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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavily armed U.S. marshals waiting last week outside the gates of Porn Peddler Larry Flynt's Bel-Air, Calif., mansion were taking no chances. Flynt, 41, who had been paralyzed by a would-be assassin's bullet, had been quoted as saying he would shoot anyone who came to get him "right between the eyes." But this time, at least, he was not true to his word. "If any of you want to know if this is a publicity gimmick, yes, it is," he told reporters, "and thank God you all fell for it." Then, wearing a LARRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 14, 1983 | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Concerning the free press, fair trial and a porn king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Case of the Purloined Tapes | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...casino king. In a country so morally conservative that movie theaters are closed on Sundays and Playboy magazine is banned as the work of the devil, Kerzner has succeeded in assembling a $270 million hotel chain featuring gambling casinos, show business superstars, topless chorus lines and soft-core porn movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Sol | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...allies against rightist paramilitarists. But like all of Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture of urban gallantry and paranoia in his first feature. He has given Williams his best chance to vent his singular, hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beleaguered Sanity Toughs It Out | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...Andrew, was also at sea, after a weekend recreational visit to Florida, with the Royal Navy ship on which he serves, H.M.S. Invincible. Andrew was pursued by a battalion of U.S. and foreign reporters and photographers, frenziedly but fruitlessly seeking signs of a rendezvous between the Prince and soft-porn Actress Koo Stark, 26, or other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Royalty vs. the Press (Contd.) | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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