Word: distributorships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steffani Martin, who was one of five females among the 30 viewers at the screening that day in Manhattan, says it was a good example of the new female consciousness breaking in on the crude male world of pornography. Says Martin, now head of Womero, an X-rated film distributorship in New York City: "The female consumer is beginning to change porn films. She won't tolerate dirty sheets, low production values and creepy male actors with 37 gold chains around their necks. Women want cute guys who talk like real people and sex with some class...
...must settle for less money. For the others, the centers provide a place to go during the day and swap notes. As they talk, workers show a strong resolve to avoid depending on any one job. Wilfred Morrison, 31, a former management trainee, has set up his own distributorship for hose and hose fittings. Says he: "No one will control my destiny again." Everyone seems determined to follow the hopeful dictum of a new sign in the lobby of one of the centers that says THERE IS LIFE AFTER BETHLEHEM. It replaced one that read STEEL IS BEAUTIFUL...
...Record companies are still conditioned to the late Sixties style of breaking new bands," charges Greg Shaw; "their whole approach to underground music is completely out-dated." Shaw's independent Bomp label and distributorship was formed in 1969. "The most effective marketing strategy today is to go through import channels. Elvis Costello, to name but one, was broken in this country through imports...