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Hot Girl. Fast Car. Eating a Banana.
* Maggie Grace is becoming sexy foxy at the right time.....her very first scene on Californication (2013) will be a lengthy topless scene riding Tim Minchin.
Here are couple of auditions by unknown actresses vying for the role of Faith (spoilers ahead)............
Californication "Faith" - Courtney Scheuerman from Courtney Scheuerman on Vimeo.
Californication Tape : Chloe Cmarada reading for Faith
http://vimeo.com/39598660
...........before Maggie was offered the role of Faith thanks to David Duchvony. Did they hook up on the set of Relative Insanity? Certainly possible. Well-known potheads and getting high together could have led to Maggie spreading her legs for David. There are also rumors Maggie Grace could be naked in the movie.....
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Casting Call: Who Wants to Get Naked and Fake Having Sex for New Bret Easton Ellis Flick?
Author Bret Easton Ellis has been raising eyebrows with his latest film project, The Canyons, and he's still in the casting phase.
The film raised $159,015 in June via a Kickstarter campaign. On the Kickstarter page, the controversial movie is described as follows:
The Canyons is a contemporary thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho, etc.) to be directed by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Affliction, Auto-Focus, etc.) The Canyons documents five twenty-something's quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood.Why go to Kickstarter? The producer, writer, and director want to retain full creative control, and need the money to back up their desire to make a truly indie film, free of censorship.
And when it comes to censorship, one of the first questionable inclusions in film is sex and nudity. It seems like being indie is letting Ellis and his team go all out. Tuesday afternoon, Ellis used Twitter to post a very particular casting call:
Boy and girl 18-25 comfortable with full-on nudity and simulated sex at scale rate for one day scene. Contact: the.canyons.extras@gmail.com
James Deen Sez: I'm Not Having Sex With Lindsay Lohan
“I didn’t realize how famous ‘famous’ was. Whoever took those pictures was in a car two blocks away hiding up a tree. We had no idea that they were there.” James Deen may not be the “legit” famous of his The Canyons co-star Lindsay–even if, at any given moment, there are five new GIFs of him plowing fellow porn-star Stoya on a loop posted on Tumblr by fan girls–but he’s penetrated the pop consciousness enough that paparazzi will snap pictures of Deen smoking cigarettes with Hollywood’s perennial tabloid-rousing starlet.The video: www.x17online.com/celebrities/lindsay_lohan/lindsay_lohan_james_deen_the_canyons_bret_easton_ellis_paul_schrader_smoking_photos_062512.php
Deen, a 26-year-old porn star, GQ’s Well-Hung Boy Next Door, fresh from a Rolling Stone photoshoot, with “like 4,000″ adult films swinging under his belt that run the gamut from kissy vanilla to BDSM gang bang, was meeting director Paul Schrader. And he was nervous as hell.
“I was shaking. I thought I was going to puke. I was about to have a panic attack. I was petrified.”
The Canyons‘ screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis had enthusiastically recruited him through Twitter, but Paul Schrader told us he wasn’t sure. He needed some reassurance that Deen’s “porn guy” stigma wasn’t all he brought to the table. But Deen got the part. And he’s giddy.
“It was so cool,” he told me excitedly on the phone, cicadas filling what I presume is an excited pause. “…So cool. It was probably the first time I felt like a real actor. And not just because it was not leading to a sex scene. I hope it all works out. I haven’t signed any paperwork.”
Deen is taking acting lessons now, honing his abilities. He takes work seriously. When “James” was teenage Bryan the aspiring porn actor, he’d hone his performance skills with deliberate bouts of practice public sex at parties. Or so the suburban myth goes, anyway.
“I will definitely take time off to do this. My intention is that from the day we start rehearsing to the day that the movie is wrapped, I will be giving this movie my full attention.”
“How long have you gone not working?” I asked.
“Uh, I don’t. I’ve never really gone without working. My life is pretty much a perpetual vacation, so I never felt the need to take time off. This will be the first time in eight years.”
“How many days a week do you shoot?”
“Like, seven. Pretty much.”
That’s some work ethic. It’s evinced by his regular blog updates: photos of smiling, post-shoot costars and close-ups of their raw, worn holes. It’s like a diary of work accomplishments, a dutiful visual inventory of professional fucks, joyfully captioned with “Anal Double Penetration Gangbang Of Young So-And-So” and “James Deen and So-And-So Get It On In A Sexual Manner.” But conspicuously, no shots of Lindsay Lohan. (Or her holes.)
“I can definitely honestly say Lindsay Lohan and I are not having sex!”
Wouldn’t he tell me? “I think I would tell everybody.”
“I don’t know anything about her except for that she’s a really nice, down-to-earth, normal twenty-five-year-old girl. We went to a business dinner and she was very professional. She drank coffee and water. Then she had to call for a car because she couldn’t walk ten feet from the door because of the paparazzi.” Deen seems a little riled up, protective.
We probably shouldn’t worry about Lindsay. She’s safer with Deen than with Terry Richardson, despite whispered-about sex and nudity in The Canyons.
”It’s all necessary to the story. This is not an adult film. We are not trying to arouse people. If someone does get aroused, well, it happens. It’s like American Psycho, Less Than Zero. It’s not graphic sex for the sake of graphic sex. In the script you don’t see anything like, ‘You see Tara turn around and flash her boobs!’”
It won’t be a porn film, although it shoots similarly quickly–mere days–you might think it was. It’s an experiment in form and fame with Deen crossing over into the mainstream, Lindsay into indie and giants Ellis and Schrader into ultimate scrappiness! Keep an open mind, ok?
“I’ve done movies in adult that had a higher budget than this one.”
Deen was readying for rehearsals later this week. “I like playing ‘crazy guy.’ That’s why I’m attracted to this role. Christian [Deen's character] is not a normal person–like any good main character in Bret Easton Ellis’s stories.”
Even though he’s ”used to being more involved,” he’s psyched about the role, about “real movie” acting. There was this one one time he played a filmmaker in some olde timey period piece of porn and got a lot of attention and compliments, but it didn’t “thrill” him. It wasn’t “crazy guy” enough, presumably. So, what’s his favorite character so far?
“I was a weird gambling addict who loses his house and my life was being threatened. I got to play ‘dude with problems,’ said goodbye to my wife, promised not to gamble anymore. And in the next scene I’m at some mobster’s house. I think I get killed. There’s mention of the fact that I’m floating in the river.”
The sex scene? It’s with his character’s wife. (Aw.) “Then she stands up to the mobster and there’s a love tryst between them and two other people.” (Deen actually said “love tryst.” Aw.)
At this point, Deen seems less like the dom stringing up squirming “sluts” in Kink.com’s armory, and more like his Ryan Gosling of Porn moniker: the “outsider,” all sex-positive, recalling walking off a BDSM shoot because the girl wasn’t into being choked, slapped, or anything else the director wanted because ”Sex isn’t something you do to somebody. It’s something you do with somebody.” (And then you publish pictures of their pounded assholes on your blog. Aw.)
More Casting Updates:
We are proud to announce that we have cast TENILLE HOUSTON in the role of Cynthia (formerly named Lindsay). Tenille is a great addition to our already fantastic cast and we are excited to have her on THE CANYONS.
We are proud to announce that we have cast TENILLE HOUSTON in the role of Cynthia (formerly named Lindsay). Tenille is a great addition to our already fantastic cast and we are excited to have her on THE CANYONS.
* The Cynthia @ Lindsay role requires full frontal nudity. It will be first on-screen nudity for Miss Houston.
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Lindsay Lohan as Porn Star? You Wish ...
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Your number one request to do a celebrity porn tape, by far, is Lindsay Lohan.
Yep. Seems like the American public has a thing for red hair and impaired judgement:
Because 72.6 of respondents named Lohan as their number one future porn star. Number two?
Jennifer Lopez. Clearly, 65.4 percent of you are tried-and-true ass men.
But (and we do mean but), the survey has a problem, as it doesn't appear to be a scientific poll of random porn lovers but, rather, an online measure of people who decided to opt-in.
In any case, it does give us some idea of which way the salacious winds blow these days (and we do mean blow).
You know who you don't want to see do porn?
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That fact was trumpeted in a statement by Vivid Entertainment, the porn giant that had been after Suleman to make a deal:
... Fewer have any interest in seeing Nadya "Octomom" Suleman in an explicit film ...(She ended up going with another studio).
Interestingly, people's favorite porn categories included anal (first), girl-on-girl (second) and (MILF) in third.
So they're saying JLo and LiLo together on film would be a blockbuster, huh?
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There's nothing Complex about Mary Elizabeth Winstead's hotness
Okay, so apparently watching Honest Abe chopping the heads off of some f*cking vampires didn't turn out to be the hyper entertainment we once hoped it'd be. But guess who's ready to give America a little hug back for their unfortunate mistake. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and her sexy white legs would like to apologize and wish us all a Happy 4th with her new slew of photos from Complex magazine. While, ironically, her portrayal as first lady Mary Todd Lincoln in ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER will probably wind up to be one of her least memorable roles, she still hasn't stepped out of the hottie radar, and probably won't be for a very long time. Not so long as she keeps warming our hearts with shoots like these. We forgive you, MEW.
* Another box-office dud for stunning and talented Mary Elizabeth Winstead. It's just matter of time before she realizes her reservations in tackling mature subjects which has sex scenes/nudity is holding her back. MEW performance in Smashed was eye-catching. She needs to headline a movie that showcase her full range of talents. Mary can dance, have natural dramatic chops and incredible sexy figure. You combine all three and boom : an epic story of country girl aka wild stripper. The trials and tribulations of a woman struggling to survive in harsh environment of seedy Los Angeles. Fantasy on my part but it's a certainty her agent will soon push for MEW to take on more risque-themed scripts in the wake of the dismal failure of Abe Lincoln. She is already at wrong side of the twenties and in danger of becoming irrelevant just like Laura Prepon. Getting naked in a lame shitty movie in a minor supporting role.
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Agnes Bruckner and Kelli Garner in Dreamland (2006)
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Bar Refaeli Under Water - The Official Clip
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Forget Gender, Try Geography: Magic Mike Scores in Red States, Ted in Blue
A pair of R-rated movies ruled the roost this past weekend. Both films — Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike and Seth McFarlane’s Ted — wildly outperformed expectations, with Mike grossing an astonishing near $40 million, while Ted opened to a robust $56 million. At first blush, the reason seemed to be simple: gender. Since each film skewed heavily toward either men (Ted) or women (Mike), the obvious conclusion was that the box office had provided something for both sexes, and everybody won. Simple, right?
Not quite. In fact, the real secret to both films outsize success is actually geography, not gender.
Not quite. In fact, the real secret to both films outsize success is actually geography, not gender.
This is not to say that Mike didn’t have massive appeal with women. Indeed, as Warner Bros. marketing chief Sue Kroll tells Vulture, three quarters of the Mike audience were ladies, and nearly two thirds of them came in groups of three or more. But the simple fact is that the film’s success was really attributable to a surprisingly huge overachievement in red states.
“Magic Mike did a ton of business in the Midwest and the South,” explained one awestruck distribution capo at a rival studio who shared Rentrak data, reported by every movie theater across the nation, with Vulture.
Studios know how much any given city usually contributes to a film's ticket sales: Dallas is 2.62 percent; Tampa, about 1.2 percent; L.A., about 7.5 percent, and so on. This weekend's data shows that in traditionally conservative, midsize cities, Mike effected double-digit spikes over the average percentage of movie tickets typically sold in those areas. (If a movie's ticket sales across the U.S. on any given weekend equals 100 percent, each city usually sells about the same percentage of that total number.) For example, Indianapolis and Charlotte saw jumps of around 25 percent, while Orlando, St. Louis, and Nashville all saw leaps of over 30 percent. In Tampa, where the film is set, Mike aroused a 42 percent increase, while Kansas City saw a whopping increase of almost 75 percent over the usual amount of tickets sold.
“Probably not the places you’d have expected it to be doing business,” said this distribution head.
This surge of interest in red states more than made up for a lack of ardor from the blues, where Mike was found mostly wanting: New York City accounted for only 4.7 percent of Mike grosses, almost 30 percent less than what’s usually expected, while Los Angeles accounted for only 6.4 percent of Mike tickets, or almost 15 percent less than would be usually be expected.
Meanwhile, Ted scored by overindexing in blue states and underperforming in red ones — which, given its pokes at feminine white trash nomenclature, should probably come as no surprise.
In Chicago and New York, Ted overshot the usual percentage of tickets sold by over a third; in Las Vegas, by more than 40 percent, and in Boston, where the film is set, by over 70 percent.
Geography aside, there are two more interesting lessons for Hollywood from the success of these two films, says Russell Schwartz, formerly head of marketing at both New Line Cinema and USA Films, and now a consultant to several Hollywood studios.
“They are both original movies with original concepts. That they’re not well-trod studio remakes has as much to do with this [success] as anything.”
Schwartz also adds a third caveat to both Ted and Mike: Despite being raunchy R-rated comedies with supposedly limited audiences, they turned out to be huge financial successes. “That just shows you the market can expand,” says Schwartz, “And that not every thing has to be PG-13 because the studios are so scared of the R.”
In lesser hands than Steven Soderbergh or Seth McFarlane’s, Schwartz says that both Magic Mike and Ted probably could have been forced into becoming PG-13 movies. But instead, each film “had two strong people dictating the director's cut,” and that in the case of Mike, with its puny $7 million budget, “probably no one was even looking” at what Soderbergh was turning in.
While that’s unlikely, it still points in an excellent direction for how to improve Hollywood’s filmmaking: Sometimes, it's worth staying loose.
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As expected, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), was rejected by the European Parliament today. An overwhelming majority voted against the treaty designed to establish international rules for cracking down on piracy and copyright infringement. Concerns raised over the agreement included a perceived lack of clarity and a window for misinterpretation that could jeopardize citizens’ rights. The Motion Picture Association was active in developing the treaty, but MPA Europe president, Chris Marcich, tells me that while the outcome is a disappointment for the studios, the result does not “substantively” change anything. “Certainly we’re disappointed with the vote, but I don’t think it was based on the treaty itself, it was based on politics and institutional issues. For Europe, ACTA didn’t mean any change at all in the current legal framework.” ACTA was negotiated by the EU and its member states along with the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Switzerland. Thousands of EU citizens have protested the agreement fearing it would place limits on freedom of speech. The European Parliament also received a petition signed by 2.9M people worldwide calling for it to reject the agreement.____________________________________________
“This is the most comprehensive effort to modernize our copyright laws in over a decade,” James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, said about the country’s controversial new Copyright Modernization Act. The new law — also known as Bill C-11 — aligns Canada more closely with the World Intellectual Property Organization. The country’s long reluctance to update its anti-piracy laws made it a regular on the U.S. Trade Representative’s annual Priority Watch List. In February the International Intellectual Property Alliance said that Canada’s effort to combat piracy “falls far short of what should be expected of our neighbor and largest trading partner, with ineffective border controls, insufficient enforcement resources, inadequate enforcement policies, and a seeming inability to impose deterrent penalties on pirates.” Canada’s new law includes a provision that the U.S. strongly supported that makes it illegal for consumers to break so-called digital locks, including copy protection mechanisms on CDs and DVDs. It also increased the penalties for infringment: Those who use copyrights for commercial purposes without the owner’s permission could pay as much as $20,000 while individuals who do so for non-commercial purposes can be charged as much as $5,000. Internet service providers will have to notify customers when a copyright owner identifies a potential infringement. But the law extends fair dealing provisions to encompass education, parody and satire use; time shifting for legally obtained broadcast media, and reproducing copyrighted work for education purposes. Parliament agreed to review the law every five years. “The legislation isn’t perfect, but it’s a major step forward in terms of job protection and creation in our industry,” says IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb.SF Weekly Takes a Shot at Marc Randazza Saying He's No Better Than Any Other Copyright Troll
When you read a description like "Las Vegas attorney ... who represents a major adult film company," it's a safe bet that the fellow being described probably isn't fighting poverty or working on a human-rights campaign.And in this case, that bet would be the right one. Marc Randazza has been busily filing lawsuits against people he accuses of downloading unauthorized copies of porn videos. Some of the people being accused -- by Randazza and others -- are innocent. And even the guilty ones probably don't deserve to be threatened with possible financial ruination.
NBC Bay Area News reporter Vicky Nguyen's story about "Porn Copyright Trolls" says that according to Randazza, of the 30,000 cases he's pursued, "only 4 of the accused were innocent."
"I think that happens as often as you see a unicorn," he told Nguyen. Got that? Four of every 30,000 unicorn sitings are legit. Readers who spot a unicorn (with those odds, there must be a few of you) are encouraged to bring their stories to me -- photographs or video would be a real plus.
Meanwhile, there are the stories of people like Bobbie Jean Thomas, a 78-year-old Richmond woman who received a threatening letter from a Los Angeles attorney accusing her of illicit pornmongering. It took a year, but eventually the case against her was dismissed.
Interestingly, Randazza was instrumental in the successful legal fight against Righthaven, a company that existed just to sue people for republishing newspaper stories. It was the ultimate copyright troll.
The porn business is probably more hurt by piracy than is just about any other kind of media industry. The Internet is positively festooned with free porn, much of it pirated. But even when it's not pirated, the Internet has a way of absolutely destroying its value. Unlike with scripted movies and television shows, one porn video is pretty much like any other (at least, within each, uh, sub-genre). There is no longer any reason that anyone should pay for porn when whatever they might be looking for is just a click away, either legitimately or not.
Hence the industry's desperate, panicky tactics. "Attorneys for the adult film industry are taking a page from the music industry and filing mass lawsuits to stop porn piracy," Nguyen writes.
When "taking a page from the music industry" is being used to describe you, it's probably a sign that you need a shift in strategy. But don't look for that to happen anytime soon now that the lawyers are involved. The tactic is to threaten and settle, often for a few thousand dollars. "People don't pay because they didn't do it, Randazza told Nguyen, sounding a lot like the copyright trolls of yore. "People pay because they did it or it wasn't them and it was somebody in their household."
Mitch Stoltz, a staff attorney for San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, retorted that lawyers like Randazza "don't really care whether people have actually infringed their clients' copyrights or not."
Taking a page from the music industry, indeed. On the next page are the words "The End."
Dan Mitchell has written for Fortune, the New York Times, Slate, Wired, National Public Radio, the Chicago Tribune, and many others.
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TAK BOLEH BOGEL (NO NUDITY) IN MALAYSIA (HERE WE GO AGAIN!)
A well-known figure in Malaysian literary, musical, and theatre circles,
Antares has written, directed and acted in plays; composed and performed music live and in the studio;
and contributed reviews and illustrations to magazines, newspapers and websites.
As co-founder, visionary and webmaster of Magick River, Antares busies himself networking globally
with kindred spirits who share his dream of a humanity in harmony with nature and the cosmos,
guided by ethics and aesthetics rather than driven by economics and politics.
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It’s been ages since I felt moved to write a letter to The Editor. The urge to air my views in print has been building up since the Nude Squat furore erupted (seems like the only “legitimate” way you can see people naked is to arrest them first). City Hall’s declared intention to penalize folks caught smooching or even holding hands in public was irksome news to me (some of my fondest memories involve exactly that). But the final straw was the email I received announcing that free screenings of international films organised by Kaki Kino at FINAS have been suspended till further notice, after a shrill complaint about uncensored “babak lucah” (nude scenes) appeared in a leading Malay daily.
Now imagine a fast-motion sequence showing Tokyo commuters at rush hour – all respectably dressed in office apparel and suffering from gastritis. Or a slow-motion montage of KL traffic after a heavy afternoon downpour. Cut to the gory aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad and then crossfade to a wide-angle closeup of an American-made Israeli bulldozer, demolishing a Palestinian neighborhood, as terrified women clutch babies to their hearts and wail in despair. Hellish scenes, for sure – but they would get past the censors, no problem.
Why is this so? Are we being indoctrinated to perceive pain as okay and pleasure as not? Is it any wonder that crime reports are getting more gruesome by the day? Maybe it’s time to reassess what sort of messages we’re being programmed with.
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We live in the hot and humid tropics. The sort of place where clothing is merely a fashionable option. You won’t find too many nudist colonies in Alaska or Tibet. Arab women have traditionally had to cover up to protect themselves from desert sandstorms, camel farts (possibly radioactive since Gulf Wars I and II) and temperature extremes. Were it not for fear of their control-freak husbands, don’t you think they would celebrate being in their own skins if they were magically transported to a balmy beach in the South Seas? Talk about “inappropriate attire”... being wrapped in thick cloth from head to toe on a sweltering day in the city sounds like a portable sauna to me. But to each his or her own - I’m happy in my sarong and flip-flops.
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Immaturity has its place, I grant that. However, let it not be exalted as the arbiter of our behavior and our moral code. There’s no immorality in portraying the human form in various stages of dress or undress in the adult cinema. What’s truly immoral is imposing on others our own limitations and limiting beliefs. Do we really value the grotesque hypocrisy censorship encourages? Are we to blinker our cinematic vision (like the proverbial katak under a tempurung) in a knee-jerk reaction to the poisonous outpourings of a pusillanimous prude?
Sincerely,
Antares
Kuala Kubu Bharu
27 April 2006
[First published 12 January 2007]
____________________________________________Excerpt from an open letter to Akmal Abdullah, deputy editor of Berita Harian (published 1 August 2006)Dear Akmal Abdullah, I am not particularly pleased that you exist. Why is this so, when we haven't even met and you don't know me from Adam? But is that so surprising - considering your predilection for campaigning to ban movies you haven't even seen? Well, Akmal, I think you ought to be banned from paradise - unless you wise up and 'fess up to having been an outright obstruction. Akmal Abdullah, you stand accused of suppressing art and denying life. Have you anything to say in your own defence? When you look into a mirror, are you happy to be the person looking back? Do you see a frog trapped under your own obscurantist coconut shell? Will you repent and henceforth channel your energies towards being creative rather than destructive? Or will you dig in your reactionary heels and doggedly remain a blight on the face of the earth with your acute case of 'cemburu kampungitis'? The Chinese have an instructive saying about this: "The midget does not grow taller by chopping off other people's heads."Please heed these words if you'd rather be greeted by decent folk with a pat on the back instead of a kick in the butt.
NIGERIA : Lagos big babe sends nude picture to fake modelling agent on Twitter
From what Olufamous.com gathered, this Lagos babe said her dream is to be a big model for companies and brands. While searching for the right agent to ‘connect’ her, she met a guy named Tony on Twitter who claimed to be a modelling agent, and that he has links to international jobs.
Tony went ahead to brain wash this babe by telling her that her body colour will sell very well, sending her names of notable companies that she can model for by passing through him, with all the benefits that comes with gracing big products/brands.
Finally, the guy mentioned what he really wanted from her; he told her to send 26 pictures of herself posing in different styles, including some without any clothes so that his international clients can be impressed. And the “mumu” girl didn’t waste time to send her nude pictures to Tony, all in the name of modelling.
Since there is no job anywhere for the desperate babe, Tony has been spreading the compromising photos to his friends on the social networking platform.
OBSERVATION: Most ladies always fall for cheap lies from bad guys but they find it difficult to trust good guys because they (good guys) don’t know how to paint false images!
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