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...never been readily available to those outside her inner circle. That all changed on September 13 when Bezreh’s “musical spanking porn,” entitled “The Naughty Garden,” was featured on the HBO special “Real Sex: Porn 101: XXXtra Credit.” Anyone with a cable box—including Bezreh’s parents in St. Louis, MO—could watch Bezreh getting spanked in her birthday suit...
Although porn visions had long danced in her head, Bezreh needed concrete motivation to make a film. When Kim Airs, the owner of the Boston sex-shop Grand Opening, told Bezreh that HBO was making a documentary on the “You Oughta be in Pictures” Erotic Film Festival at Coolidge Corner Theater, Bezreh found her needed drive. “I have a fascination with making dirty stuff, but I didn’t have the guts,” she says. “I knew [the festival] would push me.” HBO...
...original screenplay, a “Devil Woman” shoots poisoned darts at cherubs in heaven. Said cherubs begin telling dirty jokes and God must spank them to restore their innocence. God and the Devil Woman also sing a duet, culminating in another spanking scene. “HBO thought it would be too offensive because of the God element,” Bezreh says...
...waiting for me to complain about it, keep waiting. No, I would not have given Emmys to many of the people and series who won them. (I would, for instance, have handed the best drama trophy to HBO's The Wire, which didn't get a single nomination.) But the Emmys are not about justice. They're not about determining the best performers and artists in TV. They're just about determining what people who work in TV like to watch on TV - and more important, what kind of TV they like to see rewarded...
...minicam, say congressional leaders who banned the crew of K Street, the docudrama about a fictitious Washington lobbying firm that Clooney is producing with director Steven Soderbergh. In a letter sent to Senate staff members last week, the body's Rules and Ethics committees said the filming of the HBO show, which mixes actors with real politicians in unscripted scenes, violates rules against using Capitol space for commercial purposes. A never-aired test episode relied on impromptu dialogue in Senate halls with politicos like Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Days before the program's debut this week, K Street...