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[Sgt. Crackpot]

LIGHTNING BWWAAAAAAUOOOOLT!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01 ... 01071.html

Your new avatar?

[harmless]

LIGHTNING BWWAAAAAAUOOOOLT!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01 ... 01071.html

Your new avatar?

It is a nice picture...

[nyquillyn]

Porn Production Moves to Vegas After California Condom Law

By HANNAH DREIER
The Associated Press

Lee Roy Myers has everything you'd expect to find in the nation's porn capital in Southern California: sets of a classroom, hospital room, locker room and a bedroom, as well as a list of porn stars waiting to perform.
But his plywood universe is not in the San Fernando Valley. It's a few paces away from the glittery casinos of the Las Vegas Strip.
"Las Vegas is a fresh town, and it's where people need the business," said Myers, whose new studio is part of a boom in X-rated production in Sin City sparked by a Los Angeles law requiring male actors to wear condoms.
The rule and potential opportunities in Nevada were the talk of the Adult Entertainment Expo this week. The annual sex industry trade show culminates Saturday with an awards ceremony for adult films.
"It's not really an option to change the way we make our movies, and moving production isn't that hard," said porn purveyor Jules Jordan, who hid out behind nearly naked models at his booth.
Jordan warned reporters not to ask him about condoms.
The voter-approved Los Angeles regulation survived a constitutional challenge, but other lawsuits are ongoing, and the industry is still waiting for the first big prophylactic bust.
The number of permits requested to make porn films in Los Angeles County has declined by an estimated 95 percent since the law took effect, according to Film LA, a private nonprofit that issues the licenses. The number of applications fell from about 480 in 2012 to just 24 through the first nine months of 2013.
For Myers, who co-owns Mission Control studios and also directs web films, the condom police are just the start of his troubles with Los Angeles. The region had also gotten too expensive for him.
With DVD sales continuing to plummet, the bounce provided by the mommy-porn series "Fifty Shades of Grey" wearing off, and no solid business model in sight, producers in this notoriously low-budget industry are looking for new ways to cut costs.
While Los Angeles charges hundreds of dollars for location permits and requires health checks as well, Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, gives out location permits for a nominal fee and does not require health permits.
The warehouses are cheaper, and it's also more affordable to rent out mansions and put actors up in hotels. The hardest part, Myers said, is making sure the stars leave at the end of the shoot.
Myers has also found that Las Vegas, a town already suffused with commercialized sex, is less squeamish about his line of work.
"They're used to it here because they already kind of have it," he said, sitting among rows of desks in his studio's classroom set. "Figuring out how to make these things more cheaply won't include shooting in Los Angeles."
The studio sits in what was once another empty building on blighted Industrial Road behind the town's tourist corridor. Local officials appear content with the arrangement and have no plans to pass additional rules.
"It's a legalized industry and properly regulated, so I don't see it as a problem," said Clark County commissioner Chris Giunchigliani. "I think the city and the county will benefit from any expansion of the film industry. It's economic diversification."
Las Vegas is home to some major porn players, including Brazzers, Bait & Tackle, Corbin Fisher, VCX Ltd. and newcomer Bluebird Film.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Should have taken January 2014 in the "When Justin Beiber finally gets his ass arrested" pool.

[Harry Lime]

So this happened...

[Jorge]

I saw that on Reddit... fucking embarrassing.

[nyquillyn]

LOL @ American journalism.

[Norah]

[Fuck You Jobu]

I saw that on Reddit... fucking embarrassing.

When will the kids learn?

[harmless]

Most politicians deserve less air time than Justin Beiber.

[Harry Lime]

Amanda Knox found guilty again. I'd stay the fuck home in America. I think that's what she's doing. What a roller coaster for that woman.

[Alex]

Amanda Knox found guilty again. I'd stay the fuck home in America. I think that's what she's doing. What a roller coaster for that woman.

you should write her movie. it has all the hallmarks of a harry lime thriller: 1) murder and 2) women being scary

[BurtReynolds]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -fast.html

interesting counter point to the Woody Allen allegations that have been choking my news feed lately.

[Jorge]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/27/the-woody-allen-allegations-not-so-fast.html

interesting counter point to the Woody Allen allegations that have been choking my news feed lately.

I read that earlier. Pretty flimsy, especially the whole "hey Mia Farrow wasn't exactly a great wife either" and "Woody wouldn't have taken the girl into the attic to molest her because he's claustrophobic" bullshit. This whole thing is gross.

[Birds in Hell]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/27/the-woody-allen-allegations-not-so-fast.html

interesting counter point to the Woody Allen allegations that have been choking my news feed lately.

I read that earlier. Pretty flimsy, especially the whole "hey Mia Farrow wasn't exactly a great wife either" and "Woody wouldn't have taken the girl into the attic to molest her because he's claustrophobic" bullshit. This whole thing is gross.

The whole thing is gross but the article has more depth to it than that.

I agree wholeheartedly with his main point which is that, once someone has been thoroughly investigated and cleared, it's rather unseemly to publicly harangue them for being a paedophile.

[BurtReynolds]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/27/the-woody-allen-allegations-not-so-fast.html

interesting counter point to the Woody Allen allegations that have been choking my news feed lately.

I read that earlier. Pretty flimsy, especially the whole "hey Mia Farrow wasn't exactly a great wife either" and "Woody wouldn't have taken the girl into the attic to molest her because he's claustrophobic" bullshit. This whole thing is gross.

The whole thing is gross but the article has more depth to it than that.

Yeah, the child's comments to the doctors, the comments by the nanny, the conclusions of the investigative team, and the apparently edited video raise questions. There certainly isn't anything damning him either from what I've heard. I try to avoid these celebrity public trials because I dont pretend to be informed enough to make a conclusion, but social media is almost as moronic as the regular one.

[Jorge]

The whole thing is gross but the article has more depth to it than that.

I know it does, those two points just struck me as particularly weak and betraying a deep-rooted bias. The author makes some good points, but the whole thing is tinged with a disturbing nonchalance towards the allegations, as well as what comes across as a desperate zeal to defend Allen akin to that of a 9/11 truther ranting about structural integrity. I later read Dylan Farrow's heartbreaking open letter and decided I was done thinking about this mess because it made me feel like shit. THANKS A LOT BMACSMITH

[BurtReynolds]

THANKS A LOT BMACSMITH

my job is done here.

[Birds in Hell]

In general, I find arguments about things being tainted by bias are pretty meaningless; you can still take what he raises on its merits.

Strip away the "Farrow is a banshee", "Woody's always been a warm and funny guy to me" stuff and his central points seem relatively firm: the undisputed facts of the matter are often (maliciously or otherwise) represented, that what evidence existed for any molestation having occurred is of poor reliability and that Allen was thoroughly investigated at the time and cleared.

[Jorge]

Yes, those are some factual facts.