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Jerry Bruckheimer's SKIN Sucks
2003-08-01 11:43:50

Cardboard characters, wooden dialogue, cliched scenes, SKIN offers nothing. There's not a single thing about this new TV show that captivates.

The idea of basing a show on the porn industry and the DA prosecuting it is an interesting one but Jerry Bruckheimer TV can't deliver.

The story points about the porn industry are unbelievable. Ron Silver as porn mogul Larry Goldman tries to make a $2 billion satellite deal. He says if Direct TV won't make the deal, he'll buy Direct TV. Yeah, right.

A plot point concerns child porn on Goldman's Internet site. It's inconceivable that a porn mogul today would traffic in child porn.

I think I glanced at such porn stars as Asia Carrera, Syren and Aurora Snow. It's hard to tell. They all look alike.

Asia Carrera writes: "And the Fox TV pilot I did called "Skin" was picked up by the network and will air this fall after the new "Joe Millionaire" show. Of course they've probably edited my bit down to just a pair of legs standing over Ron Silver's face, but hey, dammit, at least they'll be MY legs on Fox TV, right? LOL!!"

From avn.com 3/30/99: "Jerry Bruckheimer Productions is sponsoring a documentary on the adult entertainment industry's 1998 HIV crisis. Among those being interviewed for the documentary are Sharon Mitchell, Mark Kernes, Bill Margold and several other industry notables who were involved in the day-to-day drama. The documentary is slated for submission to the Sundance Film Festival next fall. Kernes offered comments about his current Marc Wallice articles and to relate the results of his investigation into Wallice's involvement in the situation."

From imdb.com: Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (who is himself Jewish), Skin tells the story of a Jewish girl named Jewel (the absolutely gorgeous Olivia Wilde) who meets a half-Irish/half-Mexican Catholic guy named Adam (DJ Cotrona) by chance at a party. In the following week we discover that Jewel's father (Ron Silver) is the head of a porn empire and Adam's father is the district attorney up for reelection who wants to bring him down. Thinking he has him on a kiddie porn violation, Tom Roame (Adam's father) takes him to court where the judge throws out the case. Once each father discovers who their kid is dating, fireworks ensue. Both parents forbid their kids to date each other - yet even though they've only been dating for a week, they refuse. Tom also thinks he has found a way to bring down Larry (Jewel's father) and another man (played by a black actor in keeping with the multicultural - minus Wasps - theme) by pitting them both against each other while Larry also seeks to find dirt on Tom. The pilot ends with Adam and Jewel, virgins up to this point, putting an end to their chastity.