Thanks for the reply, and sure I'll answer your question the best I can.
It's less about the nudity actresses choose to do or not, as it is you running a blog telling them that it's liberating to do it, or calling them "nudity dodgers" if they don't. And it's not even that your assessments are necessarily wrong, it's just sort of easy for you, using a fake name, telling women they should be liberated for doing nudity. If it's so wonderful an experience, post your real name on here, put up some nude pictures of yourself so we can all evaluate you.
Obviously no one's putting a gun to any actress's heads when it comes to nudity, but if they choose not to do it because they think it wouldn't be good for their career or any other number of reasons, then good for them. If they have no problem getting naked and want to do it to advance their career, then good for them too.
As for my own experiences, I know a number of actresses who have done nudity, many don't regret it but at the same time, a number of them (indie actresses mostly) sort of grew out of it too. Because they kept getting cast as "the girl who would show her tits" than anything else. And some of them didn't have the talent for more than that, some did.
As for people who regretted it, I do know a B-movie actress who did a lot of nudity and softcore stuff, but her parents were very religious and it was a real problem. So she stopped...is she a nudity dodger now?
I know a girl who is the most gentle, shy girl I've ever met. She is absolutely committed to the artistic side of acting (and she's the best actress I've met too), she gets paid but usually it's for low amounts in indie films.
And finally there came a great role in a movie that required nudity, but it was with a director she trusted, and she did it. She doesn't regret doing the movie, but has mixed feelings about it as now when you Google her name, the first big hits you get is shots of her with her breasts on display. And she's not in LA, she's in a more "regular" area so it's more embarrassing for her. So you can be the guy and say "no one put a gun to her head" and that's true, but that's such a black and white way of thinking.
Sometimes there's good and bad. Someone like Natalie Portman would absolutely do nudity but she knows instantly she'd be on websites and a bunch of creeps are going to be whacking it to her. So she doesn't, fair enough.
Basically what I'm saying is, if you want to have a blog and talk about the awesome nude scenes in movies you love, go to town. But personally, I'd lay off giving advice about liberation or what's good for an actress, while hiding behind a fake name and not having to have your ballsack scrutinized by millions. It's just kind of offputting. Take it for what it is, it's not like I'm Jesus.
Thank you for your perspective and opinion. You may see me as a one-track minded creep but that's your prerogative and I can't do anything about it. This blog allows me to act out my inner Neanderthal-ism. A refuge from real world. Play out my fantasy so to speak. It's a demasculinized environment out there for guys like me. Here I can safely objectify women under cloak of cowardly anonymity. That's what the Internet is for. Letting out steam but within the limits I set myself. Occasionally I put down some actresses and I'm not going to apologize for that. At end of the day no one gives a crap what I think least the actresses I 'evaluate'. Apparently I was wrong.
For the record, I have written (like a broken record) on the similar issues and repercussions that actresses encounters when dealing with sex scenes and nudity.
If the roles calls for nudity and the particular actress turn it down just for that reason even over a good script, then she is a nudity dodger. What I don't like are the ones who somehow managed to discuss their way out of a nude scene, forcing the writer to compromise and revise the script from the way he or she originally intended. Making the director and DP to filmed it from ridiculous angles and working extra hard during post-productions (editing) to make sure that nothing is shown. In process killing the essence and realism of that particular shot and segment; reducing the overall impact. Jessica Alba in The Killer Inside Me comes to mind. Hayley Atwell. But again I can't blame the actress and the filmmakers who are thinking along the box-office appeal including acting experience when casting the actress rather than for artistic merit. Hence one-sided compromises. I realize man and woman look at sex from totally different perspective. We want to see the whole grill on display so to speak. For women, it's more implied, close-up of the face (man-butt is a bonus) - basically anything but the intimate parts of the body - enhancing the fantasy aspect of it for them.
And what is wrong with rubbing one out to a naked Natalie Portman? It's way better than watching violent flicks with chicks running around shooting people alongside the male lead in name of empowerment and equality.
It's not an advice. It's an opinion tempered from experience. As was yours. I worked (in my GWC capacity) with pro-am models and while their profile states 'non-nudes', cash incentive equals private collection. Did they like getting naked in front of a stranger? Some do. Some grit their teeth and get on with it. Besides the shrug your shoulders routine, the oft-used phrase 'nothing', 'liberating' is dished out with alarming regularity by the models after the shoot when asked of their first nude photo-shoot (I’m not that naïve to think it was their first. Many just pretend to be first-timers to hike up the rate). Same BS actresses rolled out in interviews when they do their first nude scene.
I rarely take anything to heart. In fact you are more than welcome to contribute your own take on the movie biz, the way women are viewed and objectified in Hollywood. An angelic but piercing rebuttal to my devilish glorification of film nudity. Of course if you can put aside your own bad experience in performing a nude scene (root of your own issues with nudity?), the aftermath and caring too much what other people think of you.
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Well it seems like Maggie Grace has suddenly increased her tweeting (by 'friendly' encouragement?) what with her upcoming pivotal scenes in last five episodes. The sex scene with Tim Minchin is the one I'm holding out for.
Don't let me down, Maggie. Don't you dare let me down. I want to see you in all your naked glory riding that Australian and spouting those pretentious muse nonsense.
She never replied to that McGrath dude when he asked few months ago if she was getting naked on the show. Or perhaps she did. The dude is even more pervy than me in a charming way (check out his tweets) though he is a world class ass-kisser. He also posts on various forums. That's what I heard.
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Don't let me down, Maggie. Don't you dare let me down. I want to see you in all your naked glory riding that Australian and spouting those pretentious muse nonsense.
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Genre: Drama, ExperimentalWriter/Director: Sherad Anthony Sanchez
Cast: Gloria Morales, Mae Bastes (more here) , Martin Riffer, Edgardo Amar, Aldrin Sapitan
Synopsis: A jungle in an undisclosed Philippine location hosts a middle-age woman who runs off with a baby, two juveniles lost in sexual games, military cadets leisurely wandering about and a guide with an obscure presence. All consumed with the game of their own lives until the jungle comes to play.
MTRCB Rating: R-18
Running time: 85 mins
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Sherad Sanchez's JUNGLE LOVE Is An Erotic Ride To The Pleasurable Unknown.
Sherad Sanchez's JUNGLE LOVE Is An Erotic Ride To The Pleasurable Unknown.
At first glance, Sherad Sanchez's Jungle Love seems needlessly indulgent. Rebelling against traditional concepts of what is deemed to be acceptable and tasteful in cinema, the film is littered with exposed flesh, dark, wrinkled, blonzed or tattooed, interacting with each other in wild abandon.
Sanchez's film could have been something more akin to exotic erotica than art.
Make Me Blush
In the far reaches of Western Visayas where foliage lushly insinuate over dramatic rock formations and cryptic caves, humanity is overwhelmed by nature. Amid this backdrop of greenery, we find a bevy of souls wandering in the different corners of the jungle: half naked tribes folk, a band of military cadets jogging around and frolicking by the waterfalls, a mid-aged woman (Gloria Morales) carrying a newborn child, a traveling couple Martin and Mae (Martin Riffer and Mei Bastes) - and their wilderness guide Aldrin (Aldrin Sapitan).
The exploring couple commence their sexual games, cajoling their guide to join in on the fun. Mei gets naked while Martin looks on. “How do you want your clit to be licked?” flirts Martin, as he starts playing with himself. When he gets an erection, he dandles, “Do you like this?” Martin prods their guide Aldrin to masturbate while looking at Mei’s naked body. The carnal game continues throughout their stay.
Director Sherad Anthony Sanchez deliciously weaves a nonlinear tale about the human inhabitants of a jungle, framing his narrative montage with ethnographic accessory, like most of his earlier work. He laces his scenes with an almost abstract sketch of situations and ribald sexuality, it almost feels gratuitous when taken as separate scenes. In fact, never has Philippine Cinema been this impudent: masturbation scenes, full frontal erection, onscreen copulation and (hold your horses) even ejaculation (as the soldier, played by Amar, is implied to make love with a woodland ghost).
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Popular Perth actress Jessica Marais' planned role as "Australia's most famous trans-sexual" Carlotta looks like it won't be going ahead.
Last April it was announced the former Packed to the Rafters star had signed to play Carlotta in her biographical series, set to air on the ABC some time in 2013.
However, Fremantle Media has told crew members retained on the project that it has been shelved indefinitely.
Fremantle Media retained Carlotta as an adviser to the production and bought the film rights to two biographies - James Cockington's 1994 book He Did It Her Way and Prue MacSween's 2007 book I'm Not That Kind of Girl.
A former popular Beauty and the Beast panellist, Carlotta worked as a drag queen for Sydney underworld figure, the late Abe "Mr Sin" Saffron, and had gender reassignment surgery in 1972.
In the far reaches of Western Visayas where foliage lushly insinuate over dramatic rock formations and cryptic caves, humanity is overwhelmed by nature. Amid this backdrop of greenery, we find a bevy of souls wandering in the different corners of the jungle: half naked tribes folk, a band of military cadets jogging around and frolicking by the waterfalls, a mid-aged woman (Gloria Morales) carrying a newborn child, a traveling couple Martin and Mae (Martin Riffer and Mei Bastes) - and their wilderness guide Aldrin (Aldrin Sapitan).
The exploring couple commence their sexual games, cajoling their guide to join in on the fun. Mei gets naked while Martin looks on. “How do you want your clit to be licked?” flirts Martin, as he starts playing with himself. When he gets an erection, he dandles, “Do you like this?” Martin prods their guide Aldrin to masturbate while looking at Mei’s naked body. The carnal game continues throughout their stay.
Director Sherad Anthony Sanchez deliciously weaves a nonlinear tale about the human inhabitants of a jungle, framing his narrative montage with ethnographic accessory, like most of his earlier work. He laces his scenes with an almost abstract sketch of situations and ribald sexuality, it almost feels gratuitous when taken as separate scenes. In fact, never has Philippine Cinema been this impudent: masturbation scenes, full frontal erection, onscreen copulation and (hold your horses) even ejaculation (as the soldier, played by Amar, is implied to make love with a woodland ghost).
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Drag queen role falls through
Popular Perth actress Jessica Marais' planned role as "Australia's most famous trans-sexual" Carlotta looks like it won't be going ahead.Last April it was announced the former Packed to the Rafters star had signed to play Carlotta in her biographical series, set to air on the ABC some time in 2013.
However, Fremantle Media has told crew members retained on the project that it has been shelved indefinitely.
Fremantle Media retained Carlotta as an adviser to the production and bought the film rights to two biographies - James Cockington's 1994 book He Did It Her Way and Prue MacSween's 2007 book I'm Not That Kind of Girl.
A former popular Beauty and the Beast panellist, Carlotta worked as a drag queen for Sydney underworld figure, the late Abe "Mr Sin" Saffron, and had gender reassignment surgery in 1972.
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Helen Hunt Called For Privacy Patch During Nude Scenes In The Sessions
Actress Helen Hunt opted to wear a "privacy patch" to protect her modesty on the set of The Sessions after becoming a little nervous about her nude scenes in the movie.
The Oscar winner has received another Academy Awards nomination for her role as a sex surrogate in the film but admits her courage to bare all in front of the cameras quickly faded when it came time to shoot.
The As Good as it Gets star explains, "They did offer me a privacy patch... it's a piece of fabric covers your privacy needs. I said, 'I don't need that; it's the human body, it's beautiful.'
"I got on the set and I'm like..., 'Go and get the privacy patch!'"
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BEHIND THE SCENES – Maggie Siff
Sons of Anarchy is a sizzling drama about a notorious motorcycle club on FX ….. so we were really excited to meet and feature Maggie Siff who plays Tara Knowles.
It was a fun shoot in a fabulous location (Beverly West Residences) A Million Thanks to Maggie for a wonderful shoot. Be sure to follow Maggie on Twitter: @MaggieSiffOnlin
Chinese Beauty Salons Make Your Eyes Shimmer… by Lighting Them on Fire....
Men and women have been known to do some extreme things in the name of health and beauty. Spas and salons around the world have attempted to sell all types of tonics and creams to relax muscles and make skin smoother for generations, but none of them can even come close to the beauty treatment depicted in a photo posted to Chinese message board tt.mop late last week.
Along with the caption, “My mom went to get her face done at the beauty salon so I went with her. What I saw… instantly shocked me… I couldn’t look,” this photo blew our minds. Although the daughter claims that she wasn’t able to look, she was seemingly able to take a pretty clear picture for us all to see.
This type of treatment is actually not as unique as you might think. Called Huǒ liáo (fire treatment) it is a widely practiced form of alternative therapy. Nevertheless it’s still pretty terrifying to look at.
Huǒ liáo involves a specially prepared “secret elixer” which is soaked into a towel and placed on a problem area. Then some alcohol is added as a starter fluid. When everything’s set, they light it up. After a few seconds the flame is put out.
Here’s a couple guys getting their backs done.
Ha ha ha… Ahhh, fun.
Anyway, the practice is straightforward, but there seem to be few concrete details about why people do this. Searching around the Internet, most people seem to be getting their backs, legs, and necks done which suggests it relaxes the muscles. Most places that perform fire therapy make vague claims like you’ll “feel great.” As for the lady above, either her eyes are just feeling sore or huǒ liáo may have some benefits to the skin as well. Whether or not this is a genuinely efficient treatment, eh, who’s to say. It probably beats the snake massage.
So get on over to your nearest Chinese therapy center and ask about Huǒ liáo. With Mother’s Day fast approaching, you can show your mom how much you care by making an appointment to have her set on fire.
▼ Stiff neck? Set it on fire!
▼ This guy must have some serious problems. They’re having a whole BBQ on him.
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'Parades and Changes' dance review
Allan Ulrich
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| Dana Iova-Koga (left), Briana Dickinson, Theresa Wong, Jay Coscullueia and Benjamin Jarrett rehearse for Anna Halprin's "Parades and Changes" on the main floor of the UC Berkeley Art Museum. Photo: Pak Han, Pak Han |
This 1965 piece, which, two years later, precipitated a scandal at its New York premiere because of the performers' disrobing, may be part of the lore of American postmodern dance, but it needs a kind of replenishment that only a younger generation can provide. They certainly did their part Friday in what Halprin, now 92, says are the last performances of the rarely seen, legendary work.
The setting was the multi-angled main floor of the museum, ringed with folding chairs, cushions, lighting equipment and composer Morton Subotnick's electronic equipment. Dancers entered and departed via the structure's many ramps. "Parades and Changes" figured in the museum's activities when it opened in 1970, so it seemed only proper that the piece, complemented by an exhibition of Halpriniana in a main-floor gallery, should return to mark the imminent closing and relocation of the institution in the coming years.
In that exhibit, you can see some of Halprin's scores, file cards with performance and music instructions. The choreographer and dancers, one gathers, choose which scores will be followed at every performance, so no two will be identical. Halprin elevated task making to the level of art, and you can see that in the undressing sequences. Friday, the 14 performers, moving at a glacial pace, positioned like statuary at different angles, meticulously removed every article of clothing, folding the garments in neat piles. Then, they immediately began to put them on again. Subotnick's electronic score quietly burbles, yet, so disciplined were these performers that their actions generate a rhythm. You may not hear it. You feel it.
Later, a second scene of disrobing happens in pairs and segues into the spectacular paper-tearing scene. Here, brown rolls of paper are shredded by the performers, huddled together. At the end, they launch a blizzard of the stuff, illuminated in golden light, and the effect is stirring.
In that exhibit, you can see some of Halprin's scores, file cards with performance and music instructions. The choreographer and dancers, one gathers, choose which scores will be followed at every performance, so no two will be identical. Halprin elevated task making to the level of art, and you can see that in the undressing sequences. Friday, the 14 performers, moving at a glacial pace, positioned like statuary at different angles, meticulously removed every article of clothing, folding the garments in neat piles. Then, they immediately began to put them on again. Subotnick's electronic score quietly burbles, yet, so disciplined were these performers that their actions generate a rhythm. You may not hear it. You feel it.
Later, a second scene of disrobing happens in pairs and segues into the spectacular paper-tearing scene. Here, brown rolls of paper are shredded by the performers, huddled together. At the end, they launch a blizzard of the stuff, illuminated in golden light, and the effect is stirring.
Calling Halprin an entertainer raises hackles among some academics, but she does possess the gift of holding an audience in her embrace. Friday, she clothed her dancers in black suits and bowler hats and equipped them with umbrellas, doubtlessly inspired by Magritte's familiar painting. This "Parades and Changes" opened with Subotnick "conducting" a text recited by the performers perched on the ramps. It concluded with students from several institutions running in circles around the platforms. That you felt like joining them is a tribute to Halprin's powers of artistic persuasion.
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UK 'will follow Iceland's lead over ban on internet porn'
Anti-pornography campaigner believes Britain will try to filter out 'brutal and hardcore imagery which is now the standard'
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One of the world's leading anti-pornography campaigners predicts that Britain will be next in following Iceland's lead and looking at a ban on internet pornography.
Iceland's ministry of the interior is drawing up anti-porn legislation after consultations with police and education and health officials showed strong concern over the impact of online porn on children as well as women and their relationships with men.
Dr Gail Dines, a British-American academic based at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, said she believed that Britain would be next to attempt to filter out the "increasingly brutal and hardcore imagery which is now the standard".
"I have been talking to charities in the UK and the NSPCC and professionals and they are seeing what is happening, the rise in child abuse, the violence. There are real moves afoot to follow Iceland. We live in a very closed-down society when it comes to talking about sex so a lot of people have their heads in the sand but not those working on the ground. You cannot leave it to parents. Online porn is shaping the sexual lives of our young people."
Claire Lilley, of the NSPCC, said: "We wouldn't come out and ask for a full ban, we want to stop children being exposed to it. The average child now has access to five devices so we are beyond the stage of a parental lock on the family PC. But there is wrangling and foot-dragging from the internet service providers over how we can implement the opt-out system, where new customers to an ISP are asked specifically to say they want access to adult sites otherwise they will be blocked. She said the gambling industry had managed to run an age verification system successfully.
"We are not being moralistic about pornography. The stuff children are coming across is hardcore and upsetting. It's also staggering how widespread child pornography is."
Iceland's ministry of the interior is drawing up anti-porn legislation after consultations with police and education and health officials showed strong concern over the impact of online porn on children as well as women and their relationships with men.
Dr Gail Dines, a British-American academic based at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, said she believed that Britain would be next to attempt to filter out the "increasingly brutal and hardcore imagery which is now the standard".
"I have been talking to charities in the UK and the NSPCC and professionals and they are seeing what is happening, the rise in child abuse, the violence. There are real moves afoot to follow Iceland. We live in a very closed-down society when it comes to talking about sex so a lot of people have their heads in the sand but not those working on the ground. You cannot leave it to parents. Online porn is shaping the sexual lives of our young people."
Claire Lilley, of the NSPCC, said: "We wouldn't come out and ask for a full ban, we want to stop children being exposed to it. The average child now has access to five devices so we are beyond the stage of a parental lock on the family PC. But there is wrangling and foot-dragging from the internet service providers over how we can implement the opt-out system, where new customers to an ISP are asked specifically to say they want access to adult sites otherwise they will be blocked. She said the gambling industry had managed to run an age verification system successfully.
"We are not being moralistic about pornography. The stuff children are coming across is hardcore and upsetting. It's also staggering how widespread child pornography is."
Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites
Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding.
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| If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark the first time that illegal websites have been diminished or driven out of business by having a block put on their source of cash. |
By Katherine Rushton (16 Feb 2013)
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Jenna Dewan-Tatum: Funny* Jokes from a Beautiful Woman
Published in the March 2013 issue
And another one:
Two ducks are flying south for the winter when an Air Force jet flies overhead.
One duck says to the other, "Did you see that? Jeez, he was moving."
The other duck says, "I bet you would too if you had two assholes and both were on fire."
About the jokester:
Back when Jenna Dewan-Tatum was just Jenna Dewan, she was a dancer for Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. "Japan with Janet was crazy. I'd have people following me, taking pictures. Why? I'm just the backup dancer." The work and the fans prepped her for a costarring role in the 2006 dance movie Step Up alongside Channing Tatum, whom she married in 2009. And while her husband has been prolific lately, the 32-year-old Texan has turned in a few roles herself, including one on the most recent edition of American Horror Story. The part involved both getting especially close to Maroon 5's Adam Levine and being skinned alive. "It's one of those shows where you find out what you're doing the night before. I'd get the script and my jaw would fall to the ground." We're pretty sure she's talking about the skinned-alive part. —Matt Goulet
*Esquire cannot guarantee that this joke will be funny to everyone.
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Models: Raquel Jacob and Catarina Jacob (H!T Agency)
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And, since zombies are the undead ...
So it was with some excitement that Bronson, her husband and a friend sat down in front of the TV with a glass of wine in the waning weeks of 2010 to watch “TS-19” — her episode, the final one of The Walking Dead’s first season. Four million other people were watching, too, making “TS-19” the highest-rated show for a cable TV series to that date.
They waited 15 minutes. A half hour. Forty-five minutes in, and Bronson’s scene still hadn’t appeared. There was only Dr. Edwin Jenner, looking despondently at a photo of his dead wife. “ ‘Maybe they re-ordered the scenes,’ ” Bronson rationalized. “I said, ‘Maybe my scene is gonna be in the next episode.’ ”
But ... no. Candace Jensen had disappeared into the digital-editing ether. Cut from the episode, except for that one photo. She couldn’t even return as a zombie: It had been death by incineration. The zombies of The Walking Dead have stumbled on to the cable TV zenith without Claire Bronson.
“That is why I don’t do viewing parties,” Bronson says. “Don’t count your chickens until you’re up on the screen.’ ”
Surviving in 'Banshee'
A bad day for Janie Kendall is a good day for Claire Bronson
Claire Bronson is a survivor. The guy wearing a ridiculous skunk-ape costume in the 2009 film Monster Beach Party was not only a threat to her character’s life, but a threat to any actor’s career. And the zombies of the post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead were to be taken even more seriously, as the show made its debut on AMC in the fall of the following year — in pop culture, zombies were the hot undead of the moment.True, Bronson concedes, it might not seem to be the role of a lifetime for an actor if your character is dead before the opening credits roll, having been bitten by a zombie and taken a kill shot to the head from her own husband. But there was a murmur from the show’s execs that Dr. Candace Jenner might blossom into a recurring part — Candace in flashbacks, perhaps just like Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks.And, since zombies are the undead ...
So it was with some excitement that Bronson, her husband and a friend sat down in front of the TV with a glass of wine in the waning weeks of 2010 to watch “TS-19” — her episode, the final one of The Walking Dead’s first season. Four million other people were watching, too, making “TS-19” the highest-rated show for a cable TV series to that date.
They waited 15 minutes. A half hour. Forty-five minutes in, and Bronson’s scene still hadn’t appeared. There was only Dr. Edwin Jenner, looking despondently at a photo of his dead wife. “ ‘Maybe they re-ordered the scenes,’ ” Bronson rationalized. “I said, ‘Maybe my scene is gonna be in the next episode.’ ”
But ... no. Candace Jensen had disappeared into the digital-editing ether. Cut from the episode, except for that one photo. She couldn’t even return as a zombie: It had been death by incineration. The zombies of The Walking Dead have stumbled on to the cable TV zenith without Claire Bronson.
“That is why I don’t do viewing parties,” Bronson says. “Don’t count your chickens until you’re up on the screen.’ ”
For each Army Wives (Bronson appeared in three episodes on the Lifetime network TV series) and Necessary Roughness (one episode on the USA TV series), there is a Psychopathia Sexualis (Bronson’s scenes were deleted from the 2006 movie) or a Coma (two episodes, playing a woman in a coma in the 2012 A-and-E mini-series).
But Friday, another opportunity appears for the Fairport native and Nazareth College theater grad. Audiences have already caught a glimpse of Bronson as Janie Kendall, the wife of Mayor Dan Kendall in Episode 3 of Banshee, the Cinemax episodic series set in rural Pennsylvania. Banshee is, as the show’s marketing department likes to remind everyone, a “Small Town.” With “Big Secrets.” In Episode 7 this Friday, Janie Kendall appears in several scenes. We’ll have to tune in to know anything more: The usual death-sentence threat hangs over the head of anyone involved with the show who reveals any Big Secrets before broadcast. “Suffice to say,” Bronson is willing to offer of her character, “she has a very bad day.”
Considering the astonishingly high rate of death, serious injury and unseemly sex acts witnessed by audiences in the first six episodes of Banshee, that must be a very, very, very bad day indeed. But surviving it could soon pay off for Bronson. When auditioning for the part, Bronson was told that, if Cinemax picked up Banshee for a second season, her character stood a good chance of developing into a recurring role.
And Banshee has indeed been picked up for a second season.
Bronson is Banshee’s second strong connection to the area. Gates native David Schickler, who now lives in Brighton, is the series’ co-creator, co-writer and co-executive producer. Neither one knew of their shared Rochester ties until word trickled back to Schickler that his wife has friends who are friends with an actor who had just landed a role on his TV show.
Rochester. Small town. Big gossip.
Bronson’s mother, Judi Bronson, was a community theater actor herself. That’s how her daughter got her first taste of acting, as a 7-year-old, in The Music Man. The household emphasized a real sense of community as well. Bronson worked at the Hillside Children’s Center, and the family regularly took in foster kids. “New York City kids who stayed with us for the summer,” Bronson says. Or, “Friends of ours who needed a place to stay for a few nights,” if things got a little too intense at home. “Our house was open to whoever needed it.”
Bronson pondered a move to New York City to start her professional acting career. But a brief stint waiting tables here — the New York City actor’s main line of work — did not bode well. f “Building and serving people drinks in a comedy club was my worst nightmare,” she says. “You’re in the dark, you can’t see anything, people have their legs crossed under the table and you’re tripping over them. I didn’t even get to one table until the comedian was done.”
Instead, Bronson chose Atlanta. “I followed my gut,” she says. “I had a good friend who had just come from Atlanta. It’s a big city with warm weather, a melting pot of all different people, all ages of people, nationalities.”
And, “Unbeknownst to me, there were a lot of independent films being made there.”
Indeed, Georgia has worked hard to make itself economically attractive to filmmakers. The Walking Dead and Coma are Atlanta productions. North Carolina has similar enticing tax laws; Banshee, although set in Pennsylvania, is shot in Charlotte.
She and husband Scott Poythress spent two years living in Los Angeles, pursuing their acting careers. But, “Since moving back to Georgia in 2009, our resumés have skyrocketed.”
The couple frequently works together in local commercials and indie films, including the 2007 horror film The Signal. (Their work seems to tip toward a dystopian, hopeless future for planet Earth.) Bronson is also an enthusiastic tweeter of TV and movie recommendations, the activities of fellow actors, and updates on Banshee and the new Star Trek film and restaurant.
In somewhat the same manner as in the Fairport house where she grew up, Bronson and Poythress have opened their Atlanta home to creatures in need. Dogs, fellow actors. The couple has taken in three overly grateful rescue dogs, and offers their home studio to fellow actors in need of making an audition tape. “All you need is a neutral background, good lighting, a decent camera, a computer with a basic editing program,” Bronson says.
This 21st-century approach is how Bronson landed her role in Banshee.
“I auditioned twice before for Banshee, both really good parts, and never had to leave my house,” she says. “The second audition was for the part of Meg, the wife of one of the deputies. Then my agent got an email that said, ‘The casting director really wants Claire to audition for this.’ When you start getting notes like that, you jump for joy as an actor.
“I found out on a Friday that I had the part. On Monday I was in Charlotte.”
And soon, mayhem as entertainment began. “Crazy stuff happens to Janie,” Bronson says. “And to tell people around me that I had so much fun shooting it seems like a complete contradiction.”
It can’t be any worse than being bitten by zombies, shot in the head and incinerated. Janie Kendall lives, a little worse for wear, with the potential to re-emerge for more in Season 2.
This 21st-century approach is how Bronson landed her role in Banshee.
“I auditioned twice before for Banshee, both really good parts, and never had to leave my house,” she says. “The second audition was for the part of Meg, the wife of one of the deputies. Then my agent got an email that said, ‘The casting director really wants Claire to audition for this.’ When you start getting notes like that, you jump for joy as an actor.
“I found out on a Friday that I had the part. On Monday I was in Charlotte.”
And soon, mayhem as entertainment began. “Crazy stuff happens to Janie,” Bronson says. “And to tell people around me that I had so much fun shooting it seems like a complete contradiction.”
It can’t be any worse than being bitten by zombies, shot in the head and incinerated. Janie Kendall lives, a little worse for wear, with the potential to re-emerge for more in Season 2.
“I know that I’m not dead in Banshee,” Bronson says. “I love those fabulous folks. And they seem to not mind my company.”
* Not sure which episode Claire Bronson badoinkies will come out to play for the first time onscreen but the revealing date is upon us soon. Hopefully it also will be the second full frontal of the series. Claire is one hot mama.
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Sam Riley Talks About Sharing Beatnik Boot Camp With Kristen Stewart For Jack Kerouac's Classic
Walter's also quite liberal with the sex scenes. Is that something you ever had any doubts about?Of course. I am extroverted, I have my moments, but... I knew that would be controversial, to some extent. I'd only just got married as well, so it wouldn't have thrilled me if my missus had to go off and do that. It took more courage for me to do those scenes than it did others. I can play other things much more easily. No offence to my colleagues, I'm sure they were thinking the same way. You look at one another, you shrug your shoulders and you hope Walter doesn't want to do it in more than one take.
But Garrett had more nude scenes than you, didn't he?
I ended up seeing his plonker more than my own brother's, I think, during that period of time. He was fearless, I heard a rumour that he pulled his trousers down in the audition, just to show how willing he was.
In what way did you think it would be controversial?
Well, I guess I'm curious to see how America takes it. Because the shock of the book... What was on the original manuscript was toned down for the final book. But in America today you can have films like 'Saw', where you can show graphic decapitations, but showing young people having sex or taking drugs could land it with a certificate that makes it hard for people to see the movie. I don't really understand what an NC-17, all I know is that it's the kiss of death at the box office.
Rest of the interview is here
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Super hot, talented Jacqueline chatting with her fans.
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What if your daughter's idol is a porn star?
James Deen sure has that X-factor. You need only to watch the moody three-minute trailer for the low-budget art-house film The Canyons, in which the 25-year-old stars, to see that the guy with the matinee-idol looks to go with the name has got what it takes.
There he is brooding in the half light and the next moment he's launching menacingly at his co-star, Lindsay Lohan. He's terribly convincing and has, notes director Paul Schrader, the ''correct malevolence''.
Lohan has good reason to worry that Deen may well outshine her on screen. As Stephen Rodrick wrote in a raucous piece in The New York Times, they're both at a turning point in their film careers. But while Lohan's continues to spectacularly nosedive, Deen's may be on the rise.
If you haven't heard of Deen, chances are you aren't a female in your 20s (or, more worryingly, in your teens, but more on that later) who counts online porn as a pastime.
Deen is one of the few male porn stars to boast a genuine female following. He's certainly a marketer's dream comes true, but his recasting as romantic hero in the least romantic of formats is not only problematic; it's pure fantasy.
Deen's foray into porn reads as a cautionary tale. By the time he was 15, he was living on the streets and dabbling with drugs. His saving grace, he says, was that he was a bit of a show-off. ''As soon as James Deen turned 18 he knew he was destined to have sex with girls on camera,'' goes the story at his inventively titled blog, Boobs, buttholes and burritos: ''Ever since he was in high school he enjoyed having sex with girls in front of his friends at different parties all over Los Angeles.''
His ascendancy in adult entertainment reads like a page ripped out of a Hollywood script. Despite being told his ''skinny, boyish looks were not fit for porn'', Deen threw himself into his work and before long ''excelled to be the top performer in the industry''. According to headline-grabbing reports in the US, his young female fan base just can't get enough of him, following his every move on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, of course, his blog. ''They're drawn to Deen because he is different,'' gushed America's ABC, ''a porn star who holds hands with his leading ladies, who gazes into their eyes and is quick to be romantic''.
Really? When I Googled Deen it wasn't his romantic side that popped up, but something called the ''Lemon-stealing Whore'' skit. How to explain it? Let's just say that for close to 30 minutes (although I barely lasted five) Deen's character deals with the ''thief'' in a manner that's neither illuminating nor edifying.
With a spate of hard-core films favouring anal sex and a blog that makes more than a passing reference to S-and-M and women being ''bound and publicly f---ed and humiliated'', it's probably safe to say that the degradation of women - hammed up or otherwise - doesn't end there.
Keep this in mind when reading the advice Deen has for his youthful ''loyalists'', some as young as 15: ''I would like to think that I'm, you know, opening up their sexual experience. They'll be able to take their boyfriends and say, 'Hey, I saw this in a porno, I want to try this'.''
The critical issue here isn't morality, it's mental health. As The Guardian reported back in 2011, ''women who become regular users can suffer depression and low self-esteem because it can be hard to reconcile their enjoyment of porn with their intellectual dislike of seeing women used as sex objects''.
With about one in three visitors to adult entertainment websites female, it's time to dismantle the rhetoric around Deen being a ''sex-positive feminist''. As Deen himself says, he's just a ''worker bee''. Yes, but one with a serious sting in the tail.
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FILMS BY STEVE FOX
If you've ever been to the Wynwood Art District in Miami, Florida you'll know why everyone shoots there. If you've ever shot with Gintare´Sudziute´ you'll know why there is no other model like her. She just rocks! This was shot along side a photo shoot with Gin.
More of Gintare hereHot Like Lava
A videotorial of model Triana Maida shot in Miami Florida.Fashion Explosion
A video Editorial starring Model Lisa Ward shot on an abandoned property that many claim to be the old Playboy Mansion in Miami, Florida. More of Lisa here.A french beauty takes you through her intimate encounter with vodka.
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Uncommon Causey
Editorial writer and columnist James E. Causey will offer his perspectives on a variety of issues on urban affairs, crime, city hall, education and sports.
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Directors Bryan Ramirez, Kerry Valderrama and Bryan Oritz are behind this latest effort, which presents a triptych of stories all set within a sanitarium, with each segment zeroing in on a different patient. Malcolm McDowell leads the cast, which also includes horror fave Robert Englund, Lacey Chabert, Lou Diamond Phillips, John Glover, Jeremy Ray Valdez and more. The exclusive red band trailer below gives a nice preview of the madness to come in the picture, and in case you're wondering, the song in the second half is "Coyote" by Pop Pistol.
"Sanitarium" will have its World Premiere on March 1st at the Miami International Film Festival. Check out the trailer and images from the film below.
Uncommon Causey Editorial writer and columnist James E. Causey will offer his perspectives on a variety of issues on urban affairs, crime, city hall, education and sports.
Blacks kill more blacks than the KKK ever did
Documentary filmmaker Sixx King is black and he's tired of black-on-black violence so he wanted to do something proactive to make a statement.So he put on a KKK outfit with a white hood and stood in public in Philadelphia to draw attention to an issue that the black community has not been able to solve - black men killing black men at record numbers.
This is not just a Philadelphia problem, this is a problem in most large urban populations. Last year, Chicago reported more than 500 homicides, and most involved black men killed by black men.In Milwaukee County, of the 101 homicide victims in 2012, 71 were black males, according to the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office.King, 35, is tired and I am, too. While wearing the costume, he had a sign saying that black violence kills more blacks than the Klan ever has. Sixx said in 2011 more than 7,000 black people were killed; he said the KKK killed 3,446 blacks in 86 years.Black-on-black murders surpass the number of people killed by the KKK every six months.I know a number of blacks and some whites who will find what King did offensive. I understand that, but ask yourself this question: What do you see black politicians doing about the issue? I mostly hear crickets.
Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton said last year that he was appalled by the silence and lack of outrage after several MPS students were killed.King is bringing awareness to the black hypocrisy of being complacent when we know we have a problem and we are doing little to address it. We can talk about jobs all we want, and yes, high unemployment is a problem. But blacks have been poor for a long time and we didn't kill each other at the rate that we are doing now.This is not a gun problem; this is a societal problem that needs to be addressed, and our black leaders, churches, families, youth and schools should be demanding change.
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Red Band Trailer For Horror Triptych 'Sanitarium' Starring Malcolm McDowell, Robert Englund and More
Horror films have recently found a new way to scare, by delivering bite-sized servings of terror. Recent successes like "V/H/S" and "The ABCs Of Death" have shown filmmakers getting creative within a smaller format, and the upcoming "Sanitarium" promises genre fans another dose of thrills in a contained package.Directors Bryan Ramirez, Kerry Valderrama and Bryan Oritz are behind this latest effort, which presents a triptych of stories all set within a sanitarium, with each segment zeroing in on a different patient. Malcolm McDowell leads the cast, which also includes horror fave Robert Englund, Lacey Chabert, Lou Diamond Phillips, John Glover, Jeremy Ray Valdez and more. The exclusive red band trailer below gives a nice preview of the madness to come in the picture, and in case you're wondering, the song in the second half is "Coyote" by Pop Pistol.
"Sanitarium" will have its World Premiere on March 1st at the Miami International Film Festival. Check out the trailer and images from the film below.
* Hmm.....Mayra Leal is undeniably hot and probably naked again.
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Ray Donovan (Showtime): What to Expect
Showtime’s new series, Ray Donovan, premieres this summer on Sunday, June 30 at 10pm. The cast, including Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Elliott Gould, Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Pooch Hall, as well as creator Ann Biderman, and executive producers Mark Gordon and Bryan Zuriff, were on hand at last month’s TCA 2013 to discuss what people can expect from the first season.
Want to know what Ray Donovan is about? Here is a brief synopsis from the official website:
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA’s top power players. The one-hour drama series stars Liev Schreiber as the go-to guy who makes the problems of the city’s elite disappear.
Here are a few more things we learned at the event:
Liev Schreiber may not be an Irish Catholic, but he plays one on TV. Asked about how he prepared for his role in the series, Schreiber said, “I actually grew up in the Lower East Side of New York in a predominantly Roman Catholic neighborhood. First, mostly Puerto Rico, and then, when I moved to the West Side, it was almost entirely Irish. So they’re fairly familiar as subjects. I’ve always been fascinated with because it’s an incredibly interesting, colorful, complex neighborhood. It wasn’t hard for me. You know, my father’s Scotch Irish.”
Liev Schreiber was terrified to be on a television show before he decided to do this show. “The thing that terrifies me about television is that I have to play the same character over and over and over and over again. But, after seeing the pilot, I kind of got it in my head that this is an interesting way to work, that you can watch something grow alongside of it. In other words, it’s not the same. Unlike [a] play where it’s the same material and what you are doing is, kind of, playing with and improvising new takes on the same language, that you actually get to grow a character over time. I think I’m excited about that process. I’m excited about that. I’m scared, but I’m excited about it.”
Elliott Gould always wanted to be a successful business person. “I’ve always wanted to be a very successful businessperson. I didn’t do that, but [I am] able to be a successful businessperson in this story. He has a little bit [of] dementia. So I’m a business person who has a little bit of dementia, but I’m very successful, and I wanted to see what it felt like.”
Being able to play such great villains helped Jon Voight get the part. “I’ve played some pretty strange characters, and people come up to me constantly and say, ‘You know, you play such a great villain.’ So probably some of that work landed me this part, but it’s a very complex character, Mickey, and there’s quite a lot to come from him. He’s a dangerous fellow to himself and to others, but he’s got a lot of dimension. So I’m really very challenged, and I’m excited to be playing the part.”
Ann Biderman did all kinds of crazy stuff to research this story. “I know a number of private investigators and did a tremendous amount of research and did extensive interviews with people. I’ve gone on stakeouts. I’ve [done] all kinds of crazy stuff. I followed people. I’m a great believer in research. So I spent quite a bit of time trying to understand the world.”
Just because the main character has a fatal flaw, don’t think the show is a cliché. Asked about the number of TV shows on the air that feature a flawed main character and whether she was worried this one would get lost as another cliché, Biderman said, “I think a cliché is a cliché, and a trope is how it’s done. Hopefully, we’ve done it well. But things are popular for a reason. There’s just different methods of telling a story, and I think to have a character who can excel at something and yet has a fatal flaw that is tied into that isn’t gratuitous to me. I think it’s how you do it, and hopefully, we’ve done it in a way that elevates it a bit and gets above the cliché.”
Responding to the same question, Schreiber added, “There aren’t many ways to do things that haven’t already been done on television. So one of the things that I was thinking about [is that] it’s not about what, it’s about how. Pretty early on, when I met with Ann and Mark and I was fortunate enough to be able to talk about casting, and I guess the first ‘how’ was Ann’s writing, was writing that is deeply investigative spiritually, emotionally, physically in every way. And then putting together a group of actors that we felt maybe the television audience hadn’t seen anything quite like this before. Everything is a cliché. It’s just about how you execute. And to get this caliber of writing and combine it with this caliber of acting, hopefully, if we can maintain that, given the schedules that television presents you with, I think it’s going to be pretty remarkable, but that was the idea. It’s not ‘what’; it’s ‘how.’ ”
The show will be more serialized than procedural, so don’t expect a lot of stand-alone episodes. Asked about the format of the show Biderman said, “I never saw this as being procedural particularly. So one of the great things about telling a story in this form is that you can serialize it; that it’s like writing a novel. So there are certain things that are resolved, but it unfolds over this huge canvas, and I think that’s what’s so thrilling about it. So, no, I don’t think many of them will stand alone.”
Expect there to be some surrealistic parts in the show. Asked about a particular moment in the pilot that was more fantasy than reality, Biderman said, “I think it isn’t entirely whimsical. I think there are other surrealistic moments that will come down the pike. So I think it was a way to show a character in distress and kind of delve into his fantasies about women. [There are] more to come, but I wouldn’t say it’s a huge element of the show. We use it judiciously, I hope.
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I figured you could use another one, right? Now, I like Girls. But I find it interesting that on this season we have seen Marnie, played by Allison Williams, find clever ways to keep herself unexposed before, after, and during sex scenes. She fucked a gay dude on a couch: we got to see Andrew Rannells's ass, while Marnie firmly kept her forearms over her breasts. On last night's episode, we basically got the chance to see the balls belonging from that guy from The Lonely Island while the naked Marnie got up from her post-coital position to go to the bathroom. But she wrapped herself in the comforter! I mean, first of all, that is rude (I'm sure Lonely Island dude's balls aren't self-warming), and secondly, that is an odd thing to do. Is Marnie really that uptight? Or does Williams have a more conservative contract than the rest of the cast? Probably the latter.(I know you didn't think it was possible to write about Girls with less than 200 words, but voila!)
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* It's a turn on for me when Allison had a clear view of the dude's junk (look at her eyes). The scene was shot from an angle that suggested she walk naked (with only her ass on show) to the bathroom but Allison just ain't ready this season. The real reason for Daddy Irish presence on the set had much to do with Allison carping to him about constant pressure from the two show-runners to give a glimpse despite Allison promise to deliver the goods in third season. Allison and Lena relationship is more guarded than anything else. They're not enemies but the two aren't exactly friends like Lena with other two girls. It's just like the way the show portrays them. Both are from totally different upbringing and environment if you exclude the nepotism.
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Another apocalypse film project kicks off
Although it’s not precisely the same concept as “Revolution’s” power black-out or “Under the Dome’s” mysterious, invisible barrier, the Port City will be the backdrop for the end of the world in an independent film – “The Remaining” – that follows a group of friends as they scramble to survive a Rapture-like apocalypse.
Directed by Casey La Scala, “The Remaining” kicks off filming on Tuesday and stars Alexa Vega (“Spy Kids”), Johnny Pacar (“Purgatory House”), Italia Ricci (of Comedy Central’s “Secret Girlfriend”), Bryan Dechart (“Step Up 3D”), and Shaun Sipos (“Texas Chainsaw 3D”).
(Sipos also appeared as “Blane” in indie film “Hick,” which filmed in the region in 2011.)
Some extras and body doubles casting calls are starting to go out for the feature, which is slated to shoot in the area for about a month, producer Marc Bienstock has said.
Here’s an enticing one: “Still looking for our featured CREEPY DEAD WOMAN. Specifics include elderly and a bit overweight. We will use makeup for the creepy part … This will shoot in Wilmington in about two weeks. Locals only please. $58.00/8 with a make-up bump. Please submit asap to: theremainingextras@gmail.com.”
It’s unclear at this point whether the “creepy dead woman” will have action on-screen a la the zombies in “The Walking Dead” or if she’ll just lie about looking dead and gross.
Then there are calls for photo doubles: “Need a photo double (with set experience) for actress Alexa Vega. She is five-feet, one-inch.”
And: “In need of a photo double (with set experience) for actress Italia Ricci. She is five-feet, six-inches tall. Please submit photo and resumes to theremainingextras@gmail.com. Pay rate for photo-doubles is $150.00/10. You will be needed for one or two days in March, here in Wilmington (must be a local hire).”
The first day of filming will begin with a scene in which the characters (including the leads, Tommy and his best bud, Jack) seek shelter from the hell fire in a church. In this case it’s Grace United Methodist Church at 401 Grace Street in Wilmington.
Twelve cast members, 70 crew members and about 40 extras will be on hand at the church from about 6 a.m. to about 1 a.m. through Saturday, according to a Wilmington filming permit.
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