Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chilling effect this could have on Internet communications is widespread, and the focus on indecency affects more than just the Playboy Web site. Images of classical works of art like Michelangelo's "David" or Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" might no longer be available over the Internet, since the nudity displayed in the pieces would technically be indecent...
...instantly successful editorial voice that encouraged her single readers to pursue sex as freely and doggedly as men, at the same time instructing them in the more traditional, and more consuming, art of husband trapping. I made the mistake of thinking the Cosmo Girl, like the Man Who Reads Playboy, was something of an anachronism--until I saw Waiting to Exhale and its cast of supposedly independent women defined by their ability to hook, or not hook, a man. The audience loved it. Brown's vision will endure...
...campaign. The first concerns web browsers, such as Netscape. These providers could block access to pages they deemed violent or racist. As private companies, they could offer services to the public that simply excluded certain options. This would be akin to a cable company's refusing to offer the Playboy channel as part of its package...
...life. Shandling's former girlfriend LINDA DOUCETT is suing the comedian for sexual harassment, claiming she was fired from the show after she broke up with its star last year. The couple lived together for six years, but some reports suggest it was Shandling who split from the former Playboy model. "Mr. Shandling is deeply saddened by these outrageous and false charges," said a spokesman. "Ms. Doucett's attempts to exploit and invent this matter will be dealt with through the appropriate legal channels." And, one hopes, on the show...
...Later and, before that, the E! channel's Talk Soup, swipes his scenes from Hollywood belle du jour Julia Ormond and nearly matches Harrison Ford for easy radiance. In his first major film role, Kinnear seems comfy-cozy on the big screen, humanizing a character--Ford's playboy brother--who could easily be a thin, tennis-anyone anachronism. "He has a lot of charm," says Sydney Pollack, who first sought Tom Cruise for the role. "You like him immediately." No wonder: the play of emotions in Kinnear's eyes is subtle, suggestive; he makes contact enough to break a girlish...