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...Joke. One Soviet official made light of Carter's human rights talk, jokingly threatening that "the Foreign Ministry in Moscow may start issuing statements in defense of Larry Flynt [the Hustler publisher; see THE PRESS] as a victim of repression and harassment." Trouble is, to most Americans direct repression is no joke. In the end, as usual among superpowers, each side will probably work in a hardheaded fashion to further its own basic interests. If both sides see advantages in a new arms agreement, the clashing rhetoric on human rights is not likely to stand in the way-provided...
Leis last week bagged another saboteur of Cincinnati morals: Larry Flynt, 34, the brassy publisher of Hustler, a three-year-old entry in the crowded skin-magazine business. It happened after a five-week trial, in which lawyers debated the aesthetic qualities of pinup photos, medical and literary experts lectured the jury on the fine points of bestiality and oral sex, and Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) quietly took notes for his next novel. Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years in prison and fined $11,000. His crimes: the misdemeanor of pandering obscenity and the felony of "engaging...
...seemed to have everything going for him. Playing a wisecracking Chicano hustler in an East Los Angeles garage, he starred in NBC's three-year-old hit series Chico and the Man. He had just signed a multiyear $1 million contract with Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. He was negotiating film deals with Warner's and Universal. He had filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show; more such appearances were in the works. And at the age of 22, he attained one of the highest status roles in show business when he performed for the incoming...
...collection of over 100 pictures of Marilyn Monroe by 24 top photographers, with text by Norman Mailer, and the movie The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Nonetheless, he wants to be considered as "an investigative journalist and not a wheeler-dealer or an entrepreneur or even a hardened hustler...
Though Stallone is no boxer, the film is clearly autobiographical. "Rocky is me," he says, "but he's more gallant and simple than I am." Like his hero, Stallone is a raffish charmer and hustler. He used to be an usher at a Walter Reade theater in Manhattan, but was fired fo trying to scalp a ticket for $20 to a customer who turned out to be Walter Reade. Later he lived on bootlegged Walter Reade passes, which he made Xerox copies of and sold to students...