Archive for January, 2010

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Six Stories: Salinger Inspired Cinema

Though not one mention of The Catcher in the Rye is uttered in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece (written by Paul Schrader in an inspired fever), the iconic character of Travis Bickle (so memorably played by Robert De Niro) is viewed by many as the incarnation of the future Holden Caulfield, and one so eerily potent that it was (by no fault of the filmmakers) darkly influential for a future attempted assassination on a president. An intensely troubled man who has nearly lost his mind to obsessive thoughts (brilliantly heard in the picture’s monologist voice over narration), Travis is far more humorless than Holden, but that’s what the harsh reality of growing up in an alienating world (and his own type of insanity, though a relate-able insanity — it’s hard not to identify with Travis at times) has done to him. Wanting to, like Caulfield, protect the younger and more innocent from the world’s exploitation (in Catcher it’s Holden’s young sister Phoebe; in Taxi Driver it’s Jodie Foster’s teenage prostitute, Iris), Tr …

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: A Day in America According to a (Baffled) Foreigner

And here’s how I first learn about the American traffic system. Not only does everyone drive on the other side of the road (let’s not drag up that old chestnut again) but it’s also fine for cars to turn into your lane when the “walk” sign is lit. I cannot convey the sense of impotent moral outrage I felt when I learned of this fact the hard way, nor the clammy sadness as a rapidly-cooling stream of urine emerged from my trouser leg, punctuating my homeward trail with tiny puddles of shame.
Currently Googling for “STING HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT FANFICTION.” Note to self: Learn how to filter out results from own website
Maybe you can explain the honking. After all, other countries have a reason for letting off their horns. Greeks do it because they have no traffic “rules” as such, and every journey to work is a thrilling race through carnage and flame. Italians honk because of their wonderful philanthropy, believing that there are no strangers in this life: only prostitutes you haven’t picked up yet.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: So long, J.D., icon for generations

They’re a collection of short stories, “Nine Stories,” and two compilations: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.” They are all works of art.
I remember the punch I felt in my gut after reading “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” in “Nine Stories” (1953). The ending was so inconclusive that I read it about a dozen times. It was genius.
I later learned that critics have long loved “Nine Stories.” John Updike said loved Salinger’s endings, the “open-ended Zen quality they have, the way they don’t snap shut.”
But Salinger wrote his life creed with “Catcher in the Rye” (1951).
Holden hates that his brother D.B. “prostitutes himself” as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Salinger ordered his agent to burn any fan mail. He told the editors of Saturday Review that he was “good and sick” of seeing his face on the “Catcher” book jacket and demanded that it be removed.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Call Girl: Tiger Woods Plays Weird Sex Games

Call Girl: Tiger Woods Plays Weird Sex Games
Updated: Friday, 29 Jan 2010, 8:31 AM ESTPublished : Friday, 29 Jan 2010, 8:13 AM EST
(The New York Post) – Disgraced golfer Tiger Woods liked to play weird sex games, including watching men dirty dance for each other, his alleged call girl told the New York Post on Friday.
Loredana Jolie, 26, also predicted Woods’ stint in rehab probably would not cure him.
“Tiger’s sexual fantasies were not normal,” she revealed. “He likes role playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys.
“By that, I mean they would dance for each other like girls would do for a man. He’d have different girls all the time, entertaining, role play, fetishes, stuff like that. But he would only watch.”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: AM Roundup

January 29, 2010 at 8:12 am by Jimmy Vielkind
Good morning! Bundle up! Keep warm with these headlines…
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is robustly raising campaign money from the real estate industry. (NYT)
Three state employees made over $100,000 in overtime last year. (DN)
A group of Democratic leaders will meet Saturday to discuss the 2010 elections. (TU)
Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer says his family is stronger now than it was before his ensnarement in a prostitution scandal. (AP)
Sen. Eric Schneiderman wants to end “prison gerrymandering,” a move which would reduce the Census clout of some upstate counties during upcoming legislative redistricting. (TU/NYT)
Gov. David Paterson’s budget would move State Police out of schools. (GNS)
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli rejected a contract to paint bridges on Long Island. (AP)
Bill Clinton will back Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as she fends of potential primary challengers. (DN)

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Tiger ‘loved weird sex games’

DISGRACED golfer Tiger Woods liked to play weird sex games, including watching men dirty dance for each other, his alleged call girl told the New York Post on Friday (GMT).
Loredana Jolie, 26, also predicted Woods’ stint in rehab probably would not cure him.”Tiger’s sexual fantasies were not normal,” she revealed. “He likes role playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys. “By that, I mean they would dance for each other like girls would do for a man. He’d have different girls all the time, entertaining, role play, fetishes, stuff like that. But he would only watch.” Jolie – who initially claimed to The Post she never slept with Tiger, then declared she wanted US$1 million for her story about their alleged sex – is now trying to sell a tell-all book to publishers.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: NH police say they break up prostitution ring

NH police say they break up prostitution ring
Associated Press – January 29, 2010 6:55 AM ET
SEABROOK, N.H. (AP) – Seabrook police say they have broken up a prostitution ring run out of a local apartment.
Police say the services were advertised on Craigslist.
So far police have arrested a New York City woman of Asian descent and they are looking for other women who had been in the apartment and the person who leased the unit.
Police prosecutor Scott Mendes says police also are investigating whether a woman arrested Wednesday may have been the victim of human trafficking.
Police began investigating earlier this month after receiving complaints about a stream of men coming and going from the apartment. They would stay a short time and then leave.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Client 9 now stupid cupid

There’s one four-letter word that makes Eliot Spitzer very uncomfortable: L-O-V-E.
A slightly squirmy Spitzer drifted into deeply personal territory on the latest stop of his redemption tour, telling an interviewer about the meaning of love and his mindset with his wife after 25 years of marriage.
The cringe-inducing comments from the disgraced former governor came in an interview with BigThink.com, which was posted online yesterday, in response to the question, “What is love?”
“It’s one of these feelings that you sense when you meet somebody and there is a response that is different and is unique and is palpable. And it then changes over time,” Spitzer, who resigned the governor’s seat in 2008 after he was snared as a client of a high-priced call girl ring that included Ashley Dupre, said in the wide-ranging interview.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Eliot Spitzer believes love "changes over time"

Spitzer, 50, was forced to quit office in 2008 after allegations of his involvement in a high-priced prostitution ring.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Busy apartment, neighbors’ complaints lead to prostitution bust

Busy apartment, neighbors’ complaints lead to prostitution bust

SEABROOK — A New York woman who police say was advertising relaxation services on a Web site could face a year in a New Hampshire jail after being arrested in Seabrook on charges of prostitution.
According to Seabrook police, Xuesu Xie, 49, of Flushing, N.Y., was arrested Wednesday, charged with the class A misdemeanor of prostitution. Arraigned at Hampton District Court in Seabrook yesterday with the help of a Mandarin Chinese translator, Xie is being held on $7,500 cash bail. Her next court date is March 31 at 1 p.m.

“You had to make a series of phone calls, and someone would call you back, make the appointment and give you directions,” said Seabrook police Lt. Michael Gallagher. “We’re also looking into whether this involved human trafficking and if this woman was forced into prostitution.”

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