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Pryor speaks also about the decline in sexual activity that accompanied President Reagan's arrival at the White House, about discovering masturbation at the age of ten--which he rather graphically simulates--and about picking up Playboy bunnies. It is standard Pryor material: offbeat, offensive and riotously funny. It does not scale the heights of his first movie. Richard Pryor in Concert, but it doesn't miss by much. Live on the Sunset Strip is the sort of movie one would want Jerry Falwell. Anita Bryant and perhaps Nancy Reagan to be chained to the front row of the theater...
...FROG-POND SHALLOWNESS of Fairchild's acting ability-her transformation from chaser to chasee hasn't made her act any better-make you feel more like you're flipping through the pages of Playboy than patronizing a theater. When her tormentor finally causes her to break down, she whimpers like a small child would telling his mother that she doesn't love him anymore. And child is the better player of the role...
...sooner had Ed Koch announced that he was going to run for Governor of New York than Playboy magazine hit the stands with an interview as sizzling as any centerfold. The attraction: the New York mayor holding forth on everything from Black Leader Jesse Jackson ("bad news"), his own alleged racism ("b.s."), to cracks about all life outside his city. "Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's wasting your life ... Rural America? This is a joke...
Conducted back in December, the interview instantly reminded people of Jimmy Carter's infamous "adultery in my heart" Playboy quote in 1976. But Koch's comments may well cause greater political embarrassment. "Anyone who suggests I run for Governor," he confided to Playboy, "is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst." Upstate Republicans, who regard Koch as the strongest Democratic candidate, were delighted by his loose talk. Koch was asked if he would like to buy up all copies...
Jock reinforces all our stereotypes of the superrich. Jock was "a playboy for a while and a redoubtable one: the wild oats he sowed were strewn from coast to coast and across an ocean. But he tired of that in due course. He could not abide the second rate--not in horses, not in paintings, not in wines, not in clothes, not in women, not in anything. "For Kahn, greenbacks keep the blueblood circulating...