Archive for April, 2008

30
Apr

Ashley Dupré Is So Not Getting That $10-Million

By Holly Won't 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Legal Messes and The Naughty Bits

ashley_dupre_ggw.jpgJoe Francis has released a bit of the Girls Gone Wild footage that Ashley Alexandra Dupré filmed for them and is suing them over.

No, not the naked bits — the part where she gave her consent to be filmed:

In the new release, Dupre appears covered by a terrycloth towel and gives her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18.

“Yes I am,” Dupre answers in a strong Southern accent.

“Do you know what ’Girls Gone Wild’ is?” the questioner asks.

“Yes I do,” she replies with a laugh.

“Can I use this on ’Girls Gone Wild’?” she is asked.

“Of course you can,” Dupre answers.

The video also displays a New Jersey driver’s license with the Amber Arpaio name and a birth date that would have made her appear to be in her 20s.

This pretty much nullifies her whole argument that they filmed her even though they knew she was underage. The defense rests in time for happy hour.

30
Apr

Scientology Buys Its Own YouTube Channel

By Holly Won't 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Scientology

Scientology was pretty pissed off about all those leaked Tom Cruise videos, followed by the awesome Anonymous onslaught.

So now they’ve gone and bought themselves a fancy channel on YouTube.

However, as Gawker dissects, what they’re doing is not really in the spirit of YouTube. Or, well, America.

First of all, we can’t embed the videos on Deceiver.com because the church has paid to disallow other sites to disseminate the propaganda. So we can’t discuss it.

Secondly, they’ve disabled commenting. So we can’t discuss it.

Let’s piss them off and discuss it anyway. Do y’all think this is a move in the “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” direction, or just another way to target impressionable youths who will see ads for the church cult while they’re browsing Playboy videos on YouTube?

30
Apr

The House of Mouse Shows Another Child Unbloused

By Simon Scowl 9 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses, Musicians, Television Actors and The Naughty Bits

Apparently I am the only person in North America who doesn’t care what Miley Cyrus did or did not wear in some dumb magazine, or anything she does anywhere else for that matter. But Disney is outraged, Bill O’Reilly is outraged, everybody’s outraged about the supposed sexualization of a 15-year-old girl. Even Deceiver is a little bit outraged! Disney has sent lil’ Miley into hiding to try to protect their franchise from the media storm.

But that’s just in the West. In China, apparently Disney is a lot more nonchalant about kids showing too much skin. Daniel Brooks, writing in Slate, brings news of a creepy Chinese ad campaign for Disney underwear, featuring an even younger girl in bra and panties. When he asked Disney about it, in light of their reaction to this Miley Cyrus debacle, a Disney spokesman said the Chinese ad (which is months old) was an oversight on their part and would be discontinued immediately. That’s great, but if Disney is so concerned with their kid-friendly image, why are they letting this stuff happen in the first place?

29
Apr

PETA Helps Struggling Animal Actors Find Unemployment. Sometimes.

By The Oversneer 12 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and PETA

aflac-duck.jpgI know I’ve been harping on PETA a bit much lately, but it’s hard to ignore this gem from Columbus, Georgia:

PETA has nominated Aflac for a PETA Litterbox Award for using a live, young ape in one of its latest commercials, “Orangutan.” The annual “awards” single out companies that portray animals negatively or use creatures like apes in advertising …

[PETA spokesdweeb Kristie] Phelps admitted PETA does not know which agency the orangutan used in the Aflac ad came from. But the animal rights group is now pushing Aflac to pull the ad and pledge to never use apes again in its advertisements …

In the “Orangutan” commercial, an employee asks her boss if the business has Aflac. Her boss tells her they have “something else” and gestures to an unruly orangutan hanging from a factory light, which represents another insurance company.

Aflac used the commercial — which first aired in January — to convey the idea that there is no substitute for Aflac. It was the 33rd installment of Aflac’s commercial series produced by the New York-based Kaplan Thaler Group.

Has PETA never seen the AFLAC commercials?

Hint: There’s a freakin’ DUCK in every single one. All 33 of them. And if that annoying voiceover from Gilbert Gottfried isn’t an example of “portraying animals negatively,” I don’t know what is. But it took a hairy ape to get PETA’s attention.

I guess the pigs from Animal Farm were right: Some animals are more “equal” than others.

All together now, with feeling … AFLAC!

29
Apr

The Bourne Hypocrisy

By Simon Scowl 10 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars

When Matt Damon hit it big 10 years ago, not many people foresaw him ever becoming a huge action star. And apparently he’s still not so sure about it himself. According to MTV’s Multiplayer blog, Damon refused to participate in the upcoming video game The Bourne Conspiracy because it’s too violent.

Wait. What?

Damon was in negotiations to lend his voice and likeness when development was getting off the ground, but he took issue with the game’s level of violence and pulled out…

Damon’s decision could be linked to feelings shared by his mother, [Nancy] Carlsson-Paige. Earlier this month, Paige participated in an online chat with newspaper The Boston Globe, where she shared strong feelings about violent games. “I am very wary of violent video games,” she said. “Research shows they desensitize kids to violence, even more because they engage kids in committing violence.”

When asked if she approves of her son’s violent films, she admitted they always agree on media issues. [I’m pretty sure this is supposed to say “they don’t always agree.”–SS] “Matt and I don’t share the same views about violence in adult films, but we do see eye-to-eye on the importance of protecting children,” she said. “We both support regulations to stop the marketing of violence in films to children through violent toys, products, and video games.”

So the movie star who’s made millions by pretending to beat up and kill people doesn’t think anybody else should be making a living from depictions of him beating up and killing people. Got it.

“Well, the Bourne movies are Rated R PG-13!” Which doesn’t keep kids from seeing them if they really want to, any more than the T–Teen rating is going to stop them from playing this video game. And that’s assuming the whole claim about video games causing violence is correct, which makes you wonder what caused violence during the 99% of human history before video games were invented.

Matt’s mommy is still trying to get on her high horse after he’s already ridden it all the way to the bank.

(Hat tip: Kotaku via Deceiver reader Aspen)

29
Apr

Spitzer’s Hooker Sues Girls Gone Wild for $10-Mil

By Holly Won't 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Legal Messes, Politicos and The Naughty Bits

dupre.jpgGov. Eliot Spitzer’s downfall Ashley Alexandra DuprĂ© has filed a $10-million lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild because, she alleges, they coerced her with booze into signing away the rights to her breasts when she was 17 years old.

Far be it from me to defend Joe Francis — talk about a Class-A douchebag — but seriously, an admitted hooker claiming that she had to be plied with alcohol to pull out the funbags for the camera? A bit hard to, um, swallow.

Francis tells TMZ:

“We were very surprised and in fact amazed today that Ms. Dupree filed a lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild. We have not publicly released any new video of Ms. Dupree, due to corporate policy of not using footage of individuals younger than 18. It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupree could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification.”

That would be her fake ID that said she was 21 at the time. How fast will this be tossed out of the courts? Before lunch, perhaps?

29
Apr

Sting & Trudy: Two More Ecocrites

By Simon Scowl 11 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Musicians and Socialites

Looks like the new trend among Green knowitalls is to scold others for not saving the planet, and then:

“When it comes to the carbon footprint, Sting puts his hand up immediately and says ‘I’m a musician and I have a huge carbon-footprint”,’ [Sting’s wife Trudy Styler] said.

She then asked: “Are we being hypocritical?’ before seeming to answer the question herself.

“He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge.

“I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It’s a difficult one.”

Neat trick, huh? Instead of making people try to wrap their heads around some lame, twisty excuse for your hypocrisy, you just flat-out admit it. Somehow, apparently, that makes it all okay. (Works for Arianna too. Or does it?)

Do they really need to do all that galavanting around? Sting must have more than enough money to last the rest of his life, no matter how many Tuscan estates he buys. Isn’t it just his ego keeping him out there, spewing far more than his fair share of carbon into the atmosphere and, if what he says is correct, helping to destroy the Earth? Does she really need to fly her chef 100 miles just to make her a bowl of pasta? Aren’t they really just two more rich, pompous jerks who don’t know what they’re talking about?

28
Apr

Arianna Huffington: “I’m Not Setting Myself Up as Some Kind of Paragon”

By Simon Scowl 3 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Socialites, U.S. Left-wing Politicos and Writers

 

Apparently this is going to be the new tack for Global Warmingers who don’t live like Global Warming actually exists: “I realize I’m a hypocrite! How can you criticize me for being a hypocrite if I’ve already admitted it?” You got us there, Arianna, I guess we can’t. But we don’t have to take you seriously either. “Save the planet, dahlink!” Every time I hear her voice, I expect Eddie Albert to pop up with a pitchfork.

(Hat tip: Hot Air)

28
Apr

Miley Cyrus Photo Scandal, Take Eleventy

By Holly Won't 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Musicians, Television Actors, The Naughty Bits, The Religious and Writers

miley_cyrus_vf.jpgMiley “I Do Everything For Jesus” Cyrus has admitted that it was indeed her (and not a lookalike) in those bra-baring photos we talked about last week.

And for all you pervs out in the interwebs, there are evidently more to come in the June issue of Vanity Fair.

Photos of the Disney star wearing just red lipstick and a bed sheet — shot by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz — have popped up online. For which Miley is already apologizing (again):

“I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” Miley said in a statement. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.”

Disney seems to be afraid that their little girl is going the Britney path a little too soon, but Vanity Fair stands by the shoot:

“Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines,” Disney spokeswoman Patti McTeague asserts to the Times.

Not surprisingly, Vanity Fair has a different take on how the photo shoot went down, with a rep insisting, “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”

This is pretty much why it’s never a good idea to try to make money off your morals: Someone always notices when you slip up.

28
Apr

Metallica to Give It Away for Free

By Holly Won't 9 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Legal Messes and Musicians

metallica.jpgMetallica seems to be regretting a little thing I like to call The Time They Destroyed Napster.

Back in 2000, the heavy-metal band sued the shiz out of the awesomeness that was once free music, claiming Napster was encouraging piracy and copyright infringement by allowing people to trade songs over their servers.

Of course, after years of irrelevance and crappy album sales, they’re thinking of following Radiohead’s lead and allowing people to download their next release for free.

Drummer Lars Ulrich says:

“We’re looking at how we can embrace everything. We want to be as free players as possible. We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] and in 27 years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the internet.”

Why? Because through the lens of experience they realized what a profoundly short-sighted move it was to punish people for downloading music online? iTunes, anyone?

Or maybe it’s because they were upset at being ranked No. 17 on Blender’s Biggest Wusses in Rock list last year due to “the anti-Napster crusade.” It’s bad for business if you’re supposed to be all rebellious and rules-eschewing but in reality you’re just whiny and lame.

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