Word: hustlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People make noises about "Victorian morality" as a synonym for all those repressive forces that denied humanity its natural evolution toward Hustler magazine and Laurel Canyon group-gropes, but Victorian culture is still somewhat enigmatic. Nowhere is this truer than in painting. Modernism, the art of the past hundred years, defined itself in opposition to 19th century "bourgeois" painting: the art of the Salon in France, of the Royal Academy in England. Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse were everything that Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edward John Poynter and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema were not and could not be. There...
...rates. Consumer prices have nearly doubled in the past decade, but the average payments for major articles (roughly 3,000 words) by the ten largest-circulation magazines have risen by only onefourth. A few markets have become more lucrative: the skin magazines ($2,250 for Playboy, $1,200 for Hustler) and some city and regional magazines ($1,000 at New West, $1,100 at Texas Monthly). But other magazines have not raised rates at all: Washington Monthly has been paying writers the same 100 a word for the past eight years; previously, it paid 130. Holiday's average...
Some of the flavor missing in the script is captured by Tim McIntire's crafty performance in the starring role. Chainsmoking Luckies and always looking in four directions at once, McIntire's Freed is a classic show-biz hustler. The film's best scenes show him at his office dickering with the fast-talking agents who assaulted him day and night. McIntire listens to auditioning singers for only a few bars before turning thumbs up or down, and he exercises his power with sleazy theatrical relish. Unfortunately, even McIntire cannot fill in the movie's most...
Larry Flynt, the owner of Hustler magazine, was the last defense witness at yet another of his trials for distributing pornography. "Hustler is a satire," he explained on the witness stand last week...
...escape the poverty of his sharecropper family, he has led an aggressive life. He quit school in the eighth grade, entered the Army at 14, worked nights at a General Motors assembly plant, whizzed through two marriages, two divorces and a bankruptcy by age 21 and finally opened eight "Hustler" go-go bars around Ohio. He started Hustler, the most vulgar of the leading sex magazines, as a newsletter for his bars, and pushed it in four years to a circulation of almost 2 million, with a profit last year of some $13 million. In recent months he branched...