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...industry got these opportunities to open up to a larger audience partly because young adults grew up with VCRs, cable TV and the Internet and thus have been exposed to more adult material. And the AIDS epidemic has prompted a turn to voyeurism as a prudent alternative to sex. But an equally big factor, say the porn manufacturers, is that since Bill Clinton took office, the Justice Department hasn't prosecuted any new interstate transportation of obscenity cases...
...able to chat away and machines will soak it all in. Microchips will be truly embedded in our lives when we can talk to them. Not only to our computers; we'll also be able to chat with our automobile navigation systems, telephone consoles, browsers, thermostats, VCRs, microwaves and any other devices we want to boss around...
What partially saves the film from thisslightly monotonous tone is Kwietniowski'sridiculing of Giles' manners. Consistently, Gilesfumbles in the ways of technology and pop-culture.He mistakes microwaves for VCRs and marvels at acordless telephone. Despite these pleasantadditions of humor, the film still recedes into asort of sameness that saps our enthusiasm. Itdoesn't help that Ronnie Bostock is not nearly asinteresting and seductive as Giles' preoccupationshould demand. Priestley plays his roleadequately, but he doesn't exactly ooze superhumansexuality or personality. In short, Ronnie is notmuch more absorbing than the dumb roles he playsin the movies and on television. Ronnie evennaively asks...
...easy, says Hager. Park-ophiles simply record episodes on their VCRs and squeeze the signals into their PCs using a nifty piece of digitizing software called RealVideo. A few simple instructions put the episodes on the Web, where anyone on the Internet can point, click and view them within seconds. Hager started distributing South Park in August, a few days after after RealNetworks began giving away its once pricey server software. Why did he do it? His justification is that while the show is enormously popular with 18-to-25-year-olds, most college students don't have cable...
...course, part of that nostalgia is the condemnation, the forbiddenness that made it all so appealing in the first place. Set bed times and the presence of parents do not jive well with the horrible, horrible baby-stay-up-late mentality of a video marathon (the rise of VCRs contributed to many a scream-filled viewing of gruesome death or porn-induced first masturbatory fantasy...