Hulk v Gawk, Ad Infinitum

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One of the jurors posted to Facebook:

Those of you that know me know I take the Bill of Rights pretty seriously. This was a clear case of invasion of privacy and Gawker cloaking themselves in the 1st amendment was insulting at best.

Denton remains confident that he'll prevail on appeal:

The number was eye-popping. But in an interview on Tuesday, Denton simply called it "an indication of the strength of the jury's feelings."

Hulk claims he and Denton met at the urinal.

The same firm represents Gawker and the New Yorker, so what does the latter have to say?

“Newsworthy” is not the same as high-minded, and while many publications would not choose to publish a sex tape, the term can conceivably protect one.

Gawker alum Elizabeth Spiers reports Denton will be appearing on "The View":

Gawker's Denton to Appear on 'The View' | Broadcasting & Cable: https://t.co/oIyqfUeQA6

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) March 23, 2016

The Twin Gynecologists

David Cronenberg talks about what it was like to cast the twin gynecologists in "Dead Ringers":

One of the most challenging roles to cast was that of the twin gynecologists in "Dead Ringers," a project that took 10 years to make. "I approached thirty of the most famous actors in the world. No one wanted to play twins that were so similar, or gynecologists for that matter," he revealed. "The Anglo-American actors didn’t want to play the twins, the Italian-American actors didn’t want to play gynecologists. Jeremy Irons was the first financeable actor who was willing to play the part, but then when we got financing in place he got second doubts. I had to seduce him all over again." After the film’s release, Cronenberg was interviewed by a radio journalist who stated, "If Jeremy Irons doesn’t win an Oscar for 'Dead Ringers' there is no God." Cronenberg said he has been an atheist ever since.

[Indiewire]

Sex Dust

Gwyneth Paltrow is selling something called Sex Dust.

It costs $60.

[Goop]

Fappening Guy Pleads Guilty

A celebrity nudies leaker connected to The Fappening and known as Ryan Collins has entered a guilty plea.

Gawker reports:

He faces up to five years in prison.

He’ll probably serve far less: the feds say “parties have agreed to recommend a prison term of 18 months,” although “that recommendation will not be binding on the sentencing judge.” Collins breached the celeb accounts through phishing emails that tricked famous actresses (or those close to them) into thinking they were official security dispatches from Apple and Google. The Department of Justice says Collins hijacked over 100 accounts.

[Gawker]

This is Alec Baldwin's Wife

I know what you are thinking: where are the yoga pants and oversized sweater that is my daily uniform??? I want you to know that I put in the effort today even though it' s freezing outside ⛄️❄️😂...and thank goodness no one is behind me 🍑🍑. Let's see it, @charlieebersol #FlexOrFlexible

"I know what you are thinking: where are the yoga pants and oversized sweater that is my daily uniform??? I want you to know that I put in the effort today..."

Alec Baldwin's wife is really into yoga.

Go Away, Gwyneth

Gwyneth Paltrow and co. have bought Larry Flynt's to-be-closed Hustler store on the Sunset Strip, and the Blonde Monster is going to tear the structure down and turn it into some stick-up-the-ass club for douchebags.

My fondest memory of the Hustler store is the time they asked me to do a reading there, and I gave some sort of a lecture about how to make bukkake comics. I blew up the panels so they were very large and propped them up an easel. (I think it was the prequel to this one.)

[TMZ]

Angie Get Your Gun

"Flogging the Freelancer" is a blog post a day on freelancing in the gig economy. Browse the archives here.

I wrote a Forbes post about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's 1911's custom crafted by Jesse James:

In 2014, Pitt, who was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, shared that he grew up with guns:

“There’s a rite of passage where I grew up of inheriting your ancestors’ weapons,” said Pitt. “My brother got my dad’s. I got my grandfather’s shotgun when I was in kindergarten.”

You can connect with me on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and you can email me here.

Inherent Vices

"Inherent Vice." Paul Thomas Anderson's latest. Based on a novel by Pynchon. Steeped in the seventies. Martin Short is a perverted, drug-addicted dentist. Josh Brolin is a hammerheaded thug who occupies himself as a cop. Joaquin Phoenix is wild-eyed and girl-dewed. Bad guys are pursued. Cases pass one another in busy turnstiles. The sea rises, falls; the sun ebbs, flows. Katherine Waterston steals the show as a groovy chick who's as much trouble as she is hot. In the best scene in the movie, she appears nude (full bush) and seduces Doc and the camera and us with the gentle shoving of her foot. It's a little HST and totally groovy. Recommended, mellowly.

Oops

I tried to blog once a day every day this year, and I missed yesterday, so I failed at that.

Naked Pink

eat your veggies

Nobody Likes the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Movie

Opines A.O. Scott:

"The movie is neither one of those things. It dabbles in romantic comedy and splashes around in melodrama, but the one thing it can’t be — the thing the novel so trashily and triumphantly is — is pornography. Ms. Taylor-Johnson’s sex scenes are not that much different from other R-rated sex scenes, though there are more of them and more hardware is involved. You know the routine: an arched neck, some curled toes, a buttock here, a breast there, a wisp of pubic hair, a muffled moan, another Beyoncé song. Maybe a riding crop for variety."

[NYT]

'Knight of Cups' Trailer

Can't wait to see the new Terrence Malick movie, "Knight of Cups." It stars Christian Bale and a ton of women.

From Vulture:

"All those naked women serve a deeper purpose.
Bale’s character certainly has his pick of babes: In addition to Portman, there’s Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto, Cate Blanchett, Teresa Palmer, Katia Winter, and plenty more, all in various states of undress. He also gets intimate with Portman’s toes, which he tenderly sucks on during one of their lusty onscreen moments. ('Very nice,' he remarked when asked about the taste of her little piggies.)"

Orgy Time

This wild poster is from Colleen Brennan Shrine. I interviewed Brennan in 2013. She's lovely.

Kim Kardashian Full Frontal

The full on, fully frontal, final set (???) of that shoot with Kim Kardashian can be found here.

Kim Kardashian Is Still Naked

The rest of those nakedish photos of Kim Kardashian are online.

Rihanna Swims with Sharks

That's Rihanna hanging around in a shark's mouth for Harper's Bazaar. The side-by-side homage to "Jaws" is here. Video of Rihanna swimming with sharks is here.

Jennifer Lawrence Naked. Again. But This Time It's OK.

Oh, hey, it's Jennifer Lawrence naked in Vanity Fair. Well, not entirely naked because her outfit is a big snake.

Patrick Demarchelier snapped the pic which is an homage to this pic by Richard Avedon.

So it's OK for you to see her naked if she says it's OK to see her naked, but it's not OK for you to see her naked if she says it's not OK to see her naked.

Glad we cleared that up.

VF reports:

"Last July 29, on a Patrick Demarchelier shoot at a private residence in the Hollywood Hills, a giant Colombian red-tailed boa constrictor spent most of the day cooped up in a perforated, extra-large storage container managed by two very capable handlers. When it came time for the snake to take his star turn, there was frightfully little between him and Jennifer Lawrence—only a long metal rod with a hook at the end. The actress proved to be very brave and nonchalant about having a serpent wrapped around her body—an homage to the 1981 Richard Avedon Vogue portrait of Nastassja Kinski that launched a million dorm-room posters—and coolly focused her eyes on the camera."

One can assume they take pains to point out the date of the shoot in order to make clear the photo was done prior to her nude photo leaks last August.

[Vanity Fair via Fashion Copious]