believes that online streaming could soon allow storytellers to tweak aspects of show’s that are not working, “instantaneously”.
— directed and exec. produced by Roth — is braving relatively uncharted territory as one of Netflix’s first original series:
While viewer subjectivity will always play a part, it’s an interesting premise. I definitely see the pros and cons of doing this, but it’s certainly an intriguing idea. How many bad plot points have you wished could be changed or buried within the palimpsest of your favorite serial?
I think this notion would work better for some shows than others, but it’s an interesting concept that illustrates the opportunities that online streaming will undoubtedly create for long-form stories with invested audiences, as well as the potential impact this may have on the way these stories are digested.
Hemlock Grove is slated for 2013 on Netlfix. All 13 episodes will be released at the same time.
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Avert your eyes! These following explicit movie moments are either severe, perverse or completely unwatchable. (Which probably means you are going to Netflix later out of sheer curiosity... ya' scamp.)
1. Titus - The Torture of Lavinia From orgies to The Lion King -- Julie Taymor is known for her visuals. We are shown the taunting of rape victim, Lavinia - tongue cut out, hands severed. Twigs are bandaged to replace her extremities, all very graphic. The cinematic take on Shakespeare's classic is both jolting and uncomfortably memorable.
Side note: The brilliant and androgynous Alan Cumming gives good screen time. (Cumming,
The Fragrance)
Let's all take a moment to appreciate the masterful David Lynch. Okay.
Lynch succeeds in creating tension through a series of
nipple shots and tears. During this masturbation sequence, the audience feels something completely private and desperate. For any straight woman, gay man or small child -- this scene lasts about AN HOUR too long. You can almost smell it.
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3. Antichrist - Who What When Where Why HowI must unsee, WHY CAN'T I UNSEE?? Here we have a grisly, no holds barred camera angle of a woman (Serge Gainsbourg's daughter, COOL!) ...CUTTING OFF HER CLIT. Willem Dafoe's DING DONG squirting blood. Other things. I refuse to give any more time, thought or word to this movie. I shall direct you to
Seth MacFarlane for further comment.
People tend to be very polarized when it comes to this controversial Kubrick film -- love it or hate it. The Sexy! Orgy! Party! is
mechanical (which I suppose is the point?). Pan left to slow motion titty rubs. Tom Cruise adventures! Sex cults rule!
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5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - The Swedish DouchewadThis crime drama contains images of mutilated women, dildos, bisexuality and reference to incest -- the entire gamut. The forceful sex is integral in propelling the story forward, sure. But let's all agree -- rape is NO BUENO. The Swedish title literally translates
Men Who Hate Women. Violent throws, pubic areas exposed -- brutal and disturbing. No thank you.
_________________________________________________Breakout Kings last dayActress Maggie Grace Biography Actress Maggie Grace Biography:
Profile:
Famous as: Actress
Birth Name: Margaret Grace Denig
Birth Date: September 21, 1983
Birth Place: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Claim to fame: As Martha Moxley in TV Movie “Murder in Greenwich” (2002)
Biography:
Few performers experience a meteoric rise to fame on par with that of actress Maggie Grace. An Ohio native whose parents co-ran a jewelry business, Grace left her Columbus home amid complete obscurity, nurturing dreams of becoming an A-list actress, and within five years made that dream a reality, given her ability to test out of high school and graduate years ahead of time. With the blessing of her parents, Grace promptly moved to Los Angeles at age 16 and snagged an agent. Roles in low-medium-budgeted features and short-lived television series (FOX’s Septuplets and Oliver Beene) followed, but it was her breakout turn in the blockbuster series Lost — as the pampered, spoiled and bratty Shannon Rutherford — that made her a superstar.
Early life:
Grace was born Margaret Grace Denig in Worthington, Ohio, the second of three children to parents Valinn and Rick Denig, who ran a family jewelry business. Her family lived in a 200-year-old house, the first saltbox house in central Ohio. She attended Worthington Christian Schools from kindergarten through ninth grade and briefly attended Thomas Worthington High School, where she began acting in school plays and community theater, including a Jewish Community Center’s Gallery Players’ 2000 production of The Crucible. Her parents divorced “amicably” when she was 16 years old, and her mother sought a “fresh start”. Grace dropped out of high school to move to Los Angeles, California with her mother, while her younger siblings Ian and Marissa continued to live with their father. In Los Angeles, Grace and her mother moved around often as they struggled financially, taking out short-term rents rather than paying for permanent residence while eating a basic diet, as it was all they could afford.
Career:
Grace acquired an agent within a week of relocating to Los Angeles and enrolled in acting classes. She landed her first role in Rachel’s Room, a 2001 web-based video series about the affairs inside a teenage girl’s bedroom that was created by Dawson’s Creek executive producer Paul Stupin. Her next role was on the 2002 television series Septuplets, which was cancelled before the first episode had aired. Her breakout role was on 2002′s television movie Murder in Greenwich, based on the true story of 15-year-old Martha Moxley’s murder. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award forher portrayal of Moxley in the Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special – Leading Young Actress category, but lost to Clara Bryant for Tru Confessions. She went on to feature in minor roles on the television series CSI: Miami, The Lyon’s Den, Miracles, Like Family, Cold Case and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and the films Twelve Mile Road and Creature Unknown, before appearing in 2011′s semi hit Zookeeper with Kevin James.
In mid-2004, Grace’s agent sent her the script for the pilot episode of Lost; she was given the role of Shannon Rutherford after a successful audition. She was nominated in 2005 for a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Performance Female for her role on Lost, but lost to Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria. She lived in Hawaii during the filming of the show’s first season, and signed on to star opposite Tom Welling in The Fog, a 2005 remake of the 1980 horror film of the same name, as a character originally played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Though the filming of Lost was supposed to have ended before The Fog began, the productions coincided due to Lost’s extended season finale and Grace flew between the two sets, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu and on Bowen Island in British Columbia, Canada. After ranking at #27 on Maxim’s Hot 100 list of 2005, she returned for Lost’s second season. Her character was killed off the series in the season’s eighth episode, “Collision” when the series’ writers began to feel that the character’s “story avenues [were] limited”. Executive producer Carlton Cuse said that Grace’s departure from the show was “sort of a win-win” as she was eager to enter a full-time career in film. After leaving the series, she nevertheless joined the other principal Lost cast members of season 2 onstage at the 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards where Lost won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
In 2007, she starred in The Jane Austen Book Club, based on Karen Joy Fowler’s novel of the same name. She is a fan of Jane Austen and had read Fowler’s novel when it was released in 2004. When she was given the film’s script, she met with the director Robin Swicord, with whom she says she “geeked out”, and was given the role of Allegra, an openly lesbian 20-year-old. After the filming of The Jane Austen Book Club was completed, Grace briefly returned to Hawaii to shoot a guest spot on the Lost season 3 episode “Exposé”. She starred in the 2008 thriller film Taken with Liam Neeson, who was at the top of a list of male actors Grace wished to work with that she had written just two months before she was cast. She recently played the lead in Simon Fellows’ Malice in Wonderland, a modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In 2010, Grace starred in the drama Flying Lessons, and appeared opposite Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in James Mangold’s film Knight and Day, as well as in Faster, with Dwayne Johnson. Grace’s busy schedule prevented her from returning as Shannon in “LA X”, the season premiere for Lost’s sixth and final season, but she eventually returned for the series finale “The End”. On September 2010, it was revealed that Grace was chosen to play Irina in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
Personal life:
Grace lived in Honolulu, Hawaii while working on Lost, saying “I love it here, but it’s not a place you can really pursue acting.” She claimed that, while living in Hawaii, her Lost co-stars would introduce her to men and that some “would probably have me with a different guy every night.” She said that her male co-stars were “mostly very protective” and “very opinionated” when deciding whether she should date certain men; actor Josh Holloway once offered to help her select dates from a portfolio of male models with whom he previously worked. Grace and Ian Somerhalder, her onscreen stepbrother, were rumored to be dating in April 2006 after both had left Lost. When asked about Somerhalder in August, she stated, “Ian’s great, I adore him, although I’m only 22 – far too young to even think about having a serious relationship.” While still working on Lost, Grace and Somerhalder adopted a feral cat named Roo which they found “literally dying” in the jungle on the set. She said that the cat is now her “travel buddy.” In 2008 and 2009, she dated Blake Mycoskie, a contestant on the second season of The Amazing Race and founder of TOMS Shoes.
Grace says that the person she is most inspired by is her mother. When asked about her closest friend, she said that she and her mother were more like sisters and that she is “lucky to have an exceptionally cool mum.” She is a self proclaimed anglophile, having written to a pen pal in the Lake District from the age of eight, having first visited England at 13 years old, and admiring a number of British poets as well as William Shakespeare. She calls herself very clumsy, claiming to “trip over my legs all the time,” and was jokingly nicknamed “Maggie Graceless” by one of her former castmates. She plays in a Los Angeles kickball league with her friends.
Filmography:
Relative Insanity (2013)
Decoding Annie Parker (2012)
Taken 2 InfoTaken 2 (2012)
Lockout InfoLockout (2012)
The Twilight Saga’s Breaking Dawn Part I (2011)
The Experiment InfoThe Experiment (2010)
Knight and Day Info Knight and Day (2010)
Faster InfoFaster (2010)
Flying Lessons InfoFlying Lessons (2010)
Malice in Wonderland InfoMalice in Wonderland (2009)
Taken InfoTaken (2008)
The Jane Austen Book Club InfoThe Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Suburban Girl InfoSuburban Girl (2007)
The Fog InfoThe Fog (2005) aka Brouillard, Le
Creature Unknown (2004) aka The Forest
Oliver Beene (2004) – TV
Lost InfoLost (2004) – TV
Twelve Mile Road (2003) – TM aka 12 Mile Road
Septuplets (2002) – TV
Murder in Greenwich (2002) – TM aka Dominick Dunne Presents: Murder in Greenwich
Shop Club (2002)
Rachel’s Room (2001)
Awards:
Screen Actors Guild Awards
2006
Won Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Lost (2004) (TV)
shared with Naveen Andrews; Emilie de Ravin; Matthew Fox
Teen Choice Awards
2005
Got nomination for Teen Choice Award
category Choice TV Breakout Performance – Female for Lost (2004) (TV)
Young Artist Awards
2003
Got nomination for Young Artist Award
category Best Performance in a TV Movie, Mini-Series or Special – Leading Young Actress for Murder in Greenwich (2002) (TV Movie)
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Jo Yeo Jung ‘Sexy + Pure’, multi-faceted charm shakes men at the core
Actress Jo Yeo Jung is sending the hearts of men racing with her multi-faceted charm that encompasses all from sensuality to innocence.
Jo Yeo Jung recently participated in a photoshoot for a pictorial together with the actors and director Kim Tae Seung of the movie ‘The Emperor’s Concubine’ showing off her sensuality.
In the movie, Jo Yeo Jung plays the role of Hwa Yeon, a woman who had to change to survive. Jo Yeo Jung wore a black outfit in the pictorial revealed with her sexiness showcased front and forward.
In a pictorial with another fashion magazine, Jo Yeo Jung showed off her pure and innocent looks with her beautiful smile and almost the dreamy feel of a young woman truly showing off her versatility.
Some of the netizens commented: “Jo Yeo Jung is so attractive in so many different ways”, “Totally sexy”, and “So pretty. I envy Jo Yeo Jung.”
‘The Emperor’s Concubine’ is scheduled to premier on June 6th.
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Zhang Ziyi under investigation for prostitution Actress Zhang Ziyi has allegedly been barred from leaving China after it was determined that she had sex with former top government official Bo Xilai more than 10 times. She is said to be under investigation by the Bo Xilai government and police investigation team, according to the US registered Chinese-language website Boxun. The news has been carried by Apple Daily and other papers in Taiwan, but not in the Chinese mainland.
The pair’s sexual relationship was arranged by Bo’s associate, the 41-year-old billionaire Xu Ming, who is founder and chairman of Dalian Shide Group. According to various sources, Xu confessed that he paid Zhang 6 million yuan ($946,000) in 2007, after sleeping with her for the first time. The two then had several other “bedroom deals” before Xu arranged for Zhang to offer special services to Bo in the same year, for 10 million yuan. Between 2007 and 2011, Bo and actress Zhang had sex at least 10 times – all in Beijing, including at Xu’s guesthouse in the capital’s Xishan.
Billionaire Xu also arranged for Zhang to meet another two high-level officials for sex and Xu would pay Zhang each time. Sources said Zhang is famed in entertainment circles for obtaining money, jewelry and real estate from sleeping with the rich. She has had up to five or six billionaire boyfriends at the same time, but only has one “formal boyfriend” in public.
It is estimated that Zhang has pocketed at least 700 million yuan ($110 million) from sexual transactions over the past 10 years, including 180 million yuan in cash from Xu. Her vast wealth from prostituting herself was not taxed due to intervention from Xu and other government officials.
This shocking news might explain why Zhang was absent from the Cannes Film Festival this year even though her film, Dangerous Liaisons, premiered at the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section. Zhang was also invited to present the Palme d’Or awards. But she turned down the invitations, giving the reason that she had to finish shooting on The Grandmasters. The real reason could be that she is being investigated for her connection to Bo Xilai, Xu and her work as a prostitute.
Previously, Ziyi has been accused of witholding charity funds for the Sichuan earthquake and has often been connected with rich and powerful men, with whom she is supposed to have prostituted herself. * In Asia an actress is equated to being an high-end prostitute. She is at mercy of pimps masquerading as agents. If the movie offers drys up at some point and she is used to living in luxury - becoming an escort is only option. It's rampant in India where out-of-work female artists entertains clients at 'five-star' hotels. It's well publicised in South Korea. The girls are groomed early on to be sex puppets of the powerful. Nearly all actress in smaller Asian countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia have dabbled in prostitution. I was in Malaysia few months ago and Eurasian artists are popular and much in demand. Here the hook is pretty clever and subtle. One of my friend (from Britain) have shot plenty of local models-cum-actresses and he have two portfolios - one the normal version (non-nude) and another quite explicit shots of the models. To say I was surprised will be an overstatement because you expect these type of shenanigans in self-proclaimed socially conservative countries. I was shocked though when he said the girls are available for 'encounters' for the right price. I was not interested in the women for photo-shoot but for a poke....hell yeah. I picked a very multi-ethnic looking chick in her mid-20's. The dude claimed she was Miss Malaysia contestant in 20** and placed third. She is of Chinese-East Indian parentage and still lives with her parents! To make a long story short the sex was shitty (did her at my friend guest bedroom - the safest spot). Only mish and doggy. BJ sucked in a big way. The chick refused to be sexually dominated. Paid for facial but she directed my cock on to her tits (admittedly perfect in my eyes). She agreed to anal but I had to stopped mid-way because she was squirming a lot and I was afraid she will leak you-know-what. Is it worth it? To a certain point. I was sucking on her tits much longer than I was fucking her! Word of advise: always use protection. Always.
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Actress Rainey Qualley on Her Debut Role in Mighty Fine The 23-year-old daughter of Andie MacDowell opens up about acting opposite her mother and meeting her boyfriend on set.
