Hey San Franciscans! Do you like smut? Of course you do, you’re reading the Mr. Skin blog. Well, you’re in luck, because the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is giving the art of skinema some artsy-fartsy “credibility” with its new nude series, Smut Capital of America: San Francisco’s Sex Cinema Revolution . The series celebrates San Francisco’s role as the first city in the United States to effectively legalize pornography in the late 60’s, as documented in filmmaker Michael Stabile ‘s as-yet unfinished documentary Smut Capital of America . San Francisco being San Francisco, there are some sausage-on-sausage skinema screenings that most Mr. Skin fans will probably want to skip, but for the connoisseur of cooch there’s still a variety of vaginal delights to be had: On July 21 at 7:30, Yerba Buena will be screening Pornography in Denmark , a 1969 film that sexplores the then-taboo topic of pornography by showing dozens of Danish girls (Denmark was the first country to decriminalize pornography) doinking dudes and snacking on each others’ Scandinavian snatches. Then on August 25 at 7:30, Yerba Buena will be screening Resurrection of Eve (1973), a classic sexample of ’70s smut starring Behind the Green Door ‘s Marilyn Chambers as a woman who discovers the joy of orgies after a serious car accident. Marilyn is xxx-plosive in this film, considered one of the best by legendary porn purveyors The Mitchell Brothers. So if you find yourself in the City by the Bay this summer, stroll on down to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and slap your sausage in style with these all-time classics of the skinema. Just wait until after the screening, wouldja?
One really good thing about watching NBA , NFL and MLB games live is that you can get that close not only to the sports action, but to another kind of action as well: the dancing girls. Yes, cheerleaders have become as indispensable in professional sports as the players themselves. Without them, every single professional sports game would be nothing more than a sausagefest, and the guys, which make up the bulk of professional sports fans, wouldn’t like that very much, would they? Almost every single pro sports team has its own group of cheerleaders. Over the years, a number of its members have gone on to become famous. Some of the ten listed below have become familiar faces, while some are outright household names. 1. Paula Abdul She is without doubt the most successful former professional sports cheerleader of all time. Before she sold more than 50 million albums despite being not much of a singer , and sat as the mumbling and perpetually drunk/stoned judge of American Idol for eight seasons, she was a Laker Girl , and was even its head choreographer for years. 2. Teri Hatcher If you’ve wondering where Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher got those moves she does in Tango and Cash , here’s your answer: She was a member of the San Francisco 49ers cheering squad. Before that, she shook her pom-poms for her high school, and was even named most likely to become a Solid Gold Dancer . She didn’t of course, but instead became a solid gold TV star. 3. Sarah Shahi Amid a disappointing season, Sarah Shahi gave Dallas Cowboys fans something to cheer about. From 1999-2000, she was a member of the D allas Cowboys Cheerleaders , arguably the best known of all NFL cheerleading squads. She appeared on the cover of the DCC’s calendar before moving to Hollywood, where she eventually became one of the most beautiful faces on television today. She starred in the now-defunct NBC drama series Life , and is currently playing the lead in Fairly Legal , a legal drama airing on the USA Network. 4. Charisma Carpenter Before she made jaws drop as Sunnydale High’s resident shallow cheerleader Cordelia Chase in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Charisma Carpenter was a cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers in 1991, just before she moved to Los Angeles to embark on a Hollywood career. 5. Trista Sutter Trista Sutter holds some sort of record in the history of reality TV for starring in the first seasons of both The Bachelor and its companion show, The Bachelorette . Known as Trista Rehn then, she was one of the final two contestants of the former, while she was chosen as the star of the latter. In both shows, it was very apparent that she had one hot body, obviously honed by her stint as a Miami Heat Dancer . Her televised wedding to The Bachelorette winner Ryan Sutter drew more than 26 million viewers, one of the biggest audiences for a reality TV show. 6. Stacy Keibler Pro wrestling fans have long worshipped Stacy Keibler for her unusually long legs. Pro football fans from Baltimore, however, have had first crack at those lovely gams as she pepped them up as a member of the Baltimore Ravens Cheerleaders . 7. Kiana Tom Former Oakland Raiderette Kiana Tom became famous for her ESPN fitness series, Kiana’s Flex Appeal . She continued to build on her reputation as a fitness guru by starring in other ESPN produced shows Kiana’s Too Fit 2 Quit, Summer Sizzle with Kiana & Hot Summer Nights with Kiana . She is also an actress, starring alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in Universal Soldier: The Return . 8. Kristin Adams Yet another Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader makes this list in the person of Kristin Adams née Holt. Her first shot at fame was in the first season of American Idol , where she was a semi-finalist. She later became a correspondent for the show, a job which would prove to be quite useful in her future endeavors. She blossomed into a good host, and G4 TV wasted no time in hiring her as host of Cheat! , a show where video game cheats and strategies are featured and discussed. She also currently co-hosts the USA Network show Character Fantasy . 9. Lisa Guerrero Back when Los Angeles had two professional football teams, Lisa Guerrero was a cheerleader for the LA Rams , before the franchise moved to St. Louis. Currently one of the top sportscasters in the United States, she is most famous for her stint on The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports. She’s also an actress, appearing in movies such as Batman Returns and Fire Down Below . 10. Bonnie-Jill Laflin Bonnie-Jill Laflin was a cheerleader not just for one team of one sport, but for three different teams of two different sports. Before she became the NBA’s hottest, first ever and only female scout working for the Los Angeles Lakers front office, she was a cheerleader for the Golden State Warriors , the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys . Aside from currently holding a top position in one of professional sports’ most legendary franchises, she is also an actress, model and soon-to-be reality star, with a reality show based on her successful career in the male-dominated world of professional sports. Image Sources SuperiorPics NBA KianaVlog BeyondHollywood ManCaveSports BlackDcc Related Posts: Top 10 Former ’90s Child Stars Gone Naked 10 Celebrity Virgins – Or So They Claim To Be 20 of the Prettiest Women in Porn Today 10 Zombie Jesus Tattoos 10 Things LeBron James Can Do To Lessen The Hate
‘Rejoice New York,’ Lady Gaga tweeted. ‘We did it!’ By Benjamin Wagner Members of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network join Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV VMAs Photo: Getty Images The Twitterverse was ablaze with every color of the rainbow Friday night as New York state became the sixth and most populous in the U.S. to allow gay marriage. With the bill, which passed 33 to 29 in the State Senate in Albany, the Empire State joins Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa and Washington D.C. in recognizing gay marriage in the United States. The timing was fortuitous as New Yorkers observe Pride Week, a celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community. Lady Gaga , whose LGBT advocacy has manifest well beyond her songwriting at speeches, rallies and appearances from San Francisco Pride in 2009 to the National Equality March in 2010, and the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, wasted no time making her pride known. “Rejoice New York, and propose. We did it!” she Tweeted. “The revolution is ours to fight for love, justice + equality.” “CONGRATULATIONS!” Punk-pop provocateur Pink shouted. “ABOUT TIME!” Outspoken, plainclothes talk show hostess Ellen DeGeneres was thrilled about the news. “Every day we get a little closer,” she Tweeted. “What an amazing feeling.” “Progress!” Neil Patrick Harris said. “A historic night!” “Tonight we’re all New Yorkers!” comedienne Kathy Griffin Tweeted. “Straight and gay alike, let’s all celebrate marriage #equality.” MTV’s own ” My Life As Liz ” star, Liz Lee — a recent Manhattan transplant — weighed in, saying simply “Proud to be a resident of NYC!” “The rights u take for granted are only valid if u fight to give those same rights to others,” Tweeted Russell Simmons “Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.” wrote John Legend. “New York believes in EQUALITY!! Hopefully California and the rest of the U.S. will follow! Wish I was in NYC right now!” said Perez Hilton. Others couldn’t wait to propose, taking to social media to state their love. “Wanna get married, @bravoandy?” ‘NSYNC’s Lance Bass asked Bravo’s Andy Cohen. What’s your reaction to New York’s passage of marriage equality legislation? Sound off in the comments below! Related Artists Lady Gaga P!nk
‘I’m glad that he went on because O’Reilly just calls out rappers a lot,’ one music journo tells MTV News of the outspoken MC’s Fox News appearance. By Rob Markman Lupe Fiasco on “The O’Reilly Factor” Photo: FOX Lupe Fiasco won’t back down. After he labeled U.S. President Barak Obama a “terrorist” and questioned U.S. foreign policy, the Chicago rapper appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday to duke it out with conservative political pundit Bill O’Reilly. Though it was thoroughly hyped before its broadcast, the five-and-a-half-minute pre-taped debate was a bit of a letdown for Rap Radar’s digital content director, Brian “B. Dot” Miller. “The thing is it wasn’t live; Lupe probably said a whole lot of things that were edited,” Miller said. “But the points that were expressed, I felt like he had a good argument. I wish it could’ve gone on a little bit longer, but that’s the power of TV.” Adam Fleischer, XXL magazine’s music editor, also agreed that the way the debate was edited detracted from the end result. “I’m glad that he went on because O’Reilly just calls out rappers a lot, [and] then they don’t usually get a chance to speak for themselves,” he said. “[But] I would like to see the whole interview because it was so clear that things were chopped up. They were switching from clip to clip.” Vibe magazine Senior Editor Clover Hope, on the other hand, didn’t mind the segments, though she, too, is interested in seeing what was left on the cutting-room floor. “I didn’t really notice [the editing] too much. I wish they would’ve pointed it to the Web though,” she said. After Lupe made those controversial comments about Obama and declined the TV host’s initial invitation to appear on his Fox show, ‘O’Reilly called the rapper a “pinhead.” But last night Lupe stood strong, clarifying, then defending his position. “The statement that I made, which was, ‘I believe that the biggest terrorist, Obama and the United States of America and its foreign policy, that was what the whole context of everything was,” Lupe pointed out on the show. “And it’s really just an expression of me trying to understand critically, the society.” O’Reilly, who is often critical of the president, came to Obama’s defense, saying that Lupe’s fans aren’t “exactly political science PHDs,” but rather “impressionable kids.” O’Reilly added that the responsibility of the president is to protect the country and that Obama was doing that through “aggressive action.” Both agreed that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a legitimate action. Fiasco went on to assert that the aim of the war in Afghanistan was to go in and find Bin Laden, which O’Reilly then charged was in effect an oversimplification of the war. “I thought he actually did a good job of holding his own and clarifying that point that he just wasn’t talking about Obama, just America as an institution,” Hope said about Lupe’s overall performance. “I just think it’s too complicated to reduce it to ‘Lupe thinks Obama is a terrorist.’ ” The debate wrapped on a light-hearted note when O’Reilly and Lupe joked about changing the show’s name to “The Fiasco Factor.” “I don’t think one necessarily got the best of the other,” Fleischer said. “O’Reilly had home-court advantage so he kind of controls the narrative, but Lupe held his own.” “I don’t think anybody necessarily won that debate,” Hope agreed. “They kind of both talked.” What did you think of Lupe’s performance on the Fox News show? Sound off in the comments! Related Artists Lupe Fiasco
From sewage-diving to corn-sledding, the late star’s antics were sure to make viewers laugh and gasp. By Gil Kaufman Ryan Dunn in “Fisherman’s Wharf” on “Jackass” Photo: MTV He was one of the less outspoken members of the “Jackass” crew, but late, bearded prankster Ryan Dunn made up in destruction and indelible stunts what he lacked in loudmouth bravado. The 34-year-old skateboarder, who died in an early morning car crash on Monday in Pennsylvania, stood his ground alongside such fellow daredevils as Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and Steve-O in the “Jackass” TV show and movies, as well as on his 2005 MTV anti-home-improvement show “Homewreckers,” the Margera-led spin-offs “Viva La Bam” and “Bam’s Unholy Union,” and his recently launched G4 show, “Proving Ground.” While some of the “Jackass” crew were known for placing themselves in front of paintball firing squads, walking on giant stilts off diving platforms or staging elaborate pranks on passersby, Dunn’s “specialty” was riding BMX bikes into muddy creeks, getting slathered with nasty fish and human excrement and being dragged behind four-wheelers on all the wrong sleds. In memory of Dunn, we decided to take a look back at some of his most memorable TV moments. (Head over to the Movies Blog for highlights from Dunn’s “Jackass” movie career .) “Poo Dive” When MTV News sat down with the crew last fall, the “Jackass” stars agreed that one of their all-time favorite stunts was Dunn’s first one for the original TV show, in which he dove into a tank of sewage. “I loved when [Bam Margera] made Ryan jump into the poo factory, the ‘Poo Dive’ I think we called it,” creator Jeff Tremaine said. ” ‘Cause that was horrible, but the best part was … revealing his tattoos that we didn’t know about. That was the first time we ever met Ryan.” Dunn made his infamous dive while wearing just tighty whities that were duct taped onto his body and a snorkel. Though pal Bam Margera was grossed out by the floaters, Dunn called the dive, “exhilarating … my skin is silky smooth!” See photos of Ryan Dunn throughout his career. “Why do I always do the jobs that make me smell real bad?” Dunn lamented as he agreed to dive into 32-degree water in San Francisco. After being tossed into a giant vat of sardines while wearing a black peacoat and fisherman’s cap, Dunn emerged covered in slime, only to sit in an empty tank and get covered in sardine juice and a torrent of tiny fish. “Snake River BMX” Among Ryan’s best bike gags on “Jackass” was the one when he tried to ride a crappy banana-seat bike up a ramshackle ramp and over a freezing, boggy creek. He never got close to hitting the landing ramp on the other side and eventually the cops arrived to break up the party. “Corn Sledding” Ryan looked supremely confident as he was pulled by a four-wheeler on a plastic sled through a cornfield at high speeds on “Jackass.” He was impressively able to hang on for long periods and even got a bit patriotic when he was handed an American flag to wave on his ride. He finally bailed after being pulled over a hill and smashing his tailbone. Remember Ryan Dunn with us on our Facebook page. “Ice Barrel Jumping” Dunn donned a blue unitard and matching crash helmet for a “Jackass”-staged barrel jumping competition against Big Brother magazine editor in chief Dave Carnie. He made it pretty easily over two barrels but got racked hard when the tally was upped to five. While Carnie easily cleared the hurdles, Dunn repeatedly landed on the cold, hard ice, eventually getting smashed over the head with a metal pail by Carnie. “Office Chairs” Wearing his best regular-guy drag (a lame suit and tie and nerdy eyeglasses), Dunn rode an office chair down a skate ramp in a joust with fellow “Jackass” and CKY regular Brandon DiCamillo. The pals smashed into each other in spectacular fashion over and over. Dunn later tried the trick while sitting behind a desk complete with computer and monitor. “Hot Dog BMX” Again taking his chances on a skate ramp, Dunn donned a hot dog suit and rode his BMX bike down into a spectacular crash. In true “Jackass” fashion, as he lays prone, a crew member runs up and squirts mustard in his mouth and all over his face. Do you have a favorite Ryan Dunn stunt? Let us know or share your thoughts in comments below. Related Videos Remembering Ryan Dunn Related Photos Ryan Dunn: A Career In Photos
Faced with the fact that the Smart Grid will track every aspect of your life including your TV and Internet Usage, combined with the knowledge that the Obama Administration supports Smart Grid deployment to the fullest, it shouldn’t be a surprise to you then that a Resistance movement to the Smart Grid has taken shape. According to StopSmartMeters.org, a woman is so against the deployment of the Smart… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : P/Oed Patriot Discovery Date : 19/06/2011 16:08 Number of articles : 2
Gabrielle Giffords has taken a major step on her path to a full recovery. The Arizona Congresswoman, who was shot in the head by a crazed gunman in January, was released from a hospital in Houston yesterday. She will soon begin outpatient care. “We are very excited that she has reached the next phase of her rehabilitation,” said Dr. Gerard Francisco, the hospital’s chief medical officer, who will continue to supervise Giffords. Giffords’s also spoke out, referring to his wife’s time at TIRR Memorial Hermann and her road to come. “Gabby gives her all to everything she does, and that’s exactly what she’s been doing at TIRR since January 26,” said Navy Capt. Mark Kelly. “The remarkable progress she has made since then is a testament to both her single-minded determination to get better and the team of medical professionals overseeing her care.” Earlier in the week, Giffords released a pair of photos to her Facebook page . They were taken last month and show the progress made by this brave politician. A country is rooting for her.
Another Saturday , another Cameron Crowe-provided picture from the set of We Bought a Zoo . This weekend, the Twitter happy director offers a look at Super 8 star Elle Fanning laughing with Patrick Fugit. Perhaps Dakota’s little (and more talented?) sister just then realized that she’s gotten to work with Crowe, J.J. Abrams, Sofia Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, and David Fincher thus far in her career, and reacted with sheer joy? Or maybe Fugit told a dirty joke. Either way. Click through for a look.
San Francisco startup Rapportive already offers a lightweight way to bring social data into Gmail. And starting today, it will also give users a way to act on that data — specifically, by allowing them to follow, reply to, and retweet other people on Twitter. This may sound like a straightforward feature addition, but it helps make Rapportive a more active experience. Yes, social email products provide… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : VentureBeat Discovery Date : 10/06/2011 19:15 Number of articles : 2
J.J. Abrams’ film is an antidote to the ’emotional-vitamin deficiency’ brought on by ‘low-cal’ superhero sequels, one critic writes. By Eric Ditzian Description: Joel Courtney, Ryan Lee and Riley Griffiths in “Super 8” Photo: Paramount From the Spielbergian nostalgia factor to the first-rate performances of a group of largely unknown young actors to the ultra-satisfying reveal of the monster, we’ve got plenty of reasons you should check out “Super 8” this weekend. But we’re not alone in our full-throated support of director J.J. Abrams’ ode to ’70s-era adolescence and alien invasion flicks. Based on a wholly original idea (a true rarity in an era of iconic superheroes, wizards and alien bots) and with no A-list talent in front of the camera, “Super 8” has nonetheless been nabbing overwhelmingly positive reviews and is expected to earn around $35 million over the weekend. While some critics have suggested the film’s ultimate mystery remains disappointing when finally revealed, far more have been raving about the flick’s throwback vibe, efficient storytelling, and satisfying emotional and cinematic similarity to movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Read on for a deep dive into “Super 8″ reviews. The Story ” “Super 8” centers on Joe (Joel Courtney), a middle-schooler who has lost his mom and is spending his summer helping his chum Charles (Riley Griffiths) make a zombie movie. Shooting surreptitiously one night at a train station, the kids witness a horrific accident that opens a mystery involving a science teacher, an Air Force investigation, Joe’s policeman dad (Kyle Chandler) and … something out there in the night. There are harum-scarum jokes aplenty, lots of Spielbergian camera work, a cute girl to woo (Elle Fanning), and some broken psyches in need of repair. Is it as powerful as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” or “E. T.”? Not quite, no. But it’s spirited and funny and deeply entertaining, a summer movie for kids who think like adults and adults who feel like kids.” — Shawn Levy, The Oregonian The Performances “The pacing is superb, quick and agile without being frenzied, and the special effects are jaw-dropping. Abrams gets excellent performances from his young cast, not only from his leads — Elle Fanning, as the pretty girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Joel Courtney, as a sensitive boy who has lost his mother — but from the supporting players. For example, Riley Griffiths tears ferociously into the role of the boy director, as a kind of eighth-grade Orson Welles. There are also two wounded fathers, well played: Kyle Chandler plays the town’s deputy for all he’s worth, and Ron Eldard, looking like a slimmed-down Gerard Depardieu, plays Fanning’s confused father.” — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle The Comparisons “There’s a thin line, though, between honoring what came before you and replicating it, and ‘Super 8’ occasionally wobbles over that line into predictability. Nor is Abrams quite sure what to make of his monster. Is it friend or foe? Can a movie split the difference and still hold on to our sympathies? Toward the end, you feel the filmmaking cutting corners, rushing past story points and shortchanging characters to get to the finale, which itself lacks the pop immensity of a movie like ‘Close Encounters’ even as it imitates it. ‘Super 8’ is a curious thing indeed: A good movie that makes you want to go home and re-watch a great one.” — Ty Burr, Boston Globe The Mystery “Just what and who the monster is, forms the central question of ‘Super 8.’ But despite Abrams’ best efforts to ratchet up the tension, the mystery never takes compelling hold, a weakness that becomes especially clear in the movie’s anti-climax of an ending. At that point, the already thin story gets wrapped up so neatly that viewers will scarcely have time to process its plot holes. (What were those little white boxes for, anyway?)” — Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post The Final Word “How have we survived for so long on such a meager, high-cal, low-nutrition diet of processed summertime superhero sequels? ‘Super 8’ is an antidote to that emotional-vitamin deficiency. It’s also a great specimen of original storytelling grounded in a sophisticated respect for storytellers who have come before. Writer/director J.J. Abrams has described his movie as a love letter to the kind of Super 8 monsters-and-chases stuff he made as a boy, which were influenced by the ‘Raiders’/ ‘Close Encounters’ sagas of Steven Spielberg, who himself made 8mm monsters-and-chases stuff as a boy. (Spielberg is a ‘Super 8 producer.’) The loop works beautifully.” — Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly Check out everything we’ve got on “Super 8.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Super 8’ Related Photos Tom Cruise, Elle Fanning, More At ‘Super 8’ Premiere
