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...medium used to be a refuge or a launching pad. As Maitland McDonagh writes in her excellent book Filmmaking on the Fringe, "Direct-to-video movies are made by people who once made--or, in the case of the younger generation, would have made--theatrical features." But that thrill is evaporating. "There's so much crap in the marketplace," complains Greg Brown, a Stanford grad who directed the toniest of the DTV erotomovies (Animal Instincts, Body of Influence) under the name Gregory Hippolyte. And where does he go for artistic challenges? Into porno. "With triple-X," he says...
Just ask disappointed executives of American Pad & Paper, a $275 million maker of office supplies in Dallas that went public earlier this month at an initial price of $15 per share. Investors hoped to make a quick buck on this well-established company. But instead of taking off, the stock sputtered 13 cents higher during its first day of trading before settling back to its opening price. It closed last week at $14 per share...
...house. No hobbies. Her 95-year-old mother is her best friend. She has little interest in cultural events. None in entertaining. "We don't have time to have little dinner parties," she says. Or the space. The Doles still live in the four-room, first-floor bachelor pad at the charm-free Watergate complex that he first moved into after his divorce. Decorating? Mrs. Dole allows that she did it using samples from a book...
...these shows attempt to combine music-video artiness (think jumpy film-to-video cuts) with a veneer of semiupscale erotic swank (think Bob Guccione's bachelor pad). You can tell they offer a somewhat better grade of porn than the local adult video store because they don't star actors named Long or Chesty; instead they feature respectable, if not always heavily-employed, talents like Emily Lloyd and Julian Sands, who played the aforementioned George. Red Shoe Diaries is narrated by X-Files star David Duchovny, who has hosted the series since it first aired, pre-X-Files, four years...
...became possible for any fellow, no matter how domestically challenged, to get out of the house on his own. And they have, in droves. The age of first marriage for men has shot up to almost 27, and after divorce it is the man who gets the bachelor pad and the woman who gets the playpen and potty seat. More than at any other time in the past 25 years, men are living in a state of radical disconnection from the women-and-children part of the human race...