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...ingredients: the loser who might look vaguely attractive if he got a haircut and an Urban Outfitters gift certificate, his nerdier, uglier friends and the gorgeous blond that saves them from an eternity in A/V club purgatory. But in this particular film, that life-saving blond is an ex-porn star...
...that James Traub tells in The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square (Random House; 313 pages). It's a shrewd and rollicking account of a place that rose to glory as a playground for all classes, skidded into a chaos of drugs and porn, and has come back as a family fun center. Traub has a high time flying us through the Square's gamy saga, from the chorus-girl revues of a century ago to the corporate wheeler dealings that replaced peep shows with The Lion King and the world's largest Toys...
...delicate social ecology couldn't last. Broadway declined. Hard drugs arose. Damon Runyon's Times Square became Ratso Rizzo's. In the 1970s, 42nd Street was overrun with porn shops, junkies and bus-station hustlers. Traub adroitly explains how a combination of municipal power and rising real estate values succeeded in driving out the rot. In a new world of tall towers and chain stores, the Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just...
...Rape fantasies” and a nude “photo essay” are on the table for the forthcoming issue of H Bomb—but not porn, as the magazine’s founders have made painstakingly clear. Whew—I’m glad we’re not allowing smut into our ivied halls...
Call H Bomb what you will—I’ll call it porn until I see it and am convinced otherwise—but as of Sunday, the publication is $2,000 richer thanks to the Undergraduate Council’s decision to award the magazine the second-largest grant this year. Just for perspective, the average council grant last year, the Independent reported...