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Sara Tommasi runs a porn movie (backstage photos)
There was surprise, we had grown tired and now again we are surprised.Sara Tommasi is shooting a porn movie. A true porn movies whose pictures had been taken from backstage.
For now it is not known, nor title, nor the plot (if any) and if it comes out in summer or autumn.
In the pictures you see Sarah with blonde wig and a red flower on her breast.
Sara Tommasi, hard debut
In recent months the exploits of Sara Tommasi have been talk of town. In particular, with its increasingly exposed naked in public to attract attention to its battle against the banks. Now the former castaway island of Fame has decided to go further: to act in real porn movie. Title, plot, topic are still mysterious, but the film should be released shortly. As part of an operation produced by the "Star Dive Management". Meanwhile, here are some pictures from backstage, taken while Sara was preparing for her ... debut.
Bio: 
Sara Tommasi graduated in economics at the 'Bocconi University of Milan, got her diploma in drama and diction at the CTA Milan and has followed a stage drama to' Actor's Studio in New York. She came to the attention of the nation when she reached the finals of the 1998 Miss Italy pageant. After that great achievement, she turned her back on college and economics and concentrated her fame by getting some brand news boobs. Now, like every showgirl/model worth her salt, she’s done a nude calendar for Max, appeared on a reality show (In her case, it was the Italian version of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!), worked as a VJ, and dated several footballers — the sky, clearly, is the limit, even for a girl so staunchly opposed to publicity (yeah right). She was recently involved in the controversy surrounding the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his whole Rubygate's sex scandal starting underage teen prostitute Ruby Heartbreaker. Apparently Sara and Ruby together would go to Berlusconi's villa in Arcore...scene of awesome sex parties allegedly. However Sara help cleared Berlusconi name in an interview when she said of PM Silvio Berlusconi, she never received money from him: "Unfortunately not."
NAPLES - "My problem is an irrepressible urge to have sex. But I'm not a prostitute. And 'I dissolve the drug in the glasses ... ". So Sara Tommasi, the showgirl involved in the investigation of the Prosecutor of Naples on a round ring, in an interview with Novella 2000 on newsstands tomorrow, and of which the magazine has released a preview. "Certainly, if a minister would offer me 15,000 euros ... but - he adds - is only a hypothesis". As for her relationship with Vittorio Sgarbi, a former castaway island of Famous confirms what was said by the art critic : "He took me with Berlusconi in Bulgaria in June."
While Nicole Minetti, says, "is only about money and is sick of shopping."
Italy: Where did All the Feminism Go?
by Madelaine Johnson
Italians recently held rallies in support of women's dignity "Se non ora quando?" "If not now, when?" is the question. When will women say "enough!". Trying to explain Italian women's apparent apathy toward the abusive circus that is Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's not-so-private life, the global media trot out a litany of rationalizations. They mention Italian macho-male stereotypes, cite a gender gap bigger than Kazakhstan's, and the failure of Italy's feminist movement.None of these explanations tell the whole story and all overlook the background and magnitude of the huge achievements of Italian feminism.
In a wonderful (but undistributed) 2009 documentary "Ragazze la Vita Trema," director Paola Sangiovanni filmed the story of Italian feminism from its origins in 1970s radical politics, letting participants do the talking. Epic battles for divorce (1971) and abortion (1978) united women across the social and political spectrum. But by the 1980s, the fervor was spent. The movement was done in by the lack of uniting causes and internal ideological struggles. The fatal shooting of 19-year-old Giorgina Masi during a rally in 1977 (allegedly by an undercover police agent) may have been the last straw. As one participant recalled, "demoralized by the violence, we turned inwards; to drugs and our personal lives."
Italy's decline in international gender-gap rankings is a snapshot of this resignation. Other countries have gained while Italy has stood still.
In the 1980s, the U.S. feminist movement came up short on the Equal Rights Amendment and appeared to falter. But instead of turning inward to domestic life, American women opted for careers, entering male-dominated fields and eventually reaching levels of professional status envied in Italy. What did the U.S. movement have that the Italian one lacked?
Italian feminism was mercurial. It swept in fast and hard. It had palle, or balls. What it lacked was spalle; the supportive shoulders of history and strong parallel structures and networks necessary to sustain growth.
The U.S. movement originated in anti-slavery Abolitionism (many of whose leaders were women). The centennial Smith College t-shirt slogan "1875-1975. A Century of Women on Top," wasn't entirely facetious. By the 1970s, graduates of Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, and schools like them, each one a top-flight university founded to give women the education their brothers received at all-male Ivy League schools, had in fact made it to the top.
In male-dominated schools, these women would have been incorporated into traditional male structures, with predictable results. Instead, these women were taught and led by their own. Professors and presidents provided positive and immediate role models. They took charge and in turn expected leadership. As a result, graduates took their skills, expectations and views of women's roles and power back to their communities and families.
In the small mid-western town where I grew up, university-educated women ran local cultural and charitable life. "Mere housewives" ran the multi-million dollar budgets and complex organizations of symphonies, theaters, churches and hospital auxiliaries. The League of Women Voters organized political debates and voter registration. Many parlayed their experience into state and national office. These women were the civic partners (at home, too) of male community leaders, who had no choice but to respect them and listen
My mother and all her friends had college degrees. I am the fifth generation of college-educated women; my great-great grandfather's sister was the first woman admitted to the New York State bar. Though I say this with pride, it's a means to illustrate not boast. Women such as these were not only role models for other women but fundamental in helping to train men — whether brothers or husbands — to respect the high expectations of strong women. In hostile male fields, I knew I had allies. My traditional father didn't expect me to be a doctor or lawyer. He did expect me to lead.
My schools, whatever their shortcomings, taught leadership. Grade-school group projects, student councils and the many homegrown micro-democracies of American life integrate American women into the decision-making process. The process may have holes, but it exists and thrives.
Along the way, women acquired wide multi-layered support networks based on common ideals, competence and friendship. These resilient ties cut across political ideology, geography and class. If you hit a wall, there were places to turn, jobs to do.
Contrast this with Italy. Universal suffrage came — barely — in 1946. Very few of my Italian friends from the same socio-economic background have mothers with university degrees. With Italian cultural life run by the state (men) and charitable life run by the church (more men, in skirts), the domestic sphere was the only one Italian woman had left, regardless of class or education. Italian female social networks were (and are) based on class, town or family. So when feminism hit a wall, the only place to go was, literally, home.
Today, the absence of these parallel structures and fallback networks means that Italy's problems hit women extra hard. It doesn't look good for the gender gap.
Who is most squeezed by an old-boy society where merit means nothing? Women. Who loses in a slumping economy? Recent graduates, most of whom are women. Who picks up the slack for poor public services? Mother and daughters. If the correlation between school and work is low, who suffers? Girls without role models. Without good role models, what do girls choose?
Sara Tommasi, the Bocconi economics graduate and Berlusconi girl who picked a career in TV over one in finance may not have been acting unreasonably.
At the "Se non ora..." rally, journalist and author Beppe Severnigni complained that its slogans and form were tired and outdated. He challenged the organizers to find some fresh new ideas. Some old ones from America might be a good place to start.
Madelaine Johnson is a writer based in Milan. She was educated at Smith and graduated from Wellelsey. This piece is republished with permission from The American Mag.
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* Allison Mack just posted her first Huffington Post article. It's obvious she is talking about her scene in Marilyn in first paragraph - the kissing and all the stuff. Just read the part about being naked...is it me or is that confirmation of her first nude scene? She was positively cryptic. I sent few e-mails to makers of Marilyn querying about Allison spunky turn and if she stripped for the first time on-screen. The lack of response and later deletion of the IMDB thread (about her nude scenes) suggest good tidings. We are going to see those titties. I get it wrong more often than not but not on this subject. She is topless in Marilyn. But just not sure how much of the scene will be cropped or cut out.........
Glass House
Do you remember your first kiss? I remember mine: my lips are sticking to my gums because all the moisture from my mouth has made a mass exodus to my palms and armpits. Suddenly, there he is. Standing in front of me. And the fact that I actually like him amplifies my nerves by 110 percent.
My body is caught in a tractor beam pulled directly towards him, but I am eyeing the ejection seat with my hand hovering over the abort and abandon button. It is going to happen. There is no turning back now. I acquiesce. I lean in. Our teeth clink and the pimples on my hormone ravaged chin rub against his peach fuzz.
"Cut. Let's go again."
Looking around at the director and the 25 middle-aged men who just witnessed this epic moment of awkward intimacy I can't help but feel as though there is something abnormal about this experience.
You see, I don't need to remember my first kiss. This coming-of-age moment is forever burned onto celluloid, which can be re-run over and over and over again. One of my most personal, clumsy and intimate experiences is caught on camera for all to see... and see... and see.
So much of my life has been documented this way. Many of my most personal experiences are shared with the whole world. Type my name on your TiVo and you can watch me gain and lose weight, go through phases of bad haircuts and too many piercings, zits the size of walnuts on my chin, then on my nose, and, my personal favorite, right between my eyes. Watch me grow, morph and shift into the woman I am today all from the comfort of your living room chair.
This offers a unique feeling of familiarity between the rest of the world and me. The Truman Show-like life I have lived allows for a depth of intimacy with people I have never met. Leaving a restaurant the other day, a beautiful woman looked up at me and smiled, "Hi!" Her warm and open energy felt comfortable, so I assumed I knew her. "Hi!" I said back. But I didn't know her. I don't.
She knew Chloe. My weekly visits to her living room TV via Smallville created the illusion of instant friendship for her.
Experiences like this are both exhilarating and terrifying. Exhilarating because who doesn't like instant lovely friends. This is delightful. But then there is the terrifying bit. She thinks I'm actually Chloe. She has no concept of all the many ways I am way more face-plant Allison than kick-ass Chloe. It could be really easy to hide behind the strength and power of a character I portrayed rather than opening up to the truth of my own very real blemishes and bruises.
I don't have a team of witty writers giving me snarky comebacks or wise remarks in real life. And no amount of cover up will conceal the scars on my arms and legs that come from the clumsy way I move through my days. Along with a fantastic wardrobe and perfect hair, my alter ego "Chloe" embodied a strength and integrity in the face of outside pressures and criticism that I don't feel I have yet. It is funny, but in a way I look up to her and admire her commitment to the pursuit of truth against all odds. I never thought I would see the character I played as a role model for the type of woman I would like to become.
Perversely, it is the typical "superhero" struggle. And it has me wondering if someone like Bruce Wayne feels lame without the voice modulator and all the fancy leather defining each muscle. Does he look in the mirror and feel like less of a man compared to Batman? Does the man behind the mask, the real man, feel less impressive than his alter ego?
In my case, the ideal super woman, "Chloe," always knew what to say and was never afraid to stand for what she believed in. Then there is this real woman "Allison," who is afraid of owning what she loves, is too hard on herself, and is struggling to figure it all out. Both "characters" have the same voice, the same body, and the same brain. There's just one simple difference: oh, just this little thing called reality.
As an actor I am in the spotlight of attention and I have the choice to either maintain the façade of my character -- infallible and special with ultimate strength and integrity plus no pimples, no cellulite and no wrinkles -- or, I can fully expose the truth of my struggles. It is interesting because I think we always glorify heroes. Culturally, at least in North America, we are drawn to beautiful, blemish free flawless heroes who face fierce external foes and then go back to basking in their perfectness. We superficially focus on the glamorous lives of the infallible heroes who look so brave and courageous.
So for many of us, the struggle to embrace our own imperfect selves is relentless and omnipresent in our society. The cover of every magazine lies to us, telling us beauty only exists after extensive airbrushing.
But for me it seems far more terrifying to stand naked and exposed with no suit of armour or special powers. The challenge of living a vulnerable and honest life takes way more guts than hiding behind a mask, a well fitted suit, and a smooth signature fighting move.
So I suppose when deciding how much I want to expose of myself in the work I do and how much I want to hide behind the perfection of a crafted and predetermined character the answer comes in asking myself what I want to promote. What kind of example am I going to set? This answer to this is clear. Not easy, but clear. Ideally I would like to promote self acceptance and love. True invincibility attained through the transparency of messy, screwy, honest, and human issues.
Now, a full year after Smallville, I am at a point in my life and in my career where I would like to be more active in the type of example I set and the type of character I represent. I am stepping out of the comfortable shell of "TV actress" and revealing my "woman behind the screen" as a writer. Welcome to my home, I am renting a "glass house" in an attempt to promote the idea that we are not alone as we struggle through our own maze of masks and mirrors. I'm pushing into the vulnerable truth and sharing this journey to craft my own, real, super character. I am grateful for the suits I have worn; each woman has given me a clearer picture of who I want to be, but I am looking forward to gently folding up the costume and placing it on the shelf. For a little while anyway.
Now, a full year after Smallville, I am at a point in my life and in my career where I would like to be more active in the type of example I set and the type of character I represent. I am stepping out of the comfortable shell of "TV actress" and revealing my "woman behind the screen" as a writer. Welcome to my home, I am renting a "glass house" in an attempt to promote the idea that we are not alone as we struggle through our own maze of masks and mirrors. I'm pushing into the vulnerable truth and sharing this journey to craft my own, real, super character. I am grateful for the suits I have worn; each woman has given me a clearer picture of who I want to be, but I am looking forward to gently folding up the costume and placing it on the shelf. For a little while anyway.
Follow Allison Mack on Twitter: www.twitter.com/allisonmack
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27-years old Meghan Falcone will be topless alongside Maggie Grace in upcoming season of Californication.
As posted earlier casting notice went out for a groupie living together with Maggie Grace's Faith. This role requires nudity and she is a very "enthusiastic" roommate. Her name is Shari. That role was just landed by newcomer Meghan Falcone.
Meghan Falcone was born in Tennessee and grew up in Connecticut. She moved to California, where she got two college degrees and a dog. The latter was an excellent investment. The former introduced her to an individual who introduced her to UCB, making those degrees invaluable. She loves performing, especially with her Harold team, Swanzey!
https://twitter.com/#!/megfalcone
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Magic City's Dominik Garcia-Lorido Talks Cuban Cuisine and '60s Miami Glam
Take one part Mad Men-style glamour, add one part sexy Miami heat and what do you have? Television's newest retro hit drama, Magic City, which just wrapped its first season on the Startz network. Set in 1960's Miami, Magic City follows Ike Evans (played by the dashing Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the owner of the Miramar Playa, Miami's most glamorous and glitzy hotel. We caught up with the fresh (and gorgeous!) young face of the series, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, to get the scoop on season one, Cuban cuisine and life on the beach.
Tell us a little bit about your character, Mercedes, in Magic City.
Mercedes Lazaro is a 21-year-old Cuban girl who grew up in Miami Beach. Her mother is a housewife and her father is the general manager of the Miramar Playa. When you first meet her in the series, she's on the brink of graduating from Pan Am flight attendant school, while working part-time as a maid at the hotel. She grew up around this hotel and is very close with the Evans family that owns it--especially with their youngest son, Danny. They are the same age and grew up together as friends, but now that they're older, they start to develop an attraction for each other and real feelings start to evolve.
What drew you to the role?
What attracted me to the part of Mercedes was really that there was so much ahead of her. She's really independent and wants to venture out and travel the world and she gets caught off-guard by her first love. There's a lot going on in her world. There's depth to her and in her story lines. That's really all you want as an actor.
The show was renewed for a second season by STARZ before the first had even started--did this set a certain expectation for the series?
I mean I didn't really think about all that. I'm just really happy I get to go back to work. I love this group--we've become like a little family. In this business, it's always hard to maintain some sort of stability. Once you finish a job, all of a sudden you're unemployed again. I feel very blessed to have a job to come back to and very grateful to Mitch Glazer [the creator] and Starz for the opportunity.
You're very familiar with Miami--what is it like filming there? Have you enjoyed showing your cast mates around?I was born in Miami and spent most of my summer vacations there growing up. It's great working in my second home (Lorido grew up in LA). I appreciate the city more now that I have something productive to do while I'm there. It's a different experience living like a local. I work during the week then on the weekends I kick back, relax and enjoy the city.
What do you think makes the series stand out?
I think aesthetically it's like nothing we've seen on television before. The cinematography is beautiful. It's actually shot on digital with the same vintage film lenses they used to shoot The Godfather. You've never seen Miami filmed so beautifully. There are also a lot of talented actors on this show--I'm in awe of them. And the writing is top-notch. Mitch really gave 100 percent to every single character.
What do you like best about the fact that the series is set in the 1960's? Everything really, but the music is what feeds my soul. This is the era of music I've been obsessed with since I was a little girl. Mitch knows so much about music--in each script he'd have all the songs already chosen and placed specifically in the scene. I would read his scripts with YouTube open on my computer and play the songs while reading the scenes they were chosen for.
What are your favorite ways to stay fit?
Yoga! Yoga! It keeps me lean and flexible and my core strong. It's also extremely good for the mind and soul--I'm very high-strung and my mind doesn't stop ever! My best friend Chloe and I go to evening classes a lot. We're both homebodies and we always joke that it's our version of going to a nightclub.
Spending time down in Miami must be very culturally invigorating. Do you have a favorite Cuban dish?Ropa Vieja! It means "old clothes" because that's what it looks like. It's shredded beef in like a tomato type of sauce. It's best served over white rice with a side of fried plantains. My mom recently made it for my costar Christian Cooke. He's British and had never had it before so we wanted to make him a really authentic Cuban meal. He was in heaven to say the least--my mom's the best cook!
What is your go-to snack to power you through the day?
If I know I'm going to be in my car all day, I take a bag of sliced apples with me. Coffee is my vice--I drink way too much of it throughout the day. But hey, I'm Cuban!
What can we look forward to next for Mercedes? I will say this: she's very comfortable with her sexuality. She's not afraid to explore that, as long as it's with someone she trusts. You can expect to see her really start to come into her own as a young woman. She's not afraid to take the reins.
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Cortney Palm in Sushi Girl (2012)
http://sushigirl.content.sparkstudios.com/
Cortney Palm is an American actress quickly gaining industry acclaim for her impressive performance in the title role of her first feature film, Sushi Girl. It will be her first on-screen nudity.
Born and raised in Colorado, Cortney was a performer from a young age, beginning in gymnastics and beauty pageants (Miss Teen Colorado 2003 contestant) and crossing over into modeling and acting. At 18 Cortney left her beloved family and friends and moved to California to pursue her passion for acting.
She studied Theatre Arts at California Lutheran University, performing roles in Learned Ladies and Macbeth for the summer Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.
Cortney’s desire was to appear in feature films. Being the perfect chameleon suited for a variety of roles, she wasted no time in Hollywood becoming a SAG member and accepting roles in successful short films such as “Fragile Hearts” which won Best Dramatic Short at the LA Life Film Festival.
Cortney Palm’s next film appearance will be in Gemini Rising with Lance Henriksen, which is currently in post-production.
But it was hard going for Cortney for many years. Quickly realizing living in Los Angeles was expensive and struggling to pay monthly bills working as a waitress, Courtney decides to become a glamor model after room-mate suggested it was an easy way to make quick cash. She was hesitant at first coming from a very conservative background. But at the end values are no match for materialistic seduction. She worked in low-end of the industry and created host of modeling profiles including one under name of
Cortney Nacole Palm at ModelMayhem. For nearly five years she worked hard including diversifying sometimes into world of sugar daddying. The pretty Hispanic-Indian biggest break-thru came in 2011. She begin to see the fruits of sucking off the agents, producers and various assholes in the movie biz over the years by acquiring important roles in movies albeit ones that requires nudity. Cortney didn't care too much what her family thinks now she is 25; having informed them of her sexy turn in Sushi Girl. They were not too happy about it but it's her life. She also swiftly opened a new ModelMayhem profile. Cortney plan to stay in Hollywood for long time to come either by maintaining a consistent film career or get knocked up by a dumb rich schmuck.
- Height:5 feet 7 in
- Weight:118 lbs
- Age Range:18 - 28
- Physique:Slim
- Hair Color:Black
- Hair Length:Chin Length
- Eyes:Blue
- Ethnicity:Caucasian, Mixed, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Native American
- Voice Type:Alto
Awardshttp://www.hollywoodandme.com/845342559
- Theatre Banquet, Best Supporting Actress, 2007
- ACTF, nomination for Performance in TAPE, 2006
- Miss Pre-Teen Colorado, First Runner Up
- Miss Teen Colorado, Second Runner up
Interview with director Kern Saxton:
We did an open casting call for Sushi Girls, and we read A LOT of young actors, including models for Playboy, Penthouse and Suicide Girls. It was a really draining experience. And then Cortney Palm walked in and just nailed it. We knew we needed someone who was comfortable with being nude the entire time, and she was just a rock. And this is one of her first feature roles and she knocks it out of the park. I think we all knew when we saw her audition that she was the perfect choice, and we were right. We didn’t want a known face or a big name, and we didn’t want someone who was unbelievably gorgeous either. She was the right combination of everything.
Naked 'Sushi Girl' Cortney Palm Talks Megan Fox, Hot Sauce And Uh, Being Naked
Granted, the 24-year-old was not naked at the time, but plenty was still revealed during our time together. For example, we now know that Palm has no problem being naked (despite the very constricting outfit she wore to our interview).
"(During my audition they asked) 'So, are you comfortable being naked?' I said 'Yeah!' They said 'Can you show us?' I was like 'Yeah!' Basically that's how I landed the part," Palm explains.
Oh, and she acts in the movie too.
"Sushi girl’s character was a very empowering role to play," Palm says. "And she experiences a traumatic event," she says without revealing too much about her character. "I'm laying covered in sushi and each piece removed reveals part of her body, but her character isn't getting more vulnerable."
OK, back to the naked stuff...
Which body part are you most proud of?
I love my ass! I've got to knock on wood because people always compliment my ass, and I hope that it never falls.
If you could be one cartoon character, who would it be?
I'd be one of the Powder Puff Girls. They can fly, they have powers and they are awesome. If you wanted to go Disney I'd go with Kim Possible. Any girl that can jump out of a plane and go save the world is something that I would love to do.
What's your favorite Bill Murray movie?
Oh my gosh! Really? He actually gets on my nerves. Hmmm..."Ghostbusters"!
If you could kick anybody's ass on television, whose would it be?
I would want to throw down with Angelina Jolie. She and I are going to be wing-suiting off a building and landing on a moving boat. Then we'll strip down out of the wing suit--because you can't fight in a wing suit. Then I'm going to pull out my Samurai sword, and she'll pull out some weapon from "Tomb Raider." We're just going to have a throw-down and it's going to be awesome.
If there was a role that you had the opportunity to do over and do it better, what would it be?
"Transformers." I'd take over Megan Fox's role. Or maybe even Kristen Stewart in "Twilight." I'd take both of those roles.
What's the worst date you've ever been on?
I went on a date with this guy who asked to kiss me. It was really cute, but he looked too much like Justin Timberlake and I told him I just don't know if I can kiss you. He was OK with it and asked to see me again, but that didn't happen. Nothing against Justin Timberlake, but this guy was too much of a replica. I need the original.
What's your favorite TV show?
"Game of Thrones"! That show is top notch. Aria, the young daughter, I could play her part when she's older. I really want to be her when she's older. I love that show. Anything medieval or archaic. I love blood, gore and violence.
You're on death row, what's your last meal?
A Chipotle burrito! I'm a vegetarian so it has to have black beans, sour cream, cheese, the hottest hot sauce you can find. It's so good.
What will you be doing 10 years from now?
Hopefully acting and doing what I love: writing, acting and staying busy. I don't want kids. I am engaged though. We're getting married in October and he's who I want to be with. Sorry, guys! Well, that actually will make you want me even more.
Why should guys go see "Sushi Girl"?
If you like guns, blood, sexual situations and sexual content, you should go see it. There are lots of twists and turns. Weapons, sushi and naked bodies, that's a great combination.
If you like guns, blood, sexual situations and sexual content, you should go see it. There are lots of twists and turns. Weapons, sushi and naked bodies, that's a great combination.
Interview with Cortney Palm
March 2, 2012
Cortney Palm is part of the ensemble cast of the new film “Sushi Girl”. She is playing the title role along with a great genre cast of Mark Hamill, Tony Todd, James Duval and Noah Hathaway. Media Mikes had a chance to chat with Cortney about the role and working with an all male cast. Mike Gencarelli: How did you get involved with “Sushi Girl”?
Cortney Palm: I had gotten called to audition by Zora DeHorter who was doing the casting for the film. I went in to read and I really liked the writing however I didn’t think my audition went that well. I ended up getting a call back and thought of that as a way to redeem myself. I went to the call back and they told me I had done really well. I sent a follow up email to Zora after the audition as a thank you and she replied saying that they were very interested in me. I had a third call back and I had figured it was between me and someone else. The third audition basically was to see if I was comfortable with being nude, as I had already gotten the part. It was really exciting!
MG: Did being nude for a majority of the film pose any problems?
CP: I get asked that a lot. Nudity is such a wide spread phenomenon in America lately. In Europe they have been putting out explicit content for years. As long as nudity is a pertinent piece of the characters story then there is no reason to freak out about someone being naked on set. It’s just a part of the character and where she is going so it’s no big thing.
CP: I get asked that a lot. Nudity is such a wide spread phenomenon in America lately. In Europe they have been putting out explicit content for years. As long as nudity is a pertinent piece of the characters story then there is no reason to freak out about someone being naked on set. It’s just a part of the character and where she is going so it’s no big thing.
MG: How was it working with such a great male led cast?CP: Those guys were all so funny! Mark Hamill is funny as can be and James Duval has these stories that he was always wanting to tell everyone [laughs]. I was always laughing and they had to yell at me to stop moving the sushi. I am the only female in the film but it’s invigorating and I love being an empowered female. The film is very powerful and all the guys were really great.
MG: Can you tell us any interesting stories from the set?
CP: There were a lot. The first day I was fairly nervous as I was going to be surrounded by some real iconic actors. To lighten the mood Mark Hamill walks in and asks me if I was wearing a body stocking. It made me feel really good. I figured the lights must have made me look really good because I wasn’t wearing one. Another time James Duval was telling us about a piano bar he goes to and how he is always being recognized from “Independence Day”. It was fun just talking about being actors in everyday life.
MG: How would you describe the film?
CP: Kern Saxton and Destin Pfaff are just excellent writers. Within their writing you can find such great characters with really good dialogue. Each character is so distinct in their motive or action that it really brings to life every piece of the puzzle. The film keeps you on the edge of your seat and wondering what’s going on with each character. I think Kern Saxton is going to be a break out director!
MG: If you could choose one person to work with whom would it be and why?CP:I want to work with James Cameron, he’s inspired me since I watched “Titanic” 13 times in the theater and Clint Eastwood who said I was stunning while working as a background performer on the set of one of his recent films. I love Emily Blunt and Julia Roberts and I would feel honored to share the screen with them as well as Tom Hanks and Zach Efron. Just to name a few.
MG: Do you have any other upcoming projects?
CP: I just wrapped a short film that was shot by Trisha Gum. The film is called “Losing Ferguson” and it’s going to be hitting the festival circuit soon. The story is about a girl who has been living in this imaginary world do to a past trauma. The girl begins to grow up and suddenly loses her imaginary friend. It’s a really good story.
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Shades of erotica sweeping the suburbs
I don’t even have to mention the title for everyone to know exactly what I’m talking about. The conversation usually starts like this, “Guess what I’m reading?” said in the most sing-songy way possible. Everybody knows the answer, and it seems every woman in suburban America is reading it.
Full disclosure: I haven’t read “the book” yet.
I find it fascinating that this book is so acceptable in mainstream conversations. Moms are sharing it with their adult daughters.
Grown women are discussing it at dinner conversation. Work friends compare notes.
What gives? Why is this book of “erotica” OK, but other types of porn not OK?
Some women in Overland Park are going crazy about removing a half-naked statue of a woman in an art garden exposing her breasts at the Overland Park arboretum, but book clubs all over the suburbs are discussing “the book” with such openness it would make Dr. Ruth Westheimer blush. The Real Housewives of Hypocrisy Lane I’ll call it. Sign the petition to remove the statue of the woman exposing her breasts during the day, read our lady porn and gossip with our friends about it during the evening.
Another interesting observation I’ll make is that suburban women are very territorial about their porn, excuse me, erotica. I had a guy friend of mine mention that he was reading “the book.”
Wait a minute buddy! You can’t read “the book.” You are a guy.
If you want your porn, it is perfectly acceptable for you to walk into any convenience store and simply buy a porno magazine. You can order up your porn from any cable company and not be mortified about what the cable company is going to think when your porno title shows up on your cable bill.
You are a guy and these things are acceptable for you. Yes, we know, you read Playboy for “the articles,” but still.
We are women. We have to be much more discreet about our erotica.
If women were like men when it comes to erotica our suburban mom cards would be revoked. We would be kicked off of the soccer sidelines.
Our minivans would be repossessed. We would never be allowed in the zero entry kiddie pool again.
This book is ours. When I even mentioned to my girlfriends about my guy friend reading “the book” I got the exact same reaction that I had, how dare he.
He had no right to read our book. I felt like they were ready to light the torches and march over to his house demanding “the book” back immediately.
He had taken from us our one wonderful, mainstream acceptable “erotic” treat.
Is the openness of this erotica fiction a testament to how far feminism has come in America? Is it a commentary to the sexualized society we now live in?
Is this acceptance of a book like this a symptom of America’s tailspin into moral depravity? Some may say so.
I, however, am withholding judgment until I read the book cover to cover, and then I will form my own opinion. I feel that is only fair. Look for my part two follow up after I’ve read “the book.”
Aimee Patton, of Overland Park, owns two companies, one in convention and meeting planning, the other in presentation design. She volunteers and enjoys tweeting, traveling, playing tennis and mah-jongg. She is raising a 5-year-old daughter. To reach her, send email to oped@kcstar.com or write to Midwest Voices, c/o Editorial Page, The Kansas City Star, 1729 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. 64108.
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Social Networking Turns Deadly in the NSFW Backslasher Trailer
I love me some slashers, full of gore and nudity, its pretty much all you need, well, a story is also nice. Here we have our first look at Tim Cowles upcoming UK slasher flick Backslasher, which takes a look at the deadly side on social networking, check it out below.
Sadly not much information is available at this time, but we have been told that this one will hit the States later in the year.
Synopsis: “When blogaholic Becca starts her lingerie business, she thinks she’s got it made. With thousands of contacts already in her online ‘friends list’, and best friend Ruby managing girls at an adult chat channel, she figures she’ll have plenty of customers. But when a slew of seemingly unconnected killings take place, the police get suspicious as their only connection is Becca’s online ‘friends list’. As Becca’s ‘friends’ start adding their bodies to the pile Becca’s made prime suspect. But she’s not the murderer. A homicidal maniac is having a killing spree, adding each victim as a friend before murdering them. When Becca finally makes the connection and uncovers the chilling secret surrounding Backslasher, will she be too late to save herself?”
The film stars Simon Britton, Emily Eaves and Ina Maria Brekke.
For more on this one, hit up their official website.
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Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Release Raunchy Video
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Mermaid Waters' Bianca Black, 15, to represent Australia for the first time at the international Miss Teenager Pageant
SEEKING PERFECTION: Gold Coaster Bianca Black, 15, is off to Guatamala as Australia's representative in the Miss Teenager pageant.
MEET Bianca Black - the 15-year-old who will represent Aussie teens at the international Miss Teenager Pageant. Gold Coast husband and wife Mark Williams and Thelma Rodriguez, the 2008 Miss Universe Nicaragua, secured the rights to the Australian arm of the pageant this year and began their search for a star to put on the international stage.
As with the beginnings of many famous modelling careers Bianca, from Mermaid Waters, was spotted in public.
"I was approached at an engagement party and they told me everything about it . . I've always wanted to do something like that," Bianca says.
She will fly into Guatemala a few days before the pageant begins and her mum Sue said there would be immediate pressure.
"Thelma said (Bianca's) judged as soon as she hits the tarmac so it has to be five days of perfection but I just said to be yourself and be nice and you'll be all right," Sue says.
And Bianca's strategy for success?
"I'm just going to be nice to everyone and talk to everyone . . . I don't know the language so I'll just smile and say hello to everyone, even the cleaners."
* Didn't even know there was a international beauty pageant for girls that age. Lordy lord. She doesn't look fifteen at all! Just waiting for her to turn 18, come to America and get naked in future Starz series.
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Porn Catching On Big in South Africa
Recently I trucked around the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa visiting porn stores. I was looking for Mapona, South Africa’s first all-black adult feature film.Most shops were sold out.
Others, which had merely caught wind of its arrival, were hunting down stock desperately. Demand was running high.
My journey to find Mapona took me through kilometres of images of copulating couples in stores strangely devoid of browsers. In the corners of many, flickering lights and faint moaning signalled the presence of masturbating men behind doors in viewing cubicles.
Finally, in Rosebank, after wading through quiet aisles of candy-coloured sex toys and DVD boxes sporting naked people in every acrobatic posture imaginable, I nearly had some luck.
The portly woman store manager stood behind a glass counter stuffed with lubricants, flavoured condoms and aphrodisiac pills. She was slowly ringing up a hefty pile of movies, the covers of which portrayed African-American men dressed as hip-hop stars with plenty of bling, surrounded by adoring women with gargantuan behinds.
An elderly black man hovered in the background, waiting to dash off with his stash. I leaned in and asked for a copy of Mapona. After the woman shook her head sadly, the customer shot to my side. He had a copy in his car, he told me. Together we traipsed out of the store, he lugging his bulk purchase in two brown packets, clutched to his heart.
He swung open the car door and hauled out a flimsy white disk, which he said he’d sell me for R120. I declined. I was deflated. I didn’t know if the disk had anything on it and I wanted the packaging. Besides, I was more interested in supporting local porn than local piracy.
While porn producers and distributors in South Africa claim the industry is on the rise, the handful of local titles seems to contradict this. After all, the country has not yet produced 50 movies. But the sales—and business models behind those—indicate that local porn production here is on the verge of an explosion.
According to Patrick Meyer, general manager of JT Publishing, the company that warehouses and distributes Mapona, just days after its release the video had sold well over 3000 copies at approximately R200 a disk. Recent local films have been made in three to five days at a cost of about R150 000, making it a lucrative proposition.
Stephen McDermott, who buys stock on behalf of Adult World’s national chain of 65 stores, says he had to re-order the video three times for placement in his stores in the month since its release.
A browse through the internet reveals the arrival of new companies gearing up for porn production: Liberate Studios, run in Cape Town by Reno Horn (aka porn star Kurt Rogers), made its fourth film, Cape Town Sun Fuckers, earlier this year. On his Facebook site Rogers claims he is looking for actors to star in coming heterosexual movies he has planned.
As a location for production South Africa is proving hospitable too. The prestigious Eastern European Bel Ami studio will launch a big budget production (one report put the budget at whopping $400 000) on October 28, a gay feature shot in the Mother City in March.
Mapona, which was produced by the team behind the explicit adult website, Sondeza.com, was months in the planning. Earlier this year, when one logged on to the website a shapely female bum in a bikini appeared above the words: “We’re making a movie—watch this space.”
An online advert invited browsers to the mega-launch that would take place on September 30 from 8pm to 4am at Bar 9 in Midrand—a door fee of R150 would entitle partygoers to a free DVD.
The invite provides something of a clue to the marketing prowess of the Sondeza crew: party-equals-girls-equals-merchandise. And because the marketing of porn also involves the creation of stars, Mapona golden girl Palesa Mbau will soon have her own website, courtesy of Sondeza.
It turns out the Afrikaans market has its own femme fatale: the tattooed and pierced Hunter, who is the star of Tongelong Productions’s latest offering, ‘n Pomp In Elke Dorp, appears on the cover of the November edition of the hardcore Afrikaans magazine, Stokstyf, and this month’s local edition of Hustler.
But at the Sondeza stable not all is rosy. On the phone from Melville on Monday, Mapona producer Tau Morena said that piracy is crippling his enterprise. He had just returned from Durban, where he went to organise a Mapona launch. There, just days after the Jo’burg launch of his DVD, he found the disk, in its full packaging, being sold in quantity at sidewalk spazas and by street hawkers.
Morena has lodged a complaint with the Film and Publications Board (FPB) and Sondeza is considering approaching the police. But having legally procured my copy from Private, the supermarket-sized porn store in Blackheath, I took it home for a viewing.
There are five actors in the movie and five scenes that take place in and around a crappy downmarket townhouse cluster development with suburban pretensions. The first scene unravels in the kitchen when hubby arrives home from work and takes his woman. The environment is what a real estate agent might call aspirational—the cupboards are constructed from cheap, prefabricated material but at least there’s a granite top.
In the most extraordinary of the five scenes an overweight peeping Tom is so taken by what he sees through the keyhole of the townhouse front door—two naked maids cleaning the townhouse lounge—that he suffers a light coronary as he breaks the door down in his fervour. Then there’s a threesome in which he is given first aid, the maids calling him boss throughout the affair. At the end the enormous stallion looks up, face dripping with sweat, and says: “It’s nice to have maids, it’s awesome.”
The story behind Mapona is really the story of the new South Africa. Urban Africans have gained the means of production—even owning the pornographic image is ostensibly empowering.
There are bad designer kitchens and mediocre cars in the garage and, a few scenes down the line, a couple manages to have claustrophobic sex on the front seat of a Citi Golf. The myth promises that the more you gain materially, the more the girls become available.
Meanwhile, the latest Afrikaans porn features - ‘n Pomp in Elke Dorp, Kwaai Naai and the much-hyped Amor: ‘n Bok vir Sports—have been shot in some startlingly opulent mansions. In these films everyone is white. We see the madam and the gardener and the madam and the pool cleaner.
One wonders whether the heterosexual industry will engage with the reality of South African colour dynamics in its coming forays into multiracial pornography. One international production shot in Cape Town for the gay market has two white boys being sodomised by three black boys on a pool table in a township pool hall.
In another, Wild Game: A South African Sex Safari, a hectic sadomasochistic scene unfolds between a leather-clad black master and a bound white slave in front of an enormous artwork by William Kentridge.
But Morena is adamant that Mapona is more than just pure titillation. He says there is some educational value in his film.
“In my mind we are pushing a below-the-line marketing campaign to ensure that we really put it out there that using condoms is the right thing to do and wearing a condom is normal,” Morena says.
In Mapona, condoms are worn in all scenes involving penetration. And, surprisingly, there are no images of ejaculation—the money shot in most porn films. Meanwhile, in the spate of Afrikaans movies recently produced, condoms are seldom visible.
In the same week that Mapona hit the shelves in South Africa the Los Angeles porn industry virtually shut down after it was announced that one of the top porn stars had tested positive for HIV.
According to a report in the Guardian, California law requires employers to “safeguard their workers against the exchange of bodily fluids. However, most studios bypass the requirement on the grounds that the actors they use are self-employed.”
In South Africa porn made or sold in the country does not have to comply with any regulation in terms of safe-sex portrayal, but is bound by other constraints. But the FPB regulates the production and distribution of pornography. Dumisani Rorwana, the acting manager for legal and regulatory affairs of the FPB, says that every film or publication that comes into the country, or is made here, is supposed to be reviewed by the board.
“The Film and Publication Act classifies pornography in two categories: very explicit pornography, classified X18, and what we normally refer to as soft porn,” Rorwana says.
“Prior to selling anything to Adult World, producers (and any other party) have to submit to us for classification. If you want to distribute a film that is classified X18 it may be sold only from a registered shop. Those films may not be shown on television, they may not be distributed via the internet or via mobile networks.”
While there are well over 100 adult stores operating across South Africa, it’s the internet that provides an unquantifiable source of pornography in the country. Even a limited browse reveals sites like sextrader.co.za and amateurssa.co.za.
Rorwana says locally sold DVD covers are not required by law to say that the performers are over 18, but the law does state that nobody under the age of 18 may appear in “those kinds of films”.
The porn producers we spoke to say they require actors to produce an identity document stamped by a commissioner of oaths to confirm their age. But, in addition to the age limitation, other illegal behaviour includes “sexual conduct that violates or shows disrespect to the right of human dignity, violent sexual conduct, incest, sexual activity involving animals”.
While local porn producers are gearing up for a high season, the authorities are engineering something of a crackdown. Malusi Gigaba, the deputy minister of home affairs, has gone into battle with the industry in the past year.
He was present at a porn store raid in East London in December 2009 and is intending to fast-track a law that will compel internet and cellphone porn providers to filter content.
In July a symposium was held under the auspices of the FPB to look at ways of protecting minors from internet and cellphone porn.
“We have not come up with clear timelines in terms of what needs to be done,” Rorwana says. “But we expect to come up with proposals to the effect that there ought to be task teams made up of all interested parties to deal with public awareness, education and codes of conduct—to look at the law and see what needs to be done.”
But if the state chooses to clamp down on electronic porn then porn producers of all kinds will be affected because, worldwide, porn is marketed and sold online, direct to the consumer.
My journey through the local porn enclave ended at the multifaceted empire owned by porn king Joe Theron, which includes the Sting Music company, JT Publishing and a wholesale and distribution operation.
Their offices are based in Jeppestown, a business suburb full of street traders, loitering migrants, decaying houses and street pollution. Behind a high security wall, the offices are sedate and comfortable, like a dentist or lawyer’s rooms.
Inside the reception walls are adorned with framed music disks. Pride of place is given to a framed first edition of South Africa’s Hustler magazine, dating back to August 1993.
In an open-plan office I meet magazine editor Rilette Meyer, responsible for Hustler, Loslyf and Stokstyf, which, she says, each has a respectable monthly circulation of 20 000 readers.
Tall, intense and courteous, Meyer could be a model, a country star or a journalist, which, in fact, she is. I ask about the sudden interest in home-grown porn.
“It shows that South Africans are interested in every aspect of South African life, including what goes on in the bedroom,” Meyer says. But what’s interesting, she notes, is that, while South Africans may have “a kind of cultural envy” about American movies generally and local movies don’t do well, South African consumers of porn have different needs.
“There is a parallel between Sondeza and the Afrikaans market,” Meyer says. “We identify with the things people say and do—there’s a loyalty, no matter how good or bad the quality is.”
Who knew? Porn, it seems, is also Proudly South African.
South Africa gets first all-black porn film
More than 50 people responded to audition notices on website for the porn movie Mapona, which carries a safe-sex message.
South Africa has produced its first all-black pornographic movie, which film-makers say is intended to help promote safe sex and combat HIV.
Mapona – which means Naked in SeSotho – was made in response to demand from the 30,000 members of an amateur porn site, Sondeza, who complained about the dearth of local black talent in X-rated movies.
Producer Tau Morena said most porn films consumed in South Africa were of American, Asian or European origin, while domestic content had been dominated by white people. “There might have been an interracial movie in the 80s but not much since,” he said.
“We are generally a conservative society. This is something consumed but it’s not generally thought about who’s making it. Historically it’s not at the forefront of our communities. We’re still trying to identify who we are as South Africans so we’ve been importing films rather than making our own.”
More than 50 people responded to audition notices on Sondeza for the hour-long movie. The selection process included tests to ensure none had HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. Morena chose three women – including a dancer known as Titanic – and two men from a variety of social backgrounds.
With South Africa burdened by the world’s biggest HIV caseload, killing nearly 1,000 people a day, Morena said he was conscious of the need to promote responsible behaviour. Both men in the film wear condoms in explicit sex scenes.
“This being the first black porn film, we didn’t want to perpetuate the stereotypes. There’s a perception in the media that young people are reckless. We all talk a lot about safe sex but we don’t show it. We have a negative attitude towards condoms. The average person probably doesn’t know how to put a condom on.
“This film has a gentle message about safe sex. I’m not making any grand claims – it is hardcore adult entertainment – but at the same time here’s a way to spread education and information.”
In America, the multibillion-dollar porn industry was thrown into crisis recently after one of its performers tested positive for HIV.
Morean said that a second volume of Mapona, which was shot in three days, is already being planned, and could be accompanied by safe sex educational materials.
Surveys show that many South Africans are opposed to pornography and believe it should be restricted. A recent proposal for an adult channel on a digital TV channel provoked fierce opposition. Earlier this year the deputy home affairs minister, Malusi Gigaba, said he was investigating a ban on pornography on the web and mobile phones.
Morena, who is in his late 20s and from Johannesburg, said: “It’s about generations. People towards the twilight of their lives are probably not going to be over the moon about this. But anyone aged 25 to 45 is generally comfortable with what we’re doing.
“The great thing with South Africa is that there is no status quo with the way pornography is shown. We have a chance from the beginning to root out exploitation. In our case, a woman was paid more than the men.”
But there was a cautious response from HIV/Aids campaigners. Dr Rebecca Hodes, deputy director of the Aids and Society Research Unit at Cape Town University, said: “I’m not sure if it’s a good thing, but it’s a small good thing that they’re wearing condoms.
“It could be a good way of conveying the message but I would need to know more about the background of the people involved in the film. My concerns are about the gender roles brought to the fore in pornography.”
It was announced this week that Playboy magazine will return to South Africa after a 13-year absence.
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Louis Theroux's Provocative Comments About Porn Continue to Elicit Response
The backgroundLouis Theroux last made a programme about pornography 15 years ago. Since then, he has returned to America to look at the industry, and found it to be in crisis. His programme, Twilight of the Porn Stars, will be shown on BBC 2 on Sunday 10th June. It looks at how the internet has changed the pornography industry: stars are paid much less, and the industry is in crisis. But others argue that in fact the internet has made pornography more mainstream.
Pornography is in crisis
Theroux wrote a long article for The Guardian, in which he said that around 2007 the adult industry had gone into “commercial tailspin” as consumers went for free content on the internet. Consumers feel no loyalty to porn studios; performers find themselves out of work. Companies that remain in business are making “high-end” stuff, with more “female-oriented scenes,” as well as parodies such as “Captain America XXX.” The sad thing is that now many female performers are prostituting themselves on the side, using their films as adverts. This isn’t the same for male performers, who are finding their work increasingly lower-paid. It’s hard to see where the hardcore movie business is going to go. Spare a thought “for the legions of performers, qualified for nothing much more than having sex on camera, who have no money saved, and no future.” The fact is, it points to a bigger problem – you can’t sustain an industry if people are used to downloading things for free.
Pornography has never been healthier
Nonsense, said Gail Dines and Dana Bialer on The Guardian. In fact, the internet is making backstreet players come into the mainstream. This is typical of what happense to industries that grow. In fact, now there are “more professionaly managed businesses” with “a level of economic, political and cultural power that is reshaping the industry.” In reality, so-called “free sites” are actually teasers for pay sites – and in fact are owned by the same company – Manwin, which owns Brazzers, Digital Playground (paysites) as well as YouPorn, PornHub, Tube8 and Spankwire (Free.) The industry’s “cracking down” on piracy too. Amateur porn, too, is “just another market segment.” Finally, porn is being “taken seriously by Wall Street, the media and the political establishment.” Porn isn’t being sidelined – it’s gone mainstream.Theroux’s film is bittersweet
Michael Hogan previewed Louis Theroux’s programme on The Telegraph. Theroux finds that of the porn stars he interviewed in his last film, “one has fled, one was sent to prison on obscenity charges, and another has killed himself.” Theroux’s “trademark gentle yet direct interviewing style is ideally suited” to this subject, and the film is “insightful, sad and wryly bittersweet.”
Theroux’s views are slanted
Violet Blue (an “expert in the field of sex and technology”) on Tinynibbles was not happy with Theroux: “So with his incorrect claims and narrow examination of only one avenue in the US porn market it’s readily apparent that he’s set to get everything wrong. I’m taken aback that a man who made an exciting career out of questioning assumptions has ceased to question his own.” She called his article “eye-opening,” said that she was now a “former Louis Theroux fan,” and suggested that the reason that he wrote such a “slanted opinion piece” was that he was a “puritan” who supports the UK firewall which would censor porn – because “he can’t be bothered to work porn filters for his own kids.”
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