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...learn more about Cassandra, I had to find out what women say about sex when they're alone. To do that, I sat quietly in the back of a Bronx, N.Y., apartment, shopping for sex toys with 30 young women, many of whom were drunk elementary school teachers. In a 21st century twist on Tupperware parties, women invite their friends to buy X-rated products at home events. Passion Parties is a 10-year-old company with $20 million in sales whose slogan is Where Every Day Is Valentine's Day. Every day also seems to require a package...
...Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn by Alberto Vargas or Frank Frazetta - a sex-toy doll inflated to Macy?s Thanksgiving Parade proportions...
Amid all this media-generated controversy, it could be difficult for a creative work itself to stir up the culture. In 1994 Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction generated volumes of discussion about movie violence. In 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1--which made Pulp look like Toy Story--landed nearly as softly as villainess Lucy Liu did when she collapsed bloodily into the snow in its climax. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, involving a theory that Mary Magdalene may have been Jesus' wife and the mother of his child, intrigued readers and sold millions of copies...
...south of the top of his undies. He makes an unabashed bid for the devoted-dad-of-the-decade title, showing off pictures of his three kids, Rafferty, 7, Iris, 3, and Rudy, 18 months, and chortling over their Christmas-present lists. (Spoiler alert, Rudy! You're getting a toy car.) For a looker, Law is unnervingly eager to please--and in an act of impressive self-control, he checks himself out in the mirrored wall only once during our interview...
Moms and dads who have tired of repeatedly reading the two Olivia books, by Ian Falconer, as bedtime stories will be relieved to learn about the third in the series, Olivia ... and the Missing Toy, wherein the young pig loses her favorite plaything and makes everyone miserable, though charmingly so, until she finds...