stars, sex and nudity buzz : 02/05/2013

What was the reason(s) for lack of proper nude scenes in House of Cards? Is it the usual trappings of what works or necessary in a script will looked silly and exploitative in transition to the screen? Entirely possible. But as I caught few episodes of HOC, it was obvious sex and nudity could have provided a much needed impact and a jolt to the viewers particularly scenes involving Kate Mara and Spacey.

In my humble opinion, everything points to Beau Willimon as the main culprit among the slew of HOC showrunners (Dana Bruneti, Joshua Donen)  - a terribly new, inexperienced and very youngish individual in charge of making sure each segment (episode) filmed had smooth transition without hitch. He must have felt the series will be seriously diminished and could been unnecessary distraction if sex and gratuitous nudity is thrown in just to 'enhanced' the show.
It doesn't help Willimon was likely intimidated by the obvious presence of Fincher and other established directors with their own ideas. The actresses may had noticed Willimon deference to senior film-makers allowing them to push home the advantage and get away from taking their clothes off most notably Mara.
The much dreaded 'script discussion'. 

A form of disgusting elitism as if nudity will taint the classiness of the material. Oh pleaseee!!! I fully expect Netflix to step in and play a more active role when shooting for season two resumes in spring. My overly optimistic view is that they're probably waiting for initial reaction to change things around in season two. To be fair HOC is extremely well-made series and a hammy Spacey is always fun to watch. But it lacks the spark. A talking point. A controversial stand out scene. Something to write about other than the novelty of broadcasting all the episodes at one go. Not saying graphic sex scenes would actually made a real difference but why not.
Go for it the way Game of Thrones and Girls have attracted media attention for unbridled approach to all things sexual. Politics is a cesspool of sleaziness. HOC could and should have been more honest with the depiction rather than holding back.
Imagine the media outcry if Spacey and Kate Mara actually went at it in couple of minutes of softcore type of fucking. As Spacey doggies a very nude Mara, he breaks the fourth wall and tell the viewers this only happens in Washington where you can fuck girls young enough to be your daughter and don't need to pay for it afterwards! At the end it would been a positive spin for Netflix. Please Netflix, push for real nude scenes.

The show also need to move away from the British version pronto in the second season. Spacey's Underwood requires an adversary in mould of Gene Hackman to play off of each other. The contrast will be magnificent. Pity Hackman is now an octogenarian.

Some scenes appeared to been 
cropped (Kate Mara 'topless') :

edited out (Kristen sex scene) :

and

just plain PG-nized (Rachel Brosnahan in frickin' panties when she was supposed to be nude! She has a twitter account. It would be great if one of my blog fans is brave enough to ask her how she dodged the nudity bullet)

In reality all the scenes with Kate Mara required her to be nude albeit briefly.  

When she undressed in front of Spacey and stood there in her black undergarments. Originally she wasn't supposed to wear anything underneath the dress. Her full-frontal is a way to show how far Zoe will go to get the story.

“House of Cards” and the Decline of Cable

Posted by Tim Wu 

“House of Cards” may not be the best show on television, but it is in the same league as the best shows, and that makes all the difference. The series, about a scheming Congressman, is basically “The West Wing” meets “Breaking Bad,” with a healthy dose of Shakespeare—particularly, as Ian Crouch wrote, “Richard III.” It’s a typical product of our current golden age of television—dark, expertly directed and acted, and about five times better than the average Hollywood film. “House of Cards” was produced by Netflix, and the New York Times, Wired, and others have written about the company’s panache, especially its decision to release thirteen episodes in one day, all of which could be downloaded and watched by anyone with a computer or an Internet-connected TV. But that misses what makes “House of Cards” a significant moment in media history. 

An Internet firm like Netflix producing first-rate content takes us across a psychological line. If Netflix succeeds as a producer, other companies will follow and start taking market share. Maybe Amazon will go beyond its tentative investments and throw a hundred million at a different A-list series, or maybe Hulu will expand its ambitions for original content, or maybe the next great show will come from someone with a YouTube channel. When that happens, the baton passes, and empire falls—and we will see the first fundamental change in the home-entertainment paradigm in decades.

As competition, “House of Cards” is surely not great news for traditional producers such as HBO or CBS, but it’s not an existential threat to them, either. What the show really does is question the existence of the current king of home entertainment, the cable industry. The cable companies make close to a hundred billion dollars a year off our viewing. But if you don’t need cable TV to get good shows when they come out, just what are you paying for?

Like any real startup industry, cable was once a scrappy outsider of questionable legality. In the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties, cable attacked broadcast’s domination of the television market with a value proposition that depended on signal quality (compared to rabbit ears), more choices (thirty channels!), timely news (CNN), and access to exciting new types of content, like MTV, ESPN, and the Playboy Channel.

Over the years, as cable’s prices have increased, each part of that value proposition has withered. In an age of too much information, offering more channels has come to feel like more of a bug than a feature. The Web and Twitter have definitively replaced cable as the breaking-news source of record (recall CNN’s report that the Supreme Court had struck down Obamacare). You can get most television shows—after some delay—on DVD or from an Internet site. You can also get them right away on pirate sites. Pornhub bought the Playboy Channel in 2011. So, to repeat the question, just what are Americans spending a hundred billion dollars on?

Before last week, the precise answer was live sports and up-to-date, convenient delivery of the best shows. But if “House of Cards” proves a workable model, cable television will, over time, be down to one thing: live sports. Sports programming is, to be sure, a Gibraltar. But sports, and the power of inertia, are the last two refuges for the cable industry and its increasingly unwatched channels.

That doesn’t mean the cable industry has no prospects. But this year or next, cable companies will have to accept that they are no longer the gatekeepers for the best content. It means, eventually, that the industry will probably have to embrace the idea of simply carrying the content of others (which was its original business model), and essentially function as what used to be called an “Internet-service provider.” That’s not exactly what cable wants to be doing, though there’s still plenty of money to be made in that line of business.
For geeks, it has been long been clear, as a technological matter, that the Internet’s delivery models ought to eventually make cable TV obsolete. But the best technologies don’t always win. It takes breakthrough moments for things to happen; for, ahem, the house of cards to fall.

House Of Cards Is Now Available On Netflix, And We Already Finished It

While everyone else was watching the Super Bowl last night, I was finishing up the first season of House of Cards, the Netflix production that was released in its entirety on Friday... when I started watching it. Entering the real world after a weekend of binge-watching the series is a little jarring, like when you get immersed in a book and then are forced back to "reality" after you turn the last page. After a weekend of being a fly on the wall inside the seedy and shadowy world of Washington, D.C. it's hard to shake the suspicion that everyone is manipulating someone. So, should you press play and not look back for 13 hours? I would highly recommend it, and here are some spoiler-free reasons why:

• Do it because the show is really good. Though not everyone I talked to agrees with me on this, David Fincher and Beau Willimon have created an original series with strong dialogue and engrossing storylines. At the very least, you'll want to come back for more. We'll wait for our sister site DCist to weigh in on whether this world is anywhere close to being real, but it was certainly an endlessly amusing and beautifully shot journey into a dark and corrupt side of life.
• Do it because the cast is perfect. Kevin Spacey is a phenomenal actor, and you get lots of screen time with his character, Congressman Francis Underwood, the House Majority Whip who is pulling on every string he can grasp in Washington. Alongside him are Robin Wright (the hero's similarly scheming wife), Kate Mara (the cub reporter who'll do anything for a story), Sakina Jaffrey (the President's Chief of Staff), Corey Stoll (the troubled Congressional pawn), Michael Kelly (Underwood's right hand man) and many more that will not let you down. Seriously, there's not one character or storyline I was bored with here.
• Do it for cocktail party fodder. For instance, when having some drinks with friends this weekend I brought up questionable things like: "It's probably okay to have an affair after 50," and "It's probably okay to manipulate people for the greater good." If you get something more than a long, questioning stare in return, then it was worth it.
• Do it to be a part of TV HISTORY (if that's your thing). The show is Netflix's first dip into the original programming pool, and CEO Reed Hastings says, "We're on the cusp of something that will change television forever. Our view is that over the next couple of years as Internet TV really grows, people will look back and say that this was the turning point."

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Lauren Cohan: Funny* Joke from a Beautiful Woman

The Walking Dead star will now make you laugh. Watch her here on video, and don't forget the pictures...

1 of 6  Photograph by Ari Michelson

Published in the February 2013 issue

There's this actor, Marty, in his 50s living in L. A. who's never had his big break. One day, his agent calls him. "Marty, you're not gonna believe it. I got you a part. It's on Broadway. It's just one line, but it's a huge play. And you're on tomorrow night."
Marty says, "This is great. What's the line?"
The agent says, "Hark! I hear the cannons roar."
Marty agrees to the part, and he's thrilled. He gets to the airport and starts running the line out loud over and over again all the way to New York. "Hark! I hear the cannons roar. Hark! I hear the cannons roar." All the way to the theater he runs the line. He gets to the theater, goes backstage, waits for his cue. He runs onstage and hears the cannon. Bang! And he screams, "What the fk was that?"

About the jokester:
Turns out Lauren Cohan is as ambivalent about the zombie carnage on The Walking Dead as we are. "The first time I saw our show, I was on a plane right before lunch came around, and I completely lost my appetite. Just turned the tray table up." A New Jersey girl who spent her teenage years in England, making for an indescribable accent, she plays the steely Maggie Greene on AMC's zombie drama, back in February to wrap up its third season. Despite her revulsion, the 30-year-old has always had a predilection for the macabre. "I used to go as Uncle Fester from The Addams Family for Halloween. I had the bald cap, black eye makeup, and my dad's overcoat. There are photos." Thankfully, there are more recent photos, including these. —Matt Goulet

*Esquire cannot guarantee that this joke will be funny to everyone.

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Helen Mirren: I enjoy nudity

Monday, 4 February 2013

Dame Helen Mirren often visits a Korean baths where swimming costumes are banned.

Although the 67-year-old star has stripped off for movie roles in the past, it's not something she's that keen on doing any more. She isn't afraid of showing off her body though, rather the star believes people put too much importance on nude film scenes.

"It would have to be for a very, very good reason. On the other hand, although I almost don't want to talk about this because I can just see the headline, 'Dame Helen Mirren is a nudist', is nudity that bad? It's a great leveller you know in its place, on the beach, where everybody else is naked," she told the latest edition of British Vogue magazine. 

"The sex thing is completely wiped out and there's this wonderful innocence and sweetness about doing it. I mean, there are these Korean baths where I go in LA, where you aren't even allowed to wear a swimming costume. If you do, one of the ladies will come up and say, 'Take that thing off!'"

Helen is famed for her toned body and was famously pictured looking svelte in a red bikini several years ago. Her secret is that she has never obsessed about the ageing process, something she thinks is vitally important for other women to understand.

For Helen, there is nothing worse than seeing women who are unable to accept they are no longer in their youth.

"It is weird when everything starts heading south, but it is not a sad thing. One has to find a different way of being. Sometimes I see women of 60 or 70 who haven't managed to step out of that way of being and, though not consciously, are using their physicality and girlishness with people the way they used to when they were younger. Sometimes I find myself doing it and I think, f**k, this is so... grotesque is too harsh... so unnecessary. There are certain things you have to come to terms with just because that is the way it is," she explained.

The actress has been with her partner Taylor Hackford since 1986, with the pair marrying in 1997. She believes one the reasons she has always been so accepting about her changing shape is because of Taylor.
He is the least looks-obsessed person she knows, although that doesn't mean he is without fault.
"I mean without thinking about it, with no political stance, he looks at men and women with utter equality," she explained. "Of course, that doesn't mean he can put the f**king dishes in the f**king dishwasher. He actually said to me the other say, 'Oh, that's your job.' But he said it in an utterly non-sexist way."

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John Hillcoat's NSFW Video For Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' "Jubilee Street" Featuring Ray Winstone

As longtime collaborators, John Hillcoat and Nick Cave are never too far apart when it comes their various cinematic and musical projects. On the movie front, the pair go all the way back to Hillcoat's directorial debut "Ghosts...Of The Civil Dead" which Cave co-wrote and starred in, while last year they both brought their talents to "Lawless." Meanwhile, when Cave gets back in the studio, Hillcoat is usually around to help get a distinctive music video out in the world.

Following Gaspar Noe's enigmatic video for "We No Who U R," Hillcoat is back behind the camera for "Jubilee Street." And this one you might want to watch with the office door closed. Ray Winstone features as an emotionally conflicted man who seems to enjoy the company of prostitutes, while Nick Cave walks his badass self down some streets at night. And that's about it. It's simple stuff and pretty much fits the mood one expects from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, so mission accomplished.

Give it a watch below. The new album Push The Sky Away lands on February 19th. [Pitchfork]


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Flight and Going Full Frontal

Lauren Rosewarne
Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne

A couple of years ago I went to a rather interesting fetish conference in Istanbul. One bloke, giving a paper about porn, read his paper monotonously from his notebook; behind him on the screen played a pornographic slide-show.

In the question time that followed his paper, I asked him what 20 minutes of footage of women being penetrated had to do with his research. Scowls and groans followed and I became the token “feminiazi” of the conference, daring to rain on the parade of those free-wheelin', sex positive academics. (That I was there talking about my own sex-positive book on sexual perversion was apparently lost on them).

Truth be told, I actually have no problem with images of nudity. I do however, think that disregarding time, placement and one’s audience can render such images sexist. Using pornographic images of women – and women only – to decorate a lacklustre conference paper is one example. Using such images to make an opening scene of a very boring – and exhaustingly preachy – film memorable is another.

Flight opens with the pilot at the centre of the ill-fated title voyage (Denzel Washington) woken by a phone call summoning him to the cockpit. As he guzzles down the remnants of last night’s booze, his companion – colleague Trina (Nadine Velazquez) – walks around the hotel room naked. Full-frontal. Back and forth, back and forth she walks, her breasts, her minimal bush on display. Miss it the first couple of times? No worries, there she goes again.

My feminism isn’t about randomly jabbing fingers at things and claiming they’re sexist. In fact, there are plenty of scenes where full frontal female nudity is relevant to a narrative. One of my favourite films from 2012 for example – Take This Waltz – had a lovely scene of old and young, fat and thin women each naked and towelling off after a swim.
The year prior, in the equally excellent – if gut-wrenching – Shame we saw a lot of the protagonist’s (Michael Fassbender) penis because he was a character perpetually kowtowing to the yens of his cock. For Brandon the sight of his penis was much more relevant than his face.

When women’s bare bodies are used to decorate a scene – as exclusively eye candy or as a quick and dirty rationale for a more adult classification – it is sexist and it is testimony to the enormous disparity that exists between scenes of schlong and those of vulva: one is, apparently, arty, beautiful and worth eyeballing; the other a threatening eyesore.

Later this year I have a book coming out – American Taboo – which has a chapter on full-frontal male nudity. In it I quoted from Douglas Rowe’s article on nudity in film:
scenes with full-frontal male nudity usually can be timed with a stopwatch while those with nude women can be measured with a sundial…

I like this quote because it highlights one of Hollywood’s many double standards that Flight complies with.

We don’t see Denzel’s dongle – God forbid – because penises are considered as much more confronting/explicit/aggressive/challenging than a vulva. Because men and women are expected to enjoy a long hard look at lady genitals but to find the wang offensive if not an egregious turn-off.

Flight will be memorable to me for a host of reasons. That Denzel got nominated for an Oscar while Anthony Hopkins' excellent performance in Hitchcock got ignored will plague me in perpetuity. Most of all I’ll remember it for it’s embarrassing opening scene. And the reminder that it serves of how much sexism still exists in cinema. Pretty good soundtrack though.


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Hot Female Singer Tells Us About The Awkward Bedroom Scene In Her Video

In the Ghafla! offices on Friday last week, we had an epic interview with the ex-Calif records artiste known as Choku. What made it particularly fascinating was that her friend and fellow singer Maida (pictured) popped in, and was willing for us to proceed to interrogate her. We found out that the sexy Maida has participated in a Miss Kenya competition before, and she has a song out as well called "Spare Tyre."

Here is the video for 'Spare Tyre' (a Maich Blaq production):

Cool story about this video: as you can see in the first verse, there is a scene where she appears to be naked in bed with a male model. Well, first of all, she tells us that she wasn't completely naked, but she was scantily dressed regardless. This apparently made the male model quite a handful to work with. "He was so horny the whole time!" Maida told us, "it's as if he wanted to do it there and then in front of the cameras. He couldn't hold back!"

The male prop got over his hardness with time though, and they proceeded to shoot the video again, but there was just one more problem:
"The dog in the video was also turned on!" Maida said, "as if the model wasn't enough, the dog was humping my leg during the shoot!"

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2DELICIOUS 2DUMP

by Senio Zapruder for Dsquared2 [Film] 

The models: Delevingne, Wixson, Stam, Garrn, Sluis, Tammerijn, Tookes, Zhang, Lapina, Jagaciak, Frauche, Smith, Kulikova, Vyalitsyna, Welzen, and Spears

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New Trailer and New Release Date for Rob Zombie's 'Lords Of Salem'

Rob Galluzzo

Not only has Anchor Bay Entertainment revealed the brand new trailer and theatrical one sheet poster for Rob Zombie's 'Lords Of Salem', but they've also bumped up the official release date by a week to April 19th! If you thought that first teaser trailer was bizarre, what 'til you get a load of this one!

Synopsis: From the singular mind of horror maestro Rob Zombie comes a chilling plunge into a nightmare world where evil runs in the blood. The Lords of Salem tells the tale of Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio station DJ living in Salem, Massachusetts, who receives a strange wooden box containing a record, a “gift from the Lords.” Heidi listens, and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of the town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the “Lords of Salem” returning for revenge on modern-day Salem?


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Dutch model Agnes Nabuurs and Anne Koster: Erwin Olaf [Vogue Netherlands January/February]2013

 

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Painkiller.

from Mustapha Kseibati

Street-smart Dominic’s armed robbery of a convenience store goes wrong when he crosses paths with hard-working Jay, a taxi driver with nothing left to lose. Mutual contempt soon turns into a kind of understanding, but not without some pain along the way.

Online premiere, exclusively at this page. A BBC Writersroom/ B3 Media commissioned short film. Please Facebook and tweet the film to share the love if you like it! :)

OFFICIAL SELECTION: #Nominated Rushes Soho Shorts Best Short 2012, #Nominated London Comedy Film Festival Short Discovery Award 2013, #London Short Film Festival 2013.
Writer Selina Lim
Director Mustapha Kseibati:  
Producer Michael Berliner
12 mins Black Comedy. 
Starring Benedict Wong, Franz Drameh, Kris Saddler, Daphne Cheung and Henry Wu.

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Sherlyn Chopra out of Kamasutra 3D?

Director of Kamasutra 3D, Rupesh Paul, is considering to replace Sherlyn Chopra with Hollywood stars Eva Longoria or Mila Kunis for the film.

According to a report in a leading daily, Rupesh Paul decided to replace the actor, after Chopra left him miffed by uploading a video clip of the photo shoot of the film on her YouTube channel without seeking his permission.

"I was shocked to see the video. While sharing the video, I had specified it's not for public viewing, but she still went ahead and uploaded it without our permission. We were so upset with her unprofessional behaviour that we decided to start considering other heroines. So far, we have shortlisted Eva Longoria or Mila Kunis. Kama Sutra is a more popular concept in West than in India so it doesn't matter if the actress is Indian or American," the daily quoted Paul.

Sherlyn seems to be unable to digest this news and took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to express her anger.

Agar Mr.Paul ko Mila ya Eva ke saath Kamasutra 3D banaani hai toh hamey sign kyun kiya ?????? Tab kya Mila ya Eva ke paas dates nahi they??

"KS3D Photoshoot Video ke liye Sherlyn aur KS3D Film ke liye koi angrezi abhineytri??? Wah!! Kya Baat! Ghar ki Murgi Daal Baraabar Hoti hai.."

"If KS3D is destined to be mine...then no power on Earth can take it away from me..Best Wishes to Mila/Eva/other names on Mr.Paul's wish list," the 28-year-old tweeted.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sherlyn-chopra-out-of-kamasutra-3d/1/248986.html

* smells like a made up BS to bring attention to the movie. Or they ran out of funds and concocted this imaginary clash. Either way you looked at it, it's all tad improbable and fishy.
Someone should tell Rupesh Paul there is no way on earth or any other planets in the universe will Mila or Eva ever consider taking up his offer for a role that requires extensive nudity.

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Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker Saves the Day

Posted by Kate Newton

Following a bizarre, alleged attempted murder in Fresno, Calif., courage has a new face: framed by unkempt hair and wielding a hatchet.

When “Kai” hitched a ride with 54-year-old Jett Simmons McBride, he was forced into defense-mode when McBride struck a Pacific Gas and Electric Worker with his car and proceeded to smother a woman who rushed to the man’s aid. Responding like any good Samaritan would, Kai leapt from the car and promptly struck the man over the head with the hatchet, disabling McBride and allowing him to be taken into custody.

Like all great superheroes in-the-making, the mysterious Kai has anonymity going for him. When asked for his last name, Kai replied, “No, bro, I don’t have anything.” Questioning his age drew a similarly ambiguous answer: “I can’t call it.”

This was hardly Kai’s first brush with vigilantism. He detailed to the reporter an encounter with another man beating a woman, that occurred (quite poetically) in an orchard. Kai said he sustained teeth marks on his hand, graciously shoving said hand into the viewfinder for proof, when he “walked over and started smashing (the man) in the head” to stop the beating. Someone get this man a job at a women’s shelter, because I’m detecting a pattern here.

And, like any other self-respecting homeless kid “straight outta Dogtown,” Kai of course had to liken his near-brush with injury and simultaneous thrust into heroism to an epic surf-fest: “Holy shit, that was like the biggest wave I’ve ever ridden in my life.”

This whole incident is begging for a meme series where Kai Hatchet-Smashes villains throughout history. Kim Jung Il? SMASH. Attila the Hun? SMASH. Muammar al-Gaddafi? Consider yourself SUH-MASHED. In terms of putting things into perspective in the grand scheme of good vs. evil, Kai nails it with the comment, “Bro, if you’re fucking Jesus Christ then I’ll be the Antichrist...fuck that shit.” Lesson learned: next time you witness someone doing something reprehensible in the name of religion, please step up, Devil friends.

Between Kai’s peace-sign printed bandanna, apparent brute strength and endearing pronunciation of police (“poly-sees”), I can’t see anything holding this kid back in life, especially when he spews wisdom like this: “Before I say anything else, I wanna say no matter what you done, you deserve respect. Even if you make mistakes, you lovable, and it doesn’t matter your looks, skills, your age, your size, or anything, you’re worthwhile. No one can ever take that away from you.” Brought a tear to my eye, Kai.

View the KMPH Fox 26 news report of the incident here, courtesy of Mediaite, and maintain his legacy by keeping an eye out for racist Jesus-freaks so big they “can break a woman’s neck like a pencil stick!”

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Jill Brzezinski-Conley was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her 32nd birthday.

Three years later, she's suffering from stage-4 breast cancer, which has metastasized to her bones.

She asked her childhood friend, and wedding photographer, Nikki Closer, to take pictures of her breasts.

Brzezinski-Conley wanted to send them to magazines because few outlets show the reality of breast cancer.

Closer emailed the photos to Australian portrait photographer of the year, Sue Bryce.

Inspried by her story, Bryce surprised Brzezinski-Conley with a five-day photoshoot in Paris.

Brzezinski-Conley doesn't want the focus of this project to be about beauty, but about feeling beautiful, regardless of cancer.

Source: facebook.com

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Nebraska Republican Resigns Amid Sex Scandal, Sending Wake-Up Call To Alabama's Riley Machine 

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Rick Sheehy

Nebraska's Republican lieutenant governor stepped down over the weekend in the wake of press reports that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs.

Rick Sheehy had been seen as the front-runner in the state's 2014 gubernatorial race. Now, it looks like his hopes for the governor's mansion are dashed, and his political career might be over.

The Sheehy saga is the latest in a long line of stories that involve breath-taking hypocrisy and arrogance among "family values" conservatives. It also might serve as a wake-up call for the Riley wing of the Alabama Republican Party, which is about to see several of its prominent members unmasked for extramarital escapades.

That process already has started with our reports about Rob Riley, the son of former Governor Bob Riley, having an affair with lobbyist Liberty Duke. Rob Riley heads the Riley Jackson law firm in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood, but he is best known as a campaign manager, fund-raiser and adviser for his father's campaigns, dating to the mid 1990s.

Rob Riley's affair with Liberty Duke produced sordid complications that dwarf anything being reported so far in the Rick Sheehy scandal--and we will be providing those details in a series of upcoming posts. But Rob Riley is not the only Alabama GOPer to prove that he does not take marital vows seriously.

Rob Riley

Another prominent member of Team Riley, a current officeholder, is about to be unmasked for touting one kind of values in public while practicing a different sort of values in private. We also are about to learn that Liberty Duke is not the only female Alabama Republican to prove that her "family values" leave something to be desired.

Why do so many Republicans seem to think they can get away with moral bankruptcy? Why do they think that regular citizens won't eventually see through them?

We don't have the answers to those questions, but the Rick Sheehy story is a classic in a burgeoning genre of Republican sleaze. How did a rising star in Nebraska's GOP circles step in doo-doo? This is from a report in the Omaha World-Herald:

Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy was a road warrior in his job, driving thousands of miles across the state to deliver speeches and cut ribbons. 

But a monthlong investigation by The World-Herald uncovered a secret life during that travel, involving 2,300 phone calls to four women, other than his wife, during the past four years. 

Sheehy, who served eight years in his post, resigned abruptly Saturday after the newspaper contacted him Friday about the calls, made on a state-issued cell phone.

The newspaper filed a public-records request for information about Sheehy's use of a state-issued cell phone. What did the records reveal?

The investigation showed that many of the calls to the four women involved long conversations in the middle of the night. . . .

The four women Sheehy called regularly include two former elected officials widely known in their communities. One of the women, a Bellevue doctor and former City Council member there, said she had a four-year affair with the lieutenant governor. Another woman, a former school board president and Chamber of Commerce official in Holdrege, did not respond to numerous requests for an interview. 

The two other women — one living in Texas, the other in Colorado — told the newspaper that their late-night calls were not sexual in nature.

The Lincoln Journal Star provides more details on how the Sheehy scandal came to light:

Liberty Duke

A formal request for Sheehy's state cellphone and land line records first came in mid-December from the Omaha World-Herald.

A request also was made for email correspondence between Sheehy and (Dr. Theresa) Hatcher and Sheehy and Michele Ehresman, a former director of the Holdrege Area Chamber of Commerce. 

The records show, for example, Sheehy made or received 73 calls to and from a Holdrege area cellphone, some late in the evening, on 10 days in January 2012.

The thought that cell-phone records might surface must never have occurred to Rick Sheehy. In Alabama, Rob Riley must have figured that word of his dalliance with Liberty Duke never would get around. And now we learn that one of Rob Riley's cohorts in the family political machine must have held similar delusions.

Some Republicans--whether they are in the Midwest, the South, or elsewhere--never learn.

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* No. I didn't forget about the Democrat sleazebag. Didn't I post earlier about cesspool of sleaziness that is Washington and politicians.....House of Whores and Scumbags.

The coverage of the scandal surrounding New Jersey’s junior U.S. Senator Bob Menendez got a little spicer this evening.  Accusations of the powerful Democrat Senator, who currently chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, being provided with underage teenage prostitutes in the Dominion Republic by super donor Dr. Salomon Melgen couldn’t get juicer if it had been written in a Brad Thor political thriller.

But now there’s this.  Breitbart.com has obtained a photo of a young attractive lady exiting Dr. Melgen’s private jet.  This is the same private jet that Sen. Menendez used for his trips to the Dominican Republic.

Yes, the same jet and donor that he recently had to reimburse in the amount of  $58,500 for three flights, as required by federal law.  Though Menendez is denying a fourth flight that’s being alleged to having had happened (a story that’s developing and being fact-checked).

The photo and the woman:


The reason this woman in particular is important:

“This girl is one of the most regular participants in the activities the Doctor arranges for the Senator,” the tipster “Williams” wrote to Schwartz in June 2012 in an email later published online and in the Miami Herald, about the Russian woman. “She has traveled with them in the jet, sailed with them in the yacht, and has repeatedly visited the Doctor’s house.”
The Miami Herald uncovered the woman’s real name: Svitlana Buchyk. “Sveta” and “Svetlana” appear to be other spellings for her name.

Read the full story from Breitbart.com’s Matt Boyle.

Photos and Videos (removed) of One of the Menendez-Melgen Girls

The woman in question… Svitlana Buchyk. Viral Read just wrote about her in the last hour. Check out evilbloggerlady for more pics.

* This Svitlana whore is a porta potty. Probably graduated to a pimp level. 
What is a porta potty? 
The most extreme kind of prostitution. Very rich and extremely pervy guys piss and sh*t on the girls at one extreme end and in more genial moments, S-and-M role play is preferred. 
What is the qualification to be a porta potty? 
Someone from middle-class upbringing, preferably college graduate with addiction issues and just smart enough to keep their mouth shut.
There is no kick in urinating on barely educated whore with glazed look and poor conversation skills. You want to see the humiliation and the horror on your porty girl face willing to be participant in kingdomly heaven of misogynism. 
Porta potty phenomena began insidiously almost a decade ago in Canadian major cities, Arizona hot spots (Scottsdale, Phoenix) and L.A. Recruits range from high-end porn performers (softcore) to fresh unemployed college graduates to A and B-grade models. 
Talking about models just reminded me of something potentially disturbing. Been hearing some disconcerting things about Vision Models which includes Alyssa Campanella and couple of former beauty contestants in the roster. Just days ago Richie of Dirty website claimed the girls are being groomed as porta potty. Personally I don't think Alyssa is involved (but her sudden timing to move away from active modeling is bit suspicious. Maybe she knew something was going on..) but the agency do hired women under 5'7". That's unheard of with any 'respectable' agency unless you factor in sordid scenarios.

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'Grey's Anatomy' Alum Books Recurring Role on Showtime's 'Ray Donovan'

Showtime's upcoming drama Ray Donovan has added a Grey's Anatomy alum to its ranks.

The freshman drama revolves around a professional "fixer" for the rich and famous in Los Angeles -- the title character to be played by Liev Schreiber -- as he balances his work demands and complex family brought on when his father (played by Jon Voight) is unexpectedly released from prison. Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Katherine Moennig and Pooch Hall co-star.


Brooke Smith, who played Dr. Erica Hahn for four seasons on the ABC medical drama from Shonda Rhimes, will recur on Ray, playing Frances -- the nurse and potential love interest for Ray's brother, Terry (Marsan), who is struggling with Parkinson's disease.
Silence of the Lambs actress Smith's credits include USA Network's upcoming Graceland, American Horror Story: Asylum, Weeds and features Fair Game and Bad Company. She's repped by IFA Talent, Barking Dog Entertainment and Peikoff Law.
Showtime will move Dexter up to a spring premiere June 30 and use the Michael C. Hall-Jennifer Carpenter starrer to launch Ray Donovan, which premieres the same night at 10 p.m.

* Brooke is someone who looks way better in photos than in person. Sorry for sounding like an asshole but it's the truth. I was under the impression Brooke was nude in couple of movies but apparently she is a nudity dodger.

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