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What Happens in Vegas: Almost As Bad As Ashton's Acting Skills
What Happens in Vegas is one of those movies that has no appeal to anyone who is emotionally or chronologically over the age of 16. (And even 16-year-olds may be too mature for it.) For starters, the wannabe-Apatow flick is set in Las Vegas, that overused land of glitz that holds a mystery of sin and drunken fun for frat boys. Plus, particle-board actor Ashton Kutcher and guffawing goof Cameron Diaz are not exactly two stars who send us running to the multiplex. Then there's the plot: Jack (Kutcher), a Brooklyn slacker and Joy (Diaz), a shrewy Wall Street something-or-other, meet in Vegas and get hitched during a drunken blitz. They are ordered to remain married for 6 months by a judge and battle-of-the-sexes comedy hijinks ensue. It might not be a total disaster (it's probably no worse than Made of Honor), but why do they have to drag Rob Corrdery into it? He deserves better! The unanimously bad reviews after the jump.More »
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Oprah Makes Oz A Star; Girl Gangs In Central America; Why Men Are Idiots
Ed Note: We hear about and see so many stories that we can't find the time to comment on that we're gonna try something new: "Leftovers", a daily "accounting" of the stuff we had to leave behind. Let us know if you like it, and, obviously, feel free to click through on the stories and flesh them out for everybody.
• Oprah sells her old designer clothes to crazy fans. • Oprah to create a "Dr. Oz" TV show. • Central American girls flee abusive homes to join machista street gangs. • Cat poop coffee goes for £50 a cup at Sloane Square, London. • British man can't gain weight, hopes to "cure obesity." • Delude yourself into losing weight! • Miss World contestants have to prove that they actually care about helping people. • Woman photographs endearingly eccentric prostitutes in Las Vegas. • New book claims biological reasons for women becoming flustered and men being idiots. • A 42-year-old woman claims to having been forced to have sex with teens by her lover. • Baby Couture, a new magazine, shills for Prada Kids and makes a play-on-words with "flip-flops." • A man in Louisiana was denied a request to wear a short skirt in public. • Large-breasted gals told ill-fitting bras may be the root of their back pain.
Burning Love
Today on New York Public Radio, Leonard Lopate interviewed Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children, a novel set in Nevada — both the suburbs and the "sleazy Vegas sex industry." Questioned Lopate: "Some of the details (in the book) can be rather stomach-turning, like the stripper who has her nipples surgically hollowed out so she can fill them with wax and light them like candles. Does that really happen?" Answered Bock: "It does happen. And in fact, in the time that I wrote the book where it went from an idea of my imagination to now, that actually is an act that occurs and not just in Vegas, but all over. It's a not common but not infrequent trick that some strippers do do." WTF. Has anyone ever heard of this? You can hear the exchange at around 9 minutes, 50 seconds into the interview. [WNYC]
Today on New York Public Radio, Leonard Lopate interviewed Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children, a novel set in Nevada — both the suburbs and the "sleazy Vegas sex industry." Questioned Lopate: "Some of the details (in the book) can be rather stomach-turning, like the stripper who has her nipples surgically hollowed out so she can fill them with wax and light them like candles. Does that really happen?" Answered Bock: "It does happen. And in fact, in the time that I wrote the book where it went from an idea of my imagination to now, that actually is an act that occurs and not just in Vegas, but all over. It's a not common but not infrequent trick that some strippers do do." WTF. Has anyone ever heard of this? You can hear the exchange at around 9 minutes, 50 seconds into the interview. [WNYC]
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This Week We Talked Queefs, Menses and Implants. You Know, The Ussh
- Tyra Banks is taken seriously enough by this country to host Presidential candidates.
- But Anna Wintour is not! Also, Tyra would totally win in a cage match.
- A photo agency posted pictures of Britney's menses, and we wondered if the paparazzi have gone too far.
- They've gone so far that non-celebrities like Heidi Montag grace the covers of multiple magazines, talking about her boob job.
- Then we got you to tell us about your implants, which were 10 times more interesting than Heidi's.
- But still not as entertaining as Slut Machine's queefs.
- Or her long weekend in Vegas!
- Or Judy Blume's awesome book containing a ton of embarrassing erections, Then Again, Maybe I Won't.
- You know what was also entertaining? When Diane Keaton said the F-word on national television.
- So grab some Rachael Ray endorsed Dunkin' Donuts coffee, crack open a bag of dainty 100 calorie snacks, and go watch the darling Katie Heigl in the resoundingly shitty 27 Dresses. You're worth it!
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The AVN Convention & Awards: I Came, I Saw, & I Came Some More
[The following is not necessarily safe for work...or eyeballs (it's epic, but well worth it). -Ed.]
I got back from Vegas on Sunday in the middle of the night. Since my last Vegas diary, I'd gone to the Fleshbot/Vivid Alt party, inhaled some substances, almost got married, played penny slots till dawn, went back to the Expo, attended the AVN Awards, got in a scuffle outside a fetish after-party, met two former Rock of Love contestants, got very drunk on red wine alone at Circle Bar in the Venetian, made out again at Grand Lux Cafe (apparently I love to love in that place), severely bruised my hips on the marble counter of my hotel room bathroom while getting pounded from behind, and then managed to catch my flight back home the next day, even though I was way late leaving for the airport. I think in those few days, I managed to sleep maybe five hours. Monday was the first time in days that I'd been stationary for an extended period of time, and really, it felt like I'd been hit by a car...and then had an episiotomy. More »
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Fear And Clothing In Las Vegas
In case you didn't know, I attended the Adult Entertainment Expo and AVN Awards in Las Vegas this past week. (You can check out the live blog I did of the actual awards show on Fleshbot.) And oh, the things I saw! There was no nudity allowed on the convention floor, and thank Jebus, because it was way more entertaining seeing what these people were actually wearing. Check out the gallery by clicking on any of the images below to see some of my favorite looks. And stay tuned today for more on what happened in at the Expo and parties this weekend, my report on the latest in sex toys, and an interview with Tristan Taormino. What happens in Vegas gets blogged about on Jezebel!
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Last Night I Boned An AVN Award Nominee
Yesterday was awesome, but last night I finally got to go to some parties. First was the Village Voice/Babeland party in a suite at the Venetian, and then a house party out in the desert somewhere, that promised to be a "stripper sideshow sex party." There was definitely a sideshow (more about that, and the dude on the left in a bit), but there were no strippers, and from what I could tell, no sex. Well, except for me fluffing this kid in the bathroom so that I could measure his peen with The Final Say. But we sorta got carried away and forgot all about that thing. My goal for the evening was to bang a porn star, and unfortch, that didn't happen. But this dude has an AVN Award nomination for Best Song in a Film (or whatever the formal title is), so I guess that's kinda close enough, for now. He ended up coming back to my hotel room with me, and lots of stuff went down...or up...or in and out. Whatever — let's start at the beginning... More »
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You Never Forget Your First Time: My Day At The Adult Entertainment Expo
Please know that from here on out, most links will be NSFW, as are the images after the jump.
So, I arrived in Vegas last night for the Adult Entertainment Expo taking place this week, and the AVN Adult Movie Awards on Saturday night. It's my first time attending the convention and the awards — I'm still a virgin at something! — and Jonno from Jezebel brother site Fleshbot has been showing me the ropes. Today we worked the floor of the convention, which is full of booths of porn production companies and sex toy companies, and introduced me to a bunch of industry people he knows, so it sorta felt like this was my debut and I'm like a porn society deb or something. I've been keeping my pants on — so far. It's still light out here, and tonight is my first party and opportunity to meet some porno dudes, so things will probably change rapidly within the next few hours. (Fingers crossed, legs open!) However, I've already seen tons of stuff on the biz side of things today. More »
Porn Ultimatums
Ladies: Slut Machine here. I'm headed off to Las Vegas in a few hours, where I'll be attending the Adult Entertainment Expo and the AVN Awards (aka the Oscars of the porn industry; luckily there are no striking writers to worry about!). I'll be posting from there, and plan on getting you all the scoop on new sex toys, what porn stars are really like in person, and what kind of B-list celebs actually show up for this thing. I also have some fun surprises up my sleeve, so stay tuned to find out. Wish me luck! (Not for the casino, but for the bedroom...or bathroom stall, or back of the limo, or whatever.)
Ladies: Slut Machine here. I'm headed off to Las Vegas in a few hours, where I'll be attending the Adult Entertainment Expo and the AVN Awards (aka the Oscars of the porn industry; luckily there are no striking writers to worry about!). I'll be posting from there, and plan on getting you all the scoop on new sex toys, what porn stars are really like in person, and what kind of B-list celebs actually show up for this thing. I also have some fun surprises up my sleeve, so stay tuned to find out. Wish me luck! (Not for the casino, but for the bedroom...or bathroom stall, or back of the limo, or whatever.)
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Celine Dion: The Show Has Ended, The Fans Live On
Last night was Celine Dion's last-ever show at Caesars Palace and, believe it or not, some of us actually care. More to the point: We care about understanding the psyches of those crazed Celine Dion fans. Though while we think of Celine as a sort of Quebecois sideshow attraction, others think she is God. One such person is M J Wylie, a 49-year old woman from Denver, CO who took special care in preparing for last night's performance (her 62nd). Not only did she attend in black-tie attire, but she also wore a pendant bearing the show's logo, and carried a Judith Leiber clutch bearing the show's logo (not to mention her own body, on which the show's logo is also tattooed). More »
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