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...Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington in 1994. A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out--and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage...
...Part in-joke, part social satire and part quickie porno novel, "Candy" is pure Southern. The protagonist, Candy Christian, is one of his finest creations: an update of Voltaire's Candide, this middle-American college girl offers "charity" to every man she meets. Though written in the third person, the leering narration synchs up with the mock-erotic dialogue spoken by the characters: Candy's womanhood is described with phrases like "honey-pot," "jelly box," and "sweetening damp"; her breasts are "pert and inquisitive," and she beseeches a homeless hunchback, to whom she is being charitable, "Hurt me as they...
...Here and there Cannes hosted films of graphic sexuality: not just The Piano Teacher (with occasional glimpses of porno movies) but The Pornographer, Bertrand Bonello's study of a director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who was once the king of hard-core; now he comes out of retirement, only to find that the rules have changed. The film includes some porno footage that, as aspiring actresses used to say, is absolutely essential to the plot. And it is, for it shows that the subtleties our veteran director insists on have no place in the wham-bam-merci-madame demimonde...
...also still pushing the variety show-sitcom Meet the Muckles, which he wrote in the late '80s and spent three years trying to make. Reubens' perfectionism, which led to spiraling costs, along with supportive NBC programming chief Warren Littlefield's firing, scrapped the project. Getting caught at a Sarasota porno palace probably didn't help...
...features essays related to that theme, and includes an essay on neototalitarianism, an account of an attempt to “save” a waitress from the machine of oppression that is Hooters restaurant, a manifesto for a new way to approach cultural criticism (entitled “Porno for Philos”), and reviews of books and records in a biting and insightful style that can only be found in the pages of a journal of pop culture and philosophy...