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RECOPIED FROM NEWSDAY.COM, November 18, 2005: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ news/ny-nyhen184517250nov18,0,4067964.column "Didn't take long to X-ploit the iPod" By Ellis Henican Oh, about 15 seconds: That's how long it took for the first X-rated video to be loaded onto one of Apple's new video iPods. And in the eye-popping month since then, millions and millions of virgin megabytes have been consumed so that naked people might romp together on a 2.5-inch screen. Ain't technology amazing? Once again, the porn sellers have quickly muscled their way to the top of a new digital delivery system. And once again, Bill Margold's legendary anatomy has gotten even tinier on the screen. "I used to be Gulliver, now I'm a Lilliputian," Margold was grumbling from his West Coast lair yesterday. "I'm getting smaller and smaller every day." Back in the early 1980s, adult-film producers pretty much abandoned New York. They preferred the balmy breezes and bodacious blondes of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. Just as heartlessly, the industry walked away from film. It turned to videotape. Then to DVDs. And now, increasingly, the business is embracing a new generation of miniature formats that require hours of tedious squinting at a cell phone or iPod screen. OK, the minis and micros and nanos are portable and easy to hide from nosy bosses. But how much viewing pleasure are people really getting from these crisp but tiny screens? Bill Margold wants to know. A veteran actor, writer, director, critic and spokesman for the adult-movie business, he truly is the Renaissance man of XXX. Back in the Reagan days, he was the only industry rep who dared appear at Ed Meese's Commission on Obscenity. Today, he's the closest thing the dirty-movie business has to its own official historian. His standout work includes "Lust Inferno," "Disco Dolls" and "Hot Skin." "Our industry has gone from the theater to the home TV to these tiny screens," Margold said. "What's next? Eventually, I guess [crossover porn star] Jenna Jameson will just be injected into your veins somehow, floating around in there." This is nothing new, adult material at the forefront of some technical revolution. For more than a decade, hardly anyone was making any money on the Internet but the pornographers. "X has been at the dawn of every new medium - from the moment pictures were drawn on the caveman's wall," Margold said. "First, it was drawings of animals together - then people. And then arrows were drawn over the pictures - censorship! "We realize any new medium needs to be X-ploited," he said. "Then we take the golden goose and turn it into chicken niblets. We reduce it down to its lowest common denominators. What was quality is now quantity. To mix and miniaturize our nature. So of course, we'd be on the video iPods." Margold said he can't imagine watching a whole movie on a screen not much bigger than a postage stamp. "Have you ever seen yourself on a screen in a movie theater?" he asked. "There is nothing like it, sitting there, while the audience applauds. Films work better big. And not just X-rated films. You're the Eiffel Tower up there. You're the Grand Canyon. Now we're a bunch of toothpicks and rivulets." It may all be inevitable, Margold said. An industry of outlaws has been folded into American pop culture. Each has influenced the other - and not entirely for the good. "The adult industry," he said, "is on the verge of finding out how the Negro Baseball League felt when it was absorbed by the majors. The conglomerates are nibbling at our innards. The pioneers are gone. The legendary dinosaurs have sunk into the La Brea tarpits of X." And what does all this leave for the high-tech future? Flickers of naked Lilliputians, moaning and sweating together on an ever-shrinking screen. Said Bill Margold, who knew it all along: "Size does matter after all." Copyright (c) 2005, Newsday, Inc. |