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...Candy, a company she started on a whim after mixing pale blue nail polish in her bathroom to match a pair of sandals. Last year's sales: $10 million. This year's projection: $25 million. "Someone asked, 'Why do you make nail polish for young girls with colors called Pimp and Porno?'" she recalls. "I thought, 'O.K. You're taking yourself wa-a-ay too seriously.' Like, pimp is slang for cool. As in 'Oh, my God, that's so pimp!'" Cool, in other words. Competition from such global giants as Chanel and Revlon amuses her. "Their ads are, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY GOAL IS TO EXPAND INTO A CUTTING-EDGE, FULL COSMETICS COMPANY. I WANT TO DOMINATE. | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...become a haven for young gay men who have no other place to go. Earning their living by hustling, leeching off of sugar daddies and working a series of short-lived day jobs, our three main characters form a sort of family under the crass leadership of their pimp, "Chief" Yang Jinhai (Andrew Li '77). The young men offer a study in contrasts: Mild-mannered Wu Min (Vinh Nguyen '91) seeks only love and a home with a blue-tiled bathroom, while hard, flamboyant Little Jade (Kim Liang Tan) has "cherry blossom dreams" of finding a sugar daddy to take...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: 'Crystal Boys' Opens Door on Hidden World, But Moves Slowly | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

...advance copy of Life After Death shows Wallace was developing as a performer, but despite several winning songs, there's still an unhealthy amount of thuggery. A record-industry executive who knew him asks, "Why must artists still pimp the idea that life is an ugly reality? It's time to give people dreams back. [Wallace] had moved on, out of the drug dealing. The images he was conveying were still rooted in the ghetto. He wasn't showing his fans that there is another life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHYME OR REASON? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...ORDER LAST WEEK, a white racist set off a bomb that killed 20 people on a New York City subway train. Tori Spelling, in the CBS movie Co-Ed Call Girl, grabbed a gun and shot a sleazy pimp. Batman (the cartoon character) was almost thrown into a vat of flames by the Penguin. Lemuel Gulliver (the Ted Danson character) battled gigantic bees in the land of Brobdingnag. And Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy slapped around bad guys in the umpteenth cable showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: CHIPS AHOY | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...young Jodie Foster contributes a jarring, Academy Award-winning performance as a young prostitute: one moment she is undoing a belt buckle in businesslike manner, at another she is giggly and talkative while eating a piece of bread slathered in sweetness. Harvey Keitel is the epitome of the slimy pimp--he claimed to have rehearsed with actual specimens. His wimpish bravado and bared arms give him the appearance of an evil ape. With their mindless office banter, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks (playing Betsy's friend in the office) ably demonstrates the fatiguing triviality of the world. Finally, a supporting...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Yeah, We're Still Lookin' at DeNiro | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

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