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...exactly grand larceny. LaToya Jackson could steal the show from 'N Sync. Jackson, ever the canny businessman, didn't really sing during his performance with the boys, he just did a few moves to whet the appetite. If you want to hear him sing, you have to plunk down your cash and see him at Madison Square Garden on September 7 and 10. Some seats are going for around $2,500. Now, I like Michael Jackson. I'll be the first person in line to buy his album, "Invincible," when it comes out on October. Well, maybe the second, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses | 9/7/2001 | See Source »

...military establishment knew it couldn't plunk a herd of young men down in a foreign locale and expect them to act like saints. Yasutaka Oshiro, a sociology professor at Okinawa International University, has researched the history of the entertainment districts around the U.S. bases. "The zones were created by U.S. officials following World War II to counter the problem of U.S. troops raping local women with abandon," he explains. Poor unmarried local girls were corralled into prostitution. The sex market in a town called Koza outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base roared during the Vietnam War, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex And Race In Okinawa | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...military establishment knew it couldn't plunk a herd of young men in a foreign locale and expect them to act like saints. Yasutaka Oshiro, a sociology professor at Okinawa International University, has researched the history of the entertainment districts around the U.S. bases. "The zones were created by U.S. officials following World War II," he says, "to counter the problem of U.S. troops raping local women with abandon." Poor, unmarried local girls were corralled into prostitution. The sex market in a town called Koza outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base roared during the Vietnam War, when thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Okinawa Nights | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, owned by mainstream behemoth DC (owned by AOL Time Warner, the same parent company as this website.) Would there be a price to pay for playing with the big, bad money? Sure enough, a whiff of sulfur may fill your nostrils as you plunk down your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much for Those Comix? | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

Nobody has picked up any of my quotes yet. In fact I'm having a hard time getting the studios to plunk down $50,000 for the newspaper. But no one on my staff is doing it for the money. Like Gene Shalit and Joel Siegel before us, we just get a big kick out of seeing our names in the paper. That's what drives people like us into this business. That and the free popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Column Ever!!! --James Kelly | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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