas heat, Black, 25, stands in a black suit with a black sweater, his face multipierced and satanically goateed. His mother, a plump, pleasant-looking nurse from Rochester, N.Y., bursts into the curtained-off adult section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

Although emotional mother-son scenes are still rare in the porn industry, the conflation of mainstream entertainment and hard-core films is not. As porn-video rentals and sales have steadily grown into a $4.2 billion-a-year business (nearly 14% of all video transactions and more than a quarter of the home-video industry's revenue), the mainstream media have started to cash in on the growing celebrity of hard-core performers. Howard Stern, Jerry Springer and the E! channel regularly feature porn stars as guests on their TV shows, while film directors like Spike Lee and John Frankenheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...selling them to the Playboy Channel, the Spice Channel, Spectravision systems in hotel rooms, and foreign television. With Playboy, Vivid co-owns AdulTVision, an adult-movie channel available on many cable systems. And Vivid is negotiating with Playboy to buy Hot Spice, a new hard-core cable channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...lucidity and is so attentive and engaging a figure that he could hold us just by describing his drives around town. At times he does just that, interspersing accounts of Wimbledon games from 1975 with tales of his medical rounds and glimpses of his marital breakup. But at its core his is a brave and heart-baring story about how even a teacher of internal medicine could not see inside the person closest to him. The fact that it will speak to anyone who has looked with his heart instead of his eyes (just as Gunesekera's novel will appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy and Affirmation | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...shanter mischievously tickles his ear with a grass stalk--is an allegory of the delusive promises made by abolitionists to slaves. Or it may not; little is known about Mount's racial views. It is clear, though, that the life of children--mainly small boys--was his core image of America, and that it provided the subject for many of his best paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Down-Home Populist | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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