Today in Sex Tape News

As I’ve said, I wouldn’t necessarily encourage any stars to make a sex tape for release to the masses- unless they really, really, really want to show off their sexual skills, there’s no point in doing so. Since I don’t have a direct line to many stars (even Justin Bieber refuses to take my calls), none of the Hollywood elite listen to me about the whole sex tape thang. Today’s news definitely proves the case:

Montana Fishburne, Lawrence Fishburne’s amazingly hot daughter has reportedly pissed off her actor-father  by starring in a porn that was just released. Montana Fishburne works under the name of Chippy D- I don’t know about you, but her working name doesn’t sound all that sexy to me. According to my online sources, Montana said that, “The first time is really nerve-racking.....but I have a lot of at-home experience.”

Meanwhile, Perez Hilton and Company are reporting a rumor that an Eva Mendes sex tape is going to be released on the net tomorrow so please stay tuned for that one.  For a little preview, check out the embedded below that I found- HOT, HOT, HOT, especially if you have a thing for either tape or Eva Mendes, which I’m sure that you do.



Other gossip sites like THIS one are speculating that the hot and heavy sex tape by Kim Kardashian has been a source of inspiration for teens everywhere to make their own sex tapes- the site even linked the Montana Fishburne porno to the Kim Kardashian sex tape for the simple reason that they are both sex-related. Others mentioned as being possibly inspired by the reality star are the supposedly innocent sex tape victims Kendra Wilkinson and Danielle Staub. All I can say is, “You go girls.”  I’m sure that with the distribution of sex tapes being so easy with the Internets and all that we will see many more teen-aged sex tapes to come. However, I think that giving Kim Kardashian all the credit for inspiring the sex tapes is going a bit too far- what do you think?

Are Duct Tape Dresses Tacky or Not?

Duckie from “Pretty in Pink” would have been proud; recently, a young, inventive couple from Arizona won a design competition by creating  a tux and a prom dress completely out of duct tape. Of the 240 entrants from across North America, Ray Banna and Yancy Esquivel received the highest number of Facebook votes for their entry in the DUCK tape brand competition.

After looking through a few of the other entries, I can see why these contestants won- their garb actually looks prom-worthy, which is NOT the case for a majority of the other entries I saw. Maybe it’s just because I’m conservative, maybe it’s just because I have an aversion to paint splatters on my dresses or wings that don’t help you fly anywhere, but Ray Banna’s tux and Yancy Esquivel’s dress definitely took the cake in my opinion. While their clothes would definitely stand out at any formal gathering, the attention they would receive wouldn’t be negative at all.

For the pair's work, which took several hours, each of them received a $3,000.00 scholarship and their school received a $3,000.00 prize as well from the DUCK tape company. Not bad for a little handy-work with scissors and a LOT of creativity. To re-cap, that’s $9,000 for an outfit made with materials that probably cost about $27.99 in a craft store- well done and congratulations.

This couple to the left's fashion left a little to be desired in my opinion. While the boa in hair was unquestionably striking, the retro 80's look didn't quite work out as well as the couple had probably intended. Her dress is better than his tux, but not truthfully by all that much. Better luck next time. I hope they are juniors, so they can try again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, I don't think this couple's outfits  are nearly as tacky as the previous outfit and could have won had their Facebook campaign been just a little bit stronger.

Mitch Miller, R.I.P.

Mitch Miller is dead at 99. All the good people do not die young. All the talented do not go early. The Associated Press reports that Mr. Miller died Saturday in a New York hospital after a short illness.

He wasn't a rock-n-roller. He was pre-rock -n-roll. He was Tony Bennett, Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Mathis kind of music, the popular stuff with ballads, that required orchestras with strings. He was a record executive and sat on top of the world of the popular music in the 1950s and the early 1960s. He was an orchestra leader, with a popular TV show in the early 1960s, which I remember watching. The show was called 'Sing Along With Mitch.'

I remember singing along to the lyrics superimposed on the screen, and following the bouncing ball, as I sung, and imitating him conducting. I wasn't the only one in the family singing along.

He featured Leslie Uggams on his show. She was a young African- American singer of great talent. His advertisers and some of the local stations disapproved, pressured him to drop her. He refused to bow to pressure. He wanted to feature the best talent that he could find..

Mitch Miller, American musician, bandleader, music innovator, R.I.P.

Justin Bieber to Write Book?

Yesterday, Monday, there was an announcement of big news in the publishing world! No, not another undiscovered until now, some lost masterpiece by the likes of Shakespeare, more important than that to pop culture. The sixteen year-old pop sensation, singer Justin Bieber has signed a big money deal with really, big-time book publisher HarperCollins to write a book.

Can he write? If he can sign his name, he can write. And besides the book will be his memoirs, his autobiography. And it's going to be an illustrated book. And all he has to do is to put pictures of himself, smiling, in the book, write a few captions, and go on the Internet and tell his zillions of little girl fans to buy it, and they will, and it will be a best seller, and in the world of publishing that is all that counts. Period.

Everybody knows the title of a Justin Bieber self written book is not important. It will be a big seller, with his name and picture on the cover. But, so one will know what to look for, HarperCollins said in their press release, the book will be titled, "Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story."

Tom Mankiewicz, Screenwriter, R.I..P.

Tom Mankiewicz, a screenwriter died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles after a brief illness, reports today's LA Times. He was 68 years old.

The man was a very important popular writer. He wrote screen plays. Movies are the premier popular medium and movies don't move with writers. His work is in the James Bond films --"Diamonds Are Forever," "Live and Let Die," "The Man With the Golden Gun,." "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker.". His work is in the Superman films: The 1978 film " Superman" and its 1980 sequel. Yes, his work is in the 1976 film "Mother, Jugs & Speed," but even a popular and entertaining writer stumbles now and then.

Director Richard Donner who did the Superman film said of Tom Mankiewicz, "He brought a sense of reality to this comic book world. He created personalities, emotion and life" and gave the characters "a wonderful sense of humor. He did that in just about everything he did."

I remember the rave over the 1978 "Superman" film. Critics wrote that the comics had grown up. In that film, as entertaining as it is, the key characters of Lois Lane and Superman are fully developed. The trend,(which has paid off in big box office dollars), to approach comics as films with three D characters, probably owes a debt to that 1978 film. Think of Batman (1989), The Dark Knight (2008). Think of Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man series,  and what Edward Norton did with "The Incredible Hulk," for a proper appreciation of Mr. Mankiewicz's work.

Thomas Frank Mankiewicz, R.I..P.

Waiting for a Star

Early yesterday morning, Monday, at about 1:35 LA time, Lindsay Lohan, age 24, was let out of jail, for violating probation on a DUI conviction and was taken to rehab, where.she is now required to serve ninety days. Judging by the her fans attention, and just as important, the media attention, the public is waiting for Ms. Lohan. The director of her latest film project is waiting.

The fact is that she has talent that is worth a little patience. She is twenty four years old, which is a young age for a regular person, but for a film actress, a career with demands that provide female actors with a limited time to shine, twenty four is the time when the best female actors begin to shine, when starlets either burst into brilliant stars or flame out and become forgotten.

Ms Lohan deserves a moment of patience, therefore America waits for a star.

Feeling Good Charlie

Charlie Sheen said he was feeling good, moments after he left the court room in Colorado, where Pitkin County District Judge James C. Boyd sentenced him to sentenced to 30 days of drug and alcohol rehabilitation, in a rehab center in Malibu, California, instead of jail time. Charlie plead guilty as charge to assaulting his wife on Christmas Day, last year, in Aspen. He also got 30 days of probation and 36 hours of anger management. He had a good lawyer who worked out a good plea deal with the prosecutors for him. The Associated Press reports, Charlie has up to 30 days to report to rehab in Malibu. And, reports the website TMZ, Charlie will receive credit for time already served in rehab. So once Charlie checks in, he can check out almost immediately.

Charlie is a popular guy. His hit show "Two and a Half Men" on CBS is still going strong in the ratings. The offers to do commercials are as strong as ever. His wife wants to reconcile. Charlie seems to be a likeable guy.

Lady Justice gave Charlie a big break. It isn't unusual for a likeable guy with a good lawyer and a good job to receive breaks from Lady Justice. The repeat offenders are the ones who have the hardest time with Lady Justice.

I like Charlie Sheen. He is a funny comedy star. He is a good actor. He has a funny show, and so I am pleased that his recent legal problems have been resolved.

Video of how a star enters the courthouse for sentencing:

Lady GaGa's Novel Sex Theory

I have never heard of this theory before. Lady Gaga in an interview in "Vanity Fair" magazine's September issue, says she is trying to avoid sex because, "I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me through my vagina," And yes, she is 24-year-old too. And she says that she is she's "perpetually lonely. It's my condition as an artist, I'm quite celibate now."

Well, there it  is. The celibate state is the secret to her success. Celibacy has made her "gaga," or keeps her "gaga."

In the same issue, she confesses her past drug use and tells of how her family, her mom and her grandmother helped her through the crisis to recovery. And referring to her past drug use, she says that she doesn't want her "fans to ever emulate that or be that way. I don't want my fans to think they have to be that way to be great." But as far as her celibacy? Well, the pope is celebrate, isn't he, and he is doing just fine. Isn't he?

Lady GaGa Doing It Her own Way

Lady GaGa did not boycott Arizona. She went to Phoenix, Arizona, to bad mouth, trash talk about the bad, horrible, anti-American and racist law SB1070. Maybe, the Lady went to collect a few duckets for herself and her band too. Anyhow, last Saturday night, before 14,000-plus fans, and with Stop SB 1070" written on her left forearm, she slammed the Arizona's new immigration law, which went into effect last Thursday, minus some of its more odious provisions. Lady GaGa urged her fans to protest SB 1070 and all discriminatory laws. See the video.

Lady GaGa told the crowd, "I got a phone call from a couple really big rock and rollers, big pop stars, big rap artists, and they said, 'We'd like you to boycott Arizona . . . because of SB 1070 (a law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration into the state). I said, 'Do you really think that us dumb (expletive) pop stars are going to collapse the economy of Arizona? We have to be active. We have to protest. . . . I will yell and I will scream louder. I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will peaceably protest this state."

I guess GaGa has to do things in her own way.

Chelsea Clinton Got Married

Little Chelsea Clinton all grown up into a young woman is now an old married lady. She got married yesterday, Saturday evening, to her longtime boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, in Rhinebeck, N.Y., in the manner befitting an American princess, at an exclusive estate along New York's Hudson River. Her family released the photos, which are now all over the Internet. See the video.

Why was the wedding of Chelsea Clinton's an important event? Well, it brought a little bit of bright sunshine. It was a reminder of happier times not so long ago. It was a reminder of a few of the things which are very important: Family -- marriage is the union of families, Romantic love -- marriage is the union of two people. Eye pleasing ritual and ceremony -- people love a ceremony and a nation needs rituals.

Of course, the wedding was Chelsea Clinton's moment, and it was an American moment.

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