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| | Prime-Time Porn Borrowing tactics from the old Hollywood studios, Vivid Entertainment has ditched the plain brown ... |
 | | Nineteen years ago, he and a partner scraped together $20,000 to found Vivid Entertainment of Van Nuys, Calif. Today, Hirsch is a multimillionaire, Vivid is the biggest XXX film studio in the world, with revenue estimated at $100 million, and it has Jameson locked up in a seven-year deal. |
 | | Vivid Entertainment is no favorite of the religious right, conservative feminists, John Ashcroft's Justice Department, and certain crusading journalists. |
 | | But Vivid and other top film companies escaped largely unscathed; most of their movies weren't misogynistic--male fantasies to be sure, but expanding into the mainstream market meant they had to appeal to women too--and stayed within the legal boundaries. |
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