So Seth MacFarlane opened the Oscars tonight. He didn't receive a great reaction. To be fair, though, he tried to be funny in front of the most self-loving assholes on the planet, and he still managed to insult many of them to their faces, so props for that.
The boobs song was also pretty funny. Stewie's doing fine.
Let's see if this version sticks:
Some folks didn't take to Seth brand of jokes:
Seth MacFarlane's Oscar Monologue Was Endless, and Maybe Racist and Sexist
More reactions:
Is Seth MacFarlane's Performance Oscar-Worthy?
Twitter users blasts Seth McFarlane’s unfunny monologue at the Oscars
Seth MacFarlane Quotes About Women From The 2013 Oscars Would Never Get You A Date
Here's Jennifer Lawrence Being Awesome at the Oscars
Hate Oscars but here are list of winners (live updates):
Oscar Winners List 2013
UPDATE
Anonymous has left a comment:
I'm surprised you aren't slamming him for the boobs song. It doesn't exactly encourage actresses to do nude scenes when guys like him act like juvenile teenage boys about it.
* Sorry for the late reply. Feeling bit under the weather and getting verbally abused by my True Blood source for posting something I should have sat on for few months.
Back to your question. Seth sole purpose is exactly that. To discourage the future starlets and I meant the actresses bracketed for a place on A-list. If he isn’t celebrating pop culture of 70’s and 80’s, Seth usually piles on the disdain for current fad. Cinematic nudity is and always a hot topic everywhere and by singing that song, we know where he stands on the scale.
I won’t worry so much about the potential repercussions from the show tune. There always will be Lili Simmons and Ashley Hinshaw of the world who happily embraces the popularity that comes from their ‘bravery’ after scorching turn on respective flicks. The camera panned to Jennifer Lawrence during the skit and she had that I’m-from-Kentucky cute expression on her face. With all her body insecurities, there is no way she will stay nudity free despite Oscar win and all.
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"Hanging Out With Briana Evigan"
| Actress Briana Evigan |
Burning Bright
Who is the most interesting person you have worked with?
Joseph Cross I think he's a genius when it comes to acting. Also Dolph Lundgren he's so smart it's so inspiring!
Who do you want to work with?
I want to work with Meryl Streep, Charlize Theron, Robert Downey jr., Jack Nicholson, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling obviously! Maya Rudolph and Melissa Mccarthy the list goes on!! Because they are all unique in there own ways and phenomenal actors to me .
Do you have a charity you would like people to check out?
Please check out Somaly mam foundation to stop human trafficking . http://Crowdrise.com/brianaevigan
How can people follow what you are up to?
Website is http://brianaeviganonline.net twitter is @brianaevigan_2 and facebook is brianaeviganofficial
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Italian photographer Marco Michieletto brightens up our long day with this splendid series of images. “A simple story inspired only by her, her face and the personality inside the woman. Just the pure and harmonic result of the match between me and her.” Marco likes simplicity as the key of his projects. Simple but forceful. Model and almost a Miss Italy contestant Alice Bellotto is a real beauty, with a great body, playful confidence and with her natural smile she will certainly also win over lots of our readers.
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UPDATED 02/25/2013:
earlier comments are here
Earlbny:
How does HBO have a show on the network called Hung and not show male nudity? I am not gay not that there is anything wrong with that but it's only fair. Maybe by the end of the year we will see a change. It's 2013 it's time they get with the times. Eww merkin. Larry Clark shows male and female nudity in his movies.
College is very important unless your name is LeBron James. Shiri's parents are old school so I bet college was important. I want Shiri's character to show skin but I also want her to bring a lot to the table. Shiri said when she got a copy of the script she thought she would be perfect for the role. She obviously saw something that intrigued her and made her want to sink her teeth into it. I doubt it was the nudity that made her do it. Then again Girls is a hit show and Shiri is a fan if the show. I want her to win an award or have people talking about this role. I also want this role to be used as launching pad. You’re not crazy to want more than just T-and-A. I want people to start talking about her and how amazing and underrated she is. I am not going anywhere but I am getting tired of waiting. I want to see her at all the big Hollywood events. She's long overdue.
Jon owns 2 restaurants. Animal and Son of a Gun. Jon is originally from Florida but moved to Cal where he opened up 2 restaurants with his partner Vinny. Jon opened both of them before his 35th birthday. He's younger then Shiri. Pretty cool if you ask me. If everything goes according to plan like it did in my dream Shiri will leave Jon for me. Some people will do anything for fame. Porn stars are even crossing over into the mainstream. Back in the day you only got a handful of Channels where today you have endless possibilities . 30 rock is awesome. That show is so funny. My 13 year old cousin watches the Walking Dead. There are still a few good shows in network TV however I agree that there is a lot if lame shows. Six Degrees would have definitely been better on cable TV. Now I am picturing that scene where Shiri shows up at that guys door wearing a trench coat. As hot as it was it would have even better on cable TV. Sex sells. Social media is huge right now. Live tweets during shows and trending topics. I read that JLH is going to show the full Monty on her show except they plan on blurring it out. I guess it's a step in the right direction. Some young people just starting out will do anything to make a name for them self. Even if they have to do some crazy stuff. The Internet allows people the chance to easily make a name for theme self. Web series are big right now.
Sex is Comedy was a foreign movie about making a movie and filming a nude scene. The 2 main characters hated each other and the director had to get them to film the scene. It was not even that great of a movie. A lot of woman especially the ones in my family are going be very mad if 50 shades gets an R rating.
Thanks for the Skin Horse info. I’ll email him and let you know what they think.
Hot off the press: I just got my hands on the preview for next weeks episode of Girls and Shiri's in the preview. She makes her entrance at the 7 second mark. Wow she looks stunning. I think next week episode will be all dialog and then followed by the T-and-A. BTW the woman who plays Shiri's mom on Girls was in the 80's classic License to Drive. She's got that annoying Jewish voice like Walowitz mom from the Big Bang Theory except she does not scream. So I guess that means Shiri is playing a Jew. Cool. After all this time we now have one week to go. Now we can finally put all these rumors and speculation to rest.
Hung is a misnomer, isn’t it? Even if Thomas Jane could displayed his dangler, Limp would been an appropriate title if you included the tedious storylines. As I mentioned before, it’s too radical at the moment. HBO and other premium cable broadcasters are slowly moving towards that direction but it will take at least a decade (being a fantasist here) for us and rest of the first world to be open with male erection in close proximity to a female performer in a mainstream flick/shows. Imagine the public and media uproar if the line between hardcore porn and mainstream genre is blurred. I think boner in a non-sexual scene will be far more acceptable in few years time.
You got to respect Shiri for keeping her private life away from media glitz. She doesn’t go after it like a cheap celeb or Kim K. It’s the celebrity culture pervading the world right now. Any talentless hack can make it based on looks alone - shallow as it seemed and sadly we have become one in accepting the likes of Kim K and reality show performers as bona fide celebs.
I'm shaking with joyous anticipation. Look how cute she is in the pic below. Imagine her naked now. My deepest gratitude to Gods of Nudity for making 2013 possibly the greatest year in first timers disrobing on-cam. And I'm talking about the actresses you least expect to in your dreams.
There is going to be plenty of crossover between network and cable by actors before end of this year. The former needs to adapt quickly to current times without offending the more conservative viewers and the latter must control the subscription fees. But the clear winner is cable providers. As you said – sex sells and it will be more sexually brazen on cable original content with tightening of casting policy from start of the year regarding nudity. Just like the fashion industry, nudity is becoming part of a requirement to be an actress. Excluding the matronly types or gals with more ‘curvaceous’ figure, if you have the right curves prepare to flaunt it. Chances are we won’t have nudity dodgers like Kristen Bell and Hewitt anymore to be all high and mighty. Heck. Hewitt is coming around to the nudity block with (I’m going straight to hell) passing of someone really influential in her life and career. Kristen will loosen up after motherhood and with Veronica Mars movie out of the way.
Thanks for the link. Yep. That’s Carol Kane from Taxi.
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So am I. I can’t take it anymore. I have may have to have medical staff on hand while watching Girls. Just watching the promo is making my head spin. She's cute as a button. Those legs and face and nerdy glasses are turning me on. Shiri can look like the girl next door or flip a switch and look like an exotic beauty. She’s a mix of Israeli on her mom’s side and Eastern European on her dad’s side. She’s part Natalie Portman and part Mila Kunis. Pretty good combo if you ask me. People think I am crazy which is ok by me. So what if she's not tall or does not have blond hair and big boobs. Girls like Shiri need love to. Never in a million years did I expect this to happen. I've had my share of dreams but never thought they might come true. 2013 is already a great year. At least for me it is.
Some people are way too conservative and seem to forget that we were born naked. It's one thing to show skin while young kids may be watching but in the right time and place I think it's ok. No ever said a thing when models walk around half naked. I hope JLH and KB come around. They are long overdue. I know plenty if guys that would die if either JLH or KB show some skin. I had no idea they were making a VM movie. They needed to make a Roswell movie. Too bad that won’t happen. That ship has sailed long ago. Steven King once said how the he felt the author of Twilight stole her idea for her books from Roswell and just changed a few things.
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Earlbny:
HBO and other premium cable broadcasters are slowly moving towards that direction but I think that will happen after the NY Jets win a Superbowl. So basically it's not happening anytime soon. Lol but it's a step in the right direction. Places like NY or Cal may be very open to the idea but Middle America not so much. I don't like the unrealistic sex that takes place on TV and movies. Who has sex with clothes on? I liked Hung. It was pretty funny. Every time I watched hung I kept picturing Thomas Jane as Mikey Mantle. Lol he played him in a movie.
Bad prediction, bro. Jets….I’ll be dead before that ever happens. Hung plot was too conventional and for a show purportedly about character study, pretty restraint especially with lack of real consequences to his trysts. I watched the Kaitlin Doubleday arc expecting some really energetic sex scenes and sleazy plot angle. But it all pans out way too quickly. It would be great if Logan got pregnant and the problems that comes along with it.
Props to Shiri. It posses me off that someone like Kim K is an A list star. Reality TV is huge. People become famous over night. Even people that upload a video to YouTube. Shiri worked hard to get to where she is today. She did not come from a rich and famous family. It's about time she gets some recondition for her work. I don’t care what Kim's trainer says about her pregnancy or what she had to eat for lunch.
Kim K influence on young girls with fame aspiration is damaging to say the least. Something for nothing. 'Nothing' usually denotes a sex tape. LOL.
So am I. I can’t take it anymore. I have may have to have medical staff on hand while watching Girls. Just watching the promo is making my head spin. She's cute as a button. Those legs and face and nerdy glasses are turning me on. Shiri can look like the girl next door or flip a switch and look like an exotic beauty. She’s a mix of Israeli on her mom’s side and Eastern European on her dad’s side. She’s part Natalie Portman and part Mila Kunis. Pretty good combo if you ask me. People think I am crazy which is ok by me. So what if she's not tall or does not have blond hair and big boobs. Girls like Shiri need love to. Never in a million years did I expect this to happen. I've had my share of dreams but never thought they might come true. 2013 is already a great year. At least for me it is.
Lena will be tiny bit glad the attention momentarily shifts to Shiri in nudity department. It also depends on editing though. Lena and co-writer don’t want the focus moving completely away from her and tangled love life. They probably want to inject Lena POV as quickly as possible into her ex-boyfriend new relationship.
Some people are way too conservative and seem to forget that we were born naked. It's one thing to show skin while young kids may be watching but in the right time and place I think it's ok. No ever said a thing when models walk around half naked. I hope JLH and KB come around. They are long overdue. I know plenty if guys that would die if either JLH or KB show some skin. I had no idea they were making a VM movie. They needed to make a Roswell movie. Too bad that won’t happen. That ship has sailed long ago. Steven King once said how the he felt the author of Twilight stole her idea for her books from Roswell and just changed a few things.
It’s funny when Playboy and Penthouse are derided by feminists and conservatives for objectifying and exploiting women but mainstream modeling gets a free pass. I wonder how the parents of a model react when barely few months into her modeling career she is buck naked in front of Terry Richardson and other ‘top’ photographers. All in name of professional modeling. Spread shot isn’t far away with sudden surge in nudes shoots. It’s common knowledge many of the models are hooked on recreational drugs or some kind of addiction before eventually graduating into Kate Moss zone. How they become addicted in first place? One of the factors had to do with the work itself. Taking or washing down ‘something’ usually to calm the nerves and take the edge off before a racy shoot or strutting on the catwalk.
I know I will come across as sexist but someone has to point it out – fiction novels by woman writers are shallow and extremely derivative. They steal and mashed together those original framework and ideas into a book - Harry Potter. The only female writer from fantasy genre which I respect immensely is Robin Hobb. She combines female perspective and sensibilities with balanced ‘muscularism’, appealing to male readers as well. Don’t get me started on that Mormon chick. She single-handedly dumbed down the vampire monster uniqueness in horror lit, turning them into pussies. This is just the beginning. We may soon have zombies in love….wait a minute!
Anytime. I thought I recognized Carol from Taxi. That show was a classic. I have a feeling not that it really matters or anything that Shiri is going to be playing. Typical NY Jew on Girls. As far as I know the only other time she played a Jew was in the movie When Do We Eat?
She played a Jewish character(?) - albeit never implied – on a show way ahead of its time Sunday Dinner based on Norman Lear love life. Norman divorced his wife and married much younger Lyn Davis back in late 1980’s. Modern Family anyone? I love MF but hate the disgusting storyline after the writers decided to put the blame solely on Jay’s first wife erratic behavior for him marrying much younger woman. I wouldn’t think less of Jay if he left his wife like so many rich dudes tend to do (brave enough – financially - to step beyond the mistress zone) when they want to stick the cock into something more softer and wetter than a dried hole on regular basis.
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Hailee Steinfeld Tweets Teaser for "Romeo and Juliet"
16-year-old Hailee Steinfeld tweeted a teaser for her upcoming movie Romeo and Juliet. The photo of Steinfeld and costar Douglas Booth reads, "True love, coming soon..." "You bet it is," she tweeted.Booth was in the Starz series Pillars of the Earth and Darren Aronofsky's upcoming Noah epic. The classic love story also stars Homeland's Damien Lewis as Lord Capulet and Ed Westwick as Tybalt, Juliet's cousin who totally hates Romeo.
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes wrote the screenplay, and Italian filmmaker Carlo Carlei directed. The last big Romeo and Juliet adaptation we saw was the modern day set (but Shakespearan script) Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes.
You bet it is. #RomeoAndJuliet twitter.com/HaileeSteinfel…
— Hailee Steinfeld (@HaileeSteinfeld) February 24, 2013
Steinfeld has been busy since her Oscar nomination two years ago for True Grit. She's currently filming Ender's Game with Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, and Viola Davis and was recently awarded MaxMara's Women in Film Face of the Future. Steinfeld is also the face of Miu Miu.
Romeo and Juliet comes out October 25.
* sweet sixteen Hailee Steinfeld is blossoming into one of the most beautiful and talented actress around. Fearless too.
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Although Mardi Gras Day is the big day of celebration, it is the days, or should we say nights, that are really celebrated. Random hookups, exposures of oneself, and complete and total memory loss and lack of judgement occur on these most hallowed of Bacchanalian, Catholic-inspired nights.
Let’s take a look at all the hottest trends (titties) and styles (titties) and fresh new looks (Dolce And Gab–haha, just kidding, more titties) this year at Mardi Gras 2013:
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Gory, Raunchy, and Bro-Filled TV Series Are a Hit With Women
Programmers know something marketers don't
Girls, it turns out, just wanna have brains.
It may come as a surprise to many that the highest-rated cable show among women year to date is AMC's The Walking Dead, far outstripping more conventionally female-targeted programs like The Real Housewives of Atlanta. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the Feb. 10 mid-season Walking Dead premiere drew a meaty 5.0 rating/11 share among women 18-49, nearly double that of its nearest competition.
Other counterintuitive hits among women include CBS' guy-friendly The Big Bang Theory (which even bests American Idol on occasion) and Fox’s blood-spattered cop drama The Following. What’s going on here?
For starters, gore isn't necessarily a turn-off for women, said Horizon Media research director Brad Adgate. "If there’s one genre that’s really popular with men and women, science fiction is it—anything that deals with the occult really," he said. Adgate points to the success of long-running procedurals like CSI and Law and Order: SVU—shows with an overwhelmingly female audience and pretty liberal with the hemoglobin.
Then, there are the underperformers. Fox's New Girl boasts a fun, stylish lead in Zooey Deschanel, but it’s barely female-skewing. And it’s a good week for shows like ABC’s Once Upon a Time and CBS’ The Good Wife when the female 18-49 demo comes in above a 1.5.
Katherine Wintsch of marketing consultancy The Mom Complex said there's a common thread between grimy, female-skewing fantasy drama Game of Thrones and unscripted guilty pleasure Here Comes Honey Boo Boo—neither Brienne of Tarth nor June Shannon have it all together, and viewers can relate.
Women, said Wintsch, watch comedy or reality programs to see people who aren't perfect (a designation that might not apply to Ms. Deschanel). "It’s a relief. With something like Modern Family, you have people who are divorced or gay or just otherwise normal," Wintsch pointed out.
Considering all that, marketers may want to consider presenting less perfect women in their ad campaigns.
"A lot of times, you'll be watching Honey Boo Boo and then the commercials will come on and it’s a perfect mom in a cardigan and capri pants washing the floor," said Wintsch. "TV gets it much more than advertisers do. We lose two or three decades when we go to commercial break."
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Racy billboard removed, but website remains: "sugar daddy" sites rise in ad market
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| This billboard at Ontario and Clark streets was taken down at the billboard owner's discretion after 42nd ward Ald. Brendan Reilly called the owner. ArrangementFinders.com is a "sugar daddy" dating website with a large college student membership. |
The billboard features a photo of former pornstar and ArrangmentFinders.com spokesperson Bree Olson, who appears to be wiping something off the side of her mouth. The billboard was located in the busy River North neighborhood, close to family-oriented restaurants like Portillo’s and the Rock N’ Roll McDonalds.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the billboard owner voluntarily took down the sign after 42nd ward Ald. Brendan Reilly convinced him to take it down. But the online “sugar dating” website it was promoting, ArrangementFinders.com, is still up and running, and a Tweet the company published on Feb. 20 reads “Extremely OUTRAGED by our Chicago Billboard being taken down. Not our doing at all.”
ArrangementFinders.com and other websites like it are becoming more and more popular among the college student demographic, particularly among young women in college. These websites negotiate dates between people in which one person, usually a young woman, is paid to go on the date. AJ Perkins, CMO for ArrangementFinders.com, told FOX 32 News that Chicago has the most members on the site than any other major U.S. city.
“I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that sex was almost always had for gain, and that’s what we’re talking about here,” said Greg Scott, a sociology professor and director of the Social Science Research Center at DePaul. “We’re talking about sex for some kind of gain. In this case it’s material gain.”
Despite the fact that someone is getting paid to go on a date and do whatever that date entails, Scott does not consider it prostitution, nor does he consider it morally wrong. It’s simply an aspect of the market economy that structures U.S. society, he said.
“This is the world we created, a world in which it makes perfectly good sense if you’re a college student to seek out alternative funding streams,” said Scott. “And if you’re comfortable with entering into a sex-for-gain relationship, then this is the sort of website that facilitates that.”
SeekingArrangement.com (not affiliated with ArrangementFinders.com, but features the same concept of the site) encourages college students, in particular, to join. The website is free to join if the user is in college and can provide an email address that ends in “.edu.” According to Angela Bermudo, a spokesperson for the website, 44 percent of users – about 600,000 people – are college students.
“When we created these websites we did not look to target college students,” said Bermudo. “But we do believe that the increasing trend of college students can be attributed to the lack of resources for students mixed with the anemic economy.”
The question of whether dates organized through these “sugar dating” websites constitute prostitution is a potential problem for websites like SeekingArrangement.com.
“It’s a legal and moral slippery slope,” said Kelsey Landis, a second year master’s student in new media studies at DePaul.
Landis does not know anyone who uses online “sugar dating” websites, but she would be skeptical of the older men who use them, she said.
“I don’t know about right or wrong, but it seems dangerous,” said Landis.
Scott expects these websites to eventually run into legal trouble, due to the efforts of groups such as End Demand Illinois, a group that pushes law enforcement to take more action against sex traffickers and “people who buy sex.” In some cases, the sugar daddies on these websites technically are buying sex.
Lauren Barnes, a senior geography student at DePaul, knows people who use “sugar dating” websites, but she said she would not use them herself because of the stigma attached to it.
“People look at it as more of a taboo rather than a dating website,” said Barnes. “It’s a little weird.”
Although the idea of “sugar dating” online is relatively new, “sugar dating” itself is an old concept, said Bermudo.
“The notion of dating someone successful to better yourself and lifestyle is not a new notion,” said Bermudo. “Money is the catalyst of a majority of large arguments between couples. Dating a richer and more generous man actually reduces the stress of a woman, leaving them to enjoy the relationship instead of focusing on financial shortcoming.”
SeekingArrangement.com touts “mutually beneficial relationships” and “mutually beneficial arrangements” between “the modern gentlemen” and the “goal seeking sugar baby.” One person gets what he wants out of a date, or several dates, and the other person gets her financial or material wants satisfied.
Scott said these kinds of arrangements can actually further the cause for gender equality by erasing what he calls “the princess narrative.” He sees it as a chance for women to make their own decisions about their bodies and how they use them (or don’t use them) in the marketplace.
“I think this demonstrates terrific initiative on the part of college students who are facing a very bleak landscape right now and whose own institutions and government aren’t doing much to help them afford education,” said Scott.
* so proud of America and affects of spiraling college fees. We are breeding future whores and skanks to benefit old cocks and psychiatrists everywhere. The question for me is simple. Did the students became hookers because of financial circumstances or using them as an excuse to explore inner skankiness.
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‘Girls’ season two does not disappoint
When you’re young, TV shows that your parents disapprove of are the ones that give you the most incentive to watch, but as you get older the limitations brought on from mom and dad are diminished.
“Girls” on HBO is a fitting example.
Lena Dunham was talented enough to get an HBO show at the age of 25, and she maybe somewhat insane to undertake so many responsibilities such as writer, producer and actor to name a few.
Now that “Girls” is on its second season after winning two Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild Award, who isn’t tuning in?
Ultimately, many people, namely adults, are appalled by the freedom brought on by HBO’s lack of rules with the invitations of nudity and as much inappropriate language as possible.
Despite this, Dunham’s constant nudity will alter the view of nakedness in future television productions. Dunham’s mother, artist Laurie Simmons, who was a guest on “Girls,” said about her daughter’s nudity, “She may not mind, but her father definitely has difficulty watching the show. As does her mom.”
The fact that Dunham used family members and her childhood friends in her work is another fascinating aspect of her work. Dunham puts everything she has out in the open with a “like it or not” attitude.
The show was looked down upon due to its lack of racial diversity or political diversity for that matter.
Naturally, in the season two opener we find our protagonist dating an African American Republican.
It was giving into audience reactions, but only so much that it was something that I think the creators of “Girls” agreed with going into the second season, a lack of diversity that is.
A woman leading the television industry is not a new idea because they have been key parts to many successful programs in front or behind the camera.
Television programs with a majority female cast are not a fresh brainchild and neither is a show about America’s youth experimenting with sex, drugs and life in general.
Nevertheless, “Girls” has used the freedoms of HBO to make a statement in a different sort of way, not glamorous, but realistic and relatable.
Don’t let the title fool you; the premier episode had 56% of its viewers define themselves as male.
Dunham’s name rolls in the credits a few times due to the incredulous number of roles that she takes on in her series, thus being a strong voice of our generation.
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When Raunchy Means Major Gross in the Global Box Office
Will Morey
You could argue that the success of The 40 Year Old Virgin in 2005 changed the nature of R rated comedies in our time. Instead of being relegated to cult classics, these mature, even raunchy films have become mainsteam money makers. But when talking about the films of Judd Apatow, or even the R rated trailblazer American Pie, we're talking about films specifically geared to American audiences. Given this reliance on humor based in American culture, how well do these movies fare outside the United States?
The first American Pie movie was an international success making $132 million outside the United States for a grand total of $235 million worldwide. The film spawned three theatrically released sequels: American Pie 2, which made $142 million outside the U.S.; American Wedding, which made $126 million; and American Reunion which made $177 million. The 40 Year Old Virgin, directed by the UTA-repped Apatow, made $67 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $177 million worldwide. 2007’s Knocked Up, another Judd Apatow film, made a similar $70 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $219 million worldwide. Superbad, a high school-set story produced by Apatow, was less successful, making only $48 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $121 million worldwide.
In 2009, we saw a watershed moment for the R rated comedy with the release of The Hangover, directed by CAA client Todd Phillips, which made $190 million outside the United States for a grand total of $467 million worldwide. The Thailand-set sequel, The Hangover Part II, did even better outside the U.S., making $327 million outside the United States for a worldwide total of $581 million. 2011's Apatow-produced hit Bridesmaids, which you could argue was a female version of The Hangover, was able to haul in $119 million outside the United States for a total of $288 million worldwide—easily the biggest worldwide money maker in the Apatow stable.
The 2012 summer box office smash Ted opened in Japan last month, and in an amazing box office performance, the comedy, which features WME clients Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg, spent four straight weeks at number one. Its $32.5 million take at the Japanese box office is more than eitherThe Hobbit or The Life of Pi, and has even outgrossed Skyfall (32.3 million). At one point, Ted accounted for 38% of the market share in Japan. The film's impressive performance has pushed Ted over $316 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $535.4 million worldwide.
So while Apatow's sensibility (and talent pool) have changed the nature of R rated comedies, outside of Bridesmaids he still hasn't released an international juggernaut in the vein of The Hangover or Ted. The latter two films take a very different approach from the traditional Apatow film. Apatow stories tend to be based in situations found in American culture, with distinctly American responses; even though both Ted and The Hangover films have pop culture references, they're based around broad, archetypical characters, which is what seems to push an R rated comedy over the top in worldwide box office.
The first American Pie movie was an international success making $132 million outside the United States for a grand total of $235 million worldwide. The film spawned three theatrically released sequels: American Pie 2, which made $142 million outside the U.S.; American Wedding, which made $126 million; and American Reunion which made $177 million. The 40 Year Old Virgin, directed by the UTA-repped Apatow, made $67 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $177 million worldwide. 2007’s Knocked Up, another Judd Apatow film, made a similar $70 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $219 million worldwide. Superbad, a high school-set story produced by Apatow, was less successful, making only $48 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $121 million worldwide.
In 2009, we saw a watershed moment for the R rated comedy with the release of The Hangover, directed by CAA client Todd Phillips, which made $190 million outside the United States for a grand total of $467 million worldwide. The Thailand-set sequel, The Hangover Part II, did even better outside the U.S., making $327 million outside the United States for a worldwide total of $581 million. 2011's Apatow-produced hit Bridesmaids, which you could argue was a female version of The Hangover, was able to haul in $119 million outside the United States for a total of $288 million worldwide—easily the biggest worldwide money maker in the Apatow stable.
The 2012 summer box office smash Ted opened in Japan last month, and in an amazing box office performance, the comedy, which features WME clients Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg, spent four straight weeks at number one. Its $32.5 million take at the Japanese box office is more than eitherThe Hobbit or The Life of Pi, and has even outgrossed Skyfall (32.3 million). At one point, Ted accounted for 38% of the market share in Japan. The film's impressive performance has pushed Ted over $316 million outside the U.S. for a grand total of $535.4 million worldwide.
So while Apatow's sensibility (and talent pool) have changed the nature of R rated comedies, outside of Bridesmaids he still hasn't released an international juggernaut in the vein of The Hangover or Ted. The latter two films take a very different approach from the traditional Apatow film. Apatow stories tend to be based in situations found in American culture, with distinctly American responses; even though both Ted and The Hangover films have pop culture references, they're based around broad, archetypical characters, which is what seems to push an R rated comedy over the top in worldwide box office.
10 Mainstream Films With Unsimulated Sex Acts
- February 25, 2013
Recently, what would be classed as pornography – unsimulated acts of oral sex, penetrative sex, ejaculation etc. – has made its way into the fringes of mainstream cinema. It is chiefly associated with the New French Extremity and it has got the censors in a whirlwind wondering how to deal with it.
In my experience of unsimulated sex acts in cinema – they are not pornographic and they are not a turn on. Most of them fit comfortably into the film as an extension of the proceedings. Rarely are they sleazy.
If you are wondering where you can get some real life filmic nookie, outside of a skin flick, sit back and enjoy 10 Mainstream Films Featuring Simulated Sex..
10. Pola X (1999)
Another part of the New French Extremity, this film concerns Pierre, who is a successful novelist. He lives in a beautiful castle with Marie his mother. He goes to tell his fiancee Lucie the date they are to be married when he is stopped by a beautiful woman with a strong Eastern accent called Isabelle. She tells him she is his sister and they begin an affair..
Pola X gained infamy world wide for its unsimulated sex acts between Guillaume Depardieu (Pierre) and Yekaterina Golubeva (Isabelle). Although body stand ins were used for the most explicit parts. The graphic sex is used to drive home the self destructive nature of the love affair between Isabelle and Pierre. The latter is being washed away on a tidal wave of squalor and personal debasement. That is basically what the film is – a portrait of Pierre from a handsomely groomed young man into a quivering pathetic wretch. You may or may not like it depending on your tolerance for pretentious French films. I quite like them so I was pleased.
9. Cruising (1980)
Al Pacino makes a brave career move to play an undercover cop who is sent to the Meatpacking District in New York to investigate the goings on of a Serial Killer who is targeting the gay community – in particular the gay community with association to the SM scene.
In the first kill scene, director William Friedkin spliced in shots of anal sex – these are only really noticeable by freeze frame. Whenever the action is set in gay leather bars, we can see extras indulging in partially obscured sex acts including fellatio and fisting. The film originally had 40 extra minutes of hardcore gay sex content which made it look like Pacino was participating. Friedkin says this footage is lost and has probably been destroyed.
The vast majority of gay men were horrified by the film and the light it portrayed them in. I don’t know what they are protesting about. The film is not representative of gayness as a whole, it is a peep into a sleazy underbelly. Don’t heterosexuals have sleazy underbellies that have been explored a zillion times in both cult and mainstream cinema? I thought it was rather fascinating even though I kept expecting Mr Slave from South Park to stumble on the screen emoting “Jesus! Jesus Christ!”. I loved the film. It was riveting, and the above detailed sordidness made it more so.
8. The Brown Bunny (2003)
Vincent Gallo both directed and starred in this Arthouse independent movie about a motorcycle driver on a cross country run. He meets a number of women along the way but is unable to emotionally connect with them because he is haunted by memories of his lost love Daisy. He eventually gets to his destination – California and Daisy appears. She is a crack addict and he gets into an argument with her about kissing other boys.
Now we have the money shot of our unsimulated sex scene. Chloe Sevigny (who plays Daisy) fellates Vincent Gallo for real – giving him a really good blow job. And shes a swallower not a spitter.
The two actors were real life lovers (I don’t know if they still are) so I guess it made the blow job easier. When the film premiered at Cannes, Gallo got into a ferocious war of words with Roger Ebert but they eventually settled their differences.
For those of you who wonder how the film ends, Daisy had actually died at a party after choking on her own vomit. She had been pregnant when she died. The meeting with Gallo was a figment of his imagination.
7. Intimacy (2001)
Propelled into an affair with an anonymous stranger because his wife lost interest in him and their relationship, Jay (Mark Rylance) finds himself falling in love with this woman Claire (Kerry Fox). Desperate to know more information about her, he follows her home, finds out she is an actress and has a husband and son. He decides to end their affair when he thinks of his own children and how much he misses them. Claire and Mark meet to have sex one last time and manage to attain an intimacy that was missing from their previous encounters.
It is widely believed that the scenes of sexual intercourse between Rylance and Fox were unsimulated but they are in fact fake (though they look pretty darn realistic). Our unsimulated sex comes with shots of fellatio occurring between the pair – the blow jobs were not faked!
The film was highly decorated at The Berlin Film Festival 2001. The sex scenes actually sit very well within the film – it is a very good story well told. The frankness of the sex scenes does not feel like titillation. Finally, a mature drama that is not coy about sex and is not exploitive.
6. Antichrist (2009)
Directed by Lars von Trier, this is an extremely harrowing film about the death of a child and the devastating impact it has upon the child’s parents (played by Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg). The husband thinks that he can cope with the wife’s overwhelming grief alone because he is a psychotherapist and can lead her down the path of recovery. However he cannot contain her growing insanity.
Unsimulated sex features in the opening scenes where the two leads have passionate sex interspersed with footage of their young son falling out of a window to his death. There are hardcore images of sexual penetration but it must be stressed that this was done by body doubles, not Defoe and Gainsbourg themselves. The clitoris chopping scene later on in the film is thankfully fake.
5. Ken Park (2002)
Ken Park is a pretty bleak film, directed by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine concerning the abysmal lives of a group of teenagers. The titular Ken actually shoots himself in the head in the opening sequence.
The teenagers in the film are all involved in some degree of misery. Shawn is shagging his girlfriend’s mother. Claude has a violent alcoholic father. Peaches has a disturbed ultra-religious father who thinks that she is the embodiment of her dead mother. Psycho Tate gets a thrill out of both taunting his grandparents and autoerotic asphyxiation.
Ken Park has not received widespread distribution due to the depiction of young teenagers in acts of urination, cunnilingus, auto erotic asphyxiation and group sex. It is all simulated bar for one act – a young man was genuinely masturbating.
Not widely released around the world due to its controversial nature (my copy is rated ’16′ and is from the Netherlands), Ken Park has faced hostility from the censors. Banned in Australia. Surprisingly withdrawn from release in liberal France. Limited to film festival or university studies screenings in New Zealand. Never receiving a release in the US.
In the UK, the film was never shown after director Larry Clark punched the Head of Metro Tartan distribution – Hamish McAlpine in the face allegedly after remarks he made about 9/11. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
4. 9 Songs (2004)
9 songs is the story of an intense love affair between Lisa and Matt who both love music. They travel to different festivals and listen to music. They go for the weekend to the countryside but most of all they shag, and they shag and they shag and they shag – and it’s all totally unsimulated!
The pair fondle each other’s genitals, masturbate, there is a footjob in the tub, there is vibrator action, penetrative vaginal sex as well as fellatio and cunnilingus. Matt wears a condom in the vagina penetration scene but he has the distinction of being the first man in a mainstream British film to be shown ejaculating.
This may sound like a carnival of sex-tastic fun but the film is cold and grey. Flimsy plot and inadequate characterisation leave you disinterested in all the sex – indeed it evokes a kind of scientific outlook in the viewer. I think that director Michael Winterbottom wanted to put on screen what writers like Michel Houellebecq were achieving by graphically talking about sex in their novels. Now I have read every single novel Houellebecq has written, and 9 Songs is a lame piece of dirge compared to the glorious written output of that French genius. Prurient drivel.
3. The Idiots (1998)
“Il est merde! Il est merde!”. Also sprach Mark Kermode at the Cannes screening of The Idiots for which he got thrown out of the cinema. I disagree. I love Lars von Trier and all of his films. In my mind, he hasn’t directed a dud one yet, even if the basis of The Idiots is a fairly offensive premise, it was still entertaining. Von Trier never commits the ultimate sin of being boring.
The Idiots concerns a group of young intellectual Danish people who feel that they will never be appreciated for the power of their minds so they take to “spazzing out” in public – acting like retarded people to get their kicks. Stoffer is the leader of the group and he orders a gang bang to take place for his birthday – here is where we have our unsimulated sex.
There are shots of sexual penetration and group sex. There is an erect willy in a shower scene. Erections had always been a bete noir of the BBFC flaccid penises were ok, but prior to The Idiots, show them an erection and it was straight out with the snip.
The ensemble cast in The Idiots act their socks off. The sex scenes seem natural and unforced – not like von Trier thought “Oh I will put a hard on in here to shock” – it seemed to me to be an extension of Dogme film making and the sex scenes sit well in the film. A bit of factual naughtiness in a thinking man’s film.
2. Baise Moi (2000)
Manu and Nadine are two young French women for whom nothing seems to go right. In fact it all goes disastrously wrong. Manu and her friend are one day brutally gang raped by three men. Manu returns to her brother’s house and he is determined to find out who did this to her. She shoots him in the head.
Meanwhile, Nadine has an argument with her roommate whom she strangles and kills. She absconds with the rent money and goes to meet her best friend in another town. He is a drug dealer and he gets shot – more emotional turmoil for Nadine.
Manu and Nadine meet each other and realise they are twin souls. They go on a violent sexual spree across France – murdering and pillaging. It doesn’t help their inner feelings of despair. They are finally stopped by the police after stopping for a cup of coffee.
Probably the most unsimulated movie on the list, Baise Moi features a graphic rape scene with uncensored scenes of sexual penetration. There are also scenes of unsimulated fellatio. Personally I do not think Baise Moi is a pornographic film. I think if people are going to get their jollies, they will look up a real porno movie. I can’t imagine anyone masturbating over this – okay it is graphic, but it is squalid and violent.
Predictably, censors worldwide, got into a collective tizzy. In its native France, it was released on a 16 certificate, but rightwing and religious groups complained and the film was pulled. It became the first film in France to be banned for 28 years and was a bit of a cause celebre. The censors re-introduced an 18 certificate to deal with it.
The film is a bit of a watershed in UK classification as in it features hardcore acts of unsimulated sex but it was not given a R18 classification which is given to pornographic films. It was passed uncut for an 18 certificate in 2013 and surely stands as a bench mark as to what explicit films can get away with.
1. Caligula (1979)
Chronicling the rise, the reign and the subsequent fall of the Roman Emperor Caligula – a man who was as vicious and cruel as Genghis Khan and as crazy in the head as King Herod – there is abundant sex a go go in Caligula. There are two versions of the film floating around – a censored, rated version and a highly explicit unrated version which has a ton of hardcore inserts.
These were inserted by porn baron Bob Guccione, who was financing the film, to spice up the movie. Unsimulated acts include penetration, fellatio and ejaculation.
I do not think that Malcolm McDowell is a particularly insane enough Caligula. He shouts and prances around like a mad man but just looks hammy instead of menacing. The explicit sex scenes in Caligula do not particularly bother me. I have read widely on this period of history, and it is as shockingly decadent as the film portrays it. I’m pretty sure the reign of Caligula was one big debauched orgy. The sex scenes don’t shock. The only shock is to see the like of Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud and Helen Mirren surrounded by ejaculating willies.
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A raunchy week only sophomores could love
University of Chicago celebrates a salacious ‘Sex Week’
By Marion Gabl [The Washington Times]
We might easily scorn the crudity, immorality and sheer absurdity of the University of Chicago’s first official “Sex Week” that occurred this February, which hosted 36 events ranging from porn showings to “history of sex” workshops, knot-tying demonstrations and, to be radically inclusive, “Augustine and Luther on Sexual Ethics.”
Chicago is not the first — and will not be the last — university to join the salacious trend. Yale’s Sex Week, initiated in 2002, begot, along with a documentary film, much due criticism from the right. What’s interesting is that Sex Week is so antithetical to everything profoundly University of Chicago.
The university, kindled by Rockefeller’s genius, is the place of the Manhattan Project, the place of Hayekian economics and cutting-edge neuroscience. This is the university “where Fun goes to die,” the institution that had in its history once outlawed varsity football because the sport kept resident (but apparently easily distracted) geniuses from academic prowess.
Chicago prides itself on its intellectual culture contra even the likes of Yale or Harvard. Ask anyone who has visited Hyde Park: This is not your average ivy tower. Chicagoans skip showering to study and routinely forget supper. We watch foreign films. We gossip about the Akkadians rather than the Kardashians. Yet the vogue of Sex Week, the glitz and exoticism, has won the day. At any other campus, this is a sad tale of contemporary, debased culture; at Chicago, the phenomenon is especially ironic.
Sex Week, the victor, is emblematic of the University of Chicago’s conflict between postmodern values-clarification and good solid Marxism, both of which dominate the academic cult. What my Chicagoan Marxist friends forget is that Marx, Lukacs, Horkheimer and Adorno, and other progenitors of modern neo-Marxism, lambasted the instrumental use of humans. That’s precisely what Sex Week at Chicago is all about — refining techniques, systematizing sex and even perfecting psychological manipulation. “How to Have Sex on Purpose” is one such workshop that standardizes relationships and highlights our culture’s bleak understanding of humans.
For neo-Marxists, as well as for conservative intellectual thinkers like Russell Kirk and even the literary genius Dostoyevsky, the crisis of modernity is that men view each other, and themselves, as objects that can be calculated and quantified. For Marxists, this permeates not only work life in capitalist production; it defines and distresses social relationships. Instrumental thinking alienates individual life and precludes true freedom and flourishing.
Marx himself, though a proponent of liberation from class strife, voiced a serious concern for human relationships. In his early manuscripts, he wrote, regarding love, “Every one of your relations to man and to nature must be a specific expression, corresponding to the object of your will, of your real individual life.” One would expect Marxists to critique Sex Week as a hollow bourgeois creation that lacks immediacy, value and individuality. In this way, Marxists and intellectual conservatives enjoy a curious concurrence in cultural criticism.
We University of Chicagoans might not be known for our savoir faire. Yet our intellectual culture, the culture of a deep inquisitiveness, is something valuable. Preserving a culture requires that we jettison that which is inimical to the culture, and Sex Week — viewed from the perspectives of both neo-Marxism and intellectual conservatism, not to mention feminism — does not bolster a culture that values individual worth and intellectual robustness. At some point, the postmodern pack, advocating “values-neutral” ideology, must contend not only with moral conservatism, but also with those on the left who are disenchanted by modernity.
The University of Chicago — and universities generally — certainly ought not embrace this degrading and commercialized bacchanal that is as dehumanizing as it is unoriginal.
Marion Gabl is a graduate student at the University of Chicago.
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Watch out for walking perfection from Gold Coast, Australia : 20-years old model-actress Jessica Green was in Hollywood recently to meet up with casting directors and scope out L.A acting (and party) scene.
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Snippet from an article (in Spanish):Camila Belle, quien da vida a Gaby, toma clases de baile exótico, pues su personaje es una bailarina de un tabledance.
* She plays a stripper. Google translation too literal?
Here is the confirmation:
Camilla Belle : The challenge is to make a Mexican person, I've done Mexico-American characters, but not one Mexican who speaks exclusively in Spanish completely, also the challenge is because she works the stripper character, is a hard life, hard work, and I make very real character, that to me is very important and also very difficult because I want to do very well, I've been talking to girls that work well, spending time with them, seeing how his life, and I want to do justice to his work . Many of the girls working as stripper is because I really need the money, have children, a family to support, they are as survivors, so I have much respect, it has been a very interesting experience for me because during the day are normal women, with their children, with your partner, go to the supermarket, and at night is a different job, it's been really interesting.
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