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...against the industry's recent agreement to have its stars use condoms. At last month's Video Software Dealers Association convention, held in 115[degree] Las Vegas heat, Black, 25, stands in a black suit with a black sweater, his face multipierced and satanically goateed. His mother, a plump, pleasant-looking nurse from Rochester, N.Y., bursts into the curtained-off adult section of the convention floor toting her favorite actor, Shemar Moore, who plays Malcolm on The Young and the Restless. "I said to him, 'I'm Rob Black's mother. Do you know who he is?'" she squeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...scene: a perfectly pleasant press luncheon at the HBO offices. CHRIS ROCK is holding forth to a room of journalists about his 13 new TV shows--and sex. He says it's always good material. Having effortlessly charmed the room, he takes the last question from Tracii McGregor, an editor at The Source, a hip-hop magazine. She tells Rock that his photo in whiteface in Vanity Fair was jarring to many of her black friends and asks him what was behind it. "I'm a clown. I'm a comedian," Rock says. "Do you want me to be Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...salacious nosiness has been carried to this logical conclusion, there's been a reaction on the side of propriety. Now, this is a society that has had nonstop television confessions for 20 years, people vying to get on and reveal everything they can. With this story, what a pleasant surprise--people are reacting by saying, you know, we really shouldn't be discussing this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost Of It All | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...relatively unique voice. Yet, despite all the goodness of the new album, somehow Soul Asylum has not been able to distinguish itself from other one-hit wonder grunge-y bands; Pirner and the band have been unable to really make their mark because their music is simply so pleasant. Passion-inspiring tunes or raw emotions are nowhere to be found on Candy from a Stranger, but, rather, one will hear a garden variety of songs dealing with the pains of love, teenage angst and the like...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Hit Wonders? | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...instrument was strangely appropriate on Wednesday evening in a casual concert in the Charles Square Courtyard, a pleasant brick area behind the Charles Hotel...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Revelry Accompanied by Trombones | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

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