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I've received confirmation that, despite her age, Elle Fanning will be (probably very briefly) topless in "A Pure Life". Much like "Very Good Girls", it's a movie about a young girl losing her virginity.
Unlike her sister in that movie though, I'm hearing the 14-year old Elle (who thankfully looks a lot older) will "definitely" be doing her own topless scene in the movie. No body doubles or CGI for the younger, braver Fanning.
13-year old Kiernan Shipka (who co-starred with Dakota in "Very Good Girls") is in talks to join Elle in the film and while there is apparently nudity from her character in the script, I don't really expect her to actually go nude (though she has gone pretty close on "Mad Men" with her bathtub, smoking, period and masturbation scenes on that show), it's still interesting casting and a match made in jailbait heaven.
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* thanks for the info. Is it possible to e-mail me? I have couple of questions to ask of you. All our interactions will be strictly confidential and no personal details will be posted.
The movie pre-prod news was announced back in January 2011:
7 January 2011
Elle Fanning, Vera Farmiga and Omari Hardwick have joined the cast of the indie drama “Pure Life” for GigaPix, Blue Raven Films and Manolin Entertainment reports The Playlist.The story follows 13-year-old Maya Donovan (Fanning), who desperately wants a romance like the kind in the Brat Pack movies. Mired in poverty with her brutally hard-working and short-tempered mother Trisch (Farmiga), Maya goes looking for a teen romance and finds a bad boy she deems worthy of taking her virginity.
Melora Donoghue penned the script while Van Fischer ("Neo Ned") will direct. Shooting aims to kick off this Spring. »
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I'm currently in the middle of changing e-mails. I will get back to you when I can :) )
From what I'm hearing the role Shipka might play (Fanning's slutty best friend) was initially written for an 18-year old hence there is a lot of nudity in the script from her. I'm pretty sure most of the nudity will be scrapped since Shipka is so young though there is a slim chance she might go topless (she does have nice boobs for 13 lol) your thoughts? Fanning turns 15 in April.
* non-sexual nudity from Shipka is very unlikely. While I think Elle will be topless for the intended scene, I don't see how it will make it to the final cut. Even if the writer and director is fine with it, producers
will get cold feet fearing media and public backlash if the news leaks out prior to release or screening at film festivals; potentially scaring off buyers. Remember Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby? America haven't changed much from those days in lashing out via censorship reacting and playing to the hysterical gallery.
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Finally a Trailer for Abigail Breslin Final Girl
A trailer for the new flick from director Tyler Shields, Final Girl, has hit this crazy thing called the interwebs and we have it for you right here. Just think it traveled through a series of tubes to get here. Ah, technology!Abigail Breslin, Alexander Ludwig, Wes Bentley, Logan Huffman, Michael Trevino, Connor Paolo, Francesca Eastwood and Michael Trevino star.
Synopsis
Loner Veronica is new to school, shy and vulnerable the perfect target for a group of teenage boys who lure girls into the woods to hunt and kill them for sport. It’s only after they get her alone that she turns the tables on them, escaping and revealing she’s armed and knows how to defend herself. Little do they know, Veronica is an assassin-in-training, and she’s chosen killing these boys as her final test. When the dust clears, Veronica will find out if she can be the final girl these boys ever have a chance to hurt.
* That is Francesca Eastwood in the bed.
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Femme Fatales: The Complete First Season DVD Review
The complete season created by Mark A. Altman (Producer: D.O.A: Dead or Alive) and Steven Kriozere (Producer: Necessary Roughness, Castle, NCIS) has introductions by the lovely Tanit Phoenix (Death Race 2-and-3) who gives her best deadpan face much like Rod Serling of television's Twilight Zone. The weekly series that aired on Cinemax's After Dark has a lot of punch when it comes to presentation and storyline. The female actors are all cookie cutter gorgeous and the males are mostly girl magnets.
We�ll look at all 14 of Season One�s half-hour episodes. The plot synopses come straight from the DVD�s liner notes.
By coincidence, I just happened to see Tanit Phoenix in the abysmal Death Race 3, where her beauty was one of the only positive elements. Alas, Phoenix barely appears here; she�s the series� hostess, and she removes no clothes in her brief turn. Maybe that�ll change in future episodes, as she reprises her role in all 14 � hope springs eternal!
On the more positive side, other women do doff their duds, and those results become quite enjoyable. The episode itself lacks much of a story; we�re basically holed up with the crooks without a ton of tension, as the only compelling concern � other than whether or not Phoenix will get naked � comes from our vague desire to find out Jimmy�s fears of white flowers. Still, while not a strong narrative, it keeps us interested enough to stick with it; �Flower� offers a decent launch to the series.
The White Flower: �Two bank robbers (William Gregory Lee and Geoff Meed) hole up in a dilapidated hotel, waiting to divide their loot with a mob boss, when they fall prey to an unscrupulous femme fatale (Tina Casciani). Now one of the crooks must confront his worst fears.�
Something Like Murder: �In the tradition of classic film noirs like Double Indemnity and Body Heat, Darla MacKendrick (Anya Monzikova) conspires to murder her older, dull, wealthy husband (Ian Gregory) with her lover, Beth Oates (Carlee Baker). But once they�ve collected the �ransom�, the double-cross begins.�
Two episodes into Femme Fatales, I think we can tell how the series will work: it�ll feature threadbare stories that exist mainly to feature some soft-core porn. Speaking for myself, I heartily approve, as the action so far seems pretty, um, stimulating. Girl-on-girl massage? Works for me!
As for the rest of �Murder�, it�s less compelling. We find a mildly interesting story saddled by spotty execution and awkward acting. Well, at least the nudity quotient satisfies.
Behind Locked Doors, Part One: �It�s All About Eve in prison when a troubled Hollywood starlet finds herself behind bars after mowing down a family of German tourists. Now she must use all her acting skills to survive by manipulating her fellow inmates as well as the warden (Paul Mazursky).�
When I review two-part episodes, I save my comments until the conclusion.
Behind Locked Doors, Part Two: �Kacey Rivers (Kit Willesee) and prison guard Rafe (Will Poston) grow closer as Lacey attempts to plot her release from incarceration at Cuesta Verde Wommen�s Correctional Facility.�
�Doors� hits its creative peak in its first few minutes, as it uses the tabloid TV format for a funny look at the life of its Lindsay Lohan-esque lead. After that, it turns into a fairly standard �women behind bars� flick, though it�s still the best episode so far, especially when the machinations go kooky in Part Two. Add in Mazursky�s delightful turn as the warden and this turns into a pretty solid show.
Speed Date: �After Hours meets La Femme Nikita when geeky video game designer Kevin Freeman (Reggie Hayes) creates an alter ego for his online dating profile and winds up on the run with a female assassin (Daphne Duplaix) who kills for the mysterious Raven (Isaiah Mustafa).�
While the prior shows provided some cynical humor, �Date� � with the goofy Kevin � offers the most obvious comedy to date. That�s a nice change of pace and it turns this into the most enjoyable show so far. Despite a long Eyes Wide Shut-style sequence, it�s the least erotic we�ve gotten, but it compensates with an entertaining ride.
Bad Medicine: �When a gorgeous hard-working nurse (Christine Donlon) learns that her boyfriend (Scott Bailey) has been cheating on her, she�s devastated. But her evening goes from bad to worse when an injured gangbanger (Robert LaSardo) takes her hostage.�
Perhaps to make up for the relative lack of naughtiness in �Speed Date�, �Medicine� launches with a graphic sex scene. That�s pretty much the highlight here, as the rest of �Medicine� lacks much to make it interesting for the majority of its running time; even a sex scene toward the end because we�re forced to look at LaSardo�s absurdly tattooed torso. Throw in a lackluster finale and this is the weakest episode in a while.
Girls Gone Dead: �In need of fast cash, a group of sorority girls agree to have themselves filmed for a raunchy home video series by infamous entrepreneur Jay Roma (Charlie O�Connell), but it turns out their true motives are far more sinister.�
In terms of story, �Dead� bounces back a bit after the mediocre �Medicine�. It�s a friskier concept that evolves in a surprisingly dramatic manner. Unfortunately, it hearkens back to �Speed Date� in the relative absence of steamy content; even a girl-on-girl-on-girl scene works better in concept than in execution. Still, it�s a good episode that goes dark in a compelling way.
Till Death Do Us Part: �Six hours before her wedding, a woman (Jordan Madley) wakes up next to a dead male stripper (Jon Fleming) at her bachelorette party with no memory of how he got there.�
Here we get a Femme Fatales take on The Hangover, though with a darker tone, of course. Not that it lacks humor, as it tosses in its own wackiness, but no one dies in Hangover, so that makes it different. We see too much of the stripper�s unit, but the program itself creates an intriguing, fun mystery.
Help Me, Rhonda: �The serenity of an isolated mountain cottage is shattered when gangsters show up at the home of Camille Gardner (Ana Alexander) looking for her missing husband Eddie.�
�Rhonda� does something clever, as it offers a prequel of sorts; we already met Camille as an inmate in �Behind Locker Doors�. It also gives us some much-needed steamy action between Camille and Rhonda (Crystal Allen). Unfortunately, beyond the cool tie-in with the earlier show and the hot girl-on-girl scene, the rest of the program lacks much to make it zing. It�s one of the weaker episodes.
The Clinic: �Given only three months to live, an unsuspecting man�s (Daniel Bess) persuaded by his doctor (Angus Scrimm) and girlfriend (Stacy Stas) to seek experimental treatment at a clinic in Mexico.�
The presence of Scrimm � best known for his role in Phantasm - lets us know there�ll be something dark and spooky at work here. In that vein, �Clinic� delivers a decent experience. The lead character�s something of a dud and the episode telegraphs some of its conceits, but it still manages to develop a reasonably involving tale.
Haunted: �The paranormal investigators of Fright Finders, a second-rate cable television series, are recruited by a famous psychic to investigate mysterious murders in an allegedly haunted house where they come face-to-face with the ultimate femme fatale.�
What I learned from �Haunted�: apparently flappers from the 1920s had breast implants! Yeah, I know that it�s tough to find 21st century actresses who haven�t gone under the knife � I�d bet at least half of the Femme Fatales babes sport silicon � but you�d think they�d manage to locate one for a little historical verisimilitude.
Even without these quibbles, �Haunted� delivers a tepid experience. The horror scenes lack impact, and the sex sequences fail to muster much heat. This ends up as one of the year�s weaker shows.
Angel and Demons: �Two police detectives desperately search for a serial killer known as the Grim Reaper who stalks another victim on the mean streets of Cuesta Verde� but the killer�s identity is not what it seems.�
I tend to find serial killer stories to be interesting, but �Demons� lacks much heft. It follows a predictable path and throws out a lame � and easily foreseen � �twist� at the end in an attempt to shake up the action. It becomes a fairly ineffective show.
Visions: Part One: �A phony mentalist (Marc Crumpton) murders his beautiful assistant (Jasmine Waltz) and then begins to have real visions and embarks on a plan to exploit his newfound gift for material gain with the help of his beautiful new apprentice (Stacy Stas).�
As mentioned earlier, I�ll save my comments until we get to the episode�s conclusion.
Visions: Part Two: �Mentalist Foster Prentiss attempts to blackmail two women with the dark secrets he�s learned about them only to have the tables turned when they unearth his dark secret.�
I�ll give �Visions� credit for this: it offers a fun way to finish Season One. It brings back a slew of characters from earlier episodes and kinda sorta ties together the whole year. The main plot is a little lackluster, but the show still completes the season on a positive note.
BONUS FEATURES: (Please do not watch the special features until you have seen all the episodes as there are a LOT of spoilers.)
Audio Commentary Tracks for every episode with the stars and creators. Turn this feature on and replay each episode for some very cool facts.
11 Deleted and Alternate Scenes run a total of 37 minutes, 25 seconds. These accompany six episodes: �The White Flower� (two sequences), �Something Like Murder� (two), �Bad Medicine� (one), �The Clinic� (two), �Angel and Demons� (one) and �Visions� (three).
Most of these offer brief extensions to existing scenes or outtakes. For instance, the �Visions� bits simply show us what Stas had to go through to endure the cold pool. None of the segments offer anything interesting in terms of character or story moments.
That doesn�t make them worthless, though. The two longest sequences come from �Hands On� (�Something Like Murder� - 7:49) and �Jay Roma�s Crazy Chixx� (�Visions� � 15:21). Neither tells us anything new, but both offer copious amounts of nudity, so I suspect fans of the series will enjoy them.
By the way, although we get no commentary for the scenes, we do find text blurbs that precede all of the segments. Those notes tell us why the clips got the boot.
Next comes a Director�s Cut of �The White Flower�. It goes for 19 minutes, 42 seconds and shows a black and white version of the show. It also edits some sequences and creates a somewhat tighter take on the episode. It�s more story-based, but that�s because it axes a lot of nudity. Less nudity is a bad thing, so I prefer the aired �Flower�.
"Never-Before-Seen Deleted and Alternate Scenes" In my humble opinion there are some scenes that should have been kept in the film including the extended scene with the masseuse in ‘Something Like Murder' and one I am happy they left out of ‘Visions'.
"Creating Femme Fatales"- this making of shows how Mark A. Altman purchased the rights to the Femme Fatales magazine and then brought the idea of a show to Cinemax and more.
"Shooting Femme Fatales: The Making of Season One"- This is one of the better behind the scenes features I have seen on Home Video. It covers all the bases and gets into the basics of filmmaking. It includes nearly the whole cast and crew with their take on their roles in making the movie.
"Making Love: Anatomy of a Sex Scene"- This special bonus is just that, very special. It goes into how the actors felt in making the sex and nude scenes. Some of the comments included awkward, it's acting with a little less clothes, uncomfortable at first, I was so focused on the character I forgot I was nude, and many more interesting observations. Almost every actor was asked to be nude and snippets of their nude scenes are shown while they chat about it.
"San Diego Comic-Con 2011 Panel"- This is where Mark Altman promoted the first season and talked about his upcoming season 2. It includes a panel Q-and-A.
"The White Flower B-and-W Director's Cut"- It's a longer version of the first episode on the disc that looks more film noir in Black and White.
"Blooper Reel"- a fun reel with some wild mistakes, but nothing really earth shaking.
"Isolated Music Tracks"- this is kind of weird where you are treated to a morbid background musical track from one of the episodes. It made me very uneasy and anxious.
Photo Gallery and More...This is like a slide show with professional shots taken from every episode.
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Ron Jeremy Calls From Hospital Bed -- I'm Lucky to Be Alive!!!
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The Deep Throat Sex Scandal reviews [Zephyr Theatre]
L.A MagThe first adult movie to graphically depict oral sex seems like an odd choice for a play. You can go about that task one of two ways: present a straight examination of a true first amendment battle (a la The People vs. Larry Flynt) or make a campy play filed with nudity and offbeat humor. Welcome to The Deep Throat Sex Scandal or as I call it “The People vs. Three’s Company.”
The schizophrenic feel of The Deep Throat Sex Scandal doesn’t help its cast. Not sure whether to play it straight or for laughs, the actors struggle valiantly to come up with appropriate performances. It's a losing battle that director Jerry Douglas hasn’t solved. When Charles Keating (Bart Tangredi) is making his closing argument to convict Reems, his performance is so wildly over-the-top that any jury that saw that performance, while entertaining and satirical, would never choose to convict.
If all else fails, take off your clothes – which they do. That might be the only way this show finds an audience. It’s about fellatio, it features male and female nudity, and it pretends to be controversial. The show is such a mess that I regularly heard cast and crew talking backstage as if wondering what to do next. If you are wondering what to do, don't get sucked into DTSS.
Hollywood Reporter
Regrettably, Natasha Charles Parker as Linda Lovelace approaches the role so timorously that Lovelace’s own abuse-shocked personality overwhelms the performance.
Campus Circle
Natasha Charles Parker patiently waits for my and David Bertolino’s arrival in the Zephyr Theatre’s lobby on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
After I introduce myself to Charles Parker, Bertolino arrives within seconds. He and I sit down beside Charles Parker, and we begin to talk about his much-awaited play, “The Deep Throat Sex Scandal,” which runs through March 3rd at the Zephyr. Both appeared to be beyond excited in forming part of this piece as it premiers to the L.A. audience.
Charles Parker, who portrays Linda Lovelace, shows her excitement. “It’s going above and beyond most of the theatre you see in Los Angeles,” she says. “It’s risqué…I feel, as an actor, that you take many more risks in this than in any other play – at least that was the case for me, which is great. It’s what artists love.”
“No offense to theatre here in Los Angeles, but it’s been taking it in the chin,” says Bertolino. “We’re losing the young audience. Our show is a special event. People will be excited about our celebrity guests on the cast rotation and also of the subject matter of the show. We believe it will be well-received here.”
Charles Parker, who can be seen in the flicks Carver and The Ascension, loves the concept of challenging herself in all her acting roles. This is the case when preparing to depict herself as Lovelace.
“It’s been very challenging and difficult, especially since we’re talking about an actual living person. This is really awesome,” says Charles Parker, who’s also an entrepreneur – she owns ShopNYC Tours and NYC Kids Tours. “It involves a lot of reading and watching the film version, of course. Also, talking to people who actually knew the person. That’s the most important thing. It really gives you a great insight as to how the person really was.”
Interestingly enough, Hart’s been helpful to Charles Parker in understanding the adult film industry. “She introduced me to that whole world,” says Charles Parker.
This is Charles Parker’s second encounter with “The Deep Throat Sex Scandal.” In 2010, when the play debuted in New York, she auditioned. She became one of three finalists to play Lovelace, but production went another route. Soon after that occurred, Charles Parker found her way to Hollywood.
She moved here to continue her career as an actress and then noticed the play was in the stages of being brought to L.A.
“She contacted me and told me she had auditioned in New York,” said Bertolino. “She told me she had moved here, and I told her to contact our casting director. She went to the top of the list and, obviously, she nailed it.”
And there she was – more prepared than ever before.
“It was very exciting because I got to pick up the pieces from the research I did, and I continued to tackle this,” she said. “And this time around, I felt very comfortable with the process because I knew David and some of the other guys from the auditions in New York.”
L.A Times
If you’d like to see some men getting naked to defend the Constitution, “The Deep Throat Sex Scandal,” now at the Zephyr Theatre, is just the ticket. Equal parts parody, courtroom drama and R-rated pep rally, David Bertolino’s '70s docu-romp ends up playing as less than the sum of its parts. Which, just to be clear, are full frontal.
Natasha Charles Parker evokes Lovelace’s odd mix of vulnerability and seduction, even though the script doesn’t give her much to work with.
If the creators of “Throat” get anything right, it’s their willingness to wonder aloud why America is so freaked out by sex. They put their argument in the flesh, and by the end, you salute the right to bare all.
L.A Weekly
What the play does best, however, is demonstrate the changing cultural standards for what's taboo. In the mid-20th century, fellatio was generally regarded as perverted, and sodomy beneath contempt. Today, with gay marriage gaining acceptance in the courts and in polls nationwide, what's taken to be "obscene" in one era becomes almost quaint in another.
What saves it is Parker's ever-so-nuanced Lovelace. Aside from her physical resemblance to the late star, and amidst her submissive veneer, Parker captures the flickerings of a woman who will, in time, exact her revenge on the entire industry.
Grigware
From my perspective, I'm here to say The Deep Throat Sex Scandal onstage is fun to watch...tame by today's standards of brutally aggressive internet pornography...but fun nonetheless.
If you are not bothered by full frontal nudity and want to be entertained as well as somewhat enlightened, go see The Deep Throat Sex Scandal.
Broadway World
Marc Ginsburg along with Michael Rachlis and Natasha Charles Parker deserve great praise for their unselfconscious baring of body and soul. Be advised no one 18 and under will be admitted as the play does contain full frontal nudity, both male and female. And we can surely thank "Deep Throat" for paving the way for this type of freedom of expression.
LA Stage Times
Parker plays the young hairdresser who, through urgings to develop her rare “abilities,” becomes the legendary Linda Lovelace. The role asks her to personify an inimitable icon, while also baring it all for the audience and simulating a variety of sexual acts.
“The hardest thing isn’t the nudity or giving a blow job — there’s a lot of contradiction with her in finding out who she is,” Parker says.
Though there are no actual explicit sex acts performed on stage during the show, Douglas has creatively staged several scenes of full nudity to simulate the dirty deeds that the story calls for.
Together, actors and director worked slowly toward the appropriate comfort level required for the racy scenes. As in a game of strip poker, the actors first dressed down to undergarments, and then worked their way to the nudity, piece by piece through each progressive rehearsal.
“It wasn’t too difficult. I had my college days of crazy spring breaks,” says Parker.
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Strippers Unemployment: Should Exotic Dancers Get Insurance?
Strippers in Kansas will now be able to get unemployment insurance, according to a recent ruling in the state supreme court. After a former stripper filed a suit claiming that she should get unemployment insurance from Club Orleans of Topeka, exotic dancers throughout the country are feeling a sense of victory. Full-time strippers have long felt maligned for their career choices. And they felt that one of the biggest issues was that they had no financial help after being fired.
"By managing dancers like employees but putting them on the books as independent contractors, club owners get out of paying dancers the benefits they're legally entitled to, which could include worker's compensation, unemployment, and health insurance if they qualify," Melissa Gira Grant told the Atlantic.
But Bubbles Burbujas, co-founder of the blog Tits and Sass, told Salon that the new ruling isn't all good news. "Once you are classified as an employee, the money you receive for private dances and on stage can be considered as money paid to the club for a service, and therefore the club gets to decide what percentage of that you might get to keep. In every club where one of these lawsuits has succeeded, the end result has been that the amount the dancers pay out to the club increased."
"Enforcement is the big unknown in these labor cases, as it's not always clear who will actually follow through," Melissa Gira Grant told Salon. "If dancers speak up and try to hold the clubs accountable to these decisions, how will they be protected from retaliation?"
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* Wasn't this chick naked in Larry Clark's Marfa Girl.........
Model Call: Drake Burnette
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David Manson Joins Netflix’s ‘House Of Cards’ As Executive Producer
* Thank God! Someone heard my rant on Beau Willimon. Likely not! David is a veteran of the biz and will have no problem standing up to Fincher schizo-type tendencies, stroke Spacey's massive ego. The silver-tongued Manson can probably also lull Kate Mara into disrobing for real.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: PANDA
Indie-electrorock group, Astro, is kind of a big deal. Already one of the most popular bands in their native Chile since forming in 2008, Astro's summer 2012 debut album arrived to heapings of praise by the New York Times and NPR. The band has even received invites to play some of the biggest music festivals in North America, including SXSW.So, what better way to celebrate such a startling success than with a pants-off dance-off directed by Cristóbal and Sebastián Zegers?
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I Dare You Not to Laugh Out Loud at This Viva Vena Video Featuring Actress Lizzy Caplan
It's been said, that often times the fashion world takes itself a little too seriously. The result? Slightly off-kilter, way-intense advertisements like those Chanel No. 5 commercials featuring Brad Pitt. In this video for Viva Vena, a new line from the designers behind Vena Cava, Lizzy Caplan (aka Janis Ian of Mean Girls) stars in a hilarious fashion short that pokes fun at every fashion-y film that's come before it. Check it out!Did you crack a smile? How hilarious is the ending? If you love the clothes featured in the film, the gals over at Fashionista got a sneak peak at the entire look book.
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Kristen Stewart and Elizabeth Banks To Explore Fashion and Fetishism In ‘The Big Shoe’
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Anja Rubik: Don't be scared of nudity
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Anja Rubik's Instagram account has been shut down after she posted "inappropriate" pictures.Anja Rubik has told people not to "fear the nipple" after getting kicked off Instagram for sharing topless photos.
The model has posed for the likes of Givenchy and Christian Dior and doesn't shy away from baring some skin on shoots.
However, it seems her racy snaps have got her into trouble with the picture-sharing website.
"I have been kicked of Instagram for inappropriate posting.. Here is my new account," she informed Twitter followers, adding: "Dear Instagram and to all followers: "DON'T FEAR THE NIPPLE"!!!!!!!!!!!! (sic)"
She almost immediately deleted the latter post.
One particularly daring moment in Anja's career saw her pose topless for the French edition of Vogue with a serpent wrapped around her neck.
Whereas the fashion world promoted the image as art, similar portraits seem to have broken Instagram guidelines.
Photographer Katja Rahlwes is known for depicting female empowerment via strong pictures of women.
In the past, Katja has taken daring snaps of Anja, with one showing the 29-year-old totally naked, holding a small dog to cover her modesty.
The model is outraged anyone could take these kinds of pictures the wrong way.
"It happened.. they kicked me of Instagram..for posting a topless image...what ridicules world we live in!" she fumed."Specially that @katjarahlwes image was beautiful and not at all vulgar! The world is turning upside down! (sic)"
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Aiste-Regina Kliveckaite : Pino Leone for Bambi XIII
Model: Aiste K
* a nudity dodger makes a comeback..........
44-years old Yasmin Bleeth was avowed nudity-hater and to her credit kept her word and clothes on. When asked why she did an independent movie instead of something bigger, the Baywatch star said back in late 90's:
"Well, because I really respect independent film makers. It wasn't a choice to do an independent or a mainstream feature, it was the script that I really liked, and the character. I wasn't interested in any of the mainstream features that I was offered. It was either girlfriend parts or nudity. I won't do nudity in film, I just won't, and so it was sort of that which was completely dull and uninteresting to me. I didn't think I was ready to carry a big, $30 million movie for my first time out..."
After a long hiatus from showbiz, Yasmin returns to play 'seductive' Baroness Von Siepold in horror flick Beautiful Evil (2013).
She will reportedly do her first racy scenes. Will it be all out nudity or cock-teasing kind? Your guess is as good as mine.
Synopsis:
Fleur De Lis Film Studios has unveiled the cast of its upcoming horror-thriller Beautiful Evil. Veteran actor Robert Loggia (Scarface), Yasmine Bleeth (Baywatch), and Gary Daniels (The Expendables) will headline the Hollywood Hills-set creature-feature, announced at the American Film Market this week.
Beautiful Evil revolves around a celebrity photographer, Steve 'Flash' Turner, who discovers that a wealthy, beautiful baroness - someone he'd do anything to get on film - might be a homicidal monster.
Is this "baroness" a literal creature or a spin on Countess Bathory? Guess we'll have to see...
Genre vets Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr (The Fifth Element), Christopher Showerman (The Land That Time Forgot), Tim Thomerson (Trancers) and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Bones) have supporting roles in the film, written by BJ and Julia Davis and directed by Asif Akbar.
Yasmine Bleeth had major dependacies issues before she found love in shape of a strip club owner and moved to Michigan to be with him. The couple somehow got clean from their serious coke addiction and was soon living happily ever after as husband and wife.
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Angelina Jolie's Terrible in Bed?!?! ... and Other Absurdities From This Week's Tabloids
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THE BEST AND WORST LOVERS IN HOLLYWOOD:
Who Does Patti Stanger Think Britney Should Date?
Kristen Wiig and Fabrizio Moretti: "Funnygal Kristen is always making others LOL. We hope her boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti makes sure this Valentine's Day is full of XOXO's." XOXO, LOL.Eminem because "they've had substance abuse issues, have straightened themselves out and now have kids!" Uh. "Maybe she'll start a rapping career!" Uh. Dane Cook because "both of them are born performers." Uh. Kris Humphries because "his Midwestern ways are like the small-town values she craves." This one makes the most sense, but uhhhh, I dunno, Patti. "Maybe they'd make the baby basketball team he's always wanted." Yeah, I dunno about that.
Heidi and Spencer Pratt: "The Hills stars admit they blew $10 million prepping for the Mayan apocalypse." They still had $10 million left to blow? No fucking way.
Misc/Etc: "She keeps saying that as a 42-year-old woman in Los Angeles competing against twentysomethings, she has to work harder if she's ever going to get married again." "I ran into him buying some chocolate with two security guards" "Thirsty yet, ladies?" "she's really jealous of all the awards and attention" "everyone knows that Tom is Mr. Scientology" "behind closed doors, Gaga is very mean" "To the left, haters!" "the chips are down and they're delicious!" "LeAnn Rimes burst into tears in Valley Village" "ditched his trunks for a swim in the buff" "grinned through the gloom" "starting to worry they'll never go on a fancy vacation again" "She wears the pants in the relationship and it's working for now" "It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death" "Music makes me feel sexy and confident" "We've even done it on a Jet Ski" "Me and your wife had sex!"
US Weekly
Lady Gaga Sued by Ex-Assistant: During the deposition, Gaga said her former assistant Jennifer O'Neill is "a fucking hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn't earn." O'Neill says she worked overtime constantly without getting paid, and the worker-employer relationship lacked proper boundaries. During the testimony, Gaga asked O'Neill, "Are you going to stare at me like a witch this whole time? Because this is going to be a long fucking day."Gaga said the job didn't involve overtime and that O'Neill, 41, is "a disgusting human being" who was "majorly unqualified" to look after Gaga, 26. She claimed O'Neill shirked responsibilities like unpacking and organizing Gaga's things on tour, but reaped benefits such as "Egyptian cotton sheets" and eating caviar. Gaga sounds pretty defensive in the deposition, and personal assistant jobs are notorious for turning into amorphous relationships that blur the line between boss and friend. If Gaga constantly had O'Neill on call without obvious billable hours, her assertion that "this whole case is bullshit" might be bullshit, too. Gaga isn't making herself look great by saying O'Neill "didn't want to be a slave, because in my work I'm the queen of the universe." She sounds like Marie Antoinette.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper: "TRUE BROMANCE!" I guess Leo isn't so bitter about his Oscar snub that he won't hang out with the nominated Cooper. The pair hung out in Miami with Jonah Hill, Gerard Butler, and "a group of 30 models." They then went clubbing, where "Bradley made out with three different girls at the club and left with one of them." Why not leave with all three? "Leo was actually the most responsible of the bunch." What do you think the Pussy Posse's initiation rituals are like? Kinda like Bohemian Grove's?
New Girl’s Max "Schmidt" Greenfield's Mom Is a Modern Family Fan: "She goes, 'Look, it's good just to be nominated. What an honor.' I go, 'What, do you think I'm not gonna win?' And she goes, 'Well, that Eric Stonestreet is the full package.'"
Mark Wahlberg on Justin Bieber: "I really think he can act." OK.
Blair Waldorf Dating Seth Cohen: The two fan favorites from the Josh Schwartziverse are an IRL couple. "They're hanging out," says a source, which means they're probably at the very least banging and smoking lots of weed. While Leighton Meester (Blair on Gossip Girl) and Adam Brody (Seth on The O.C.) have been friendly for a few years, their relationship only recently turned romantic. This basically makes up for the travesty that was the end of Gossip Girl and the mishandling of Dan and Blair. Who cares now that there's Blair and Seth Cohen? XOXO.
Channing Tatum on Fatherhood: "If that thing comes out anything like me as a kid, I'm putting it right back up there."
Julianna Margulies: "I feel bad because people are like, 'Oh, your husband is so hot. Truth is, he is unbelievably bright." COOL HUMBLEBRAG, NURSE CAROL. (He is hot, though.)
Guy Fieri Not Welcome in NOLA: "Chef Guy Fieri caused a ruckus after he was barred from the VIP section of a party" during Super Bowl week. "He didn't have the right bracelet and nobody in New Orleans knew who he was." That's because they have actual chefs in New Orleans who make delicious food and don't rely on donkey sauce or backward sunglasses. "Guy threw a fit. He was acting crazy and caused a total scene." I hope Paul Prudhomme laughed and just strolled right in past Guy.
Miley Cyrus: "I don't know why anyone thinks I'm going to have this huge, extravagant wedding. That is so not who I am." I love u Miley.
Things You Don't Know About Meredith Vieira (Excerpted):
Misc/Etc: "Bitter breakup?" "the confidence of beauty, youth and talent combined!" "My mom is bipolar and it turns out I am too" "Kissing Ryan! In bed with Ben!" "from supported to sidekick in one email!" "hankers for spuds" "found love in a controversial place" "it's caused us a crisis in our sex life" "Heels are my version of cleats!" "it's systematic!" "They get windblown!" "He had time to really fall in love" "a Diet Coke (him) and an iced tea (her)" "We love romance" "always rude to her" "in full-on party mode" "Melo comes to our house to visit Egypt" "wht at, no scone?" "relationship status was a gray area" "hook up with my girlfriends so that my husband could watch""I prefer purple popsicles." "When I was a child, another girl called me fat and I never got over it." "In fourth grade, my glee club director told me to mouth the words." "My heart wants me to become a vegan, but my stomach craves lobster salad." "When I fly, I carry a stuffed Sylvester Puddy Tat. My mom gave it to me when I started at CBS News because I had to travel and was scared of flying." "My first day in New York, a pigeon pooped on my head." "My sexual awakening came at 10 when I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I hugged my pillow, pretending it was Paul McCartney."
InTouch
Charlie Sheen on Lance Armstrong: "Lance Armstrong is kind of a douche. If he was a better guy, he'd be forgiven a lot faster and easier — kind of like me!" Charlie Sheen is such a Roger Sterling.Inside the Twisted Mind of Kris Jenner: InTouch has an official court document that's a psychological evaluation of Kris Jenner from her divorce to Robert Kardashian in 1989 or 1990. "Kris is described as immature, demanding, manipulative, and selfish." Not surprisingly, she is also "narcissistic, with a marked elevation of the narcissistic scale" which involves "the tendency to take others for granted or exploit them." The evaluation claims Kris is "reckless and non-motherly," but "believes she is a loving mother." It notes that "her sense of self is based much more on fantasy than realistic considerations" that she acts out with an "impulsive nature" and "has a need for immediate gratification in relationships." Everyone knows "she doesn't act her age." While she's a "life-of-the-party type of person, the relationships tend to be superficial" and she suffers from "a Cinderella complex" where she expects fairy tale endings from complicated real-life situations and glosses over any damage incurred.
Honey Boo Boo: "I want to go to Disneyland because it sounds like the coolest place ever, but I love mudboggin'.”
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez: The "heartbroken teen still misses the Spring Breakers star" even though they broke up because he was cheating on her. "They've exchanged text messages and discussed meeting up, but Selena is against the idea."
Whoopi Goldberg on Her Trademark: "I'm a farter. When you work in the theater, you do quick changes and you're running around and sometimes you're just letting go."
Beyoncé: During her Super Bowl halftime performance, "the star wore four to six pairs of panty hose."
Misc/Etc: "She does not deserve a penny just so she can go to Intermix and buy herself a new tube top." "a windowed wall with underwater views of the pool" "looks like she just took a dip in the pool""a glass catwalk" "what's up with her granny peeptoe slingbacks?" "She's not my fucking friend" "Tyler Perry's Hollywood Hills home is a bachelor's dream" "99% say creepy" "the championship of men" "old as Hell? Really?" "I'm just a lucky guy — right place, right time" "riding the choo-choo" "She's more of a dude than me!" "wearing a blonde wig and fake breasts" "Baby, you're a waxwork!" "She should've written her phone number, too!"
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Taylor Swift and Harry Styles Had a Secret French Rendezvous: "She told Harry it was best if they pretended not to be together," as they attended the Cannes music festival and stayed in the same hotel. Has Taylor been watching Mad Men and French New Wave movies? Probably. "Taylor has learned from her mistakes, and feels like the only way they stand a chance is to keep everything away from the public until their romance is on solid ground. They had a great time hanging in each other's rooms. But in public they made sure not to even cross paths. It was very well coordinated." That's what they should have just done in the first place, assuming it wasn't all for publicity to begin with. They broke up over "Harry's alleged cheating" but "Harry insists he didn't cheat and after an intense grilling, Taylor now believes him." I imagine an intense grilling from Taylor Swift to be a lot like one of Maya's interrogations from Zero Dark Thirty.Johnny Depp's Private 45-Acre Bahamian Island: It has six beaches.
Gwen Stefani on Motherhood: "As they grow older, it really does start to change your life. Like, 'Oh my God, they have school, they have to get through first grade, they have to learn to read.' It starts getting so serious and you're like 'Ahhh!'"
Exclusive Interview: USA Network's Jeff Wachtel
By Anna Carugati
Published: February 7, 2013
PREMIUM: Jeff Wachtel, co-president of USA Network and co-head of original content at Universal Cable Productions, tells TV USA about the channel's cost-effective production models and the innovative way its shows have been marketed under the now famous "characters welcome" tagline.WS: How did "characters welcome" come about?
WACHTEL: It was a wonderfully organic process. It established a beachhead of original programs. When Bonnie [Hammer, today the chairman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios] came on board, she felt very strongly about networks having a brand. Chris McCumber [co-president of USA Network] and I joined the company at about the same time. We had been making shows and marketing them individually and Bonnie said we really need an umbrella for this place to give it a handle for our affiliates, for our advertising clients and also for the creative community. We were lucky that unlike some other people who need to make up a brand out of thin air, we had already started finding some success with character-centric, lighter drama, which we had done because the world had put out endlessly grim pieces. We thought, we don’t have more money but we have a more unique vision. So how can we tailor that unique vision and bring in a unique audience? The characters brand evolved from that. Now, interestingly, it’s been feeding the programming strategy and the programming mix. So we are lucky that we have a brand that is not like most, an imprint or a label, it is actually something that informs both the way we make shows and they way we market them.
WS: How does that brand filter guide you in deciding which shows fit the network and which ones do not?
WACHTEL: Like anything, it’s a dance. In the early [years], when we really had the field more or less to ourselves, [we looked for] more upbeat, aspirational, blue-sky type of dramas. It was kind of easy. We thought, OK, we know what to do and people know what to bring us. It was really about making the best possible version of whatever was working in the brand. Now that we’ve been market leaders for seven years—we’ve been number one—we need to push [the brand] out and the dance changes a little bit. We are very, very aware of our contract with the audience: bringing them the best programming that is more on the lighter side, it might even have some escapist elements in one sense, but at least it has a more upbeat view of the world and the world’s possibilities. That’s something that we are still very serious about, even as we move our brand toward what might be more edgy content.
WS: Are you moving toward edgier content in part because there are many other players in the cable world that are producing character-driven shows?
WACHTEL: I think it’s just come about because our programming has worked really well and we don’t want to be only one note. Our challenge right now is pushing ourselves out of any sense of complacency and we’ve already done it and succeeded. We need to remind ourselves to take risks and push out and to still have that start-up mentality that made us successful.
WS: I remember talking to Bonnie back in 2008 and she told me how USA had successfully created a production model that allowed the shows to have as much quality as possible on the screen but cost less than broadcast shows. Is that still the area you want to be in—producing more cost-effectively?
WACHTEL: Very much. Our shows probably cost 30-percent to 35-percent less than similar shows on broadcast, and maybe 50-percent less than a show on pay cable. It’s not easy to sustain, especially given our success, but it’s also really important in the cable world that you keep the economics of each show manageable so that you can allow your showrunners the creative freedom that you promised them, and that you can give them a certain amount of flexibility. Part of it is the more shows you make the cheaper it gets per unit. If you go to Kinko's and make 1,000 copies, it costs less than making one copy. The same thing is true with series. We are more careful about our production model and don’t do 22 or 24 episodes a year. That is one of the reasons that allow us to keep the quality high, we don’t do quite as many episodes in a year. It allows the original showrunner to stay onboard as that special and unique voice. One of the things we take most pride in is that with very, very few exceptions, the person who came in on the original pitch of the idea is the person who writes the last episode. That was true on Monk and is true on Burn Notice and Psych, and our producers on Covert Affairs are going into their fourth season and they are the same.
WS: Yes, I’ve read there is tremendous loyalty among your showrunners. What creative environment do you provide them with?
WACHTEL: We are a collective of producers here and I will say immodestly that this is the best creative team in the business. It very much views the work like a producer. That enables us to bring people into the mix who may not have as much showrunning experience, but who have a really strong and distinct vision and we can be their backup as a production entity. So it’s a win-win. It allows newer voices to learn the trade and become showrunners and it invests our creative executives more fully.
WS: NCIS has been a huge success for you. Will you continue to acquire network shows to help fill out USA’s schedule?
WACHTEL: Very much so. The biggest thing in 2013 for us, in addition to all the original programming, is that Modern Family is coming on line in the fall of 2013. And we are treating that like we would treat the launch of an original. It’s that important to us and I think it’s going to be that important and that much fun to our audience, to have that show available with that frequency. It’s one of the very few shows that the networks have launched in the last few years that still has that incredible mass appeal and really plays to our audience.
WS: What are some of the originals coming up this year?
WACHTEL: We’re doing a show called Graceland from the creator of White Collar, Jeff Eastin. While it has a gorgeous Southern California setting, but it goes to a deeper and darker theme than we have previously done. Graceland is based on a true story. The DEA busted a drug lord and one of his principal assets was this beautiful house in Redondo Beach. The DEA took it over and instead of putting it on the market, they said this would be a great safe house for our agents. DEA, the LAPD, U.S. Customs all use it as their cover house and create this very interesting community of undercover agents, who, when they leave the house, are engaged in some of the darkest and most complicated crime solving, but when they come home they have this sanctuary. Maybe the title Graceland has connotations to a certain rock and roll figure in the ’60s but for us it’s about sanctuary. It’s a beautiful show and Jeff is about as fun, smart and witty a writer as there is.
And then we are doing new stuff. We have a couple of comedy pilots we are looking at right now, one of them stars Annie Potts, from Designing Women, as the mother of two young doctors. It’s a fun piece that we think might be a great companion to Modern Family. The other one is a little edgier. Denis Leary and Bob Fisher and are producing it. Bob wrote Wedding Crashers.
We love that we are playing in the comedy world now and the other big thing is reality. It’s a genre that we feel we really need to join the party and we have a couple of shows we are launching in the spring. One is called The Moment and the other is The Choir. They are both upbeat and somewhat aspirational but we also think they are very entertaining life journeys.
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Nicole Steinwedell : supremely stunning in a guest role on CSI
Hoping she really dispensed with the ridiculous non-nudity clause. Nicole career was on the upswing after a memorable stint on The Unit (TV series) and her growing legion of fans was looking forward to seeing
the gorgeous blonde in far more prestigious productions in small and big screen. Unfortunately Nicole career stagnated and it's back to square one in a decade she been in Hollywood.
Nicole is actually pretty liberal-minded and nudity wouldn't be an issue if not for her family background. Proud military tradition and the respect it entails in the community. So Nicole is more than happy with telling anyone interested the perennial excuse in the age of Internet : 'It will be out there forever'.
As she enters fully into third decade of her lovely existence, Nicole the actress will soon need to make a firm decision about her career path and the direction she wants it to go before it's taken away from her in youth-obsessed Tinseltown.
* by the way, looking for the short film 'Escape' (2006) where she is listed as S-and-M Blonde.
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'True Blood' Season 6 Spoilers: Sookie's New Man, the Return of Billith and More!
Back to the glass half full thing, though -- since season 6 is finally in the works, the spoiler machine is once again in full gear! We've got the goods on everything from who's fanging who to who's brand new on the upcoming season of True Blood (which sounds like it should definitely be worth that suck-ish wait!). Ready?
True Blood Season 6 Spoilers
Sookie Will Fall for a New Supe
Forget vampires and werewolves. Rumor has it Sookie's love interest this time around will be a fellow faerie named Ben (played by Rob Kazinsky of EastEnders).
Bill Will Be ... Different
Cast and crew are tight-lipped about whether Bill Compton will return in Billith form or not, but Alexander Skarsgard did hint that Bill would be "kind of dangerous now, even for an old, strong vampire like Eric." (As long as he's not covered in blood, yuck!)
Bon Temps Will Get Some Fresh Meat (Down, Jason!)
Uh-oh. New character Nicole Jannsen (played by Jurnee Smollett) is described as a "do-gooder" in her early 20s, "a true bleeding heart" who's “not at all concerned with money; she’s concerned with the common good and doing what’s right." Jason will destroy her, oh no!
Pam's Relationships Will Get "Complex"
So says Kristin Bauer van Straten:
Things are a little complex, so we continue with the complexities in her relationships. Her relationship with Eric became strained during the season and they’re in a quite a jam ... And she has this new progeny [Tara] and they’re both gay. I don’t know where that’s going to go, but Rutina [Wesley] and I are extremely curious! I don’t know what they’re going to do with it.We're pretty curious, too!
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