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Even among hard-core pornographers, Rob Black is considered a sleazebag. His movies are packed with images that the porn industry itself has long censored (rape, drug use, hitting women with dead fish), and he gleefully rebels against the industry's recent agreement to have its stars use condoms. At last month's Video Software Dealers Association convention, held in 115[degree] Las Vegas heat, Black, 25, stands in a black suit with a black sweater, his face multipierced and satanically goateed. His mother, a plump, pleasant-looking nurse from Rochester, N.Y., bursts into the curtained-off adult section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...small role Macpherson is a mere cartoon character (her name in the film: Mickey Morse). But Bart the grizzly, who starred in 1989's The Bear, deserves a Best Supporting Animal award for his ferocious work. Baldwin is persuasive in his familiar persona, the cagey sleazebag. And as the polymath plutocrat, Hopkins manages to make erudition sexy; a library intelligence and a steely intellect make him Baldwin's ideal adversary. The Edge merits a modest cheer as an action film that celebrates not brute force but survival of the smartest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NORTH STARS | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...doings of a terrorist cell. Sarah should have been the perfect spy. But her boss had other ideas. He assigned her to a desk job and escort duty for junketeering congressional wives. "I've dealt with some real lowlifes," she says. "But my supervisor was more of a sleazebag than any of the men I met. They treated me with respect; he stared at my legs and gave me bad assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIRTS AND DAGGERS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...summer comedy I Love Trouble runs into a lawyer friend, played by Saul Rubinek. "I'm dying to read your book, man," says the lawyer. "When is it coming out on tape?" It is hardly a surprise that Rubinek's character turns out to be the movie's chief sleazebag. What kind of shallow, no-time-for-anything '90s philistine confuses listening to books with actually reading them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Real Tape Turner | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...turns out to be a drug dealer and who kidnaps her while she is aboard his boat. Trying to escape, she shoots him in self-defense, then narrowly avoids being tried for murder. When the whole sordid affair is over, Jo discovers that she is pregnant by the sleazebag. Yet she moonily declares, "Now that I'm pregnant, I realize that I really do want a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Young and the Senseless | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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