Archive for January 9, 2010

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Lesson 1 for prosecutors-turned-guvs: Compromise

Author and former reporter Buzz Bissinger, who covered Rendell as D.A. — then practically lived with him when Rendell became mayor in 1993 — wrote in his book “A Prayer for the City,” that Rendell was more conciliatory when he was in charge of the whole city.
“I think one of the reasons Ed was successful was that he learned not to act like a prosecutor,” Bissinger said.
Eliot Spitzer, a former Manhattan D.A., was twice elected attorney general in New York before sweeping into the governor’s office in 2006 as a corruption-buster. He was known for taking on Wall Street’s high salaries and promising campaign-finance reform in a state where the Legislature is often described as “dysfunctional.” A Democrat, he lasted a little more than a year on the job before a prostitution scandal brought him down in 2008.

See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Guilty verdict in Neptune motel slaying

Bass, a former Asbury Park resident who at the time of incident was living in Rochester, N.Y., arrived in Monmouth County with two suitcases of clothes, $70,000 in cash and a handgun, authorities have said. He later met Antoinella Monique Johnson of Asbury Park, who testified she and Bass smoked crack together at the Crystal Inn before Shabazz joined the party later in the night.
Johnson said she left the party after failing to quell an argument between Bass, Shabazz and Sinclair, who testified that he arrived at the motel to deliver more drugs. Sinclair also testified an argument over money Shabazz believed she was owed for performing a sex act escalated when Bass pulled a handgun from under a mattress and opened fire as he and the teen prostitute attempted to flee the room.

See the full article from “Asbury Park Press”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: So Elvis really was a hound dog (nudge, nudge)

Whom did the satyr seduce after he became famous? The better question might be: Whom didn’t he seduce?
He claimed to have bedded women on all 31 of his films. He courted at least five women on the 17-day shoot of the 1964 film Kissin’ Cousins, including Ann-Margret, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl in the original Batman series) and Cynthia Pepper (Season 1 of My Three Sons).
However, he had detractors. An unsatisfied Natalie Wood once angrily claimed Elvis and his cronies were gay.
The book’s title, Let’s Play House, really tells the story. Elvis, we learn, was unable to form long-term, meaningful relationships with adult women.
He was trapped in a never-ending, self-destructive downward spiral of pubescent affairs. In an effort to prove that practice doesn’t make perfect, Nash reports that Elvis visited a prostitute named Tura Satana to help improve his technique.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Free Press”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Former Asbury man found guilty in murder at Neptune motel

Bass, a former Asbury Park resident who at the time of incident was living in Rochester, N.Y., arrived in Monmouth County with two suitcases of clothes, $70,000 in cash and a handgun, authorities have said. He later met Antoinella Monique Johnson of Asbury Park, who testified she and Bass smoked crack together at the Crystal Inn before Shabazz joined the party later in the night.
Johnson said she left the party after failing to quell an argument between Bass, Shabazz and Sinclair, who testified that he arrived at the motel to deliver more drugs. Sinclair also testified an argument over money Shabazz believed she was owed for performing a sex act escalated when Bass pulled a handgun from under a mattress and opened fire as he and the teen prostitute attempted to flee the room.

See the full article from “Asbury Park Press”

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