What attracted you to the Showtime drama series, Masters of Sex, and just how far will it actually go?
CAPLAN: It goes far. It goes crazy far! The explicit sex scenes were certainly not what drew me to it. There’s this strange thing about doing nudity on camera now, with the internet and everything. I’ve only done it on one other job, which was True Blood, and yet it seems like something that I do all the time. At least, people seem to think that. It was more that I was drawn to the character of Virginia Johnson, who I find to be the most fascinating woman. And a huge part of her personality and who she was, was a woman who was completely comfortable with her own sexuality, at a time where that was almost unheard of, in the Midwest during the 1950′s. It’s crazy that she even took lovers that she didn’t want to marry, eventually. That was her whole thing.
So, I knew, even going after the point, being comfortable with that kind of explicit material would be necessary because it’s just at the core of who this woman was. It’s why she was so helpful to [Dr. William] Masters. Why their studies were so successful was because she understood sexuality, more than he did. He understood science, and she understood the human element of it. And she’s such a complicated woman. It’s, by far, the most challenging part I’ll ever play. It has been the most challenging, up until this point. And the story is just amazing and riveting.
I think people will probably be tempted to say, “Oh, they took it really far. It’s a cable show. Of course, they’re turning it into this overly sexualized thing.” But, it’s based on a biography of the two of them and all of the stuff really happened. We’re not amping it up. It really was that strange, and they were doing it for this greater purpose. They really believed in the science of the project. I really believe in this project, so it’s like, “All right, if I have to be on the internet naked for a few more years, then whatever.”
Is it nice to have someone like Michael Sheen, as your co-star, to go through it with?
CAPLAN: Oh, he’s the best! He’s so awesome and so game for everything that we’re going to have to do. We’re going to be really getting into some stuff, so luckily we get along with each other. It would be a nightmare, otherwise.
Read the rest here
* Masters of Sex will push the sex/nudity envelope like never before. It will shock you in a good way and will turn relatively unknowns such as Heléne Yorke into nude star of the year.
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Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin headline Fisher Stevens' raunchy comedy.
Stand Up Guys: Film Review
by Duane Byrge
Chicago – A raunchy and touching comedy about three over-the-hill mobsters led by the stellar trio of Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, Stand Up Guys lubricates its old joints—of the plot, genre and actors—quite entertainingly. World premiered as the opening night film at the 48th Chicago International Film Festival, this Lionsgate release struts down a familiar path, reminiscent of Mikey and Nicky with even a ray of The Sunshine Boys poking through, and should play well with older audiences with a feel for the actors and this flavor of humor. 
The three savvy stars play former bad guys reunited when Val (Pacino) gets out of prison after serving 28 years for a murder he probably didn’t commit. He took the fall for his cohorts Doc (Walken) and Hirsch (Arkin) when they were all involved in a shoot-out in which the only son of a top crime boss was killed. Whose bullet it was didn't really matter, someone had to pay.On his first day out, Val is intent on raising some hell just like in the old days, but the only thing resembling the old days is Doc's dusty gas-guzzler. Like his ride, Doc himself is out of sync, walking stiffly and carefully. He's a man drained, and further shackled by the vengeful mobster's demand that he knock off Val within 24 hours, or else. Or else here not only means Doc's death, but that of his granddaughter. It's a dreadful quandary, made even harder by the brotherly bonding he and Val rekindle without missing a beat.
Like most geezers, Val harks back to his glory days, when he ate big steaks, gobbled down fountain desserts and had his way with the fancy ladies. Doc is only too willing to saunter down memory-lane with Val, but old delights are now stale and, to throw in some loose Shakespeare, Val's desire does not meet his performance. Val is like a “man from Mars” as he struggles with new gadgets and changed mores. Predictably, but nonetheless hilariously, Val meets Viagra and learns that, as the commercials warn, an erection lasting more than four hours is not all that great.
More than the hijinks, what's most amusing and affecting is the body language of the two coots: Lanky Walken treads cautiously with his arms stiffly swaying for balance, while the shorter Pacino careens forward with his whole body lurching for life. Throughout, their movements are so expressive that, were this a silent film, we'd still know everything about them from their gaits.
Similarly succinct is screenwriter Noah Haidle's jaunty storytelling. It's a sharp mix of comedy and pathos, and superbly balanced. Under Fisher Stevens' deft direction, Stand Up Guys never wobbles into maudlin or cheap-n-easy sentimentality. It is an entertaining yet sobering portrayal of not-so-wise guys who do not go gently into a no-good night.
The third-guy in the batch is former get-away driver Hirsch (Arkin) who's been shuffled off to a care facility for his final days. Pumped by the adrenaline of his impending demise, Val cajoles Doc into springing Hirsch. The three amigos will drive once again, albeit with a guy in pajamas and depleted oxygen at the wheel.
Bottom line: Stand-out performances from Pacino, Walken and Arkin as old-timers prove that losing a step can't keep you off your feet.
* Vanessa Ferlito shows her blinkers
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Serinda Swan auditioning for the role of Theresa in upcoming USA Network Denis Leary-produced paramedic comedy pilot Sirens. The producers ultimately went with 25-years old Australian actress and Serinda doppelganger Jessica McNamee. Role requires some light make-out sessions which is something Serinda yet to be comfortable with thus losing out roles to talents from Down Under and Britain. My poor busty nudity dodging Canadian babe.....decisive period for 28-years old Ms.Swan. If she is serious about her film career.....better loosen those terms and conditions.
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Shocker of the day : Jessica Alba refused to strip for Sin City 2
Jessica Alba has insisted on a body double for her stripping scenes in 'Sin City 2', as she isn't happy with how she looks now she's had two children.
Jessica Alba has insisted on a body double for her stripping scenes in 'Sin City 2'.
The actress isn't happy with her body after two kids and has insisted a stand in is used for the more provocative scenes.
A source told Life and Style magazine: ''She was crushed when filming began and she didn't have her original body back so she told producers she wanted a body double.
''Her body is incredible, but for her it's not good enough. She's cut out carbs and does the P90X Ab Ripper twice a day, but she still isn't happy.''
Jessica, 31, has also reportedly been chain smoking to keep her mind off food.
The insider added: ''She's been chain smoking lately to keep her appetite at bay. Jessica struggled with an eating disorder in her teens and when she's under pressure to look good for a part, she can slip back into extreme behaviour.''
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The truth about young Hollywood--and why it's harder to play drunk than you think.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been tagged a scream queen (for her roles in The Thing and Final Destination 3) and the thinking man's pin-up (she won over more than just Scott Pilgrim's heart with her head of shocking-pink hair), but ask the actress and she'll tell you that she'd rather just be known for her talent. "I really do hope that people see me in a different light now and that people will trust me to carry more complex roles on my shoulders and play different kinds of parts that they might not have thought I could do before," she explains, large chestnut eyes expressing the depths of her conviction. If any film could do that, it's her latest film, Smashed (in theaters today). In it she plays Kate Hannah, an elementary school teacher who happens to have a big drinking problem. Like, gets so drunk she wets the bed, vomits in class, and does crack with a crew of homeless troublemakers. Smashed has the potential to come off like a PSA announcement, but instead Winstead (who is joined onscreen by Aaron Paul, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, and Octavia Spencer) makes it a believable portrait of a woman going over the edge--and then figuring out if she can make it back. The actress spoke to NYLON about just how tough it is as a young woman in Hollywood--and why playing drunk isn't as easy as you'd think.
Smashed is pretty intense--does it make it harder to talk about now than, say, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World?
It's actually fun to talk about it because I have a lot to say! It's nice to be able to talk about that, and it's rewarding that people actually want to hear about it. But then sometimes I end up totally breaking down, because it's all so very emotional--so that can be kind of embarrassing. Because I'll be answering a question and then all of a sudden tears start to come and I'm just like, Oh God, stop, stop, stop!
So it was an emotional movie to make?
Everyone was there for the same reason: because they wanted to make this movie really great. So there was good energy. But it was just really emotional for me--you know, the journey I had to go on in order to figure out how to play this character was very emotional and personal. So it ends up feeling like a diary almost for me when I watch it, because I know what I was thinking about during the scenes, even though the audience sees it as a character. For me, there's a lot of personal stuff happening. I mean, just as an actor there's a lot of personal things you bring to [a role] and substitutions that you use. But I don't think I've ever dug as deep as I had to for this character, so it had never gotten to this level.
How hard is it to act drunk, exactly?
It's hard! For just about any actor it's one of the scariest things to do, because it's so easy to not get it right. No matter how good of an actor you are in every other way, it's kind of separate from that. We figured out a way to do it in which it wasn't so hard, but it was terrifying to take on a role knowing that I was going to have to play drunk in so many scenes. I read this book called The Power of the Actor that has a chapter dedicated to playing drunk--it's all just exercises and mind games that you play with yourself to make you feel like you're actually drunk: You close your eyes and take yourself through every single step of what it feels like to be drunk, starting with the physical stuff of feeling it hit your tongue, feeling it burn down your throat, feel it rushing through your body. And then you go through the emotional stuff: I feel so strong, I feel like I can conquer the world because I have this amazing substance in my body that makes me feel like I am the perfect human being. Things like that…it's almost like an out-of-body thing. But it worked really well for me.
Besides Smashed, what other projects are you working on?
I just did a string of little movies with mostly little parts. I was just having fun with friends with people who I've always wanted to work with that I could learn from. So that was kind of what I wanted to do after this movie because I knew that I wasn't going to be able to jump back into doing a big studio film; the experience of working on something so small was exciting for me. But I also knew I probably wasn't going to find a big, leading role that would live up to this [one in Smashed] right away. So I'm still sort of in that mode of trying to find that role that's going to be as complex as this one--and it's really hard and very rare!
Why is that? Is it hard to find a good role in Hollywood if you're a woman?
It's incredibly hard. I'm amazed that they didn't search out every single girl in Hollywood for this part because that's what usually happens. I'm the only person who auditioned for this role, and I just got incredibly lucky that they put that faith in me. Any other time there's a really great, leading female role, every talented woman in Hollywood wants her shot at it because they're just so rare. And they all should want their shot at it because we all want to have those roles; we all want something that can challenge us. So it's just very hard to get your foot in the door when there are so many talented women and such few good roles for them to have.
[ Of course good roles eludes you if nudity clause stand in the way. It's the exact opposite. Few truly talented American actresses, too many nudity dodgers and notable roles snatched up by foreign talents ]
Does it feel like you keep seeing the same actresses over and over at auditions?
Yeah. I definitely see the same girls. And it's also the same girls on another level who are kind of beyond, who get their first pick at everything, too. So if they want to do it, then you don't even get a shot at it. You at least want to be considered! So that's the point where I hope to get; I hope that I can at least throw my hat in the ring, and be given a chance at some of the bigger, meatier roles.
[ Nudity dodgers typically gathers at same place for same auditions for same non-nude roles. Big surprise there ]
If there's any movie that could do that, it's Smashed. Besides being a great actress, you've also got great taste in music--every interview I read with you you're mentioning amazing new bands. What are you listening to now?
I'm listening to a lot of electronic stuff right now. I go through phases--I either listen to all retro '50s and '60s all the time or I go through really modern phases, and now I'm in one of my more modern phases. A lot of Grimes and Chairlift and St. Vincent …a lot of female singers. I just got Spotify, which is fun. So anytime someone mentions something cool, I can just look it up right away. I also try to keep on top of the interesting music videos that come out, which for me has been a good way of discovering new music because it seems like the really good music always has really cool videos as well. If I follow those, it leads me to the good music.
That's your next project: being cast in a music video.
I know, I would love that!
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Model: Errin (she is in Stallone's Bullet to the Head (2013). Either she is the body double for Sarah Shahi or one of the nude girls at costume party alongside Kasey Emas)
Photographer: Jonathan Kama [kamaphotography.com]
Editing/Color Grading: Joseph Whipp [josephwhipp.com]
Music: Tame Impala - "Elephant"
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Are Big Media Companies Driving Off A Cliff?
That’s the critically important question that’s being debated across the industry and — finally! — head-on by two of the Street’s savviest analysts: Bernstein Research’s Todd Juenger and Craig Moffett. Juenger kicked things off in a note last week, and Moffett delivered his response today. The core issue is whether millions of consumers will cut the pay TV cord rather than accept ongoing price hikes driven by network owners including Time Warner, Viacom, News Corp, Disney, NBCUniversal, CBS, and Discovery. For competitive reasons, they want to pack more original shows and high-priced sports on to their schedules — and pass the rising costs along to cable and satellite providers. But the pay TV distributors say that they’d need to pass their higher costs on to consumers, and too many are so cash-strapped that they’ll simply cut the cord and watch shows from over-the-air broadcasts or low-priced Internet services such as Netflix. If things continue, the argument goes, then Big Media will have to abandon the lucrative and ubiquitous basic cable bundle that requires customers to pay for lots of channels that they never watch. If that happens, and channels are offered a la carte, no more than 10 would be profitable enough to survive, Needham and Co analyst Laura Martin estimates. Here’s a synopsis of the arguments Junger makes in defense of programmers — and Moffett’s explanation why he thinks they’re headed off a cliff:
Juenger: Consumers are more willing than they let on to pay for pay TV. Basic cable rates have grown about 4% a year. While that’s higher than the inflation rate, it’s also lower than lots of other expenses that people accept including dog food. It certainly hasn’t resulted in widespread cord cutting; about 90% of all households continue to subscribe to pay TV. Viewing is up — and so is the quality of TV programming. What about a la carte? “If we woke up tomorrow and everything was available in pure a la carte, we think little would actually change.” Consumers would probably stick with the current pay TV bundle once they realize that the alternative is to shell out as much, or nearly as much, as they do now to receive fewer channels. Besides, the cable and satellite companies that are clambering for the opportunity to offer channels a la carte are being disingenuous. They could end up with less revenue if the programming bundles are busted and people really did order fewer channels. And if distributors they really feared that consumers would flee from rising prices, then they wouldn’t charge such aggressive prices for broadband — a business that they control. In the end, “We believe it would be foolish to bet against the stubborn relationship of Americans with their TV, and the intransigence of the incumbents who provide it.”
Moffett: This isn’t a debate about what the average consumer will do. It’s about the poorest 40% of the country. Pay TV companies need to grow, and they can only do that if they maintain high penetration rates among this huge swath of the population. But people are hurting: The average household in the bottom 40% earns just $18,652 a year after tax. Families have no money left for discretionary purchases after they pay for food, housing, transportation, and healthcare. And it’s a struggle to handle additional expenses. People find it harder to secure credit now than they did five years ago. What’s more, no matter who’s elected in November, there’ll be less public assistance as the government grapples with deficit reduction. So the only way the bottom 40% can afford to pay higher prices for pay TV is if they spend less on something else. Up to now they’ve been able to do that by cutting other media including wired phones, newspapers, magazines, CDs, and DVDs. But those savings may be gone especially as consumers shoulder rising expenses for wireless phones and Internet service. Forced to choose, people will spend on food and shelter before telecom and entertainment. “And the picture for the bottom two quintiles remains, well…terrifying.”++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Lights Out (short film 2012)
Award Winning Short film "Lights Out"
* Winner Best Cinematography (Film by the Sea Delta Shorts)
* Winner Best Actress (Film by the Sea Delta Shorts)
* Nominated Best Film (Film by the Sea Delta Shorts)
* Nominated Best Screenplay (Film by the Sea Delta Shorts)
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Phoenix Forum NAKED Dodgeball : 2011-2012
Every year at the Adult Phoenix Convention there is a naked dodgeball tournament and here are highlights of 2011 and 2012. Featuring AndiLand.com, RealPeachez.com, JanessaBrazil.com, TrishaUptown.com
Phoenix Forum NAKED Dodgeball, 2011-2012, Andi... by LlamaUpload
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LA Talk Radio Talks to Teal Conrad : “I Don’t Want the Industry to Mess With Me”
Repped by LA Direct, Teal Conrad is the best choice of a porn name I’ve ever heard. So it’s funny to hear that Conrad wasn’t crazy about it at first.
Conrad who was a guest on LA Talk Radio’s Sam in the Morning Show recently explained that “teal” was her favorite color and she chose Conrad because she’s a tomboy. She says it took awhile before the name grew on her.
“I don’t know why I picked it. I didn’t like it at first.”
Conrad’s from just outside of Portand, Oregon, Lake Oswego. According to her, her family’s well to do. Conrad has two older brothers, and her parents divorced when she was ten years old. Conrad says her brothers don’t know she’s in porn. Her mother does. Her father just learned about it.
“My mom and I really don’t talk very much. I’ll think she’ll get over it. She doesn’t work and she was Google searching me for awhile. She pokes around on her iPad all day.
"Somebody posted my link on Facebook and probably people called her. For awhile she was begging me to come home. My dad is going to find out because the AVN magazine with my interview is being mailed to his house.
"It’s a really good interview so it’s in a good way that I just don’t work in the office of LA Direct because I really don’t. But I did do that for awhile and I really liked doing it and office work is fun.”
When Conrad flew home in June to move her stuff out of her parent’s house, she told her father she was buying a car.
“You have two cars,” he told her.
“I was like one of them’s mom’s car the other is your car. You both gave them to me. I want to buy my own car. He was like okay. So I drove him to Infinity and was I’m not leaving here until I get my car. I saved all my Nike money [her modeling money] and I just bought it, then I packed my car and I drove to LA. I told him I had to help the agency with lots of stuff like driving girls here and there.”
Conrad said she doesn’t talk much now to her mother.
“I text her but she doesn’t respond.”
Conrad admits she’s lost “judgmental” friends as well over her choice of career.
“I still have a lot of friends at home. It’s funny. People who hated me or disliked me whatever it was were the ones who were reaching out to me.”
Conrad was told that once she has enough fuck-you money it won’t matter what anyone thinks.
“I think staying true to yourself is the only way you can get by in this industry,” she says.
“I am religious, I go to church. I’m trying to stay grounded and I don’t want the industry to mess with me and I know that I will probably have a point in my career where I’m not doing well. When that happens I want to stay strong and true to myself.”
Conrad went to a private Christian school and graduated high school.
“Then I was a fitness model for about a year and a half. Then that brought me to LA.”
Conrad modeled for Oakley sunglasses then she discovered porn.
“I went to this dinner the end of February and there were people in the industry. And I went to school with Kacey Jordan’s sister. She was part of the whole Charlie Sheen-thing. She’s an ex porn star. I was really intrigued with the whole industry when I went to that dinner. So I contacted Kacey. I talked to her about it.”
Conrad said with fitness modeling you can’t be yourself, and she had to constantly portray a perfect image.
“I loved it and it was fun but I wanted something new. I’m young- why not?”
Conrad who finished High School early, said she’s going to be studying Communications at UCLA.
“There’s a lot of heavy drugs in the industry, I know that,” said host Sam Hasson noting that girls don’t last that long in the industry. Conrad said as long as you keep healthy and your nose clean [literally] you have a chance of lasting longer.
It was noted that Mary Carey was “fucked up” all the time, according to Hasson’s co-host Bridgetta.
“She got sucked in and was doing so many drugs and drinking so much. She had to stop.”
For her part Conrad moved to LA the last week of June and she was working every day in July.
Asked what led her to pursue a career in adult Conrad said she loves to be naked.
“I don’t do it for the money; I’m a porn girl, not a porn star. It was a matter of being myself and I know that I’m pretty grounded. It was something new.”
Conrad noted that if you look at her photo sets, the more naked she is, the happier she looks.
“I’m the happiest I’ve been in a couple of years.”
Hasson thought Conrad reminded him of Amanda Knox who was convicted of murder. [Knox was accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the murder conviction was overturned on October 3, 2011.]
“She looked like the girl next door and stuff, innocent.”
For those same reasons Hasson thought Conrad was valuable to the porn industry. Before she got into porn Conrad had sex with three people.
“When I first came to LA and signed with my agent I thought I’ll do girl/girl - I’ve never been with a girl - then I’ll do boy-girl. I was flown to Arizona for my first solo shoot for FTV Girls. Everybody was telling me you need to take this slow so I did that.”
Conrad said she had an initial falling out with her agent. They’re fine now. But she stopped shooting.
After she had done more research, Conrad came back to the business but would only do solos for the time being. Conrad also alluded to “drama back home”.
Conrad also talked about a girl-girl scene she was booked for.
“It was with a 40 year-old woman and my agent didn’t tell me that but he cancelled it. He said there’s no way I was doing this. But I had to pay to cancel the Digital Playground shoot.”
At the time of this interview Conrad was still under contract to Manwin’s Babes.com for which she did her first boy-girl scene.
Though she had made out with girls in high school once or twice, prior to porn Conrad had a serious boyfriend for over almost four years.
“We lost our virginity to each other- I think I was 15 ½. We had been together for over a year. I broke up with him. I got bored. It wasn’t a challenge any more.”
Conrad says she likes the bad boys and this guy was a troublemaker. Obviously he didn’t make enough trouble. Conrad mentions that he was entered in a therapy program upon which he discovered naked pictures of her online.
Asked if it was strange doing solo girl, Conrad said the first time for her was weird.
“I used to be a Zumba instructor so the guy was like oh my God you need to get up and do Zumba. I’m doing Zumba naked and touching myself.”
Conrad says the difficult part in shooting in front of the camera is the angles.
“You can’t just get it on the way you would do at home. You have to face the camera correctly. It’s work. The guys has to cum on cue. I go home the end of the day and I’m tired. Plus you’re in hair and makeup forever. Fake eyelashes are a pain in the ass.”
Hasson made a good point that if you’re trying to portray an innocent looking girl why would you tart her up to make her look seductive.
According to Conrad, porn makeup doesn’t work for her.
“I have my break out times. I don’t need to have my face caked and need to have everything big and extravagant. It’s going to make me look completely different.”
When she had to do her first young girl scene, she was taken aback because it was so completely different from what she had been used to so far.
“You give me Haines panties and jersey and want me with pom-poms? It was weird going from one thing to the other.”
Her first girl-girl was a little weird as well, she says.
“Then I did a Twistys live show with Taylor Vixen and Elle Alexander and I really enjoyed it. We went all out and it was a blast.”
Conrad mentions that every check she earns goes straight into her savings and she only takes out a portion she absolutely needs.
“I come from a well off family that does not want me doing this, and they beg me to come home. I’m a little nervous for my dad getting this magazine, but I think it’s the best way of telling him because it’s not too harsh.”
For the time being Conrad said she’ll take advantage of the opportunities porn affords her.
Asked if she felt empowered by what she does, Conrad answers, “I am in control of myself. I don’t do anything I don’t want to do.”
Conrad says some girls in the business don’t know how to say no.
“It’s not fair for them to do something they don’t want to do. They don’t look comfortable on camera and I do say no to a lot of things. That’s the way to stay grounded.”
When Conrad first got in, producers wanted her to jump right into certain scenes.
"But my agent did the right thing and I think they’re really pleased with me." Besides, the girl next door appeal is the thing going for Conrad because she’s all natural and doesn’t have tattoos.
Likewise, Conrad doesn’t currently have a boyfriend.
“The girls I see with boyfriends it’s almost like they’ve lost their minds. It’s not that I don’t want one but not now. I’m so busy and don’t have time for that.
"I don’t want it in the beginning of my career. I don’t need a significant other right now. People tell me I’m young. It’s also the control thing. I don’t want to deal with someone who’s telling me don’t do boy-girl. What? You want me to sit in front of a camera and masturbate for three years? It’s not going to happen.”
Conrad tells a funny story about how a girlfriend came to visit her and another friend who’s in the business called her a “civilian”. The civilian girlfriend asked well what are you? “I’m a porn star,” the other girl told her.
Taking perspective of her career, Conrad says what she does is embarrassing in the sense that she’s never had a “real” job.
“I’ve never worked in a grocery store, you know, the jobs you get in high school,” she laughs.
When she meets people Conrad won’t tell them that she’s in porn.
“I tell them I’m a fitness model even though my abs are not as toned as they used to be.
“A lot of girls go ‘I’m a porn star.’ God, why did you say that?”
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