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| 10-12-10 04:31pm - 5185 days | #328 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
True love, Hollywood style Why can't more people be like this lovely couple, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, who have separated after 11 years of marriage? They both love each other deeply, and are best friends, and want the best for each other. Courteney also wants David to be free to satisfy his needs. So if that means another woman or two, well, that's what he wants, so she wants it too. But she doesn't want sex with David unless the moment seems right. Which is the way it should be. More people should read about this loving couple (or separated couple) and learn to spread their love and joy in the world. What the world needs is love. More love. And more fertilizer. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< David Arquette Talks Separation With Courteney Cox: 'We're Still In Love' Just a day after Courteney Cox and David Arquette announced they are separating, David called into "The Howard Stern Show" on Sirius Satellite Radio on Tuesday and revealed a slew of alleged details about the couple's relationship. "I'm heartbroken," David said of his separation from Courteney. "I'm not the one who called this separation in order...we're still in love with each, we're still best friends." According to David, he and his wife of 11 years began to drift away from each other. "After our 11th year anniversary she gave me the motorcycle and said, 'I don't want to be your mother anymore,'" David said in the interview recalling a past incident with Courteney. The couple's alleged problems continued when they traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to film the latest chapter in the "Scream" franchise. "We go to do 'Scream 4' and I'm feeling distance, obviously, from my wife. We have not had sex in quite... a month or so... we're not having sex and I completely understand," he continued. "She's in a very, a place of wanting to be real and emotional. She's an emotional being. She's an amazing woman... that if it doesn't feel right... she doesn't feel like bonding in that way." David told Howard that following their time on "Scream 4" they decided to attempt a "trial separation." "We're still tight, I love her with all my heart and she loves me with all her heart," David explained, also claiming that during the separation he was free to be intimate with other women. "We get a trial separation, we have agreements with it. She knows she's not f***ing me and she's like, 'Listen, I want you to be able to, you know, do whatever you have to do. Essentially, free to see people.'" "So, she's free to see people, that's what she wanted?" Howard asked. "Maybe," David replied. The 39-year-old actor denied that he was dating anyone, but acknowledged that he'd been with another woman once, "maybe twice." He would not name the woman, but confirmed to Howard the girl in question was the same one being widely reported, who is Jasmine Waltz. David said he doesn't believe rumors that Courteney strayed from their relationship with "Cougar Town" co-star Brian Van Holt. "I truly don't think she ever had an affair with Brian Van Holt," he said, explaining that he allegedly confronted her about it. "She denied it, I do believe her... on an emotional level. I think she may have... bonded with him, yes." David said they told their 6-year-old daughter, Coco, about the separation during a picnic on the beach. "'Are you guys getting divorced?'" he recalled Coco asking and he told her, "'No, we're taking time off to know ... what we want out of our mate better.'" He ended the interview on a small note of hope. "I love her with all my heart and she loves me with all her heart ... We're trying to get real with each other, real with ourselves," David said. "I want her to be happy... more than I want happiness for myself." Access Hollywood was unable to contact Jasmine Waltz for comment at press time on Tuesday. Copyright 2010 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. | |
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| 10-12-10 03:30am - 5186 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Anne Hathaway can be such a joy to look at. Thank you, Monahan, for posting that great picture. | |
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| 10-12-10 03:23am - 5186 days | #16 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I believe that Iomega was bought out by Seagate a while back. And Quantum (a hard drive maker) was bought by Seagate years ago. So the number of disk drive makers keeps shrinking as the years go by. (The drive makers get bought out or go bankrupt.) | |
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| 10-11-10 10:59pm - 5186 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Thanks for the tip, graymane1777. I used to be a member of Costco, but have not been for several years now. The last external hard drive I bought was an Iomega model. That came with a bunch of extra software, that I tried using at first, and then stopped. There was anti-virus protection, automated backup, and some other stuff. The Iomega hard drive is still working fine, I just don't use the extra software that came with it. I don't really have any major problem. I just saw a large-capacity hard drive at a cheap price from Amazon, thought it might be a great deal until I read some of the reviews stating that model from Seagate had poor reliability. Seagate is a major hard drive maker, probably the world's biggest. But every so often there can be production problems or design problems or whatever, with a particular model, that might be corrected later. But for now, I am going to wait a while before buying more storage. There's no real need for it, as long as I delete some of the poorer material that I already have on my hard drives. A lot of my stuff, I haven't even looked at after I downloaded it. So I need to clean up and organize my "collection" better. Edit01: I use anti-virus software, just not the anti-virus software that came with the Iomega unit. Everyone who is connected to the Internet needs both anti-virus and a firewall. Everyone should use both those programs, whether they are connected to the Internet or not. | |
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| 10-11-10 10:43pm - 5186 days | #18 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think you are certainly old enough, though I don't know if you remember, back in the early days of television, when stations used to go off the air, playing the Star Spangled Banner, and they would show a test pattern instead of programming. I would sometimes watch the test pattern, which would be the station's logo, on the TV monitor. At the time, back in the 1950s, I believe the test pattern/station logo for channel 5, where I grew up, was an Indian chief. Did you have a similar experience? Of ever watching the test pattern on your TV when you were much younger? | |
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| 10-11-10 04:37pm - 5186 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Anne Hathaway hasn't been in porn that I know of. But she has been topless. In Brokeback Mountain. And in one other movie, Havoc. She has a great body, and large breasts that I assume are natural, not silicone-enhanced. She also has a great face. Edit01: I just realized that her breasts are part of her great body. But they are worthy of special mention.  Edited on Oct 12, 2010, 04:09am | |
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| 10-11-10 08:13am - 5187 days | #327 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Average movie ticket price is $13 in New York City. And I thought my area was high for tickets (I live in a suburb of Los Angeles). People who live/work in New York City need a higher salary because of the higher cost of living. And then they move away on retirement, where the higher retirement pay goes farther. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< NYC sick time bill would cost movie theaters Source: The Hollywood Reporter 4 hours, 35 minutes ago A sick time bill being mulled by the New York City Council would cost movie theater operators and could lead to ticket price increases of $1 or more, the New York Post reported Monday. The National Assoc. of Theatre Owners predicts that the average movie ticket price would rise to $14 in the Big Apple. "This bill will run us about $1 million a year," NATO state executive director Robert Sunshine told the Post. It would also hurt temporary hiring that theaters tend to do around Thanksgiving and the holidays. Sunshine predicted a 15%-20% cutback on hiring if the bill passes. Under the proposed bill, businesses, including single theaters, with fewer than 20 full-time employees would have to give part-time workers five days of paid sick leave. "Even if you worked a Monday through Wednesday shift, you could call in sick on Thursday and Friday and get paid for those days," Sunshine said. | |
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| 10-11-10 07:39am - 5187 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Thanks, for the tip, Khan. I knew I had read a thread or something on this subject a short while ago, but couldn't find it, so I started this one. The other thread didn't have any simple conclusion as to best manufacturer or model. Everyone has different experiences, different opinion. But I won't be buying the Seagate 2 TB model, because the poor reviews I read have scared me away, in spite of the low price of $112, and being sold by Amazon, which I have found to be a very reputable seller. Seagate used to be one of the top hard drive makers. But I guess that poor models are something that happen every once in a while. | |
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| 10-11-10 07:04am - 5187 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Amazon is currently offering a Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB External Hard Drive for $112. That sounds dirt cheap. Any opinions on whether the Seagate external hard drive is a good value? Anybody owns this model, or thinks a different model/manufacturer would be better? I've read some terrible reviews on the Seagate Expansion 2.0 TB external hard drive, saying the drive is not reliable, will fail in a short period of time, makes a lot of noise, etc. So I guess, in spite of the low price, it's better to avoid this drive? What model/manufacturer and price sounds good or reasonable or recommended? | |
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| 10-10-10 07:05pm - 5187 days | #51 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Jesus, it takes more than a genius to know all these porn abbreviations and whatnot. Are you trying to imply that some of us are not the brightest lights in this community?  | |
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| 10-10-10 03:44pm - 5187 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I am more into photos than vids. But I agree that almost all the photoshoots I've seen of a video are a waste of time. Actually, most softcore videos I've seen are also a waste of time. And a large percentage of hardcore videos are a waste as well. It's far easier to make a good softcore photoshoot than a softcore video. The simple reason is that there are far less factors to control in a photoshoot than in a video. But your post and position make a lot of sense to me. Edit01: But a photoshoot can be useful to give you an idea of what the models look like. A lot of sites don't post a good-sized thumbnail for each video, so you are left wondering what the model looks like unless you stream or download the video file. Some sites don't have streaming as an option, so it takes a while to download a video to watch it, only to find you don't find the model is physically appealing. Edit02: There can be a photoshoot of a video shoot, or a video shoot of a photoshoot. Two slightly different things. The video of a photoshoot is usually a waste of time. The photoshoot of a vidoeshoot is usually a waste of time. I think the idea is ok, but it's difficult to make an interesting video of a photoshoot. And if the video is good, the photoshoot of the making of the video probably is much less worthwhile watching. So it's better to make a photoshoot and a video completely separate projects. I guess the reason it's done this way (making the two together) is to save time and money: you get two products (a photoshoot and a video) from one session. But it's difficult to get two worthwhile products from the single session. Edited on Oct 10, 2010, 04:19pm | |
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| 10-10-10 03:03am - 5188 days | #40 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Maybe I shouldn't say anything, since I haven't actually seen any "milk enemas". But my idea/visualization was that someone would be sucking or drinking or licking the milk or liquid that was coming out the other person's ass. But then again, I suppose that the person expelling the milk could be spraying it onto a person, or on the bed or floor or whatever. All kinds of things to do. But none of them a likely turn-on for me.  I never got into watching a female peeing, either. The first time I saw that in a non-porn movie, I realized the female peeing in front of a guy was supposed to be extremely hot and sensual. But I just thought it was weird. Or kinky. And was really surprised that it was shown in a non-porn movie. The movie was "Holy Smoke", with Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. Keitel often plays extreme characters, Kate Winslet less often but sometimes. Seeing her pee in front of Keitel was not a turn-on for me, but she was supposed to be showing how hot/sensual/erotic/available she was to him. Maybe he should have stripped off and pissed back at her. I don't think he did, though. I think he just went ahead and banged her. I think that was the only time, porn or non-porn, that I saw a female peeing in front a male to show sensual arousal. | |
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| 10-09-10 07:58am - 5189 days | #35 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I don't even want to know what milk enema means. This site really has a bunch of pervies here.  | |
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| 10-08-10 05:37am - 5190 days | #21 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I met Marilyn Chambers one time at a Glamourcon convention. I even bought an autographed DVD from her of "Rabid", which was a non-porn movie she had starred in. I bought the movie from her because I had seen it in its original release back in 1977 and enjoyed it then. The movie was a low-budget horror film from David Cronenberg, back when he was still a small-time director before he hit the big time. I asked her why she hadn't done more non-porn movies, and she said she had tried, but the opportunities just weren't there. She appeared to be a very nice and friendly person, and I was sorry when she died a few years later. I can't say why she got into porn. I didn't ask her directly. I just thought (my impression, only) that she got into porn to make some money. Not for thrills or excitement or whatever, just to make some money. And the money those girls were paid was very little. | |
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| 10-07-10 10:01pm - 5190 days | #325 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Photoshop for movies. Is Drooler behind this? >>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<< Software on tap to slim actors on-screen (Reuters) Source: Reuters 1 hour, 8 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Goodbye, Hollywood fat suits! Scientists in Germany have created software that enables actors to appear thinner or heavier on-screen. The program also alters muscle tone and body shape, according to The New Scientist (via Valley Wag). The developers say their software will save money because advertisers won't have to shoot different actors to account for "standards of beauty ... across cultures." They also say it can help stars stay healthier, pointing to Robert De Niro, who famously gained 60 pounds for his role in "Raging Bull." "The actor wouldn't need to go to all that trouble," a scientist is quoted as saying. | |
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| 10-07-10 08:59pm - 5190 days | #324 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Movie marketing costs-Not sensible or reasonable: I'm not in the business, obviously, but the financial side of movie making appears to have little sense or reason. A mid-level movie that costs $32 million to make, costs $50 million to market. That does not make sense to me. You spend $32 million to make a movie, and then it takes $50 million to advertise the movie? It would seem that you would spend the bulk of the money to make the movie, which is a "somewhat" lasting product (theatrical run, DVD sales, TV sales, whatever). And then you spend a much smaller amount of money to advertise or "sell" the movie to the public. Why spend such a huge amount of money on advertising, which has an extremely short-term effect on sales? A TV ad, a newpaper ad, a radio ad, is here today, and gone from memory a short time later. >>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<< http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reut...d-box-office-reuters "Secretariat" carries a PG rating and a roughly $32 million price tag, but its marketing costs ran to about $50 million because of the standard pricey TV commercials and other media buys. In a strategy reminiscent of last year's sports drama "The Blind Side," a supplemental grassroots campaign tied to the picture's inspirational subtext has targeted faith-based groups. Directed by Randall Wallace ("We Were Soldiers"), "Secretariat" is a 1970s-set sports tale about a famous Triple Crown pursuit. Diane Lane portrays racehorse owner Perry Chenery, with a supporting cast of John Malkovich, Scott Glenn and James Cromwell. Reviews have been largely positive, but tracking appears soft in all demographic groups. The strongest support for the film is with older women. | |
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| 10-07-10 08:19pm - 5190 days | #18 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not my impression at all. Porn actors in the 70s and 80s were porn actors. Some of them tried to get into mainstream acting, once they became famous as porn acting. But no one that I know of actually made it big as a non-porn actor. A few porn actors had a minor career as regular actors, but that was as far as any of them got. Except: a very few stars, early in their career, were involved in some porn. Marilyn Monroe was supposed to be in one or more porn flicks before she became a star. Sylvester Stallone was in a porn movie before he became a star. But no actor became famous from the 70s or 80s as a porn star, and then became famous as a non-porn actor. | |
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| 10-07-10 08:11pm - 5190 days | #323 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Well, even at $20 a copy, over 5 million copies means $100 million dollars in sales. That is almost all pure profit. I figure it costs less than $1 to make the DVD. Have to split the revenue with the retailer, etc., but this is a blockbuster movie with huge profits going to the studio. Separately, Disney, which has a huge catalog of back movies of classic cartoons, has made bundles of money from their DVDs, TV shows, merchandising, etc. | |
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| 10-07-10 07:53pm - 5190 days | #322 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I saw both Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 2 at the movies. I liked both movies, but thought Iron Man 1 was better. Enjoyed the relationship between Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow in part 1, where they are getting close. Then in part 2, the relationship started over, and they didn't even get as far together as they had been in part 1. Kind of hard to develop relationships, or advance further, than "interested" or maybe "sleeping together", when you have separate movies. Especially for comic book movies. So the relationship in part 2 of Downey and Paltrow went nowhere. Also liked the story in part 1 better. There was more emotional involvement. The Downey character grew in part 1, from being a pure playboy to someone who cared about Paltrow emotionally, as well as someone who cared about his country and people in general. And the villain (Jeff Bridges, mainly), was excellent. Mickey Rourke was more of a cartoon villain. Along with Sam Rockwell, another cartoon villain. And Scarlett Johansson, a lovely hunk of flesh, was just wasted as a minor character. She was there more to introduce her character for other movies in the franchise, than as someone to be interested in in this movie. Iron Man Part 1 was a great introduction. Iron Man Part 2 was a step backward, as far as I am concerned. | |
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| 10-07-10 01:29am - 5191 days | #320 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Iron Man 2 sells more than 1 million DVDs the first day of sale. Sells more than 5 million DVDs the first week of sale. I guess Iron Man 2 was the biggest movie of the year (in box office). But those are huge numbers for DVD sales. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Movie News & Gossip "Iron Man 2" sells more than 1 million DVDs in one day (Reuters) Wed Oct 06, 2010, 10:37 pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There was never any question that "Iron Man 2" would be the biggest home video seller and renter of the week. The only question was how big the blockbuster sequel would be, given the home entertainment business's lackluster performance these last three years. But as it turned out, the Paramount Home Entertainment release, which many in the industry considered a harbinger of overall fourth-quarter performance, was a hands-down smash for the week ended October 3, selling an estimated 1.1 million discs its first day in stores and ending the week just past the 5 million-unit mark, according to Home Media Magazine's Market Research Department. Accordingly, "Iron Man 2," which grossed $312 million in U.S. theaters, debuted at No. 1 on all three home-video charts, by a wide margin. On the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, "Iron Man" outsold its nearest competitor, the Universal Studios comedy "Get Him to the Greek," by a margin of more than 8-to-1. On the Blu-ray Disc sales chart, the discrepancy was even greater: "Get Him to the Greek," with a $60.1 million box-office pedigree, sold less than 7 percent as many Blu-ray Disc units as "Iron Man 2." And on Home Media Magazine's rental chart for the week, "Iron Man 2" also was a resounding winner, although "Get Him to the Greek" managed to generate around 71 percent as many rental transactions as the fast-paced actioner. "Iron Man 2" also was the first big fourth-quarter release ever to sell more copies on Blu-ray Disc than on DVD. According to Nielsen research, 52 percent of the title's first-week sales were on Blu-ray Disc, although it should be noted that Nielsen data does not include Walmart or Sam's Club, where the ratio of Blu-ray Disc sales is typically smaller than at most Nielsen-reporting retailers. | |
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| 10-06-10 04:13pm - 5191 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Some of those super-duper cleaner programs are actually malware, that don't just report false viruses, false trojans, false whatever, but actually load malware onto your PC that will degrade your performance. And it can be hard as heck to remove the installed malware after someone tells you the program you paid for is causing your problems.  | |
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| 10-04-10 09:31am - 5194 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Yes, I can fault them for giving more options to watch their content, especially when it eats up my hard drive space and forces me to spend more buying extra hard drives. The devil leads us into temptation. It's a conspiracy between porn producers and the hard drive makers. Don't you realize the dangers to your pocket book? Geez, how long has it been since I heard the words "pocket book"? (Pocket book was a small purse or billfold used to carry money.) That kind of dates me as belonging to the senior citizen class.  | |
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| 10-04-10 09:01am - 5194 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I've seen the size of a single photo at some high quality photo sites (like Metart) are up to 3 - 4 MB. On my PC monitor I can't tell the difference in qaulity or detail between a photo that is 4 MB and one that is 100 KB, which is 40 times smaller. But I still mainly download the higher sized photosets. So I am wasting a huge amount of disk space. But I think, at the back of my mind, that maybe I will start to view these photos/videos on a big-screen TV someday. But until that happens, I am really wasting a huge amount of disk space, and increasing my download times as well, especially with the slow DSL connection I have. I should really stick with the lower quality/lower sized photos, except for the really exceptional sets. It used to be that an entire photoset was much smaller than the current size of a single photo. I think it's more bragging rights than extra real value of the image with the larger size. But I keep getting sucked into downloading the biggest size photosets. And I keep thinking about the next hard drive I have to buy to store these files. Lead me not into temptation, because I will fail every time. | |
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| 10-02-10 12:24pm - 5195 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
What a brilliant idea, wear a baseball cap backward and become a teenage. That's what I'm doing from now on. I don't think they really enforce the "truth in advertising" law for porn. You want to talk to Pres Obama to see if he's willing to appoint you as Porn Czar of North America? Then we could go after porn producers who waste our time and money on substandard porn. And there are lots of those producers around. Maybe the majority of them. | |
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| 10-02-10 08:28am - 5196 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Women perverts seem to be the invisible minority. Takes a real expert to realize they even exist. Where can I find me one of them?  | |
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| 10-02-10 01:34am - 5196 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Praise the Lord you were able to make it back safely to spread the word. I am running to my local gun store and loading up on ammo. Anyone getting within 200 yards of me better be fully human or they will be blasted into tiny pieces from my .50 caliber sniper rifle. | |
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| 10-01-10 03:52pm - 5196 days | #319 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Seems like a lot of entertainment figures are dying recently: Tony Curtis, Eddie Fisher, now Stephen J. Cannell. I didn't realize Cannell was already 69. He used to be huge on TV, with the A-Team, Rockford Files, Baretta, Wiseguy, and other shows to his credit. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Producer of 'The A-Team,' other shows dies By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer Frazier Moore, Ap Television Writer – 2 hrs 31 mins ago Stephen J. Cannell, the voracious writer-producer of dozens of series that included TV favorites "The Rockford Files," "The A-Team" and "The Commish," has died at age 69. Cannell passed away at his home in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday night from complications associated with melanoma, his family said in a statement on Friday. During three decades as an independent producer, he distinguished himself as a rangy, outgoing chap with a trim beard who was generally identified with action dramas full of squealing tires and tough guys trading punches. But his range was greater than for which he was given credit. "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" was a clever detective drama starring Ben Vereen and a then-unknown Jeff Goldblum in 1980. "Profit" was a shocking saga of a psycho businessman that was unforgettable to the few viewers who saw it: Fox pulled the plug after just four episodes in 1996. With "Wiseguy" (1987-90), Cannell chilled viewers with a film-noir descent into the underworld that predated "The Sopranos" by more than a decade. "The Rockford Files," of course, became an Emmy-winning TV classic following the misadventures of its hapless ex-con private eye played by James Garner. "People say, 'How can the guy who did "Wiseguy" do "The A-Team"?' I don't know," said Cannell in an interview with The Associated Press in 1993. "But I do know it's easier to think of me simply as the guy who wrote 'The A-Team.' So they do." During his TV heyday, Cannell became familiar to viewers from the ID that followed each of his shows: He was seen in his office typing on his Selectric before blithely ripping a sheet of paper from the typewriter carriage, whereupon it morphed into the C-shaped logo of Cannell Entertainment Inc. That was all the idea of his wife, Marcia, he said, and it "appealed to my sense of hooey. ... I'm a ham." He was also an occasional actor, most recently with a recurring role on ABC-TV's series, "Castle." A third-generation Californian, Cannell (rhymes with "channel") got into television writing scripts for "It Takes a Thief," "Ironside" and "Adam 12." It was a remarkable career choice for someone who had suffered since childhood from severe dyslexia (he became an advocate for children and adults with learning disabilities). Cannell in recent years had focused his attention on writing books. His 16th novel, "The Prostitute's Ball," will be released this month. "I never thought of myself as being a brilliant writer, and still don't," he said in the AP interview. "I'm a populist. With 'Rockford,' we were never trying to be important. And as thoroughly hated as it was by critics, I loved 'The A-Team.' I thought it was really cool." He was a producer of the feature film updating "The A-Team," released earlier this year. Cannell is survived by Marcia, his wife of 46 years, their three children, and three grandchildren. | |
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| 09-30-10 04:42am - 5198 days | #317 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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PinkPanther, I understand you are angry and upset that she died. I believe it was careless for this woman to be hiking alone with her dog in a remote area where the temperature was extremely high. What help was available if the woman had a problem? People are sometimes careless. And sometimes it does not turn out well. The fact that this woman died indicates that there was some problem, or she would not be dead. Edit01: I should add that her loss is a sad one, because she was obviously a very talented woman, who helped to create some very fine and enjoyable movies. Edited on Sep 30, 2010, 05:03am | |
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| 09-28-10 09:46pm - 5199 days | #15 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The fastest way to degrade a CD-R is to leave it exposed to direct sunlight. I am not counting sticking the CD-R in a toaster or in the oven or in the fireplace, which most people would more or less realize, anyway. CD-Rs use dye to store the data. The dye will degrade over the years naturally. But direct exposure to sunlight can, depending on the dye used in the CD-R, degrade the dye within a few days to a few weeks. There are other factors that can make the CD-R lose data, but the dye is a major cause. Edit01: I was talking/writing about CD-Rs. CD-RWs don't use dye, but do use metals for the recording. The two are similar in appearance, but the recording material is different. Most people buy CD-Rs, because they are much cheaper than CD-RWs. Edited on Sep 28, 2010, 10:05pm | |
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| 09-28-10 02:30pm - 5199 days | #13 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Slutty, I read years ago that CDs will degrade. It's not necessarily the sun, though that would certainly increase the rate of degradation. It's just that CDs will degrade over time, which is well known by the "experts", whoever they are, but apparently less well known by the average computer user. So it probably was not that you had defective media to start with, but that the media degraded with the passage of years. Which can be an unpleasant discovery to make if you stored files you really wanted to keep forever.  Edited on Sep 28, 2010, 02:37pm | |
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| 09-28-10 11:20am - 5199 days | #311 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Apparently stupidity or carelessness. Do not go hiking by yourself, even with your pet dog, when the temperature is even close to 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Take a companion with you in case you run into trouble. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< September 28, 2010 Tarantino film editor dies on hike in LA hills LOS ANGELES � An award-winning film editor has died while hiking in the Hollywood Hills during a record Southern California heat wave. Assistant coroner Ed Winter confirmed Tuesday that the body found along a Griffith Park trail is 56-year-old Sally Menke, who edited every Quentin Tarantino film from "Reservoir Dogs" in 1992 to "Inglourious Basterds" last year. Identification was first reported by the Los Angeles Times. The body was found at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday along a remote Beachwood Canyon hiking trail. Her black Labrador retriever was nearby. The cause of death hasn't been determined, but Winter says there is no sign of foul play. He wouldn't disclose details or speculate whether heat may factored in her death. Menke had gone hiking Monday, when temperatures in Los Angeles peaked at 113 degrees. | |
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| 09-28-10 01:29am - 5200 days | #38 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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justme, you don't have to look on the dark side of everything. The porn site owner who sees his works spread across the net can feel a glow of satisfaction that he is doing his part in spreading joy to the world.  We might live in a capitalistic society, but not everything is valued in dollars and cents. | |
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| 09-27-10 11:38am - 5200 days | #309 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I had to share this with my fellow PU members: Justin Bieber is open to falling in love with a fan. Oh my gosh, golly, gee whiz! Justin Bieber is one of the hottest teen stars around. I think he is a singer (but I've never heard any of his songs). But isn't it wonderful that he would be willing to fall in love with one of his fans? He already loves his fans, but the next step would be to fall in love with one of them. How thrilling! (And this is the type of entertainment news we get to read in the entertainment section of Yahoo.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<< September 27, 2010 ROLL CALL: Justin Bieber Open To Falling In Love With A Fan Biebs Open To Love With A Fan: Bieber Fever has just hit epidemic proportions! "I get asked all the time would I date a fan and my answer I would date whoever I fall IN LOVE with, and yes that could be a fan," Justin Tweeted early Monday morning. Before all you Bieber gals go and dump your current guy, it's not just any old fan that might win his heart. "My fans and i we LOVE EACHOTHER. But to be IN LOVE with someone u need to get to know them personally," he added in another Tweet. Now his millions of rabid fans just have to figure out how to get to know him - might we suggest becoming bang cutting aficionados? Edited on Sep 27, 2010, 04:48pm | |
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| 09-25-10 08:35pm - 5202 days | #88 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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DRM refers to Digital Rights Management. There are many different technologies to control or prevent the copying and usage of material. Mainly this is a copyright issue. DRM can be a complicated issue. Regarding ebooks, videos, music files, movies, whatever. Anyway, regarding porn paysites. I personally have not been a member at any porn site that had DRM. What I think or know about it comes from reading some of the posts at PU, plus a little reading about it elsewhere. My impression is that, regarding pay porn sites: DRM can be used to control the playability of a file, whether the file is a picture file or a video file. There are many ways to use DRM, but my impression is that the porn paysites that use DRM use it in the following way: As long as you are a member of the porn paysite, if you download DRM protected files, you can play them on your computer. Once you stop being a member of that porn paysite, the DRM protected files will not play on your computer. So, collecting DRM protected files is a waste of time, unless you maintain your membership in that paysite. Which means you have to keep paying, if you want to play the DRM material on your computer. Like I said, DRM can be a complicated subject, there are many technologies that can be used with and for DRM, controlling how the material can be used (what machines you can copy DRM material to, how many copies you can make of DRM protected material, etc. etc.). Perhaps someone with porn paysite experience with DRM could explain how DRM was used at the sites. Technically, DRM is not taking anything away from you. What DRM does is control how you can use, or not use, DRM protected material. DRM is not a big deal to me, because, like I say, I have not joined any porn paysites that used DRM. I would guess that you probably haven't either. Most porn paysites, as far as I know, do not use DRM. | |
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| 09-25-10 04:00pm - 5202 days | #83 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The movie industry argued that the VCR would destroy the movie business, because of illegal copying of movies. But the movie industry is still with us, making more money than ever, in spite of the VCR (and in spite of DVDs etc.) With DRM, you can download photos and videos from a web site. But my understanding is that you can only view those photos and videos as long as you are a current member of the web site. You don't legally own photos or videos you download from a web site. But as a consumer, it's nice to be able to view them, once you download them. If you are a collector, your entire DRM collection is junk, as soon as you stop paying a membership fee to the sites the DRM material came from. So DRM effectively kills the reasons for collecting. But then again, jurors can vote any way they want to, based on whatever they feel or think is right. | |
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| 09-25-10 10:02am - 5202 days | #19 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Are you saying you wore diapers under your pants in those days, to capture the overflow? | |
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| 09-24-10 09:28pm - 5203 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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My best guess is that if you or somebody else can think of it, that's another fetish for someone to drool over. I saw a site where the fetish is the snot in a person's nose. I remember back in grammar school some kids used to eat their own snot, which was considered gross. But today it's a fetish: eat your own snot, eat your girlfriend's snot. That's a step up from scat, but not by much.  And I've seen some trannies or ladyboys (not sure what the difference is between them, if any) that were stunning. Haven't seen any in real life, but in photos, some of them come across as good-looking as any female model. Looking at those pictures made me a little confused, because I found them so attractive. So I stopped looking, and I've never really gotten into that niche. Edited on Sep 24, 2010, 09:36pm | |
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| 09-24-10 01:54pm - 5203 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I'm not a member of the site. When I click on the link at PU, a window opens with the Anal Petite tour. That doesn't get me into the members area, since I'm not a member. But the tour pages are working. So the problem could be with your computer (software/hardware conflict somewhere). When you use the PU link to the site, do you see the tour pages, or do you just get the "done" message? If you don't see the tour pages, then as I said, the problem is with your computer. Edited on Sep 24, 2010, 01:58pm | |
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| 09-24-10 01:42pm - 5203 days | #306 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Eli Wallach appears in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which opens today. He is also in another movie, The Ghost Writer, which opened this year. The guy is 94. He's been married for 62 years to Anne Jackson (the actress). Wallach will be getting an honorary Academy Award this year. I thought he was great as the bandit leader in The Magnificent Seven. And he was great as Tuco in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with Clint Eastwood. The man is a freak. Married 62 years to one woman. Still acting after 65 years in the business. God bless, he's like the energizer bunny, that keeps going, going, going.... | |
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| 09-24-10 08:40am - 5204 days | #46 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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British humor can be different. Lol. | |
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| 09-24-10 08:27am - 5204 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't agree with your thinking. I think there is more meaning to nudity or sex when there is some buildup to it. At the same time, I think you gave the best answer to why someone wants to skip the buildup and get right to "the good stuff". The tease or buildup is a waste of time that, for you, does not add to the good stuff you are paying for. Two different points of view. But that's part of the meaning behind the old expression: Different strokes for different folks. | |
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| 09-23-10 03:35pm - 5204 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't think you are being the exception to the rule when you want a little tease or buildup to the main show, in a photoset or video. But since more people don't complain, I think the publishers (the operators of the web sites and the DVD sites) just go for the simpler method of slinging the nudity and sex at the customer. Requires less thought to produce, less time to produce, therefore less money to produce. And since the returns are the same, more profit to produce and sell, without bothering with the tease or buildup. That's my take on the subject. And there is also the audience, which I assume is large, that prefers to skip the tease and get right to "the good stuff", which is less good in my opinion because it's less meaningful without a buildup. | |
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| 09-21-10 10:31am - 5206 days | #15 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Thanks for the tip, Khan. I did a search at that page for "tech support" (without the quotation marks), and the response I got was "No Polls Found." Which I found a little surprising. So I will probably try to make a poll question on the subject. | |
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| 09-21-10 09:36am - 5207 days | #13 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I only send emails to paysites if I am having a problem, and not even always when I am having a problem. I think the most common response to my requests for help is no response. Sometimes the response is a form email that is little to no help. Only rarely do I get a response that is helpful. Tech support is one of the poorer areas of paysites, as far as I am concerned. Maybe we should make a poll question about the overall or usual experience with tech support? How do we search to see if that subject has already been done as a poll question? Edited on Sep 21, 2010, 09:40am | |
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| 09-19-10 08:27pm - 5208 days | #17 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Went camping as a boy scout, and my troop leader sent me out to borrow a smoke shovel from one of the neighboring troops. This was a very large gathering of 100s of scouts. At the third campsite I went to, a scoutmaster took pity on me and told me they were pulling my leg. I'm still not sure how I was supposed to know there is no such item (because people make up terms to describe all kinds of things). The scout motto is "Be Prepared". I guess that means be prepared to not trust anyone. | |
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| 09-19-10 09:49am - 5208 days | #305 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Sad news article. You read the story and wonder what's happening to Randy Quaid. Are the problems he's having with the law (being arrested for using a bad credit card, living on the property of a house he used to own) a sign of mental illness, drug use, or what? The man (and his wife) apparently need not just legal help, but mental help as well. And he is not that old. So I do not think it's Alzheimer's disease. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Randy Quaid, wife face burglary charges in Calif. (AP) Source: AP Sun Sep 19, 2010, 6:59 am EDT These booking photos provided by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office shows actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi Quaid. Police arrested the Quaids Saturday Sept. 18, 2010 on charges of felony residential burglary and entering a non-commercial building without consent, a misdemeanor. Police also charged Evi Quaid with resisting arrest. (AP Photo/Santa Barbara County Sheriff) SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are facing burglary charges in California after the owner of the couple's old house reported they had been living there without permission. A representative of the property owner called Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies Saturday afternoon to report that squatters had been staying in the guest house illegally. When deputies arrived at the house that evening, they found Randy and Evi Quaid, who said they had owned the property since the 1990s. The property owner's representative provided documents that showed his client had bought the home in 2007 from a man who had purchased it from the Quaids several years earlier. A contractor showed police more than $5,000 in damages to the guest house that he believed was caused by the Quaids. Police arrested the Quaids on charges of felony residential burglary and entering a noncommercial building without consent, a misdemeanor. Police also charged Evi Quaid, 47, with resisting arrest. Bail was set at $50,000 each. Last September, the couple was charged with defrauding an innkeeper of more than $10,000 as well as conspiracy and burglary after an invalid credit card was used at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito. Senior Deputy District Attorney Arnie Tolks had said an invalid card also was used at The Biltmore, a luxury resort in Santa Barbara. Felony charges were later dropped against Randy Quaid, 59. Evi Quaid pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of defrauding an innkeeper and was sentenced to three years' probation. She was also ordered to perform 240 hours of community service. Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of President Lyndon Johnson in "LBJ: The Early Years," but he's perhaps best known for his roles in the "National Lampoon's Vacation" movies, "Independence Day" and "Kingpin." He is the older brother of fellow actor Dennis Quaid. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | |
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| 09-17-10 07:52pm - 5210 days | #303 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
At one time, back in the 1960s, that might have been a rude and embarrassing question. But today? Does it make a difference that people can live together openly without marriage? Or have children without marriage? So why is it such a big deal that the mother might not be sure who the father of her child is? Can't she just say she's got the right to breed with whoever she wants? And as long as she says it with confidence and a smile, she can say, "Fuck you. That information is private." I'm not saying that society in general will cheer her position. But there are women out there (actresses I've read about) that take that position. They are often lesbian or bi. | |
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| 09-17-10 06:46pm - 5210 days | #13 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
messmer, did you ever get un-baffled? Did you find a specific reason why your Internet connection was sticky? Inquiring minds want to know! Do you still have that problem? Or did the problem go away/get solved, because of tech help or The Hand of God or whatever mystery controls the Great Computer Gods in the sky? Or have you been cut off from the Internet entirely, and that's why we haven't heard from you in days?  Speak to us, o brother. Or write a snail letter to PU telling us you are still all right. (Can we send a snail letter to PU, if our Internet connection goes down on us?) | |
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| 09-17-10 02:58am - 5211 days | #301 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't intend to see the Joaquin/Casey documentary when it comes out. I haven't even seen the episode of the David Letterman show where Joaquin made his famous appearance, though I did read it was supposed to be bizarre.  | |
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| 09-16-10 09:40pm - 5211 days | #299 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Say it isn't so, Ma. Does this article mean that when we watch gonzo sex, it's all fake or staged? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Report: Affleck admits Joaquin Phoenix doc a fake 1 hr 14 mins ago Associated Press NEW YORK – Casey Affleck is admitting to what many critics suspected all along: His documentary about Joaquin Phoenix was a fake. The film, "I'm Still Here," followed Phoenix as he announced he was retiring from acting and launching a rap career. The "Walk the Line" star grew doughy and disheveled, and he famously made an awkward appearance on David Letterman's show. Affleck, who's Phoenix's brother-in-law and the film's director, now tells The New York Times that the whole thing was an act, calling it "the performance of his career." Affleck says he even faked home movies of Phoenix as a child. But he insists he never meant to trick anyone, and rather was dabbling in "gonzo filmmaking." Some critics called it a fascinating look at celebrity. Others assumed it was all staged. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | |
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