Breaking Nudes from Sundance: Lovelace
(0:12) Amanda Seyfried comes out of the bathroom in just her panties with her breasts exposed. Her left breast is still exposed as she gets into bed and there is a great look at both breasts as Peter Sarsgaard kisses her belly scar.
(0:18) In a home movie we see some very brief (and somewhat shaded) buns from Amanda Seyfried as she moons the camera.
(0:27) Amanda Seyfried swimming underwater in just her bikini bottoms gives us another look at her breasts.
(0:40) Amanda Seyfried several shots of her breasts during a photoshoot.
(0:46) Flashback to Amanda Seyfried's wedding night shows Sarsgaard rip her dress open and exposing her left breast.
(0:56) Amanda Seyfried breasts and panties.
(0:59) Amanda Seyfried partial breasts in shower.
Breaking Nudes from Sundance: January Jones, Juno Temple, and Evan Rachel Wood
It’s turning into quite a banner year for festival skin, because the spectacular reports just keep pouring in from our Skin Skout at Sundance. Here’s the latest:
Sweetwater stars January Jones as a steely beauty in the Wild West, and she gives up the breast look yet at her double barrels an hour and 10 minutes in. January has slipped a nip before in The Three Burials of Melquaides Estrada (2005), but this nude scene is a full on funbags shot in broad daylight. (1:10) January Jones is topless from afar walking into a creek. As two cowboys come up on her the camera pans close-up to her front and we see her holding a gun in-between her two bare breasts. Then she turns around giving us a full look at her breasts as she shoots them.
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"Sweetwater," which was shot at the end of last summer, is the first feature film Jones worked on following the birth of her son. It also includes her first topless scene in a film. At one moment during her murderous rampage, she is quietly bathing in a river, her bare back seen from behind. As two villainous thugs approach, thinking they have her in a vulnerable position, Jones turns with both guns drawn. And she shoots them down too.
"I'd just stopped nursing and I think modesty just kind of flies out the window sometimes when you're a mom, and I was like, whatever," she said of deciding to do the scene. "Also, that scene in particular when I read the script was so ... amusing to me, I couldn't not do it. I've never seen a scene like that in a movie when you think a woman is just swimming in a river and you realize she's using her sexuality to lure these men in and then turns around and blows them away. And that's pretty awesome.
"There were certain times in my career where I felt, 'I don’t really need to do that.' But then, I’m a human being, I change my mind," she added. "I might change my mind when there's a theater full of people watching it, with my parents."
Afternoon Delight is also full of delights thanks bedroom scenes with juicy T-and-A from Juno Temple 56-minutes in, and the compelling cans of Kathryn Hahn 1-hour 38-minutes in.Juno in Magic Magic
(0:04) Juno Temple is kneeling and stretched out in the bathtub. When she lifts up her head and gets up we can see breasts and partial bush.
(1:05) Juno Temple takes her pants off giving us a great look at her buns as she forces Michael Cera's head into her crotch, waking him up terrified.
(1:28) Juno Temple's breasts are on display on a table.
The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman brings out Evan Rachel Wood’s boobs while she gets chewed and screwed by Shia LaBeouf.
And Before Midnight will let you bask in the sunlight of Julie Delpy’s exposed globes for a full six minutes!
Riki Lindhome in Hell Baby(0:55) Rob Corddry opens the shower curtain on Riki Lindhome giving us a full frontal breasts and bush look at her. Then she is standing in front of him naked for quite a while. We get one nice look at her buns and four full frontal shots.
29-years old American actress Ellen Hollman first nude scene ever (T-and-A) in Spartacus: War of the Damned.
The video link provided again by excellent Recapped.
Ellen Hollman ("Saxa") on Spartacus Season 3 (Starz)
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Eight Squeaky-Clean Stars Who Got Wild at Sundance
Though she plays virginal Cosette in Les Misérables, Amanda Seyfried got to have her Fantine moment last night at Sundance with the premiere of Lovelace, a sexually charged porn -star biopic. For some, it may be a little startling to see Seyfried ply her good-girl looks in such an explicit role, but that sort of thing is nothing new at Sundance, where former child stars and clean-cut performers go to dirty up their image in provocative indies. Here are eight of this year's actors who left their PG pasts behind in Park City.
Though she plays virginal Cosette in Les Misérables, Amanda Seyfried got to have her Fantine moment last night at Sundance with the premiere of Lovelace, a sexually charged porn -star biopic. For some, it may be a little startling to see Seyfried ply her good-girl looks in such an explicit role, but that sort of thing is nothing new at Sundance, where former child stars and clean-cut performers go to dirty up their image in provocative indies. Here are eight of this year's actors who left their PG pasts behind in Park City.
Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings
Plays: Poet Allen Ginsberg, who's just a college freshman struggling with his sexuality when we meet him in 1944.
Sex: Ginsberg makes out with the blond, charismatic Lucien (Dane DeHaan), though he eventually loses his virginity to a man he picks up at a bar. Their sex scene is notable for just how bendy Radcliffe proves to be. Drugs: Once he gets over his goody-goody reluctance to indulge, Ginsberg becomes a particular fan of Benzedrine and nitrous oxide.
Plays: Poet Allen Ginsberg, who's just a college freshman struggling with his sexuality when we meet him in 1944.
Sex: Ginsberg makes out with the blond, charismatic Lucien (Dane DeHaan), though he eventually loses his virginity to a man he picks up at a bar. Their sex scene is notable for just how bendy Radcliffe proves to be. Drugs: Once he gets over his goody-goody reluctance to indulge, Ginsberg becomes a particular fan of Benzedrine and nitrous oxide.
Dakota Fanning in Very Good Girls
Plays: A college-bound teenager who finds herself falling for the mysterious hottie (Boyd Holbrook) who is also being pursued by her best friend (Elizabeth Olsen).
Sex: Fanning takes off her clothes and streaks across the beach as the film begins, then later loses her virginity to Holbrook.
Drugs: None.
Plays: A college-bound teenager who finds herself falling for the mysterious hottie (Boyd Holbrook) who is also being pursued by her best friend (Elizabeth Olsen).
Sex: Fanning takes off her clothes and streaks across the beach as the film begins, then later loses her virginity to Holbrook.
Drugs: None.
Amanda Seyfried in Lovelace
Plays: Linda Lovelace, who became the first porn star with her work in Deep Throat, though she was coerced into the industry by her abusive husband (Peter Sarsgaard).
Sex: Linda's famous sex act is portrayed, though mostly obscured with clever angles and Seyfried's long brown locks as cover. Still, the actress is topless throughout the film.
Drugs: Just a little grass now and then.
Plays: Linda Lovelace, who became the first porn star with her work in Deep Throat, though she was coerced into the industry by her abusive husband (Peter Sarsgaard).
Sex: Linda's famous sex act is portrayed, though mostly obscured with clever angles and Seyfried's long brown locks as cover. Still, the actress is topless throughout the film.
Drugs: Just a little grass now and then.
Rupert Grint in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
Plays: A sweaty, drug-dispensing tourist who meets our title character (Shia LaBeouf) in a Bucharest youth hostel.
Sex: Grint and a friend drag LaBeouf to a Romanian "titty bar," where the former Ron Weasley gets a lap dance to completion. "I came in my pants," says a morose Grint afterward.
* I hope it's Vanessa Kirby playing a stripper.
Drugs: The reason they went to the strip bar in the first place is because Grint had popped five Viagra.
Plays: A sweaty, drug-dispensing tourist who meets our title character (Shia LaBeouf) in a Bucharest youth hostel.
Sex: Grint and a friend drag LaBeouf to a Romanian "titty bar," where the former Ron Weasley gets a lap dance to completion. "I came in my pants," says a morose Grint afterward.
* I hope it's Vanessa Kirby playing a stripper.
Drugs: The reason they went to the strip bar in the first place is because Grint had popped five Viagra.
Kristen Bell in The Lifeguard
Plays: A New York–based reporter who decides to regress by moving back to her hometown and resuming her high-school job as a lifeguard.
Sex: It's not long before Bell is banging the 16-year-old son of her co-worker ...
Drugs: … who she asked to score her some pot after their first meeting. As one does.
Plays: A New York–based reporter who decides to regress by moving back to her hometown and resuming her high-school job as a lifeguard.
Sex: It's not long before Bell is banging the 16-year-old son of her co-worker ...
Drugs: … who she asked to score her some pot after their first meeting. As one does.
Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now
Plays: A timid teenager who opens up when her high school's resident party guy (Miles Teller) shows romantic interest in her.
Sex: Woodley goes topless in a naturalistic, sensitive loss-of-virginity scene.
Drugs: Teller's character is a functioning lush, and Woodley starts to imbibe just to keep up.
Plays: A timid teenager who opens up when her high school's resident party guy (Miles Teller) shows romantic interest in her.
Sex: Woodley goes topless in a naturalistic, sensitive loss-of-virginity scene.
Drugs: Teller's character is a functioning lush, and Woodley starts to imbibe just to keep up.
Gaby Hoffman in Crystal Fairy
Plays: … Crystal Fairy, a wild-haired hippie who accompanies Cera on his cactus-hunting trip.
Sex: Former child star Hoffman is full-frontal nude in several scenes, and there's a late twist about her sexuality that we won't reveal here, but it comes with some further explicit images.
Drugs: Though she's more inclined toward "natural highs," she's willing to do mescaline too. Right on!
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Plays: … Crystal Fairy, a wild-haired hippie who accompanies Cera on his cactus-hunting trip.
Sex: Former child star Hoffman is full-frontal nude in several scenes, and there's a late twist about her sexuality that we won't reveal here, but it comes with some further explicit images.
Drugs: Though she's more inclined toward "natural highs," she's willing to do mescaline too. Right on!
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* Rooney Mara supposed to do couple of topless scenes in the movie according to the script. But I think her cowgirl ride will be the only glimpse we'll get of Rooney's dumplings. The one with Catherine Zeta-Jones is way too tacky to be included. But there is a chance nudity dodger Vinessa Shaw as Jude Law wife could show us something as well (He pulls her on top of the table. Takes off her shirt). Rooney replaced Blake Lively who as usual dropped out probably when she couldn't persuade Soderbergh that nudity on her part was unnecessary.
And don't forget guys, Rooney big sister Kate will be naked (now at 85% and it will rise to 95% if I just could get a reply from someone attached to the show) as well around the same week on House of Cards which will make it a grandly awkward Mara clan family gathering in the summer.
Kate Mara 'House of Cards' Q-and-A: 'Kevin Spacey is so good at being bad'
Netflix is taking a bold step into original programming with the launch of House of Cards - the online outlet has already ordered two seasons of the political drama and the first, 13-part run will be made available in its entirety on February 1.The series - based on the novel by Michael Dobbs and adapted by Beau Willimon (The Ides of March) - stars Hollywood icon Kevin Spacey as Francis 'Frank' Underwood, a morally ambiguous politician with a ruthless ambition.
Kate Mara (127 Hours, American Horror Story) also appears as Zoe Barnes - a determined Washington reporter who makes a deal with Underwood that lands her a massive scoop, but might also end up costing her her soul...
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| Look at those tits. Mamma Mia! You can see how well-endowed she is (talking about Kate not Robin) from the shape and the curve. Borders on C-size. Unlike many actresses refusing to do nude scene because of negative body image issues, Kate had family prestige and their place in the society to consider but after Rooney chose career over family it was Kate's turn to do the same at ripe age of 29 (Hmmm...both Ellen Hollman and Maggie Grace are of same age as well). |
Kate, can you give us any hints about Zoe's journey across the 13 episodes?
"I don't want to, because that might make it less interesting for you! But I can say that her journey with Francis certainly becomes more and more interesting.
"The more she becomes involved in his world, the more dangerous it becomes, and their relationship just grows and becomes more intense throughout the series, which is really fun to play."
Did you do any research into journalism for the part?
"No - everyone asks that question and now I sort of think, 'Should I have done that?', but there was so much there for me in Beau's first two scripts.
"And the fact that Zoe was a journalist... it was important, but it wasn't the main thing about her that I felt I needed to connect to - she really could be doing any job.
"I think her strongest characteristic is that she has incredible drive and passion for her job. One of the things I related to about Zoe was her ambition - I've been acting since I was a kid and, as a 12-year-old, I was so determined.
"I've become a lot more calm and chill now that I've been doing it for so long, but that was the thing about her that I really respected. Of course, there are things about her - her morals and things - that I didn't necessarily relate to, but that just made it fun."
House of Cards delves into the dark side of politics - do you have any interest in that world?
"I don't follow politics at all, but one of the great things about House of Cards is that you don't have to be be interested in that world in order to enjoy watching it.
"When I was reading the scripts, I really couldn't put it down, I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next with these people, because it was also very much about the power struggle between human beings and different relationships, which I find fascinating."
Why do you think Zoe is so drawn to Francis Underwood?
"I think Zoe's attracted to powerful people because she wants to be powerful herself. I think she sees some of herself in him, and he probably sees a little bit of his former self in her - just in how gutsy she is.
"They definitely use each other and she knows when she's being manipulated, but she lets it happen because she knows she can use it to her advantage."
And why do you think the audience will be drawn to Francis?
"We love watching a train wreck! It's kind of fun to watch people play out things that we wouldn't have the guts to do in our real lives. Also, Kevin Spacey is just so good at being bad - it's hard not to love him, no matter how evil he is!"
How was the experience of working with David Fincher on this project?
"Amazing. He's everything I heard he was from my friends who've worked with him, and my sister [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Rooney Mara] who's worked with him, and he's as intense as people say he is, in all the great ways.
"I've never felt so challenged and so exhausted, and yet fulfilled, going home from work every night. You never stop thinking when you're working with him.
"The hardest thing about acting is the downtime and the waiting inbetween takes, but with David, there's this crazy speed and it's sort of non-stop. You don't have time to go sit in your trailer and watch episodes of Friends inbetween takes, which you do with a lot of directors. But he constantly has you thinking and working - for me, that's exactly what I want."
In FearFangoria
UK director Jeremy Lovering’s feature debut was developed and filmed unconventionally. He kept much of the story—its twists and turns and frights and games— from his two leads, only revealing the entirety to Allen Leech; he who plays the one playing tricks. While the average moviegoer rarely needs such back story, viewing the film with context in this case feels a tad more necessary. Although Lovering’s search for verisimilitude was not in vain, it does materialize in both grounded, raw performance and a strong sense that no one has any idea of what’s going on.
What’s a shame is the sense that the passionate work from Leech, De Caestecker and Englert especially, and even Lovering’s strong visuals, are being left out in the cold by something missing. IN FEAR, while certainly harsh, is stylistically admirable. It’s just not very enjoyable.
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The film opens with Lucy in the loo of a pub, while unseen to her, a leering eye stares through a peephole. As she and Tom leave to get on the road, Tom explains there was a slight altercation with a local due to a spilled drink, which he smoothed over with a couple of pints and an apology.
In Fear is nothing amazingly groundbreaking as far as plot, but if you like a solid white-knuckle ride, you'll want to climb in.
Screendaily
The film, which had its world premiere in Park City at Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival, has a controlled and chilling visual style – enhanced by shrewd sound design – and while tense and scary it doesn’t resort to clichéd horror routines, instead keeping the story edgy, tense and visceral. In Fear should appeal to distributors of genre and thriller material and features an impressive lead performance from rising star Alice Englert (whose mother is director Jane Campion), who starred in Ginger And Rosa and appears in upcoming supernatural drama Beautiful Creatures.
The chills and thrills are nicely staged by Lovering, who makes great use of the locations (the film shot on Bodmin Moor and nearby woodland in Cornwall) and the limited environment of the car itself. The performances are starkly realistic and striking, with Alice Englert especially fine. In Fear is a tense and gripping little chiller likely to find an appreciative audience with fans of the genre.
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The awkward fumblings and sweet moments that make up the early stages of a relationship are in full bore before everything starts to crumble, and the film works well during these innocent stages just as it does during the more conflict-oriented events that come later. We can’t help but wonder not only how we would react in a situation like this but how our husband or girlfriend would as well. Would they act to save us? Would you act to save them?
The Upside: Fantastic use of sound; some genuine scares; Alice Englert is quite good.
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Sundance: Dakota Fanning Film Slammed, Others Ripped by Critics But Bought for Big Bucks
Sundance 2013: Sad to say, I am watching from the sidelines this year as scheduling stuck me on the East Coast. But what a wild time they’re having out in Park City! Poorly reviewed films with big stars are going for a lot of money to distributors desperate for content. Highly- anticipated or hyped films with big stars are tumbling once they get to the reviewers.
This morning, bad news for “Very Good Girls,” the first film directed by screenwriter Naomi Foner, who’s also the mother of the Gyllenhaals and mother in law of Peter Sarsgaard. Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter slammed the Dakota Fanning-Elizabeth Olsen outing. Variety predicted a straight to video sale. What a shame. Still, the way things are going, the film’s star power may outweigh the critics when distributors come knocking. Content is king in 2013.
Elsewhere, sex is selling even if it’s not getting good reviews. Relativity paid $4 million and promised to put up $25 million to promote and release Joseph Gordon Levitt’s “Don Jon’s Addiction.” JGL directed and wrote it, and Scarlett Johansson co-stars. Julianne Moore got the only good reviews. Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter hated it like I’ve rarely seen (maybe since I reviewed “Towelhead” a few years ago). JGL, very buff, plays a goomba from Jersey who sits in front of his computer and masturbates to porn. There are — apparently– close ups of used tissues. A musical, it’s not. This is supposed to be the rougher version of “Shame” from last year. Did we want that? We’ll see.
Sony Pictures Classics picked by “Kill Your Darlings” in which “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe–who already was naked in “The Elephant Man” on Broadway–now has a lot of gay sex, very graphically. (All that Quidditch with brooms obviously has had some kind of effect.) Drum roll. The p.r. for “Kill Your Darlings” keeps sending out a message that the story of this movie is unknown. Bull. Lucien Carr’s murder of David Kammerer is pretty well known among those who know anything about Kerouac, Burroughs, et al and the Beat Generation. But it’s a hook. Will “Kill” take off and be a hit? What will they say at Hogwarts? SPC also went big time for “Austenland.”
There do seem to be some promising films coming out of Sundance:
Fox Searchlight is gambling $10 million on Steve Carell in “The Way, Way Back” being this year’s “Little Miss Sunshine.”
The Weinstein Company picked up at least three films through its Radius branch, including a music documentary about back up singers that I really really want to see called “Twenty Feet from Stardom.” They also paid $3 million for “Lovelace” about “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried of “Les Miz” fame right now. The main Weinstein Company also put up $4 million for the highly praised “Fruitvale,” which sounds like it might be something for their Oscar campaign next fall–although don’t forget, “August: Osage County” with Meryl Streep is already their big 2014 entry for gold.
This morning, bad news for “Very Good Girls,” the first film directed by screenwriter Naomi Foner, who’s also the mother of the Gyllenhaals and mother in law of Peter Sarsgaard. Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter slammed the Dakota Fanning-Elizabeth Olsen outing. Variety predicted a straight to video sale. What a shame. Still, the way things are going, the film’s star power may outweigh the critics when distributors come knocking. Content is king in 2013.
Elsewhere, sex is selling even if it’s not getting good reviews. Relativity paid $4 million and promised to put up $25 million to promote and release Joseph Gordon Levitt’s “Don Jon’s Addiction.” JGL directed and wrote it, and Scarlett Johansson co-stars. Julianne Moore got the only good reviews. Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter hated it like I’ve rarely seen (maybe since I reviewed “Towelhead” a few years ago). JGL, very buff, plays a goomba from Jersey who sits in front of his computer and masturbates to porn. There are — apparently– close ups of used tissues. A musical, it’s not. This is supposed to be the rougher version of “Shame” from last year. Did we want that? We’ll see.
Sony Pictures Classics picked by “Kill Your Darlings” in which “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe–who already was naked in “The Elephant Man” on Broadway–now has a lot of gay sex, very graphically. (All that Quidditch with brooms obviously has had some kind of effect.) Drum roll. The p.r. for “Kill Your Darlings” keeps sending out a message that the story of this movie is unknown. Bull. Lucien Carr’s murder of David Kammerer is pretty well known among those who know anything about Kerouac, Burroughs, et al and the Beat Generation. But it’s a hook. Will “Kill” take off and be a hit? What will they say at Hogwarts? SPC also went big time for “Austenland.”
There do seem to be some promising films coming out of Sundance:
Fox Searchlight is gambling $10 million on Steve Carell in “The Way, Way Back” being this year’s “Little Miss Sunshine.”
The Weinstein Company picked up at least three films through its Radius branch, including a music documentary about back up singers that I really really want to see called “Twenty Feet from Stardom.” They also paid $3 million for “Lovelace” about “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried of “Les Miz” fame right now. The main Weinstein Company also put up $4 million for the highly praised “Fruitvale,” which sounds like it might be something for their Oscar campaign next fall–although don’t forget, “August: Osage County” with Meryl Streep is already their big 2014 entry for gold.
Dakota Fanning Romances Kevin Kline In The Last Of Robin Hood
Fear not, faithful reader. We have not suddenly gone all LA tabloidly with scandals about older actors dating starlets or what coffee enema is all the rage among the A-list* these days. No, we’re simply bringing word that Dakota Fanning has landed the female lead alongside Kevin Kline in Errol Flynn film The Last Of Robin Hood.
Kline will be playing Flynn in his final years before he died of a heart attack at the age of 50. But in those remaining months, he romanced teenage actress Beverly Aadland, who was at his side when he died.
The affair, which began in 1957 when Flynn met Aadland on the Warner Bros. lot, led to him securing a part for her in 1959’s Cuban Rebel Girls. This was all while he was A) still married to fellow actress Patrice Wymore and B) followed by rumours after being cleared of statutory rape charges in 1942.
Quinceanera co-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland wrote the script and are planning to direct. Susan Sarandon will be playing Beverly’s pushy stage mother Florence, who wrote tell-all book The Big Love about the affair.
Fanning is currently promoting Very Good Girls at Sundance and will also appear in Effie and Night Moves.
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New Walking Dead Season 3.5 Trailor 4… And Nudity
Let’s get real: Every character on The Walking Dead is up a zombie creek without a paddle to bash the undead’s heads in.That being said, a new Season 3 trailer is here! And, predictably, things are looking grim. There’s creepy backwoods music, a prison surrounded by zombies, and some spooky-sexy eye patches.
On the plus side, looks like Andrea might try to take out the governor! While naked! For whatever reason! Yay!
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AshleyMadison.com: Hollywood Seeking Affairs at Sundance (Exclusive)
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The dating site for people seeking extramarital encounters has seen a spike in activity around Park City.
Quality cinema apparently isn’t the only attraction at Sundance.Members of the entertainment industry are descending on Park City, Utah, not only for the fest, but also to seek out extramarital affairs, according to AshleyMadison.com, the dating service which helps arrange intimate encounters for people in relationships.
The site has seen a surge of activity in Park City corresponding with the Sundance Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
During the past week, the majority of men seeking women in Park City using AshleyMadison were from Los Angeles. And more than seven percent of the site's 5,130 members who signed up for its “Traveling Man” service during that time were seeking partners in Park City.
The “Traveling Man” service allows members to list which city they will be traveling to, and the age, body type and ethnicity of the women they would like to meet. Members can then write an email that will be sent to thirty women who match that profile.
"There's no better time to pursue an affair than when you're hundreds of miles away from your significant other,” said AshleyMadison.com founder and CEO Noel Biderman. “No wonder Sundance serves as a makeshift headquarters for Hollywood affairs. When festival-goers arrive at their hotel, they can literally check-in on the mobile app and find someone looking for an affair down the hall.”
The site has seen increased activity during other big events as well.
"We've examined the increase in sign-ups during the Super Bowl and seen similar bubbles," said Biderman. "In regards to other festivals, we've also seen spikes during events such as South by Southwest and the Toronto Film Festival."
AshleyMadison has 17 million members in 25 countries, according to the site.
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SXSW reportedly follows Sundance in rejecting Lindsay Lohan's The Canyons
From its inception, The Canyons sounded like a fiasco in the making, a Kickstarter-aided indie production featuring a director (Paul Schrader) and a writer (Bret Easton Ellis) many years removed from their signature works (1976’s Taxi Driver and 1985’s Less Than Zero, respectively), and a star, in Lindsay Lohan, whose many legal and substance abuse problems have been meticulously documented by the tabloid press.
Inexplicably, New York Times reporter Stephen Rodrick was given access to the set and the editing suite, resulting in a wildly entertaining, Devil’s Candy-like account of Schrader and Lohan’s temperamental relationship and the uncertain fate of the finished product.
Just a week ago, it was reported that the Sundance Film Festival rejected The Canyons. Now the Hollywood Reporter quotes a SXSW “insider” claiming that SXSW has rejected it, too, citing “significant ‘quality issues’.” “It’s got an ugliness and a deadness to it,” says the source, which is frankly impossible to believe, based on riveting preview clips like this one. No word yet on whether the jewel of the festival year, the Paul Schrader’s Living Room Festival, has accepted it or not.
Sushi With the Stars of ‘Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes’
By Barbara Chai
As Molina studied the types of fish available on the menu (he’s big into sashimi), Scodelario, the 20-year-old star of the independent film, cringed.
“I only like the rice sushi things. I’m too scared to try the other ones,” she said, referring to sashimi.
“It’s the same thing,” Gregorini said. “It’s just that one is disguised with a bit of rice.”
We ordered a mélange of edamame, shrimp tempura, various sushi rolls, spring rolls and yes, sashimi.
In “Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes,” Scodelario plays the title character, a young woman whose mother died during her birth. Emanuel struggles with this fact every year on her birthday, when she must relive the events as told to her all her life by her father, played by Molina. When a young, single mother (Jessica Biel) moves in next door, Emanuel forms a close bond with her mysterious neighbor.
The seed of the film is loss and redemption, Gregorini said. “I went through eight years of fertility treatments, which ended in no child,” she said. “Even though I never had a child and lost it, I still went through that grieving process that it was just not going to be in the cards.”
Writing the script was a catharsis for her. “What if I’d had a child and lost it? Where does your mind go? Because you can get pretty dark,” she said.
Examining the power of denial, Gregorini said she was also interested in the people who get dragged into a lie and carry it. “Having grown up in an alcoholic home, I developed the ability to go into an altered reality and that experience of feeling protective of those we love and going with it,” she said. “Sometimes you’re going too far you start to lose reality – that was the genesis behind the Emanuel character.”
The film’s lead, Scodelario, said she completely understands this quality in families. If something isn’t exactly normal with a family member, the tendency is to try and protect him. Scodelario’s own mother, a native of Brazil, lived and worked as a single mother in London. When Scodelario was in school, her peers would tease her about her mother, who would need a translator during parent-teacher conferences.
“I could’ve either gone, ‘yeah, you’re right,’ and been really embarrassed at her for it, but instead I really wanted to protect her,” she said. “It got to the point where I didn’t want her to come to the school anymore, and it sounds horrible looking back on it, but that was me at a young age trying to protect her from these people saying things about her.”
The fantasy of the film’s story also struck the actors. Molina said if Gregorini were a male, Latin American director, we’d be talking about the “magic realism” of the movie. But he said “Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes” is subtle, and the key to the story lies in the title. “It suggests a young woman on the search for something. She’s searching for her identity, for her place in the world,” he said. “All these elements that are holding her back makes what seems to be a domestic story very epic. It gets deeper and deeper into the psychology of these people.”
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Emma Booth is another of those Aussie girls solely hired to show off her body in skimpiest outfits or just get naked altogether on US-flicks. She doesn't seem to mind and she shouldn't. As I stated before, if you're foreign talent with questionable acting ability (maybe folks from down under can refute my opinion on Emma) but wants to work on a regular basis in America you can't afford to be shy about performing sex or nude scenes. She and Jason Statham 'shower' together in Parker (2013).
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Instead, he gathers his bearings, alerts his hot young girlfriend (the frequently topless Emma Booth). Lopez, to her credit, does bring some dimension to the role that it clearly lacked on the page (the inelegantly utilitarian script is credited to John J. McLaughlin). She's a tough woman, recently divorced and falling behind on her bills, who makes the advances on Parker, since she is kept in the dark about his hot, young, frequently topless girlfriend.
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Leslie has the sad face when Parker’s almost always topless girlfriend shows up.
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Jenna Fischer's Advice To Actors
The Acting Advice Blog – by: Jenna Fischer from The Office
I’ve received tons of letters from people asking advice about the entertainment industry and, in particular, pursing a life as an actor. People have also asked how I got to be on The Office. This blog, I hope, will address some of those questions.
I grew up in St. Louis Missouri. I always wanted to be an actor but when you grow up in a place like St. Louis that is sort of like saying, “I want to be a superhero when I grow up”. It hardly seems real. The world of Hollywood is mysterious. You hear stories of girls being discovered at ball games. Success is about having “it” or being pretty or some other intangible magic. You have no model for how to succeed. Everyone’s story is different. One person does stand-up for 15 years and then gets a TV show, someone else finances their own movie and it takes off at a festival and suddenly they are the hottest thing. But for each of those people there are thousands of stand-up comics and filmmakers who never got their break. How do you know what to do?
I thought being an actor meant being famous. But, most actors aren’t recognizable. It’s funny. I watch TV in a whole new way now. Like, I watch a show and I see the person who has 3 lines on Law and Order and I think, “Their family is gathered around the TV flipping out right now. I bet that was a huge deal for that person!” There are so many actors that make a living by doing support work on shows. I was that person for many years. For me to stay in this business, it had to be okay if I was never recognized. I learned that I loved the craft of acting more than the idea of being famous.
My first piece of advice to someone who is serious about being a professional television or film actor is: move to Los Angeles. Moving to Los Angeles can be difficult but it is the only city that doesn’t put a ceiling on where you can go with your career. New York is the place to go if you want to do theater. But if you want to be in film and television, move to LA.
I had a teacher once who said, “If you can think of anything else you are passionate about besides acting, do that. Your life will be better for it.” I actually think that might be good advice. I couldn’t come up with anything so I moved to LA.
I fully expected to be working in movies within a year of moving to LA. That was not my reality and it is not the reality of most people who move to LA to pursue acting. It can take a very, very, very long time to succeed in this business and my best piece of advice is to not give up. You have to motivate yourself and just keep going. Create projects for yourself. Don’t whine. The first year is the hardest followed by every anniversary up to about year 5 when you’re so beaten down you don’t notice the years passing anymore. I have a friend who is so incredibly talented it is a crime that after 10 years in LA he still has to wait tables to make a living. He gets acting work here and there but he can’t hold down an agent. This business is not fair. It is not like other businesses where if you show up, and work above and beyond everyones expectations, you are pretty much guaranteed to move up the ladder. I don’t know why it works out for some and not for others. And when you move here you have no idea which camp you are going to fall into.
It isn’t who you know. It just doesn’t work that way. I didn’t know anyone when I moved to LA. Most people don’t. I shared an apartment with an old college buddy. He had a commercial agent and I was sure that by knowing him, this agent would take me on. She didn’t.
Here is how I got “discovered”. I had been living in LA for about 2 years. A friend wrote a TV script and wanted to do a live stage version as a way of attracting TV producers. He asked me to play a small role. It meant lots of rehearsal for very little stage time and no pay. Along the way I questioned why I had agreed to do it. But, it was very funny and he was a friend, so I agreed. After our 3rd performance, his manager approached me and asked if I had representation. I said, no. She offered to represent me saying she thought I had a real future in television comedy. Naomi is still my manager today.
A month later, I was doing a very strange play - a musical adaptation of the movie Nosferatu – at a small theater in Los Angeles. I was doing it because I loved the Commedia dell’arte style of the show and the people involved. I worked all day as a temp doing mind-numbing data entry for a medical company and then went to rehearsals for 5 hours a night, often getting home past midnight. One night an agent came to see the play and left his card at the box office asking to meet me. He became my first agent.
Now, that sounds easy right? Well, that was all after 2 years of working as a temp, doing every acting gig I could find – usually for no pay, borrowing money to buy a new engine for my car and wearing a pair of shoes with a hole in them because I couldn’t afford anything else. Did I mention my living room curtain was made from a torn bed sheet? It was another 3 years before I got my first speaking part on a TV show. That show was Spin City. (I played a waitress in a scene where the girl playing Charlie Sheens crazy date threw bread at me.)
Every year I did a little more than the year before. My first 5 years I probably earned between $100 – $2,000 a year from acting. Year 6 brought me some of my biggest success and I only made $8,000 from acting. But, I put a lot more money into my career than that. Headshots are expensive. The photo session and getting prints can run anywhere from $500-$800. Classes range from $150-500 a month. It costs $1,200 to join SAG once you are eligible. And apartments are crazy expensive. $700 – $1,000 for a crappy apartment that you share with at least one roommate. Its no wonder my living room curtain was a bed sheet.
So, how did I get The Office? Spin City was cast by Allison Jones. She also casts The Office. She became a fan of mine through a series of auditions. I kept going into her office year after year auditioning for different things. I got some and not others but she kept bringing me back. I developed a relationship with her – not because I met her at a party and we schmoozed – but because I had proven to her over the course of many years that I was a reliable and serious actor capable of providing a consistent body of work. That is what this business is all about – from a real working actors perspective. Allison remembered me when it was time to cast The Office. She called me to audition and I finally got the part.
Most actors think their first priority after moving to LA is to get an agent. I disagree. I think the first priority should be to build a body of work. Become a pro so that you are valuable to an agent. No agent wants to sign a non-union newbie. It’s not their job to get you ready. Join NowCasting.com or LACasting.com and submit yourself for non-union work. Get experience. These websites require you to pay a monthly fee for their service. I would normally warn you about places that charge you a fee, but NowCasting and LACasting are legit businesses. You post your photo and resume. They post casting notices for student films, short films, non-union work and some commercials. You are able to submit yourself for work and hope you get a request to audition. I have friends who work all the time doing this. It is a great way to get commercial work. I think the website LACasting.com submits their non-union members to commercial agents as part of their service. (You need to live in LA to participate.)
Work as an extra. If you are new in town this is a very good way to learn how a movie or television set operates. I did this my first year and I’m glad I did. No one gets treated worse than an extra (or as they are called now, background artists) but since I went through it myself I know how to be gracious now that I’m more successful. It’s a great boot camp. You learn the set terminology and etiquette from a safe distance. That way, when you book your first acting gig you will know what it means to “hit your mark” or how to “clear for second team”. The top extras casting agency is Central Casting. If you work enough you can earn your SAG card. That’s how I did it.
You need your SAG card to be taken seriously by an agent. You cannot work on a TV show or a studio movie without belonging to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Union. You can do some extra work if you are not in the union but you cannot have a speaking role in a major production. There are non-union productions that hire non-union actors (like student films and low-budget features) and that is a great way to get practice in front of a camera.
When you are ready to get an agent you should know a few things. Legitimate agents only take 10 percent and they should NEVER charge you a monthly fee or startup fee. They should not force you to use a certain photographer to take your headshots. If they do, they are probably just signing you up so that you’ll hire the photographer and they’ll get a kick-back. Agents should only make money if you make money. An agent may ask you to sign a contract – this is normal. A standard contract is for 1-2 years. I would not sign a contract for more than 3 years. And, READ THE CONTRACT. A friend of mine met with an agent who tried to write a clause into the contract that made it so that, at the agent’s discretion, the contract never ended. If you are unsure, contact SAG and ask them for a standard Agent/Client agreement. Ask if the agent you are thinking of going with is SAG certified.
If you are good at comedy, take classes from the Groundlings or I.O. (formerly known as Improv Olympic). Second City in Chicago is also great. These are the most recognized improv comedy places. They look good on a resume. It’s a great place to meet people when you are new to town. Classes are expensive so that can be hard when you are just starting out. I didn’t do this but I wish I had. Almost every actor on The Office has studied with one of these 3 places.
There is a book you can get at the LA bookstore Samuel French called “The Actor’s Guide to LA”. It is a spiral bound book that is updated every year. It lists all the extras casting agencies, casting directors, agents, photographers…etc. This is a great resource for the new actor. I also suggest reading Backstage West. It has casting notices and articles for actors.
Finally, there is an amazing book you can do called The Artists Way by Julia Cameron. I highly recommend it. It is a 12-week self-lead creativity seminar in the form of a book. It’s brilliant. You don’t have to move to LA to do it. In fact, it would be a good thing to do if you are thinking of moving to LA. It might give you the answers you need. It was through doing The Artists Way that I was inspired to make my movie LolliLove. I completely credit this book with giving me the tools and courage I needed to complete that project (a project that took over 4 years to finish.) And I credit LolliLove with giving me the confidence and practice with the mockumentary style that lead me to landing my job on The Office.
Yes, you will meet some scumbags if you move to LA. People that prey on newcomers. I can tell you with absolute certainty that those people have NO POWER in the grand scheme of things.
For example, it was my first year in town and I was part of a theater group. At a party for a new play opening the playwright came up to me and asked me if I was an actress. I said yes. He asked if I was interested in doing a part in his new movie. I was kind of floored. How did he know I was any good? I said, “What is it about?” And he said, “Well, you’d have to do a raunchy sex scene with nudity. Would that bother you?” I laughed and said, “I wouldn’t do anything I wouldn’t be proud to show my parents.” He then said, “That was a test. You aren’t a real actress. A real actress would never say that. A real actress would piss herself onstage if the part called for it. You aren’t going to make it in this town. You should just go home.” And then he walked away. I went back to my apartment and cried. Why was Shem Bitterman (that is his real name) such a d**k? I have no idea. Stuff like that will happen to you if you decide to become an actor. People will roll their eyes when you tell them what you do. You have to develop a thick skin – without becoming jaded, guarded or cynical. That’s a tall order. I’ll say now what I wish I had said then, “Shem, sir, with all due respect, you are a f**kface and you can kiss my a**.”
I have a great acting coach who says that success in Hollywood is based on one thing: Opportunity meets Readiness. You cannot always control the opportunities, but you can control the readiness. So, study your craft, take it seriously. Do every play, every showcase, every short film, every student film you can get. Swallow your pride. Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don’t complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.
I know how hard it can be when you first get out here. Go out and meet as many people as you can. Create a family for yourself of creative, supportive people. AND, don’t stop your personal life for your career. I know a lot of people that wait to do things – visit family, friends, have relationships, get married – because they are waiting until they “make it”. Or, they don’t go to a friend’s wedding because they might “miss something”. Life is too short and it’s not worth it in the end. I always took off and did that stuff and it turned out fine. I was often anxious and worried in the process but I did it. I believe that in order for my professional life to move forward, I have to keep my personal life moving forward as well.
I wouldn’t be where I am today if not for my ex-husband James. He is the one who convinced me to quit my job as a secretary (ironically) and focus full time on acting. I didn’t totally believe I could make it but he did. He supported us financially and supported me emotionally. He ran lines with me and coached me before countless auditions. He put up with my highs and lows. He was, and still is, my biggest cheerleader. And, you need that out here.
It will be hard to explain your first milestones to friends and family back home. They are waiting to see you on TV or on the big screen. It is hard to explain how a 2nd callback for a job you didn’t land was the highlight of your month and a very valid reason to celebrate. I remember one year my proudest moment was at an audition for a really slutty bar maid on a new TV show. It was written for a Pam Anderson type. I thought, “I can never pull this off. I just don’t have the sex appeal. I feel stupid. No one is going to take me seriously.” But, I committed to the role and gave the best audition I could. I didn’t get the job. I didn’t get a callback. But I conquered my rambling, fear-driven brain and went balls out on the audition anyway. That was a huge milestone for me – but hard to explain at Christmas. A year later I booked the role of a trashy prostitute in a little indie movie called Employee of the Month. In the past I would have turned down the audition thinking that I would embarrass myself. But after that earlier breakthrough I felt confident. The success is not always in getting the part but in the seed that is planted.
If you live in LA and are serious about acting, I know a great acting coach. He teaches a class on How to Audition. Being a great actor isn’t enough. You have to master the art of the audition – showing people you are a great actor. His class is both inexpensive and amazing. I completely credit him with changing me from a good actor to a working actor. His name is Robert D’Avanzo 818-508-0723. Ask about his 6-Week On Camera Audition Class. He’s the best kept secret in town. And he’s AFORDABLE!
This Spring marked my 12 year anniversary in Los Angeles. I didn’t land the part of Pam on The Office until year 8. I’m hardly an overnight success. Likewise, Rainn Wilson toured the country doing theater and was one of those working but unrecognized actors for over 10 years. Steve Carell had been kicking around for close to 20 years. Most of us on The Office have a story like that. I think that is one of the reasons why we are all so very, very grateful to have landed such a wonderful job. Slow and steady wins the race.
I hope that answered your questions about the biz. Good luck!
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Former Porn Star is China’s Hottest New Politician
At a time when Chinese officials are burning up social media sites with their appearances in amateur sex tapes, a professional is making waves with a move into politics.Actress Diana Pang, well known in Hong Kong for starring roles films like 1997’s “Erotic Ghost Story – Perfect Match,” caused a stir online after reporters spotted her attending a local meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC), a legislative advisory body, in the western Chinese province of Gansu this week.
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| A screenshot shows a composite image, posted to Sina Weibo on Jan. 25, contrasting Hong Kong sex film star Peng Dan as she appeared during a meeting of the Gansu provincial CPPCC meetings on Wednesday (bottom) with the cover of one of her films (top). |
“I hope I can do a little investment in Gansu, and shoot more film and TV programs featuring Gansu – especially mainstream programs,” the report quoted Ms. Pang as saying.
In a video interview (in Chinese)posted to the China News Service website, she explained that her attraction to mainstream movies – a term than in China typically refers to patriotic period films – stems from her family background. “I was born into a Red Army family,” she said. “My grandfather was vice mayor of Zunyi and I used to listen to him tell stories about the Long March.”
News that Gansu was playing host to Ms. Pang, known as Peng Dan in mainland China, produced a gush of responses on Sina Corp.’s Weibo microblogging service, including no shortage of ribald commentary linking Ms. Pang with a series of officials whose illicit bedroom exploits have gone viral in recent months.
“Peng Dan might work hand-in-hand with mainland officials to welcome in the New Year by recording a 12-second film that challenges Lei Zhengfu’s record,” wrote one salty microblogger.
Lei Zhengfu was Communist Party chief of a district in the megacity of Chongqing who was sacked late last year after explicit video footage of him having sex with a woman many years his junior was uploaded to the Internet. A number of commentators, noting the short duration of the video, mocked Mr. Lei’s stamina – though to be fair, the footage in question started in media res, making it difficult to say with certainty how long the act lasted.
“These days transcending boundaries is very popular,” wrote another Sina Weibo user. “If politician Lei Zhengfu can act in a porn film, then Category III actress Peng Dan can certainly get involved in politics.”
In the Hong Kong film ratings system, “Category III” refers to films limited to audiences 18 years or older, typically because of their sexual content.
Ms. Pan, who stopped appearing in Category III films in the late 1990s, is not the first retired sex film star to make a splash by getting involved in public affairs. In September, former Japanese porn star Sola Aoi sent Chinese social media users into a tizzy by calling for friendship between Chinese and Japanese people amid rising tensions over a set of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Though Ms. Pang is moving deeper into politics than Ms. Aoi, she could fare better in the relatively conservative court of Chinese public opinion from having been born in central China’s Hunan province and having a far less raunchy oeuvre. Though prolific, Ms. Pang has never acted in the sort of hard-core pornography that made Ms. Aoi famous.
At least one Hong Kong resident rose to Ms. Pang’s defense on Thursday. “Not a big deal,” public relations executive Felix Poon wrote in a post on Sina Weibo. “She isn’t the first artist to enter the CPPCC circle. The movies she made were her job and it was one way to seek success—there’s nothing here to criticize.”
Hong Kong’s scandal-fueled Apple Daily newspaper was less kind, running a salacious full-page story, complete with various images emphasizing Ms. Pang’s bust, under a headline that proclaimed: “China’s CPPCC is once again reduced to an international joke!”
Ms. Pang couldn’t immediately be reached for comment, though she left a message on her verified Sina Weibo account that reads like a response to the criticisms her political ambitions have unleashed. “Whether you like me or not, I’m always here. Though you never cared, I never left. Life is long – Why rush to judge?”
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