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In L.A.'s Film Fashion, Porn Is The New Black
EVEN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES IS LIFTING ITS SKIRT: PORN HAS BEEN DEEMED MAINSTREAM BY LA LA LAND'S INSTITUTIONAL SCOLD.
I told the editor of this virtual rag this news months ago, but as usual, nobody makes a move in the media without print's version of a blue-haired giving the nod. If Crabby had just listened, she would have printed this months ago when I first sent it. (A closet prude, perhaps?)
So, as I was saying, porn is slowly creeping into the mainstream.
The evidence? First, there's porn star Katie Morgan making an appearance in Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno, about two friends hard up for cash deciding to make a skin flick.
Up next: 20-year-old Sasha Grey who made her hard-core skin debut at 18. She's set to star in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming, The Girlfriend Experience, the tale of a $10,000-a-night call girl.
And, taking a detour back to the small screen, I was watching Next last year when I saw a familiar face. (Yes, I’m embarrassed to admit, but it’s one of my guilty pleasures.) You know, MTV's show that allows a dater to choose among five contestants holed up (no pun intended) in a tour bus? One by one they enter, and if the date doesn’t go well, or if first impressions are not up to snuff, the serial dater yells, "Next!" And the next victim, er, “datee” comes out. It’s pretty ruthless. I love it.
Anyway, on the lesbian segment up pops porn star extraordinaire Anna Cruz. (Remember, I know this because work at the porn palace.)
Now I’ve seen more of Anna’s body and bodily functions than I care to tell, but I knew that face even clothed. I was flabbergasted. Couldn’t wait to get to work and tell the boss (who had a good chuckle over it while still lamenting the fact that his kids would soon outgrow Nickelodeon and graduate to MTV. )
And, over at Oxygen, the Janice Dickinson Agency has hired the beefcake boyride named Martin Richie, a.k.a York Hubbard. He is deaf and a porn regular. I’m not sure why Janice has kept him on: He’s okay, but not exactly like the hunka hunka perfect specimens that she usually hires. Call me cynical, but I wonder if the deaf angle is the key.
Last season Dickinson had on a woman who cut herself. Maybe she’s taking a clue from her friend, mogul Tyra Banks, who always seems to have someone in her ANTM bunch with an affliction, be it blindness, Asberger’s disease or just “plus size.” Which, I guess, is considered a disease in the modeling world. Even looking at pretty people gets old and the only twist left is 'dirty.'
SexyChattyCatty comments at CrabbyGolightly.com on TV, America's favorite snack food.
Posted November 10, 2008
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