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...Thunder T he liveliest show in London this Friday will be the annual shareholders meeting staged by Rupert Murdoch's pay-TV powerhouse BSkyB. The curtain rises 11 days after the global mogul installed his 30-year-old son James, pictured, as chief executive. Dad's News Corporation is BSkyB's largest shareholder, so giving the kid a job was easy, but it infuriated financial groups that own the rest of BSkyB's stock. Some are worried James will funnel cash to pop's firm rather than pay dividends. Iain Richards of Morley Fund Management told TIME he is "dismayed...
Andy Warhol’s mammoth media mogul ambitions led to a brief stint as a movie producer. True to its ’70s era setting, Dracula (Kier) is having trouble finding virgin blood, because everybody’s enjoying free love. He decides to move to Italy, because with their hardcore Catholicism, Italians must keep themselves virgins until marriage. He’s also promised five nubile young Italian beauties by their pimptastic mother. The mother and Dracula, however, hadn’t counted on the chiseled good looks of Mario Balato (Joe Dallesandro), the family?...
...first network series about a porn czar, that it involves a steamy teen romance and that its title is, well, Skin. According to creator Jim Leonard, the drama--the story of a Los Angeles district attorney's crusade to take down an adult-film mogul and their kids' star-crossed love--is not about sex. It's about politics, anxiety and money...
...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's hypocrisies...
...course, Rush apologists have already mobilized to defend the quick-to-condemn mogul who once ironically, or perhaps prophetically, charged: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use,” society should “send them up the river.” Even our own Harvard Salient—yet another bastion of morality—published an article in which the author cried that “enough is enough,” and invoked the generic plea that “because of his unwavering conservative stances, it seems the media cannot...