Word: goldman
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...frantic beat of the electro-media. In Skin's world, come-ons for sex chat compete for TV time with pictures of abducted girls on Amber Alerts. In Skin's world, D.A. Thomas Roam (Kevin Anderson) runs his re-election campaign on an antismut crusade, while his target, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), quips, "If the voters are so much against porn, why do I live in a 52,000-sq.-ft. mansion?" (And both men are powerless to control the hormones of their children, who meet and fall in love.) In Skin's world, a generation that grew up taking...
...aluminum industry?) But porn is definitely Big Business--estimated at $10 billion a year--and as Skin emphasizes, much of that goes into the coffers of blue-chip hotel chains, media companies and cable operators (such as Time Warner, the parent company of TIME). In the pilot, Goldman's company negotiates a partnership with DirecTV--the satellite service that, in real life, Fox's parent company, News Corp., has struck a deal to control. "Certainly," says Leonard dryly, "[Fox] asked us to change the name of the company" in the version that will...
...really no more risque than several new fall shows--NBC's Coupling and Las Vegas, say--and less so than basic-cable fare like FX's Nip/Tuck. If anything, it may whitewash porn by showing only its most telegenic, soft-core side. The big risk Skin takes is with Goldman, who makes a surprisingly appealing flesh peddler. You could mistake him for the respectable entertainment mogul that he believes he is. Like Satan in Paradise Lost, he's the devil who gets all the best lines--he's wry and perceptive, with a bloodhound's nose for other people...
...Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and went to porn sets (strictly in the interest of craft!) to chat up starlets. "They have a term for everything," he marvels. "They're talking about D.P.s, and I'm nodding knowingly. It turns out that it means 'double penetration.'" Silver says he considers Goldman a "compartmentalizer." "Nobody wants to think of themselves as a bad person," he says. "He has elaborate rationalizations...
TIME'S JYOTI THOTTAM asked our Board of Economists to sort it out. The panel includes Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute; Gary Burtless, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Veronique de Rugy, fiscal-policy analyst at Cato Institute; Edward McKelvey, senior economist at Goldman Sachs; and David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor...