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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lesbian story lines. Though neither party will divulge the financial details, Mero has agreed to relinquish rights to the name Sable and for the next three years stay out of the ring, where she seems to have few issues with exposure. This week Mero appears on the cover of Playboy, the only woman to do so twice in one year. She is also said to be embarking on a project with Gene Simmons of Kiss and may play female warrior Red Sonja in a television series. That hellcat reputation is hard to shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...soon as most of us became aware of her, Alexandra was answering a flood of questions with "No comment." In addition to those about her father, there is the matter of her mother, a prominent sportswriter who had worked for the New York Times, Playboy and other publications and was a reminder that tennis moms can be a bit overzealous. She has been a dedicated single mother, driving her daughter in an old Volvo station wagon to junior tennis tournaments throughout the U.S. and paying for expensive lessons. She has also publicly acknowledged, since Alexandra was four, that she intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor's Daughter | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...suggestive dialogue). FV stands not for family viewing, as I assumed, but for "fantasy violence." Used with these ratings, the V chip could be helpful to parents who aren't always home when their kids watch TV and don't want them viewing South Park or the Playboy channel. However, not all networks and cable outlets use the ratings. (NBC, for instance, has declined to use the content label.) And programs are rated by their own producers, which is something akin to letting Ally McBeal (TV-14DS) sit on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The V Chip Arrives | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

DIED. ALLAN CARR, 62, movie producer; from liver cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Creator of Playboy Penthouse Television, Carr went on to write such camp movies as 1980's Can't Stop the Music. He produced the movie Grease and the Broadway play La Cage aux Folles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...nuanced arena of professional wrestling, dignity is a relative term. As the World Wrestling Federation's women's champion, a leather-clad SABLE subdued opponents in front of lusty fans and posed for Playboy. But the real-life wife and mother balked at what she claims were the league's requests for her to expose her breasts and participate in lesbian story lines. Sable alleges that her resistance led to her scripted defeat in the ring earlier this month. Now she has sued the WWF for $110 million, saying the sport has become "obscene, titillating, vulgar and unsafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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