Here is a run-up to the House of Cards debacle
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 05/14/2012
The nudity speculator : Mara is playing Zoe Barnes - the equivalent of Mattie Storin in the original. The character becomes romantically involved with Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey). It's obvious Rooney Mara played a part in getting big sister a plum role in the series. And maybe convinced Kate to drop her annoying nudity clause for good because the role have intimate scenes and kinky bits too. This well could be the defining role for Kate - who turns 30 next year. I'm not saying she will go full frontal or something like that. Even the sex in the novels are pretty obscure. My guess is she will go topless. Another one slated for nudity could be Kristen Connolly as Representative Patrick Russo (Corey Stoll) secretary and mistress. Minor character in the original, it could be expanded to a major one just for the fact to see Kristen in sex scenes. Being a Netflix original - the show has no ratings board or advertisers to appease so sex and nudity is pretty much game on.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 07/31/2012
If they stick closely to the book we should be privileged to Miss Mara first topless scene......Kristen Connolly is also possible candidate for some boobs gazing.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 09/18/2012
Kristen will have (clothed?) sex bent-over the table getting it from behind by the congressman during an episode. While the British version is mostly implied, the lengthiness of US-remake is expected to have more than its share of sleaziness factor. Still no news of Kate Mara expected bed-scene with Spacey's character. Will be she be nude? In one of the scenes her reporter character Zoe Barnes is seen questioning and arguing with Spacey's Francis Urquhart while his wife Robin Wright watches on. Cuts to cam panning down close to a bed with Francis on top of a woman, rolls over and........that's only the tantalizing part I received. Spacey is gay and he is never comfortable with female nudity. That could be an issue.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 11/04/2012
I'm pretty stoked for this show thanks to brilliant casting of Kate and Kristen. Both girls are sexually involved with the politicians according to initial storyline. Like the series writer Beau Willimon promises it will be dark and nasty. True Blood alum Kate Barnow was brought in to sex up the script. If I were a betting man I put my money on Kristen to show her tits just because her character is head-strong and don't give a fuck she is sleeping with her boss. Kate is another matter altogether. She plays Zoe Barnes - a conflicted journalist having a torrid affair with Spacey's Underwood. Sound promising but it all depends on the editing. David Fincher is very protective of Mara sisters and Rooney actually encouraged big sister to audition for the role. She also put in a good word with mentor David. I see some 'firsts' coming up for 29-years old Kate.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 11/15/2012
There should be nudity but keeping fingers crossed it's the type we can write about the next day and not some party strippers kind. Again it depends on the final cut (editing). Don't want to sound like a broken record but both Kate Mara and Kristen Connolly have prominent roles with strong possibility of sex scenes.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 11/23/2012
sudden increase in Kate Mara's twittering with her staggering weight loss suggest - at least to me - we're going to see her boobs on House of Cards. This is purely speculation on my part but I can feel it deep in my bone-less appendage Kate will bring us joy in 2013.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 11/26/2012
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stars, sex and nudity buzz : 01/19/2013
I'm confident both Kate Mara and Kristen Connolly will be naked for the first time on-cam. It's strange Kristen yet to be credited as part of the cast at IMDB. Her character is involved in a torrid affair with her boss and I been told (and I have posted couple of times as well on the blog) she will go topless. Kevin's Underwood gets a sniff of the illicit liaison and blackmails the congressman/senator/Kristen's lover.
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 01/28/2013
judgement call......
stars, sex and nudity buzz : 02/01/2013
.........that didn't panned out.
* Do remember this is only the first season. Haven't watched the show but hoping Kate Mara survives the season. Netflix will gauge the reaction and feedback from selected viewers and various (focus) group. We can only hope they'll increase the sleazy factor in second season.
UPDATE
New York Newsday
That wasn't an issue during "House of Cards," which Mara confirmed has her returning for its second season, slated to begin filming this spring.
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I been following Jaimie Alexander for few months now after founding out she did a love scene in French-produced flick Intersections (2013). It opened theatrically in France couple of days ago.
The trailer shows her kissing a dude and maybe there is more.......hopefully someone who saw the movie can provide the juicy details.
28-years old Jaimie owe us a big one after what she put Jennie Garth through and one way the Texan can get back on my good graces is by showing us her tits on-screen.I bet Jennie the nudity dodger agrees with me.
TAYLOR DOLAN is a sultry American beauty with a very dark side. She clearly has a weakness for all that glitters and no qualms about using her slinky body to get whatever she wants. Honeymooning in Morocco, she seems to have hit the jackpot with her filthy rich new hubby, Scott… but for some reason she‟s brought her lover along!
Hollywood Reporter
When New York hedge fund manager Scott Dolan (Frank Grillo) and his new bride Taylor (Jaimie Alexander) set out on a desert excursion for their honeymoon, it's clear that villainy is afoot, because in no time at all Taylor is cheating on her husband with one of his colleagues, Travis (Charlie Bewley).
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Maggie Q: Fight Climate Change With Diet Change
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Brittany Brousseau : Josh RyanBrittany Brousseau is a 24-year-old model-actress from Los Angeles. Relentless self-promoter.
Gorgeous eyes sets her apart and her willingness to bare it all is a plus.
Brittany Brousseau has a face that launched a thousand ships. She has the wild girl personality of Lindsay and the allure of a young Angelina. She is currently racing down “The Road To Hollywood” as a model, actress and in July will grace the cover go GLADYS Magazine. It was announced by Andrea Patrick Forte, the magazine’s beautiful publisher and editor in chief. “We looked at many girls,” reports Andrea. “But when I saw the photo of Brittany by Josh Ryan I almost fell over. She just took my breath away.”
Shooting the magazine’s big July summer issue is internationally renown fashion photographer Jacques Silberstein who has worked with every super model and celebrity from Demi Moore to Kelly Emberg (Who, by the way will grace the magazine’s cover towards the end of the year) “Brittany has star quality,” says Jacques. “She almost reminds me a little of Gia (Carangi)”
Besides modeling Brittany is working on upcoming reality TV projects and reading film scripts. She has an busy Hollywood social life with boyfriend Dean May who is one of tinsel town’s biggest promoters. A match made in Reality TV heaven!
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oh my.....Canadian model Janelle Manning first nude photo-shoot.She is cute and fetching and homely and classy and fashionable and sexy and spunky and mainstream and current.
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Model - Kiwi model Chloe Wheatcroft @ Vivien's Models
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Picnic Star Maggie Grace's Broadway Debut is All Lust, Girl Crushes, and Not Talking Pretty
Plus, this quote: "I'm not into the boating shoes—that's a solid buzzkill."
By Kimberly Kaye • Jan 31, 2013 • New York City
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| Maggie Grace in Picnic at the American Airlines Theatre. |
"Ha, well. All I know is that for Madge, she feels…". Well played, Grace.
It's unsurprising she's bored with talking looks. A "prolific overanalyzer," the actress is a thoughtful speaker and bookworm whose last ten years of print interviews have largely been reduced to pull quotes about who she's dating and what it means to be an object of desire to men everywhere. So we let the subject go and got back to basics with those time-honored, hackneyed "celebrity interview" talking points: neurochemistry, hidden blow-up dolls, and girl crushing on Elizabeth Marvel.
What's been most surprising about your new full-time life on Broadway?
I'm on 42nd Street, in this beautiful theater, but 43rd Street? I was not prepared for that. We've had jackhammers on 43rd going during the show. We've had people try to get into the theater through those side doors [the theater has exits on 42nd and 43rd streets]—there are some real crazies out there. But I've been most surprised by caring so deeply about this cast so quickly. You meet people you connect with on the job all the time, but [this cast has] recognized we have a community going. I haven't had that sense of tribe in a long time.
You have brilliant, renowned female costars. What's one invaluable thing they've taught you?
Elizabeth Marvel, Mare Winningham, Ellen Burstyn! I'm pinching myself. Ellen just turned 80 and she's a force. I want to be her, or like her. That's part of the alchemy of this group. These are women's women, strong ladies, grande dames of theater. I've learned a lot from watching how they're able to come in to work and disconnect from their day in order to grow the play.
Meaning?
I don't know if it will translate to print—for example, I've found shifts I didn't originally see in the mother/daughter relationship with Mare and I. She's all love, Mare, and our relationship has changed onstage in a way that makes the show different than it was in the beginning of the run. And I get to warm up with Beth Marvel before the show. I have a girl crush on her voice. That woman is formidable, but her voice! It was the first thing I noticed, this full, round, bellowing voice. We do tongue twisters together and compete at it. We squeeze our hands above our heads as hard as we can and just breathe. It sounds insane. At first I felt like, "This is a hazing ritual! None of these are real warm-ups, [they] just want you to look like a dork!" It turns out they're a great way to energize before a show.
The men are completely outnumbered in this cast. How are they hanging in?
We're an integrated cast, fairly. We're girls with robust senses of humor. It's certainly not a prim backstage feeling at all. There's one scene where Hal [onstage love interest Sebastian Stan] has to hide under a house for a long time. I've been thinking lately that he must be lonely, alone under there all that time. I'm thinking I need to start leaving him things. He's pretty into his workout routine—so a box of Twinkies could be nice for him. Or a bottle of Jack Daniels. Maybe a blowup doll? Yes. When is this [interview] running? I need to get moving before he reads this.
Why do girls love the grimy drifter, like Hal, over a nice guy in a clean shirt and boating shoes?
Lust. More than that, but that's the big one. Most girls like Madge, who fall for that guy, don't have the experience to know the difference between loving and being loved, and thinking you can fall in love in a few hours. In our show, when a boyfriend and mother talk to Madge about her feelings for this drifter, they say things like, ‘It's not your fault, I know what he's like,' or ‘Why did this happen to you?'Like he's a happening, or not human. But we do make our own decisions. And I'm not into the boating shoes—that's a solid buzz kill. But I think I've outgrown being attracted to that narcissistic, bad boy energy.
The young people in this play need schooling in love. What's the best piece of romantic advice you're personally been given?
Oh, it's not that cerebral a mystery, is it? You can look for lessons and meanings, but if you do you'll miss the experience. It's best to surrender to [love]. Aren't you glad to have had it happen, even when things don't work out, even through the terrible hurt? Don't we all know it's not going to work out? Even if you find the love of your life, we all know that life eventually ends. Things end. It's best to have experienced it all fully, without trying to find answers.
What piece of romantic advice can people take away from a moral love story like Picnic?
I don't want to answer for everybody. I understand, for me, that Madge is confused by [how] if you are single, you come to represent something to other people. People fall in love with an idea of her. She's a vessel for other people's dreams. That's not intimacy. Intimacy is something very different, you don't just—lust, intimacy, love, it's all difficult. I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? But, lust at first sight. I have experienced that. That's the best drug.
But it's fake. Your brain drugs you with chemicals from the inside, and when they start to wear off—
--the oxytocin and vasopressin, I know, it's crazy! But I'm down with the oxytocin. Really. That's my favorite drug.
I'm more into the vasopressin myself…
You're a vasopressin girl? That's interesting. I really think if you live with enough of those neurochemicals in your system you live longer.
Married people do live longer.
Wives, especially. Wives longer than husbands. It's really weird that gender plays a role in our lives that significantly, but it probably does make sense. When you tend to someone for so many years, your purpose and strength, that energy, it is powerful. People come undone without it.
[Ed's Note: If you have no idea what's going on in this interview anymore, consider reading this book .]
Moving away from neurochemistry: Madge is billed as beautiful, but without talent. What is your hidden talent?
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
When you're not doing Pulitzer Prize winning plays, your screen career puts you in action flicks like the Taken films. Do you have the training to take on 43rd Street "crazies"?
I've been the damsel in distress, mostly, but when someone teaches you something empowering like [self defense] it changes how you go through the world. You internalize the training. I did some work training on a firing range during a really bad time in my life, and it did anchor me.
True or False: After training for the Taken films, mild-mannered Liam Neeson [Grace's onscreen assassin father] can kick my ass, for real.
True. But I really hope he doesn't.
Can we take a second to ask why, in Taken, an assassin father didn't teach his own daughter some Krav Maga basics to defend herself from kidnappers?
Um, how about basics like, "Don't get into taxis with strange boys?" You know, "Stranger-danger! Make good decisions!" There are a lot of questions to be posed there.
It's my fault we're not talking about theater anymore. Going back: What shows are you looking forward to seeing most this season?I made it out to see The Great God Pan, which was INCREDIBLE. I recently saw Sleep No More, which is such an amazing, crazy night. I love that it's been running night after night so long. I'm going to see Clive soon. I'm such a theater enthusiast, so it's such a joy to finally be in [a show], but now I can't go out [at night] to see anything.
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Picnic leaves the audience with so many questions. Do you personally think Madge gets her man?
No. Some nights I think she has a shot, but mostly no. We should be concerned for the kids [in Picnic]. They didn't have an atmosphere to really know themselves, or one another. There's a lot that can happen in the back seat of a Ford, but hers is a pretty big gamble. I worry for her.
* It seems to me Maggie Grace has banned any questions referring to her stint on Californication. It's pretty obvious considering the series is running concurrently with her stage work. There's no way Kimberly would have bypassed the opportunity to ask Maggie the contrast between Madge of Picnic and Faith of Californication.
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Paul Schrader Responds To 'Canyons' Controversy: It's "cinema for the post theatrical era."
Set in present day SoCal, the film depicts a dilapidated and disillusioned subculture inhabited by young folks aimlessly trying to make it in the movies. Sitting at an outdoor cafe in Los Angeles in one scene from "The Canyons," Lohan's character and a publicist friend exchange a few words that underscore their relationship to modern cinema in L.A.
"Do you really like movies? Maybe they're just not my thing anymore."
Unlike his characters, Paul Schrader still likes the movies but he seems to be trying to navigate a filmmaking landscape that's left him on rather uneasy footing. He thought he'd cap his career in the independent world but the bottom dropped out of the market for the eight to ten million dollar movies he imagined making. With "The Canyons" he's pinpointed what he calls, "Cinema for the post theatrical era."
The roots of "The Canyons" and the collaboration between Schrader, Ellis and Pope dates back to a year ago when the trio saw the financing fall through for a different project.
In an email to Bret Easton Ellis at the time, Paul Schrader outlined the approach the team would take with "The Canyons." "Given the new economics of filmmaking, I envision this as a relatively micro-budget production," Schrader wrote to Ellis (copying producer Braxton Pope). "To make that work the script has to be multi-charactered, relationship based, full of sharp dialogue, set in contemporary locations and have a certain outre value. In other words, very much like the stuff Bret Easton Ellis writes."
They were motivated by Ed Burns, who has re-booted his brand via a revitalized filmmaking career rooted in low budget work aimed squarely at digital platforms. In remarks that resonated with Schrader, Burns said plainly in a recent interview, "Twitter has fundamentally changed the way I make films."
"I had to figure out how to work with a new economic paradigm," Schrader explained the other day. For "The Canyons," he imagined a filmmaking framework fueled by its social media footprint.
This modern story about the dark side of Hollywood evokes the lurid tales depicted in "Hollywood Babylon," Kenneth Anger's infamous book about Tinseltown scandals. At the center of the "The Canyons" is boy next door adult actor Deen. Dubbed the "Ryan Gosling of porn," Deen portrays the cold, scheming movie producer Christian who - lest he lose his trust fund - is making movies to satisfy his father's demands that he maintain a viable career. Lindsay Lohan stars as Tara, his girlfriend who's hiding an affair with a guy from her past she's about to shoot a film with. Christian and Tara invite various sex partners to their luxurious Malibu Canyon lair in a story rooted in the power dynamics playing out among various characters. Gus Van Sant has a playful cameo near the end of the movie.
For Schrader and Ellis, "The Canyons" is about people with hollow Hollywood dreams.
"These people are all talking about making a movie but they don't really care about movies," Schrader emphasized. There's a lot of sadness and desperation woven into a film that, during production, actually served as a training ground for a new generation of moviemakers.
A Sundance or SXSW film festival launch for a new American indie film is de rigeur. Filmmakers set their post-production schedules to coincide with festival submission deadlines. Yet, with the proliferation of digital outlets enabling filmmakers to sell directly to an audience on multiple platforms simultaneously, some have started to wonder how long the traditional sequence will remain a tried and true path.
As they carve out their approach, Schrader and Pope are currently frustrated by negative buzz fueled by widely reported comments attributed to an unnamed SXSW programmer who surprisingly told The Hollywood Reporter that the festival had rejected the film.
Word that "The Canyons" wouldn't be screening at either Sundance or SXSW was reported on websites hungry for snarky celebrity soaked content that could stoke page views, even though no one had actually seen the movie. In the wake of the recent New York Times Magazine cover story that depicted a film set troubled by an erratic leading lady, some declared the movie dead. Buzz that "The Canyons" wouldn't have an early 2013 festival bow fueled speculation that the new film was stopped before entering the starting gate.
"People infer that we have a damaged product just because it was a difficult shoot," Paul Schrader told me on Sunday as we chatted inside a Manhattan restaurant, "Every shoot is difficult."
Having shown "The Canyons" to a few supportive friends who are film critics, as well as filmmakers including Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn, Schrader and Pope are confident that the film will resonate once people see it for themselves. Indeed, "The Canyons" is compelling, despite its cold as ice characters. When Deen and Lohan are on screen, it's particularly hard to look away.
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| On the set of "The Canyons" |
"The movie itself, from my perspective as someone who doesn't live there, is a really accurate portrait of a certain stratum of life in Los Angeles," agreed Kent Jones, a colleague at the Film Society of Lincoln Center who is the Director of Programming for the New York Film Festival. Jones was particularly struck by Lohan's lead performance, likening it to Ann-Margaret in 'Carnal Knowledge'. "It's a reminder of what a great actress she is. She's fantastic."
Even with the compliments, Schrader and Pope realize that snarky observers have knives out for their lead actress.
"For all the folks who are eager to critique Lindsay, I take satisfaction in seeing her deliver a strong performance in a mature film helmed by a director, in Schrader, who is a deep thinker about film and a writer, in Bret Easton Ellis, who has been a great collaborator and who has seized the culture twice (with ‘Less Than Zero’ and ‘American Psycho’)," defended producer Braxton Pope. "And I like the transparency of our process. You get a lot of bombs thrown your way, but all those explosions keep things interesting."
Schrader and Pope hope that things go well with buyers this week at a series of New York and Los Angeles screenings orchestrated by Alexis Garcia at WME. As for Sundance and SXSW, though, Schrader isn't looking back.
"As much as you like to be invited to the party, it probably would not have been good for us to to be in Sundance or South by Southwest," Schrader elaborated, "We would have had an explosion of reaction out of Park City and a lot of it would have been very, very snarky and then we'd have to wait four months to exploit that," Schrader explained. "I think by the time we show it [to an audience] we should be able to say, you can see [it] for yourself."
"We set out to make a kind of provocation," Schrader added, "Bret's a provocateur. I am. James by the nature of his profession, Lindsay by the nature of her public persona. If four provocateurs can't provoke somebody, we're not doing our job."
Meanwhile, they aren't phased by sniping that their film would go straight to video. In fact, Schrader actually embraces that notion.
"Let's monetize this motherfucker," he exclaimed, invoking the fictitious Jerry Maguire inside a pub on his New York City block. "We are in a very fluid exhibition world where there are so many platforms and so many price points that theatrical just has to be seen as part of a panoply of options," he continued. "Straight to video isn't even a relevant term anymore. ['The Canyons'] was designed to go straight to video. There will be a limited theatrical, of course."
Indeed, a late spring festival slot timed to a simultaneous premiere on both digital and theatrical platforms could be in the cards for Schrader and Co.
"I think the new trend will be toward lining up a deal and then capturing the press attention from a festival with a concurrent release or shortly thereafter," explained producer Braxton Pope, "The festivals are still a great environment… but, for some films, I think they lose their momentum in the interim between festival sale and release."
Schrader stopped to reflect on momentum in his own career. "I don't think it is an old guy film," he added, "This doesn't feel like an out of gas movie. It feels very much to me in the style and mood of the people who are in it. Not some old fart looking at youth with a wistful eye."
"In the end, the movie will stand for itself. Lindsay's performance will stand for itself and the important thing is to make it available," Schrader said, "I'm more or less at the end of my career and it's just a gas to do this."
Eugene Hernandez is a co-founder of Indiewire and the Director of Digital Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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Photographer: Lior Nordman
Models: Alona, Ksenia (MC2 Agency)
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Former Miss USA Alyssa Campanella Stars As A Futuristic Robot In Latest Super Bowl Ad From Kia Motors To Introduce The All-New 2014 Kia Forte Compact Sedan
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Did this year's Sundance feature too much sexually explicit content?
Sex was definitely on people’s minds at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
The annual celebration of independent filmmaking that takes place each January in and around Park City raised more than a few eyebrows with what many felt was an overabundance of sexually explicit content from this year’s lineup. There were depictions of deviant, taboo and, in some cases, illegal sexual activity.
Before Sundance even got under way, a Utah conservative think tank called the Sutherland Institute posted a petition on its website asking Utah to end state funding of the festival based on what the group described as obscene and pornographic content, making reference to specific movies from the 2013 lineup.
“What would you call a film festival airing movies that explore the lives of porn stars, adulterous relationships between mothers and their friends’ children, and teenagers competing to lose their virginity?” wrote Derek Monson on the Sutherland Institute website. “To the state of Utah, evidently it is simply ‘economic activity.’”
During an opening day press event, Sundance founder Robert Redford dismissed the outcry, saying, “Sometimes the narrowest mind barks the loudest.”
As the festivities got going, though, it wasn’t just conservative groups that took note of all the racy subject matter.
Reporting from Park City, Brook Barnes of the New York Times’ Carpetbagger blog quoted an anonymous senior executive at a major Hollywood studio who said, “I’ve seen five movies today, and (the sexual content) has been nonstop. I’m no prude, but it’s a little much.”
The amount of explicit sex in movies this year even led Barnes to coin a new name for the prestigious event: “Porndance.” Other journalists quickly snatched up the unflattering moniker.
The subject of pornography, in fact, was present in many films. At least four focused on pornography as a major thematic element.
As Kyle Smith of the New York Post jokingly commented, “America’s most G-rated state has gone triple-X.”
Notable names such as James Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Amanda Seyfried and Naomi Watts were part of films that were noted for explicit sexual content.
If Redford is to be believed, it’s just the times we live in. In an interview with the Associated Press on the festival’s opening night, the 76-year-old actor and philanthropist said, "We just show what's there. We don't predict anything. We don't shape anything.”
Comparing this year’s Sundance to his early career, Redford said, “When I got into the film business in the early '60s, it was a romantic time. Sex and romance were pretty well tied together. Now, 40, 50 years later, we see that sexual relations have moved to a place where it doesn't feel like there's so much romance involved. ... Relations have changed, and they've changed because of changing times and because of new technology. People are texting rather than dating and all that kind of stuff.”
Franco, though, has his own theories. Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, the actor and former Oscars co-host said, "I think there's something happening with all these sex movies. We've been using violence as a storytelling device for decades but we've only just begun to use sex that way instead of as simply something to shock."
One thing is clear about the issue, though: sex sells.
Despite what looked like early signs of a bad year for distribution deals at Sundance, films with explicit content were among the first to sell, according to the Wall Street Journal, and negative reviews didn’t seem to get in the way.
For fans of independent cinema hoping to avoid sexually explicit content, though, all hope should not be lost just yet. There are still plenty of options from this year’s Sundance to explore as they hit theaters, home video and on-demand services in coming months.
As Redford notes, “diversity is the point" of the entire film festival. Altogether, 119 movies from 32 countries screened during the 2013 program, including many that would be suitable for family audiences.
“The festival, being as diverse as it is, shows all kinds of content, and that gives the audience a chance to choose,” Redford said. “That’s not quite so available in the main marketplace.”
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5 Things To Know Before Heading to Hollywood
By Lana Veenker
For a regional casting director, it’s tremendously fulfilling to midwife actors through their big move to Hollywood. But too often, actors take this leap haphazardly, convinced the red carpets will unfurl for their boundless talent and good looks.Many actors I’ve watched scuttle off to L.A. over the past decade were gifted with charm, talent, and good looks. What they lacked was preparation. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when they pushed off the curb, most return a few years later, hardened, cynical and full of war stories.
Hollywood has no pity for the weak of heart or pocketbook. Your drive to carve out an acting career in the palm-lined “Jaws of Hell” must be so fervent that the thought of not doing it makes your skin hurt.
Convinced that you must try your hand in the City of Angels? Then for the sake of all that is good, position yourself for success with proper planning.
Behold five elemental items that belong in your arsenal, long before you pack your sunscreen:
1. Chops. I cannot emphasize this enough. The talent you’ll be competing against are hungry and masterful. Secure top-notch training and a few real credits before setting sail. No world-class schools, theaters, or productions chez toi? Consider moving to a larger market first to hone your skills. Classes at Second City and a turn at Steppenwolf in Chicago will impress more than a dozen hometown community theatre credits.
2. SAG-AFTRA Card. It’s easier to snag your SAG-AFTRA card in a busy regional hub than in L.A. Why? Producers get fined for hiring non-union actors on union gigs, unless they can prove no suitable union actors were available. That’s a tall order in a metropolis teeming with unemployed guild members, but doable in a market like Portland, where the pickings are slimmer. Get it before you go. Once you’re in L.A., no one wants to help you procure your card.
3. Connections. Reputable regional coaches, schools, talent agents, and casting directors often have connections in Hollywood and may be able to help you land representation or get a toe in at the top casting offices. A director you befriended on location might recommend you to an agent, manager, or other contact upon arrival. Got friends or family in the industry? Hit them up!
4. Money. Take lots of it. More than you think you need. By the time you touch down, your expenses will multiply: gas, food, parking…parking tickets! You’ll need new headshots right away. Those small-town ones will never fly. And you’re not moving to L.A. just to slog at a day job and spend the rest of the time in traffic, are you? Just think: if you only had to work part time your first year or so, you could spend the remaining hours taking classes, doing showcases, networking, and hustling—things that are important to do when you’re new to town, before you’ve lost your luster and become jaded.
5. A Plan: Make your move when you’ve got momentum from a few high-profile bookings, film festival accolades, or a gajillion hits on your web series. Generate buzz before you go, then know your plan when you hit the ground. Don’t think you can wing it and get discovered at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. You need a plan for your housing, training, representation and day job (a field guide like Bonnie Gillespie’s Self-Management for Actors can help).
Once you’ve got all these, then you can bust out the sunscreen. (You’ll need the periodic R-and-R to preserve your sanity and renew your sense of possibility.) Now go get ‘em!
Casting Director Lana Veenker began her career in London and, upon returning to her Northwest roots, founded one of the top location casting companies in the country.
Recent projects include NBC’s Grimm, now in its second season, and 64 episodes of TNT’s Leverage. Gus Van Sant, Robert Benton, Guillermo Arriaga, Catherine Hardwicke and Tim Robbins figure among past film clients. Commercial accounts include Nike, Apple and Nintendo, and international campaigns from Shanghai to Santiago.
Lana is a member of the Casting Society of America and the International Casting Directors Network. She frequently lectures across the U.S. and abroad, most recently at The Actors Platform in London, IfiF Productions in Vienna, The Acting Studio in Berlin, Studio Bleu in Paris and Prague Film School.
Korea leads the world in plastic surgery
Quoting stats from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the Economist reports—and sit down for this—that Korea leads the world in popularity of cosmetic surgery:Non-invasive treatments to plump out wrinkles, smooth lines and remove hair account for more than half of all procedures: over 3m of these are for botox alone. America is home to more cosmetic enhancement than anywhere else, but accounting for population reveals a different story. On that measure, more primping and preening goes on in South Korea, Greece and Italy, as the chart below shows.Some 13.5 Koreans out of 1,000 undergo a cosmetic procedure. In the No. 2, Greece, 12.5 out of 1,000 get procedures.
Most of these are non-evasive procedures like Botox. As far as operations are concerned, nose jobs are the most common in East Asia.
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The production team of Inside the Box provided us with additional informations on the ways to watch David Martín-Porras's short film and also promise to unveil new behind the scenes clips.
To Summer Glau fans wondering when/if they will be able to watch the film when it's finished: right now the only way to see the movie when it will be finished (hopefully this month) is by a passwod protected link to the film or DVD that people will get by the donations.
Inside the Box is immerse in post production and the producers still need your help to make it through the finishing line.
You will find the Donation Guidelines from the PDF file.
If you can’t donate, word of mouth is a great way to support the movie. Get the word out on social networks for example, tell your friends and family and post on appropriate blogs and websites
The other ways to watch the movie will be the Festivals; if everything goes as planned, Inside the Box will be shown at film festivals throughout the year. The Summer Glau Wiki will keep you informed on the festivals and dates as they come.
After that, the producers will try to show the movie in TV or some VOD platforms...but i think all Summer Glau fans will already have seen it by then (It doesn't mean we cannot continue to support it btw).
In the meantime, the producers have released a behind the scenes clip with Summer Glau that you can watch in a previous News if you haven't already.
Two other behind the scenes clips with Regina King and Wilson Bethel should be unveiled in the next few days, and soon another two more with general information about the production.
As you can see, the cast and crew of Inside the Box are working hard to showcase the movie and i'm glad that they have included the fansites in the process.
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It's a cruel world when Bar Refaeli can make the awfully bland task of gardening look super sexy.
The Israelian model has posed for several retro-inspired shoots for lingerie line Passionata looking incredibly glamorous while carrying out all those hated household chores.
In one image the Sports Illustrated beauty can be seen baking sweet treats while flaunting her famous curves off in a bra and matching lace knickers.
While in another the supermodel makes even gardening look sexy, carrying a wheelbarrow in a tiny pair of denim hotpants, push-up bra and floral peep-toe stilettos.
The new snaps are bound to get her male fans drooling – including her ex Leonard Dicaprio – who hasn't had much luck in the love department since their split in 2011.
According to eyewitnesses, the 'Django Unchained' star, who split from model Erin Heatherton last October after dating for just under a year was turned down by a pretty blonde as he partied at Avenue nightclub earlier in the week.
"Leo was sitting on top of a banquette, talking to a pretty, blond model-esque woman," a source told the New York Post. "He seemed very low-key and left by himself around 3 a.m."
How great does Bar look?
Full International Restricted Trailer for Spring Breakers
The full international restricted trailer for Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is now online and can be watched using the player below! Opening in New York and Los Angeles on March 22 before expanding on March 29, the film stars James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Heather Morris and Gucci Mane.Spring Breakers tells the story of four sexy college girls as they plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that's only the beginning... At a motel room rager, fun reaches its legal limit and the girls are arrested and taken to jail. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien (James Franco), an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined.
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