Archive for January 24, 2010

Manhattan Strip Clubs: The Medicine Goes Down

It’s too bad Sarah Silverman plays the dotty officemate who falls for him. I love her stand-up, but her acting is all hipster campand she and Buscemi don’t mesh. When John and a fraud investigator (Romany Malco) head back to Vegas to investigate a stripper’s injury claim, the film turns into one of those indie parades of eccentrics that are hit-and-miss but mostly miss. One bit, though, is genius. John interviews a tow-truck driver (John Cho) who moonlights as a carnival human torchonly his torch suit has malfunctioned and the poor man has to sit behind his tent and wait for his fuel tank to empty. Every twenty seconds, in mid-conversation, he bursts into flames, and the interview stops until they die down. It’s so poetically apt. Their situations are different, but John and Torch share a stoic dignity. They hold on to hope even in a world that delivers regular scorchings.

See the full article from “New York Magazine”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Mahinda all out to rig votes

Highly worried President Mahinda Rajapakshe and his hardcore men have decided to undertake a last minute operation to stuff the ballot boxes. According to a government source associated in the operation who pleaded to maintain anonymity by not disclosing his name, 24 voting boxes stuffed with rogue votes have been hurriedly dispatched to Jaffna. Without a presiding officer being appointed for Jaffna, these ballot boxes are to be included in the count.
He said the government has created a lengthy list of names of dead Tamil people and have produced bogus ID cards to justify in the event these bogus boxes are questioned.
The highly disturbed government official further said two prostitutes are being taken to Rupavahini television station to record an interview to broadcast just before the election that General Sarath Fonseka had sex with them.

See the full article from “Sri Lanka Guardian (blog)”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: What If This Headline Made Something Up About Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt …

We’ve been attempting to ignore this story for about a week now BUT IT WON’T GO AWAY. It’s like a strange rumor gone mad… Porn star Alexia Moore, who has been arrested for prostitution, may or may not try to argue in court that, based on the fact that much of her porn has been “of a Sapphic nature,” she is actually a lesbian and therefore did not solicit a man for sex. Um, lesbianism is not a defense against prostitution! We know lots of lesbian sex workers, Aside from whether or not this is inherently, well, ridiculous on its own, can we talk about this article? “The curvy Moore, whose real name is Cassandra Malandri, was “dancing” at New York’s “Big Daddy Lou’s Hot Lap Dance Club” in 2008 when she, along with fellow stripper Falynn Rodriguez, allegedly offered an undercover NYPD officer a “threesome” for big bucks.” Is that funny to anyone else? Defense lawyer Ikiesha Al-Shabazz has been quoted as saying this plan “doesn’t even make sense.” Also, here is Moore’s picture, apparently from Facebook. (@cbsnews)

See the full article from “Autostraddle (blog)”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, a former burlesque queen, starts trial …

Come tomorrow, Beldini will be center stage in a different venue: federal court.
She is the first of the 44 people nabbed in the July 23 corruption and money-laundering sweep to stand trail.
Beldini, 74, is accused of taking $20,000 in bribes from federal informant Solomon Dwek, which she allegedly funneled into Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy’s re-election campaign. Beldini served as treasurer of the campaign.
Star-Ledger photoSuspended Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini begins trail tomorrow for allegedly taking $20,000 in bribes from a federal informant.
Beldini also allegedly negotiated with Dwek to be the real estate broker for the project he was supposedly developing on Garfield Avenue.
Born in New York and raised near Princeton, Beldini joined a chorus line out of high school and has said she became a stripper because it paid an additional $50 a week.

See the full article from “The Jersey Journal – NJ.com”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Report: ex-deputy mayor was ‘Hope Diamond, burlesque queen’ in ’50s and ’60s

JERSEY CITY — A story in the Sunday Star-Ledger details how former mayoral aide Leonara Beldini, 72, who was arrested last July as part of 44 officials and religious leaders nabbed in an FBI corruption sting — was once a famous stripper named “Hope Diamond, burlesque queen.”
In an article filled with clever lines, the newspaper notes that this week she will be on trial “accused of taking cash that did not go into a garter belt, but rather into Jersey City’s tumultuous mayoral campaign.”
Not only was Beldini well-known on the national burlesque circuit throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the story says, but she was inducted into the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas in 1995.
The story says she never tried to hide her past career from her public or her family. She joined a chorus line after high school and took a burlesque job later because it paid an extra $50 a week.

See the full article from “The Hudson Reporter”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: LInks: Brad Pitt’s Angelina Jolie Split, Passion Pit’s Remixed Lady Gaga Hit

… Should Brad Pitt go all Tiger Woods on Angelina Jolie and a split becomes imminent, Jolie gets full custody of the kids. Their joint $330 million fortune will be split 50/50. [DListed]
• Kristen Stewart on her new stripper movie: “It’s about understanding who you’re playing and you have a responsibility because you feel like you can’t let them down.” [MTV]
• All because of Susan Boyle: The Scottish delicacy haggis could make a poignant comeback in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. [The Press Association]
(’’)• Meryl Streep looks positively glowing at last night’s Screen Actor Guild awards. [Jezebel] • Very useful: A slideshow of Lady Gaga’s fans donning some of the wackiest apparel at her New York dates. [WWD] • 5 of Eddie Izzard’s strangest stand-up tangents. [EW] • Is anyone else slightly bummed that Veronica Mars has been reduced to playing a quirky love interest for Fergie’s husband? [E!] • Stop the presses. Passion Pit has remixed that incredible Lady Gaga song featuring Beyoncé about men who won’t stop calling you including B’s most poetic moment: “Sometimes I feel like I live in Grand Central Station.” [YouTube]

See the full article from “BlackBook Magazine”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Bernanke Takes a Second Journey ‘Through the Fire’: Albert Hunt

Analyzing the rhetoric and record of lawmakers opposing Bernanke indicates such realities are of little matter; it’s about political traction. Not so coincidentally, opponents disproportionately are running for re-election this year.
Senator Russ Feingold, the progressive Wisconsin Democrat, is outraged by the “grossly irresponsible financial activities” of Bernanke’s Fed. This is the same Feingold who nine years ago voted to confirm Bush’s controversial attorney general, John Ashcroft, out of deference to the president’s wishes. Does Feingold believe Ashcroft was more qualified for that post than Bernanke is for the Federal Reserve today?
‘Family Values’
Senator David Vitter, the socially conservative Louisiana Republican, worries about the effect Bernanke’s policies will have “on our children and grandchildren,” and the Fed’s lack of openness and integrity. This is the same self-described “family values” fellow who was linked to a prostitute when she posted her call list online.

See the full article from “BusinessWeek”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Mischa Barton Rent Woes – Law & Order: SVU Clash

Mischa Barton owes rent on her New York City apartment, according to her landlord. A lawsuit has been filled to recover the money.  The cost is a whopping $7000 dollars a month for the fashionable pad.  The landlord wants Barton to pay the rent and legal fees, according to the lawsuit.
More news for Mischa…The actress has reportedly been annoying the cast of Law & Order: SVU with her “unprofessionalism”. 
The 23-year-old actress is guest-starring as a prostitute on the hit NBC show, but sources have claimed that she has upset the cast and crew by fluffing her lines so badly that they only managed to get one scene shot during an entire days filming.
A source said: “She only had seven lines, seven! Each time she would mess up, she would forget her lines and Mariska [Hargitay] kept prompting her and saying: ‘It’s your line Mischa.’”

See the full article from “National Ledger”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Westchester Broadway Theatre Announces Auditions

Elmsford, NY – Westchester Broadway Theatre is holding auditions for young boys for their upcoming production of “Nine”.
Seeking Boys able to play 9 year old Italian boys.   Actual age is not as important as height (4’11 or less)
Must be able to sing and be comfortable with rhythmic choreography.  The character is  little Guido — the lead male’s vision of himself in his youth.  This boy must be a boy soprano who can act. He must be fearless, precocious, and somewhat angelic.  Although he has no real lines, he is integral to the plot through his many appearances in the show.  If attending the audition, please note there is some adult content in the show.  The boys do a song in the show with an “earth mother” type of prostitute.  Both parent and child must be comfortable with such material.

See the full article from “Westchester.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Mariska Hargitay: Mischa Barton Is ‘An Amazing Professional’

The New York Daily News’ Gatecrasher column previously claimed Mischa had “badly bombed” during filming of a guest spot as a prostitute on the NBC crime show.

See the full article from “NBC Chicago”

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