The humor in the โ€œSkinโ€ cancellation comes from the NYTโ€™s Frank Rich, whose reputation as a cultural trend analyst should suffer, cooing about the showโ€™s creator: โ€œBruckheimer didnโ€™t get where he is by being ahead of the curve. He is the curve. His gut tells him, accurately, that porn is not just well within the American mainstream but overdue to be stripped of its plain brown wrapper in prime time.โ€