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...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...
What works best about Skin is that it doesn't let you accept or reject those rationalizations easily. This is a smart show with a lot of visual pop, and the Roam-Goldman, ego-id dichotomy is especially intriguing. (Roam represents how America votes at the ballot box; Goldman, how we vote with our wallets.) But the first two episodes are too dour and somber, especially when Silver is not onscreen. Perhaps because the producers want to avoid glamorizing porn with too light a tone, Skin is so high-mindedly determined to depict porn as a scourge...
WORLD BRIEFING A5 Euro paybacks; Goldman's golf deal; cell-phone shuffle; Toyota plays...