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Paul Thomas Anderson has directed five feature films. They have all been rated R. And guess what? "The Master" will be too.The MPAA has come down with the decision, officially bestowing the film an R due to "sexual content, graphic nudity and language." The first two elements may not seem initially like things that would be featured in a film about the founding of a cult/religion/following (or actually, maybe they would) but if you notice in the first teaser (see below or image above), Joaquin Phoenix's character is building a sand castle of a nude woman. And in the footage we saw at Cannes, there is another shot from same sequence where we witness him masturbating (though it's not quite clear) from behind.
Co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, the film, as you know, follows Lancaster Dodd -- clearly modeled on L. Ron Hubbard -- who starts a faith-based organization in the 1950s, and his relationship with Freddie Sutton (Phoenix) who becomes his right-hand man. The film is notable a few things, among them being shot in 65mm (hence the framing of the teaser spots thus far) and apparently upsetting Tom Cruise for suggesting that Scientology (or whatever) is completely a work of fiction.
No word yet on where it might premiere -- Venice and the New York Film Festival seem to be possibilities -- but you won't have to wait too long. "The Master" opens October 12th.
* Here is my nudity report (with 50/50 error on my part) in The Master. Some of the scenes could be edited out or altered for the final version. Shannon Freyer (breasts and ass), Najarra Townsend (brief breasts), Ambyr Childers (ass. Hoped for a full-frontal....) and Amy Adams (brief breasts - no nips? Can't be sure on this one). Jennifer Neala Page (breasts).
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'About Cherry' Poster Premiere: James Franco and Heather Graham Explore the World of Porn
We've heard the story of a small-town girl who moves to the big city and gets involved in the wrong scene, but we're not sure we've heard it told like this before, from the perspective of those who've experienced it. Directed and co-written by former sex worker, Stephen Elliott, About Cherry stars Ashley Hinshaw as Angelina, an 18-year-old girl who escapes her unstable home life in search of new beginnings in San Francisco with her best friend, played by Dev Patel. It's there, though, that she meets Frances (James Franco), a well-off lawyer who's got problems of his own, which eventually leads Angelina -- using the name "Cherry" -- to dabble in the world of porn under the direction of porn star-turned-filmmaker Margaret (Heather Graham).
About Cherry is unique in that it was actually shot in the San Francisco Armory, which is home to the largest adult film studio in the world. About Cherry premieres on VOD on August 9th, and in theaters on September 21st. According to its press materials, it's a film that "challenges common assumptions about pornography, sexuality, and the idea of success in general," and should be an entertaining and somewhat informative watch for any youngster who's currently out in the world trying to find themselves and discover their true identity.
You can check out our exclusive premiere of the film's poster below.
Lizzy Caplan Takes One-Shot at 'Sex'
Like many of you, I was instantly fell under Lizzy Caplan's spell with 2004's Mean Girls -- but what's been exceedingly exciting about her post-Janis Ian (dyke) career is the diversity and unpredictability of ever subsequent role.Her career has jumped from film to television and back again as she flirted with every genre in between. Her latest project, the Marvel one-shot short Item 47, debuts on September's The Avengers Blu-ray DVD and recently premiered at San Diego Comic-Con for a select group of ravenous fans (yours truly included).
After the screening I caught up with Lizzy to find out why she signed on for this 12-minute short, if this means she's now part of The Avengers sequel and what you can expect from her next project, an(other) expectation-shattering hop back in time to investigate human sexuality on Showtime's Masters of Sex!
Insider.com: Well either way, you'll be very busy filming Showtime's new series, Masters of Sex. What excites you about that project?
Lizzy: The process of getting that job was so lengthy and complicated. John Madden directed it and he's this very fancy, amazing guy who did Shakespeare in Love. He really saw me in this part way before I actually saw myself in the role. Typically you're typecast in your comfort zone but this is so far outside that for me. This is a true period piece drama, but when I read the book this show is based on, the character [Virginia Johnson] and I are so alike, so I could really see myself in her. Plus, she's such a pioneer and a total badass. If I can raise awareness for what she did at this strange time in America, then sign me up!
Insider.com: For those who don't know, who is Virginia Johnson?
Lizzy: A lot of people are familiar with Kinsey – they did questionnaires asking people about their sexual preferences, which was ground-breaking at the time. Masters and Johnson were research scientists – well, he was and she pretended to be. They would wire people to electrodes and heart-monitors to watch them masturbate and have sex [in hopes of figuring] out the science of an orgasm. People were adhering to Freudian ideas, which were so masculine and female sexuality was so far in the background. Masters and Johnson, combined with the sexual revolution, gave women power over their own bodies.
Insider.com: What's easier for you -- performing sex scenes or watching other actors perform sex scenes?
Lizzy: I get a weird kick of out shooting sex scenes because they're just so awkward. They're so uncomfortable that the situation makes me laugh. There's something sort of fun about it since you're usually doing it with a good looking co-stars, so, whatever, it's part of the job. I'll take it. So I thought watching other people pretend to have sex would be so easy, but I was so uncomfortable. It was so weird to watch other people because it makes you self-conscious and think about what you look like when you're shooting a sex scene. But I better get used to it because [Masters and Johnson] watched a lot of people do it. I mean, they observed over 10,000 orgasms.
Insider.com: Which is why the show clearly had to be on Showtime.
Lizzy: Yea. It's interesting still how male full frontal nudity is still taboo most of the time. I'm going to really push for Michael Sheen [who plays William Masters] to show his parts on this show. As an actor, you just really admire the bravery of other actors to do that because it's weird not only for them to have to perform in front of a small crew, but to do it in front of other actors watching them. It's ridiculous.
Read the rest here : www.theinsider.com/movies/53997_Lizzy_Caplan_Talks_Item_47_Masters_of_Sex/
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Michelle Jenneke’s Pre-Race Routine Is Delightfully Sensual
Australian runner Michelle Jenneke recently partook in running the the 100m hurdles during the World Junior Championships in Barcelona. Prior to her race the cameras were rolling and captured her pre-race routine which was phenomenal. Words can’t accurately describe the dance she pulled off, but we hope to see it again. The song and slow motion combined already make this a YouTube legend.
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Just how realistic is the S-and-M in 50 Shades of Grey?
A submissive offers her insider view
Are EL James’ books an accurate insight into the S-and-M world? We asked writer and sometime sexual submissive Nichi Hodgson for her insider view
I’m nichi and I'm a 28-year-old journalist, card-carrying feminist, and occasional sexual submissive. If someone had told me 10 years ago that I’d enjoy having my hands tied behind my back or being held down while I had sex, I would have said they were mad.I’ve visited a ‘red room’ (a for-hire dungeon) filled with sex toys, including straps, canes, crops and the violet wand – a Victorian contraption which pulses with a mild electrical current to give you a sensual shock. Personally, I prefer a partner to use their hands to chastise me and find looking up at someone I adore as I anticipate their slap across my cheek unbearably erotic. Things do go wrong occasionally, as is alluded to in Fifty Shades of Grey. I’ve been bitten so hard I’ve bled and had some of my hair pulled out. There are far more sex toys than the book could ever have documented, though. I’ve used everything from nipple leads (clamps with a chain attached so you can be lead about by your ‘master’), studded paddles and even a hog-tie harness (which allows your wrists be tied to your ankles).
The book’s heroine Anastasia Steele’s ineloquent interjections (“holy crap!”) and references to her “inner goddess” make me cringe, but I can easily identify with her unrequited love for domineering businessman Christian Grey, having recently found myself falling for an emotionally unavailable ‘Master’ too. Part of enjoying being a submissive is knowing when the fun is over so, like Anastasia, I ended the relationship.
The book’s broad appeal and success hinge on its clichéd sex scenes, which can easily be ‘coloured in’ to suit any given reader’s particular sexual fantasies. Like all the very best erotica, the book itself is a mere aphrodisiacal aid.
Overall Fifty Shades is a reasonably accurate depiction of the dominant/ submissive dynamic. however, I do have one big criticism of it. I find EL James’ rendering of Christian Grey as a victim of adolescent sexual abuse troubling. there are thousands of perfectly well-adjusted members of the BDSM community who simply enjoy kinky sex, with absolutely no underlying neurosis necessary. Submission is all about temporarily relinquishing control in exchange for a sexual high. that’s why so many socially empowered, sexually confident women enjoy it so much.
It’s high time the worlds of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission got the positive publicity they deserve. So here’s to Fifty Shades of Grey, and many more novels like it.
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Laws help protect online harassers
In the summer of 2009, Carla Franklin landed on a Facebook page created under her name.
She was shocked to see her own image staring back, a swimsuit photo from her earlier days as a model.Worse yet, Franklin also found a YouTube channel dedicated to her, featuring a student film she had acted in years before. The page labeled her a prostitute and listed her contact information.
Franklin immediately suspected that the cyber bully posting the material was a man she went on a few dates with three years earlier. But it took months to get the companies to remove the content and a court order to force Google to provide the information necessary to link him to the posts. Three years later, she's still in the process of completing the case.
Franklin's experience highlights the long legal battle in store for most people seeking to unmask online harassers, and remove intimate, hateful or defamatory material from the Internet. It also underscores the tension between the rights of harassment victims and the rights of websites, which were granted broad immunity from the actions of their users through legislation that protects free expression online.
These challenges and frictions will be the subject of a panel discussion Wednesday night in San Francisco, during a fundraiser for Without My Consent, a nonprofit that helps to educate harassment victims and their attorneys on legal options. (Full disclosure: I will be moderating that discussion.)
Franklin, who now acts as an advocate on these issues, will appear on the panel, along with experts from Twitter, Reputation.com, the California attorney general's office and elsewhere.
Traumatic results
The exact scope of online harassment is unknown, but it's clearly widespread.University of Maryland law Professor Danielle Citron noted in a recent blog post that the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that "850,000 people in 2006 experienced stalking with a significant online component," while other researchers predict that 30 percent of Internet users will "face some form of cyber harassment in their lives."
It can take many forms, including hate speech, threats of rape and sexual violence, and posting of nude or doctored images. The threat of uploading intimate pictures and videos is sometimes used to blackmail victims for sex or money.
The results can be traumatic and tragic, as exemplified by the case of Tyler Clementi. In 2010, the 18-year-old Rutgers student killed himself after his roommate hid a webcam in their room and streamed video online of his sexual encounter with another man. Between the Communications Decency Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, online companies enjoy broad protection from legal liability for the content created or posted by users, be it copyrighted or defamatory.
These laws basically ensure that companies like Craigslist, Twitter and Facebook can host open forums where people can freely trade ideas and goods. But they also mean that victims of legitimate harassment face a gauntlet of challenges in getting material removed and identifying those responsible.
Costly litigation
It costs at least $10,000 in legal fees to issue a subpoena to an online company demanding the IP address that links a real person to an uploaded file, said Colette Vogele, co-founder of Without My Consent. It costs thousands more to file a lawsuit against the perpetrator.Depending on the facts of the case and the state involved, the victim might be able to sue the person for defamation, publication of private facts, breach of confidence and other claims. Some acts can rise to the level of criminal offenses, including stalking and extortion.
There are risks in filing a lawsuit, however, as Franklin learned all too well. After she sued Google, she found her name and the details of her case splashed in the New York Post and New York Daily News, which dubbed the Duke and Columbia graduate a "brainy ex-model." Bloggers and commenters were far nastier.
Victim advocates like Vogele argue it should be much easier for victims to pursue remedies. Among other things, they believe more of the offenses should be considered crimes, it should be simpler to sue under a pseudonym, and courts should demand greater cooperation from websites.
"Courts can apply (the Communications Decency Act) in a less overzealous way," Vogele said. "We need to apply it in a way that doesn't protect speech that is harmful."
Protecting speech
On that question, however, many free speech advocates disagree. It should be difficult to unmask anonymous commenters and remove online material because those hurdles protect free speech, said Matt Zimmerman, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.If sites were required to respond to harassment claims that hadn't been evaluated by a judge, many would simply remove material by rote. They wouldn't spend the time and money to determine whether someone was legitimately harassed or just meanly criticized, nor would they be particularly qualified to make that call.
Current law "protects channels of speech but still allows people to pursue claims against the bad actors," Zimmerman said. "Yes, it costs you something to pursue your claims, but that's the social deal we've made."
As it is, some courts have applied too lenient a standard in certain cases, he and others say. Notably, in 2009, a New York judge required Google to reveal the name of an anonymous blogger who had called model Liskula Cohen a "skank" and "ho."
Here the critical question becomes: Is labeling someone a "ho" equivalent to describing someone as a prostitute - a factual claim that could be libelous if false - or is it, in common use, a generic criticism?
Or to paraphrase Zimmerman: Would a reasonable reader of the blog go away thinking, "Wow, I didn't realize Cohen had sex for money," or would they assume it was a crudely stated personal opinion?
As much as the blogger's actions were distasteful, the courts shouldn't serve as a "tax-subsidized private investigator" for celebrities, politicians or anyone else who wants to out and silence their critics, he said.
'I try to forget'
On the other hand, it's difficult to feel the law has struck the entirely correct balance when you hear a story like J's. The California woman (who didn't want her name used) made one mistake a decade ago that continues to haunt her.She agreed to make a sex tape with her boyfriend at the time, with the understanding that it would be kept private. Instead, years after they broke up, it appeared online, edited to look like the debut film of a porn actress. Her real name was used.
With Vogele's help, J sued the man, winning monetary damages along with a requirement that he assist in the ongoing removal of the video and pictures online.
But the legal effort took years and the images had spread so widely by then that they continue to resurface. Her husband regularly searches for new appearances and sends take-down requests to sites. J, who has been contacted by strangers who have viewed the video, continues to screen calls and avoid social media.
"I try to forget, I try to pretend it never happened, but I know it will always be there," she said. "It's a nightmare that will always keep following me."
James Temple is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist.
