Archive for April, 2010

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Mad Men review: Sharp suits and sharper women in this week’s season finale

There’s a website called What Would Don Draper Do? which offers advice to correspondents. A What Would Betty Draper Do? website would just need one answer: ‘Act dumb at every opportunity.’ Let’s hope Don hooks up with the well-upholstered Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) in season four.
Now, there’s a woman who could deal with Don’s wandering eye. She’d probably take it out with one of her superstructure bras.
Mad Men is ostensibly just a drama about an ad agency, but the territory it covers is spectacularly wide-ranging.
Steve Wright was today jailed for life for murdering five prostitutes
The BBC’s Five Daughters, however, almost failed because of the limitations of its very narrow parameters.
Over three nights, it recounted the final weeks in the lives of the five young prostitutes murdered in Ipswich in 2006 by Steve Wright. Its focus on the victims was initially admirable  -  as the title emphasises, these unfortunates were all someone’s daughter.

See the full article from “Daily Mail”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Nicholas Kristof Talks of Oppression of Women Worldwide

Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof told a story yesterday afternoon to a packed audience in Statler Hall about two 15-year-old Cambodian girls trapped in the despairing shackles of prostitution. He had spoken to both of them for an article he was working on as a reporter and was struck by the fact that after his article ran, they would return to their lives of physical and emotional abuse.

An 18th century slave would be worth approximately $40,000 today, while a prostitute in a country like India or Pakistan would be worth only a few hundred dollars, according to Kristof.
“That is why brothel owners do gouge out their eyes or kill them,” he said.

One questioner asked Kristof how he felt after he purchased the two Cambodian girls out of prostitution, considering that so many other girls in the same circumstances were left behind.

See the full article from “Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Extra, Extra

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A barricaded EDP on 60th Ave in Queens, a fatal jumper down at Faile St & Gilbert St in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery at 99 Park Ave in Manhattan.
“An auxiliary cop was accused Wednesday of being the hired muscle behind a Brooklyn brothel, ferrying hookers to casinos and threatening to kill a snitch.” He also married the madam!
The circumstances around a fatal crash between a tour helicopter and small plane over the Hudson last summer include a distracted controller, another controller who wasn’t wearing his glasses, an inexperienced chopper pilot, and more, according to a report.
The Time 100 list was released, maybe the only list in the world that includes Lady Gaga, Amartya Sen, Glenn Beck and Banksy. The Smoke Monster is sort of on the list (via Lost creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.)

See the full article from “Gothamist”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: President Obama and California set to sue Arizona out of the Union

California is telling Arizona to legalize pot smoking to bring an end to their border drug smuggling problem and make a few extra billions in taxes. Plus Arizona could make billions more from illegal aliens driving while pot high. Don’t worry about traffic deaths, millions of illegal aliens are on the way to replace them and they all have (Free Health Care wink-wink) thanks to President Obama.
California may consider cutting Arizona some slack if they legalize what Obama’s old group Acorn started (with American tax dollars) and that is prostitution of illegal alien women and children. That would end Arizona being the sex slave trafficking capital of the world. It would also bring in a few billion dollars extra in taxes from Californian citizens being (re-authorized) back in Arizona state to conduct business, wink-wink.

See the full article from “WEBCommentary”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Gulf Coast oil slick expected to grow dramatically before landfall this weekend

He said the NOAA officials working with the Coast Guard and BP at the command center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills and know that burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected. Gouget said they may have been overruled.
“It may have been a political issue. The burn would make a big, big plume and lots of soot. Like Valdez, the decisions to get the resources mobilized may not have occurred until it was too late,” Gouget said.
“This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. At first they thought it was just the diesel, then they said the well wasn’t leaking. It’s unfortunate they didn’t get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread.”

See the full article from “al.com (blog)”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Director of ‘City Island’ to appear at Ridgefield Playhouse screening

His latest film, “City Island,” takes viewers inside a not-so-average household as he paints a portrait of a dysfunctional Italian-American family living on City Island in the Bronx, N.Y. The film will be shown as part of the Ridgefield Playhouse Film Society’s Family Film Series on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Following the film there will be a question-and-answer session with De Felitta, hosted by Morton Dean, Ira Joe Fisher and Faith Daniels.
At the center of the film is the Rizzo family, whose members might get along a lot better if only they could tell each other the truth. The family patriarch, Vinnie Rizzo (Andy Garcia), is a city corrections officer who dreams of becoming an actor. He tells his family he’s going to play poker, but sneaks off to acting class, where he bonds with his British classmate Molly (Emily Mortimer). His daughter works as a stripper when she’s supposed to be in college, while young Vinnie Jr. (Ezra Miller) has a secret sexual fetish that involves a 24-hour webcam and the family’s 300-pound neighbor.

See the full article from “Ct Post”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Enjoyable ‘City Island’ aspires to be sleeper hit

Andy Garcia (one of the film’s producers) stars as Vince Rizzo, a prison guard — he prefers the term “correctional officer” — who nurtures secret dreams of being an actor. He locks himself in the family bathroom with a Brando biography instead of a copy of Playboy, and sneaks off at night to acting classes, telling his wife, Joyce, (Julianna Margulies) that he’s headed to a poker game. At his classes, he finds a soul mate (Emily Mortimer), a pretty student with secrets of her own.
The Rizzos’ daughter (Dominik Garcia-Lorido) is a college student whose parents don’t know she earns money as a stripper. The teenage son (Ezra Miller) is a wiseacre with a fetish for fat women. New to the household is a paroled stickup artist (Steven Strait) who moves in to help Vince build a backhouse. Only Vince knows that this frequently shirtless hunk is his son from a pre-Joyce relationship.

See the full article from “California Chronicle”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: On This Day in History: April 29 ‘Burlesque Has Gone Too Far’

The Star at 389 Jay Street (seating 1405), the Oxford at 552 State Street (seating 800) and Billy Minskyâs on Flatbush (seating 1800) were Brooklynâs three busiest burlesque theaters. They were packed with patrons enjoying the shows on Thursday night, April 29, 1937, when suddenly the houses were raided by the police under the direction of Brooklyn District Attorney William F.X. Geoghan. Eleven strippers and five managers were jugged and the bumping and grinding was over. A total of 10 New York City burlesque theaters out of 14 had to close their doors because their licenses expired on April 29.

The character of burlesque changed markedly with the introduction about 1927 of the strip-tease, which began as an encore and in the following years grew in explicitness and prominence. By 1930 the Irving Place Theater was known specifically for this brand of entertainment. Among the best-known strippers were Ann Corio, Margie Hart, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Georgia Sothern.

See the full article from “Brooklyn Daily Eagle”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Ill. Strip Club To Hold Palin Lookalike Contest

The Admiral Theatre strip club is holding a Sarah Palin lookalike contest, on the same day the real Palin is coming to the area.
Admiral Theatre

See the full article from “CBS2 Chicago”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Campus Picks: Apr. 29, 2010

Events: Fristfest The three-day Fristfest extravaganza begins with a picnic and carnival on the Frist South Lawn. A number of Princeton University musicians – including Funkmaster General, the Plagiarists, Baba Fat and Sarah Donner – will perform along with the New York group Dende and Hahahaes. Food will be served throughout the evening, and the carnival will include a number of fun activities. Frist South Lawn Thursday, 4-10 p.m.
Film: Zombieland
A virus is turning humanity into flesh-eating zombies, and the only ones who can stop them are an unlikely quartet: a redneck from Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), an awkward college student (Jesse Eisenberg) and two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin). By always avoiding strip clubs and always having Bounty paper towels, the four will survive where others have failed. The gags are hilarious, and the zombie killing is ridiculous. You will never look at zombies in the same way again. Refreshments will be served at the event, which is a part of this weekend’s Fristfest. Frist South Lawn Friday, 9 p.m.

See the full article from “The Daily Princetonian”

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