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<title><![CDATA[Masturbation]]></title>
<link>http://imasexaddict.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/masturbation/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I never learned about masturbation.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never learned about masturbation.</p>
<p>My parents used to change the channel whenever something sexual happens on TV.</p>
<p>They also never taught me about masturbation, or sex.</p>
<p>One day, unsupervised, I stumbled upon Basic Instinct.</p>
<p>I was probably 10 years old.  The scene where Sharon Stone spread her legs.. wow.</p>
<p>That image preoccupied my mind until at about midnight, then <em>something</em> happened.</p>
<p>I wet my pants.</p>
<p>But I didn't <em>pee</em> my pants.  I wet them.  And it felt sort of good.  I ran to the bathroom, and cleaned myself up.  It was a feeling I strived to find.</p>
<p>I didn't know I had an orgasm.</p>
<p>I remember thinking, I probably was the only one that did it.  A part of me knew it was somewhat <em>wrong</em> to have these thoughts. But another part of me got a kick out of it.</p>
<p>Over time, I came to realise I wasn't the only one.  Most of my friends were doing their own thing.</p>
<p>I came to realise it was ok to do this.  And I loved it.</p>
<p>I remember once asking my mom what she thought of it.  She said she didn't know.</p>
<p>I asked my dad.  He said 'don't do it.  It makes you tired.'</p>
<p>It doesn't make me tired.  So I kept doing it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Basic Instinct]]></title>
<link>http://petrifyzone.wordpress.com/?p=2704</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Petrify</dc:creator>
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År: 1992
Genre: Thriller, Kriminalare
IMDb Betyg: 6,8
Skådisar: Michael Douglas (Nick Curran), S]]></description>
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<p><b>År:</b> 1992<br />
<b>Genre:</b> Thriller, Kriminalare<br />
<b>IMDb Betyg:</b> 6,8<br />
<b>Skådisar:</b> Michael Douglas (Nick Curran), Sharon Stone (Catherine Tramell), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Beth Garner), George Dzundza (Gus Moran), Stephen Tobolowsky (Dr. Lamott)</p>
<p><b>Handling:</b> En erotiska thrillern där en polis attraheras av den huvudmisstänkta i ett mordfall...</p>
<p><b>Kommentar:</b> Själva storyn och thrillerdelen är det inge fel på men alldels för mycket sexscener som gör att man nästan somnar av uttråkning.</p>
<p><b>Betyg:</b><img src="http://petrifyzone.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/betyg12.jpg"><img src="http://petrifyzone.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/betyg12.jpg"><img src="http://petrifyzone.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/betyg34.jpg"><img src="http://petrifyzone.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/betyg34.jpg"></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter As God! ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Article by Peter Bradshaw on screenwriting legend and all around wild man, Joe Eszte]]></description>
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<p><span class="281152211-16092008"><span class="671262301-19092008"><span class="875483809-19092008">Article by <span class="046041811-21092008">Peter Bradshaw on screenwriting legend and all around wild man, Joe Eszterhas.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p>At 62 years old, having earned an estimated 30 million dollars from writing screenplays such as the erotic thriller Basic Instinct, and with a brandname-recognition value that most other screenwriters can only dream about, Joe Eszterhas sure does have the bragging rights. Or does he? Eszterhas hasn't actually had a picture made for a while and maybe his great period is behind him: the glory days when this legendary bear of a man would terrify executives by taking out a gigantic hunting knife and stabbing it into the conference table before telling them why he was right and they were wrong, when he would bellow with rage at any Armani-wearing asshole who presumed to give him "notes" on a draft and when, as he cheerfully recalls in this book, Eszterhas gave Robert Harmon, the director of one of his scripts, a heart attack with a single, vituperative memo. The author growls: "Harmon recovered and went on to botch the movie, just as I knew he would."</p>
<p>Later, Eszterhas describes how he addressed a possible agent for his book-writing (his autobiography, Hollywood Animal, came out in 2004). "'I want you,' I said, 'to kill for me!' The agent, Ed Victor, urbane, sophisticated and very literary, blanched, and looked like he was having cardiac arrhythmia." At least Victor stayed on his feet and out of hospital.</p>
<p>In a business where politeness and a horror of "inappropriate" behaviour is all, and where the writer has in any case always been a supplicant figure, Eszterhas has formidable self-belief: "A gaffer on the Betrayed set told me he had an idea about my script that he wanted to discuss with me. I grabbed him by his lapels, bounced him off the wall, and hit him in the liver with a beautiful left hook."</p>
<p>These days, what distresses Eszterhas is the flourishing motivational-screenwriting seminar racket, and people such as Robert McKee, who, without ever having written anything resembling a hit movie, gives lectures on how to do it, in the process making real money and moreover having real crowds of attractive young women hanging on his every word. And it's Eszterhas's legendary paydays which created the market for this snake-oil. So his new book, a punchy, belligerent, sometimes banal but often hilarious collection of anecdotes and pointers, is an attempt to deride these parasites while at the same time muscling in on their territory with his own fantastically aggressive "advice".</p>
<p>It is the literary equivalent of priapism mixed with anger non-management: his fierce bons mots are like a drinker's opinions - not that Eszterhas needs to drink, particularly. That exclamation mark at the end of the title indicates precisely the sort of volume-increase that would get fainthearted studio-heads opening their chequebooks.</p>
<p>He is not interested in three-act story structures or narrative arcs; he doesn't do obstacles overcome, life-lessons learned, or redemption. Or at any rate he's not interested in telling you how to do it. But amid all the grumpy, reactionary stuff, the lumbering jokes at the expense of Michael Moore and the PC brigade, amid the mad and pointless war-stories about professional frenemies such as Michael Ovitz or Sylvester Stallone, Eszterhas does give some shrewd guidance. A writer needs Sitzfleisch, he says, sitting-flesh, the ability just to put your bum on the chair and write. He says you must write six pages a day, for 20 days, for a first draft, and there's plenty more solid factual material like this. He has a fierce respect for work and productivity.</p>
<p>It's his other gems that catch the attention more. "If you're masturbating and writing a script," he says sagely, "stop masturbating (but keep writing)". Was it really that way round when he penned Showgirls, his anti-masterpiece of smut? He claims he writes with a talismanic object on his desk, and for Showgirls it was "a pair of his wife's black lace panties". Despite being legendary for being a writer who actually slept with the leading lady - Sharon Stone - uxorious Eszterhas specifies his wife's underwear and, old-school guy that he is, unselfconsciously uses the word "panties".</p>
<p>He's at his funniest when hammering suckups among the writing fraternity who kowtow to directors and stars, letting them have "input". With a straight face, he quotes Ron Bass, screenwriter on Rain Man: "I wasn't smart enough to get it right away, but Steven Spielberg was extremely patient with me. He talked with me until I realised that this was not only something to get behind but really a much better way than I'd been going. Then we started to meet with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise [ ...] I can't tell you how much Dustin contributed and how much Steven contributed." Addressing an imaginary class of would-be writers, Eszterhas remarks acidly, of Bass's performance: "You don't have to bend over this low, or stick it up in the air this high ..."</p>
<p>A brutal metaphor, but clearly the one Eszterhas thinks is the most appropriate for the way Hollywood deals with its writers. Who is anyone to say that he's not right? His whole career has been about getting the producers and studio-heads to bend over for a change. An unedifying spectacle, maybe, but an entertaining one.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Movie marathon and ratings]]></title>
<link>http://philip9876.wordpress.com/?p=1429</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Liju Philip</dc:creator>
<guid>http://philip9876.it.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/movie-marathon-and-ratings/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Watching movies endlessly these past few weeks.  But iam unable to find any time to write a detaile]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watching movies endlessly these past few weeks.  But iam unable to find any time to write a detailed review of them. If and when i find time, i will write something detailed about the ones i liked.  As of now, a list of the movies and my ratings.</p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Basic Instinct -1 (4/5)<br />
Taken  (4/5)<br />
A Wednesday (4/5)<br />
21 (3/5)<br />
Mumbai Meri Jaan (3/5)<br />
Charlie Wilson's War (3/5)<br />
Rock On (3/5)<br />
Chamku (2/5)<br />
Hijack (1/5)<br />
Mukhbir (1/5)<br />
Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam (0/5)<br />
C Kompany (0/5)<br />
Meet the Spartans (0/5)<br />
Aeon Flux (0/5)<br />
Basic Instinct -2 (0/5)</strong></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[New erotic thriller from the director of Basic Instinct?]]></title>
<link>http://themovieplanet.wordpress.com/?p=418</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Hollow Man) has been approached by Relativity Media to direct The U]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/WanadooFilms/Thriller/BasicBethNick.jpg"><img class="alignnone" title="Basic Instinct" src="http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/WanadooFilms/Thriller/BasicBethNick.jpg" alt="" width="709" height="330" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (<em>Hollow Man</em>) has been approached by Relativity Media to direct <em>The Untitled Wendy Miller Thriller</em>, a film described as a blend of <em>Risky Business</em> and <em>Fatal Attraction</em> which follows a student who gets in over his head after sleeping with the principal's wife.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This will mark the acclaimed director's return to the "erotic thriller", a subgenre surprisingly difficult to get right judging from its catalogue, but which Verhoeven mastered with the 1992 controversial hit <em>Basic Instinct</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This project may take a while to get off the ground as Paul Verhoeven has quite a few other ones lined up since he returned to America after spending some time in Europe to make the Dutch World War 2 film <em>Black Book</em> which you should really watch, including the long-gestating sequel to <em>The Thomas Crown Affair</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18431246.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Merton and Joe Eszterhas]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Thomas Merton loved God and knew of God&#8217;s love. I think he would like this story, one written]]></description>
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<div id="l1"><strong>Thomas Merton loved God and knew of God's love. I think he would like this story, one written by a Hollywood writer named Joe Eszterhas. It may be an inspiration for all of us:</strong></div>
<div><strong>My Base Instincts and God's Love</strong></div>
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<p><strong>Seven years ago, I sat down on a curb near my home, sobbing, and asked God to  help me.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I had just had surgery for <span class="yshortcuts">throat cancer</span>. I still had a trache in my throat.  I had been told that if I didn't stop smoking and drinking immediately, I'd die.  I desperately didn't want to die. I adored my wife and children.</strong></p>
<p><strong>But I knew I couldn't stop. I'd started smoking when I was twelve and  drinking when I was 14. I was now 57 years old.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I cried and begged God to help me . . . and He did. I hadn't prayed since I  was a boy. I had made fun of God and those who loved God in my writings. And  now, through my sobs, I heard myself asking God to help me . . . and from the  moment I asked, He did.</strong></div>
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<p><strong>I didn't at first understand why He did. I didn't deserve His help, I  thought. I was unworthy. I ignore Him for forty years and then suddenly I ask  Him to help me and He does? It took me some time to understand that God helped  me because He loves me. Because even though we don't deserve God's love, God  loves us - all of us.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Not only did He give me the strength to be able to defeat my addictions, He  saved my life. My throat surgeon, Dr. Marshall Strome, told me seven years after  the surgery that I am "cured." Not that I am in remission, but that I am cured.  That my throat tissue has regenerated so remarkably that even a doctor examining  my throat wouldn't be able to tell that there was ever cancer there. Dr. Strome,  who had removed about eighty percent of my larynx, called this "a miracle."</strong></p>
<p><strong>I call it that, too. Why did God save the life of a man who had trashed,  lampooned, and marginalized Him most of his life? Why did He take the time and  the trouble to save me? It certainly wasn't because I had written <span class="yshortcuts">Basic Instinct</span> and Showgirls, right? Was it because my wife and I had four little boys we were  trying to raise? Possibly.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Or was it God's divinely impish <span class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom:1px dashed #0066cc;cursor:pointer;">sense of humor</span>? "Who, you? You're praying?  After<br />
everything you've done to break my commandments and after every nasty,  unfunny thing you've written about Me and those who follow Me - now you're  sobbing? Praying? Asking Me to help you? Hah! Okay, fine, I'll help you. But if  I do, know this: My help will obliterate the old, infamous you. You'll wind up  turning your life inside-out. You'll wind up stopping all of your excesses. You  know what will happen to you? You'll wind up telling the world what I did for  you. You'll wind up carrying my cross in church. Yes, I make all things new -  and you will be new, too."</strong></p>
<p><strong>Well, I thought I heard God saying all those things to me . . . and then all  of the things God said would happen . . . did. My life has turned inside-out. I  have stopped my excesses and replaced them with prayer and long walks. I am  carrying the cross as often as they'll let me at Holy Angels Church in  Bainbridge Township, Ohio. And I have written a book as a thank-you to God. Not  just for saving my life, but for saving me.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I am witness to and the beneficiary of God's love for all of us. Am I am  witness, too, to the fact that His love is so strong that it was even able to  open my rusty old closed heart.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I will thank Him forever because He gave me new life and a heart which is  truly able to love for the first time in my life. His love is mine.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Joe Eszterhas is the author of a new memoir called "<a rel="nofollow" href="http://us.macmillan.com/crossbearer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0e7890;"><span class="yshortcuts">Crossbearer</span></span></a>." He has written the screenplays for  sixteen films, totaling over $1 billion in box office revenue. His blockbusters  include Basic Instinct, <span class="yshortcuts">Jagged Edge</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;">Flashdance</span> and Showgirls. A former senior  editor at <span class="yshortcuts">Rolling Stone</span>, he is the author of five previous books - the second,  "Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse," was nominated for the <span class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom:medium none;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0 0;cursor:pointer;">National Book Award</span>.</strong></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Afrika's in fashion - tell your marketing friends]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[are you ready? now that American Apparel&#8217;s gone Authentic African (they should change their na]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>are you ready? now that <a href="http://www.americanapparel.net/" target="_blank">American Apparel's</a> gone <span style="color:#ff0000;">Authentic African</span> (they should change their name) on America, you can bet there's going to be a backlash. when i look at this i wonder what kind of person will buy and wear these clothes. maybe The Cobra Snake since he has been on a mission to <a href="http://thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/saveafrica/index.html" target="_blank">print T-shirts for kids in Africa</a> so they can be cool, too. maybe <span style="color:#ff0000;">Paris Hilton</span> would buy the boob tube for her trip down here when her Madden brother played in Africa, except that has already happened. Maybe all the rich Nigerian kids will buy their own patterns in another country when they do their yearly shop overseas and bring back stuff for their friends to buy (<span style="color:#ff0000;">see how i slipped in that free nugget of market research info in there?</span> i do that a lot, if you're observant you should see loads of free 'research', like free love, on my site). </strong></p>
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="562" caption="Afrika with a &#39;K&#39; - now in fashion. "]<img title="american apparel afrika" src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/Screenshot_71.png" alt="Afrika with a K - now in fashion. " width="562" height="638" />[/caption]
<p><strong>i was just thinking it would be really cool to bring out a Jacob Zuma range which is the same as what you see here except they throw in a really short skirt that shows your knees (<span style="color:#ff0000;">American Apparel fans will be pleased to know that in AfriCa, if you show your knees, it means you're a dirty slut who'll have sex in exchange for money - which is a LOT  easier than the American equivalent where you actually have to flash your hoo-hoo when you're getting out of your limo</span>).</strong></p>
<p><strong>i was also thinking<span style="color:#ff0000;"> they should make a print of the AIDS virus </span>because that is very much in fashion in AfriCa (seriously, almost every 3rd person has it. How far will you really go to be cool, American Apparel fans?<span style="color:#ff0000;"> only those who have REAL COOL AMBITION will make it to this level.</span> you have to really WANT it.).</strong></p>
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="288" caption="The AIDS print. This season&#39;s must-have in AfriCa. Flannel is so last century. "]<img title="aids virus" src="http://www.greenfacts.org/glossary/images/hiv-aids.jpg" alt="The AIDS print. This seasons must-have in AfriCa. Flannel is so last century. " width="288" height="281" />[/caption]
<p><strong>Anyway, it's actually awesome to have some of our indigenous stuff getting respect in mainstream retail outlets world wide. big up to AA. </strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Renée Zellweger replaces Sharon Stone]]></title>
<link>http://themovieplanet.wordpress.com/?p=302</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mr Hollywood</dc:creator>
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Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger has joined the cast of My Own Love Song, the English-languag]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger has joined the cast of <em>My Own Love Song</em>, the English-language debut for writer/director Olivier Dahan (<em>La Vie En Rose</em>). Zellweger steps in for Sharon Stone (the <em>Basic Instinct</em> films), who recently left the project.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Described as a "road movie", <em>My Own Love Song</em> will be a love story between a former singer in wheelchair and an injured fireman. The film will start shooting next month and co-stars Forest Whitaker (<em>Street Kings</em>) and Madeline Zima (Showtime's <em>Californication</em>).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Renée Zellweger will next be seen in the western <em>Appaloosa</em>, rolling out on September 19th in the US and the UK.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Man Behind 'Basic Instinct,' 'Showgirls' Reveals Faith in New Book ]]></title>
<link>http://juliapalermo.wordpress.com/?p=387</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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By Josh Kimball
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Aug. 29 2008 09:48 AM EDT

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<div>By Josh Kimball</div>
<div>Christian Post Reporter</div>
<div>Fri, Aug. 29 2008 09:48 AM EDT</div>
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<p>The man behind “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls” will have his memoirs published next week to share with the world how one of America’s most notorious screenwriters turned his life around since finding God.</p>
<p>After years of smut and violence, Joe Eszterhas says he found God one hot summer day in 2001 as he desperately battled to survive throat cancer and his addictions to alcohol and cigarettes.</p>
<p>“I didn’t even really know how to pray,” Eszterhas writes in his upcoming book <em>Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith</em>.</p>
<p>“I didn’t know what to say, so one of the first things I said was ‘I’m sorry. I’ve acted like a colossal A-hole. I’m really, really sorry. I don’t deserve to be forgiven, but please try to forgive me.’”</p>
<p>Prior to his conversion, Eszterhas was the “Shakespeare of the Jerry Springer crowd,” writing dark, sexually graphic, and violent films like "Basic Instinct," "Jagged Edge," and "Jade."</p>
<p>“Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy's Hugh Hefner: They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs,” wrote Slate magazine’s David Plotz back in 1998 – a decade before he became the magazine’s editor. “Hefner published pictures of naked women and believed himself a radical. Eszterhas writes movies about naked women and believes himself an artist.”</p>
<p>In the late 1990s, however, Eszterhas gave up the Hollywood lifestyle, and moved with his wife and four sons to a small suburb of Cleveland, where one month later he was diagnosed with throat cancer.</p>
<p>In their effort to prolong Eszterhas’ life, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic removed 80 percent of his larynx, put a tracheotomy tube in his throat, and told him he must quit drinking and smoking immediately.</p>
<p>While Eszterhas wanted to change his ways, after a lifetime of wild living, the 56-year-old Hungarian native knew it would be a struggle to do so. And it was.</p>
<p>In the summer of 2001, Eszterhas reached a breaking point and for the first time since he was a child, he prayed for God’s help.</p>
<p>"I was going crazy. I was jittery. I twitched. I trembled. I had no patience for anything. … Every single nerve ending was demanding a drink and a cigarette," he writes in <em>Crossbearer</em>.</p>
<p>After his prayer, however, he felt an overwhelming peace.</p>
<p>It was "an absolutely overwhelming experience," he recalled to the Toledo Blade earlier this month.</p>
<p>Eszterhas went from doubting if he could make it through life without tobacco and alcohol to knowing that he could "defeat myself and win."</p>
<p>"Frankly my life changed from the moment God entered my heart. I'm not interested in the darkness anymore," he told the Blade.</p>
<p>Eszterhas has reportedly turned down hefty offers to write scripts for movies with sinister plots and dark themes like the 16 other ones he wrote that made it to the screen – some paying as much as $3 million a script.</p>
<p>"I've got four gorgeous boys, a wife I adore, I love being alive, and I love and enjoy every moment of my life. My view has brightened and I don't want to go back into that dark place," he said.   <a href="http://christianpost.com/article/20080829/man-behind-basic-instinct-showgirls-reveals-faith-in-new-book_page2.htm">Continue Reading....</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Basic Instinct]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A brutal murder,
a beautiful suspect, and
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a beautiful suspect, and<br />
the cop who loves her.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sharon Stone dating a 24-year-old?  ]]></title>
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Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone is reportedly dating a man who is less than half her age. Accordin]]></description>
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<p>Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone is reportedly dating a man who is less than half her age. According to reports Stone, 50, is dating a 24-year-old guy called Chase Dreyfous. The actress is not talking about it, but Dreyfous boasted about his new romance with friends at a recent party.</p>
<p>A source said: "Sharon called him and he showed the caller ID to everyone. She is really into him and even asked him to come with her to Mexico."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sem efeito.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Quando saí do cinema estava extasiado.  Trilha sonora, enredo bacana e uma atriz, até então des]]></description>
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<p>Quando saí do cinema estava extasiado.  Trilha sonora, enredo bacana e uma atriz, até então desconhecida pra mim, uma tal de Sharon Stone que mesmo muda, dormindo, era sexy pacas!!</p>
<p>Pois é, isso foi há mto tempo.</p>
<p>Revendo esse filme hoje, pelo Telecine, percebi que o encanto acabou.  A famosa cruzada de pernas não pega nem nerd virgem.  As cenas de sexo são basic instinct (sim, foi um trocadilho infame com o título original). Óbvio até não poder mais, ou seja, um filme ruim. Salvam-se alguns diálogos e a beleza estonteante da loira má!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[SHARON STONE DANS "BASIC INSTINCT 2".....NUE !]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Basic Instinct le retour / KAMERUN SCOOP
Vous vous souvenez probablement du film qui consacra la bel]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Vous vous souvenez probablement du film qui consacra la belle quinquagenaire Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct. Eh bien, la star nous la rejoue avec bonheur et grâce. Découvrez la sublime artiste dans le croisement décroisement de jambes, <a href="http://allainjulesblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/le-nouveau-basic-instinct-de-sharon.html"><span style="color:#ff0000;">ICI.</span></a></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dark Night - Auch der neue Batman-Film wird an der Kinokasse enttäuschen]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nach 33 Tagen in den nordamerikanischen Kinos sprechen sagenhafte 475 Millionen Dollar Einspielergeb]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nach 33 Tagen in den nordamerikanischen Kinos sprechen sagenhafte 475 Millionen Dollar Einspielergebnis eine eindeutige Sprache für das neueste Batman-Abenteuer. Von einem Blockbusterergebis wurde ausgegangen, doch schon das erste Wochenende <a href="http://movies.hsx.com/exchange/graph/index.htm?auto_scale=1&#38;size=large&#38;dynamic_schema=hsxmr&#38;start_date_month=7&#38;start_date_day=1&#38;start_date_year=2008&#38;end_date_month=7&#38;end_date_day=31&#38;end_date_year=2008&#38;field=daily_close&#38;ticker_symbol=BATM2" target="_self">überraschte</a> die <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Beobacher</span> Spieler der Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX).</p>
<p>Momentan befindet sich "The Dark Night" auf dem 2. Platz der erfolgreichsten Filme aller Zeiten in den USA und Kanada. Die Liste führt nur noch James Camerons "Titanic" (1997) mit rund 601 Millionen Dollar Einspielergebnis an.</p>
<p>Doch die Aussagekraft solcher Zahlen sind sehr beschränkt:</p>
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<li>Vergleicht man nicht die Höhe des Einspielerbegnisses, sondern die der Kinozuschauer, haben heutige Filme keine Chance mehr unter die Top Ten zu gelangen. Einerseits war das Kino bis zur weiten Verbreitung des Fernsehens das Unterhaltungsmedium schlecht hin. Andererseits sind Kinokarten heute deutlich teurer als zu Zeiten von "Vom Winde verweht" (1939), dem Film mit dem inflationsbereinigten höchsten Umsatz an den Kinokassen.</li>
<li>Außerdem veränderte sich die Verwertung eines Films. Bis in die 1970er Jahre wanderten die teuren Hollywood-Produktionen in einer Roadshow von Kinopalast zu Kinopalast, bevor dann der Film dann in den gleichen Regionenen noch einmal gezeigt wurde. Waren es zuerst die besten Kinohäuser am Platz mit höheren Eintrittspreisen, wurden dann die Filme jetzt zu günstigeren Kartenpreisen in technisch schlechter ausgestattenen und meist am Stadtrand befindlichen Kinotheatern gezeigt. Da es außer dem Fernsehen keine weitere Auswertungsmöglichkeit gab, waren die einzelnen Filmkopien sehr lange im Einsatz. Erst mit dem Bau von Multiplexen mit mehreren Sälen und dem Druck durch eine hohe Kopienzahl schon in den ersten Kinowochen viel Geld einzuspielen, verkürzte sich auch die Kinoauswertungszeit. "Der weiße Hai" von Regisseur Steven Spielberg gilt als Beginn des Blockbusterkinos. Das Marketing eines Films veränderte deren Wahrnehmung hin zu einem Must-See-Erlebnis.</li>
<li>Eigentlich ist folgender Punkt nur eine Kleinigkeit. Auch in den elf Jahren seit dem "Titanic"-Erfolg veränderte sich die Filmauswertung. Waren sich die Hollywood-Majors schn bewußt, wie wirtschaftlich notwendig eine Auswertung im VHS-Format ist, schuf die damals neue DVD eine über den Filmliebhaber hinaus eine Sammlerleidenschaft, die sich in einem gegenüber dem Kinoumsatz höheren Home-Entertainment-Umsatz darstellte. Immer kürzere Kinoauswertungsfenster waren die Folge. Und um trotzdem den Kinobesuchern die Möglichkeit zugeben, einen Film im Kino zu sehen und nicht von ausverkauften Kinos steigerten sich parallel zur Anzahl der Kinosäle auch die Filmkopien eines einzelnen Films. Denn nachweislich gehen die meisten Kinobesucher in den ersten Wochen nach Filmstart ins Lichtspielhaus.</li>
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<p>So relativiert sich der wirtschaftliche Erfolg von Christopher Nolans-Film schon deutlich. (Über die künstlerischen Qualitäten wird hier auch nicht gesprochen werden. Um den vielen positiven Rezensionen entgegen zuwirken, darf hier David Bordwell Blogeintrag über dessen <a href="http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=2713" target="_self">Enttäuschung</a> beim Kinobesuch erwähnt werden.)</p>
<p>War der Erfolg des Comic-Helden an den US-Kinokassen symptomatisch für die strategisch sinnvolle Fusion des Zeitschriftenverlags Time Inc. und der Warner Communications, so können die weiteren drei Batman-Filme in den 1990er Jahre nicht verhöhlen, dass sich die Filmabteilung desweltgrößte Medienkonzern in eine Krise hineinbewegte. Jedenfalls wenn es sich um ihren Comichelden aus Gotham City handelt.</p>
<p>Mit den Übernahme durch Aktientausch mit Ted Turners Turner Broadcastig Systems (TBS) und der Fusion mit AOL wuchs der Konzern zwar weiterhin. Das Wachstum war aber extern. Verwunderlich war das der ebenfalls im Konzernbesitz befindliche DC Comicverlag mit seinen unzähligen Vorlagen für die audiovisuelle Umsetzng so schlecht eingebunden war.</p>
<p>Erst Erfolge á la "Spider-Man" (2002) und der ersten beiden "X-Men"-Filme (2000 und 2003), ließen die Warner-Oberen ihre beiden Comic-Helden neuerschaffen. Einerseits durfte der mit kostspieligen Filmen bisher unerfahrene Christopher Nolan Batman filmisch neu erschaffen, anderseits wurde der 20th Century Fox und dessen X-Men-Universum Bryan Singer entrissen und dieser durfte die Rückkehr des Super-Man gestalten.</p>
<p>(Nicht zu vergessen bleiben dürfen die unfruchtbaren Versuche von Tim Burton und Nicolas Cage im Revival von Superman. Auch Wolfgang Petersens Überlegungen, die schon in Comics aufeinandertreffenden Helden aus Metropolis und Gotham City ebenfalls auf der Kinoleinwand miteinander  spielen zu lassen, schafften es nicht, die Development Hell zu verlassen. Vom Comic-Fan Kevin Smith ganz zu schweigen ...)</p>
<p>In Deutschland hatte der Held aus dem Hause Time Warner schon seit dem ersten Film schlechte Karten. Hier die Zahlen:</p>
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<li>1989: "Batman" verkauft rund 1,8 Millionen Kinokarten. Das Autisten-Drame "Rain Man" mit Tom Cruise und Dustin Hoffman war in diesem Jahr die Nummer Eins in Deutschland. 5,7 Millionen Karten machen einen deutlichen Unterschied aus.</li>
<li>1992: Tim Burton lies mehr Bösewichter auf Batman los, die Kinozuschauer im vereinten Deutschland dankten im aber nicht. Nur 967 757 Zuschauer wollen "Batmans Rückkehr" sehen. Den berühmten Beinüberschlag von Sharon Stone ließen sich dagegen 4,4 Millionen Kinozuschauer nicht entgehen.</li>
<li>1995: Nachdem sich Burton aus Gotham City verabschiedete und auch Hauptdarsteller Michael Keaton nur mit Burton als Regisseur auch das Bat-Kostüm anziehen wollte, mußte sich Warner Bros. nach Ersatz umsehen. Mit Joel Schumacher und Val Kilmer war dieser gefunden. Doch mit 1,3 Millionen Kinozuschauer konnte "Batman Forever" nicht gegen den Zeichentrickfilm "König der Löwen" (über 11 Millionen Zuschauer seit dem Kinostart Ende 1994) bestehen und landete nur auf dem 31. Platz der Jahresliste.</li>
<li>1997: Joel Schumacher nahm zum zweiten Mal Platz auf dem Regiestuhl, doch wurde der damalige Fernsehstar George Clooney ("Emergency Room") als Titelheld gecastet. Mit Arnold Schwarzenegger in der Rolle des Bösewichts Mr. Freeze, daneben noch die bezaubernde, aber böse Uma Thurman und Chris O´Donell und Alicia Silverstone als überflüssige Bat-Unterstützer, war "Batman &#38; Robin" so überflüssig, wie ein Kühlschrank in der Arktis. Trotzdem verkauften sich rund 1,3 Millionen Kinokarten. Doch gegenüber dem Jahresbesten "Men in Black" (7,3 Millionen Zuschauer) darf diese Zahl ebenfalls als Enttäuschung gewertet werden.</li>
<li>2005: Die Kritiker freuten sich über die Neugeburt "Batman Begins". Doch nur 888 376 Zuschauer wollten Christopher Nolans Inszenierung  mit dem Charakterdarsteller Christian Bale sehen. "Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch" zog als <a href="http://coverageink.blogspot.com/2006/09/meet-four-quadrants.html" target="_self">Vier-Quadranten-Film</a> hingegen rund 7,3 Millionen Zuschauer an. Time Warner war aber sicher nicht traurig über Batmans Abschneiden, denn die filmische Abenteuer i Hogwarts werden ebenfalls durch den Medienkonzern verwertet.</li>
<li>2008 (Prognose): Deutschland wird auch dieses Mal wieder nicht zum Heimspiel des Superhelden. "The Dark Knight" wird es wie schon sein Vorgänger schwer haben, die Millionen-Zuschauergrenze zuüberwinden.</li>
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<p>Interessant ist allerdings, dass Filme wie die drei "Spider-Man"-Filme aus dem Hause Sony (5,2 Mio., 3,3 Mio., 3,1 Mio.) und auch die "X-Men"-Reihe der News Corporation-Tochter 20th Century Fox (2,3 Mio., 1,9 Mio., 1,6 Mio.) deutlich mehr Kinozuschauer anziehen, als es Batman bisher gelang. Dem Time-Warner-Konzern wird dies aber nicht schmerzen. Denn der "The Dark Knight"-Erfolg trägt nur zu geringem Maße zum Gesamterfolg bei und spiegelt sich auch nicht im Aktienkurs wieder. Ein aufschlußreicher <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/business/media/10warner.html?pagewanted=all" target="_self">Artikel</a> in der New York Times gibt dafür Erklärungsversuche ab. Und ab 2010 darf mit dem nächsten Abenteuer des dunklen Ritters gerechnet werden. Immerhin wurde der nächste Bösewicht schon eingeführt: Harvey Dent als Two-Face. Vielleicht wird dann auch der Joker wieder aus dem Off über den kommerziellen Erfolg lachen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Spot the Difference - II]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If I had been a non-smoker, I never would have witnessed the mildly erotic display.  Sitting outsid]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I had been a non-smoker, I never would have witnessed the mildly erotic display.  Sitting outside a restaurant in Avondale, I lit up a cigarette.  The gentle breeze blew the smoke in my wife's face, naturally I volunteered to switch seats and the offer was duly accepted.</p>
<p>Changing places gave me an uninterrupted view of the girl dining with her mother at the next table.  She was in her early twenties, cute, with dark brown hair in a short style that framed her face.  In keeping with a warm summer evening, she wore a knee-length, pale yellow dress that had a pale blue geometrical pattern, slender straps; and the low cut revealed the upper contours of her small but ample breasts.</p>
<p>The girl and her mother dined and chatted.  My wife and I dined, chatted and watched the world go by.  Suddenly, the girl's cell phone rang.  She answered and made to leave the table, not wishing her mother to overhear the conversation.</p>
<p>And that is when it occurred.  Still seated, the girl moved her right leg about 18 inches to the right in order to gain leverage to rise from the seat; in doing so, she gave me a PG-rated Sharon Stone moment.  It was impossible to avoid.  The narrowing gap between her inner thighs was right in my line of vision and drew my gaze in toward the triangular target of male desire, hidden by the dark blue marbled pattern of her panties or thong.</p>
<p>Like Dan Maskell commentating for the BBC on the Wimbledon tennis championships of yesteryear, my response was, "Ooooo, I say."  My wife threw me a puzzled glance.  With the girl now several yards away deep in her conversation, I explained what I had just seen, adding that it was most unladylike.</p>
<p>You see I was brought up in an age when young women were careful not to reveal that most intimate part of their anatomy to public gaze.  When the mini-skirt came on to the fashion scene, girls were careful how they sat down and got up from a sitting position; legs were always kept firmly pressed together.  When bending down to retrieve something from the floor, they would bend at the knees and stoop gracefully to pick up whatever it was that had fallen.  Even when wearing jeans, girls did not bend down from the waist.  It took liberation during the 1970s before jeans-clad young women adopted the more mannish posture that is now commonplace.</p>
<p>When the girl came back to her table, I became more and more intrigued by the incident.  Surely she must have been aware of what she had revealed in front of my gaze?  It wasn't like she was some gawky 14-year-old, with braces on her teeth, and completely unaware that what lies between her legs is highly sought after, a prize that men will lie, cheat, steal, even kill for.  And it wasn't as if I was wearing dark glasses and carrying a white cane.</p>
<p>After finishing my cuban panini, served with coleslaw, I settled back with a cup of coffee and whiled away the time with conversation and a cigarette or two.  The girls' cell phone rang again and she reprised the earlier glimpse of her femininity, as she once again moved away from her table.</p>
<p>Now, once might have been an inadvertent lapse in decorum on her part, twice set me thinking.  I began to suspect that it might be some kind of game and she knew exactly what she was doing.  It was one big tease, as if to say to me, "You can look, but you can't touch."</p>
<p>Again, I told my wife and put forward my theory that the girl was deliberately flaunting herself at me.  My wife, like most wives, was quick to deflate my male ego.  She instantly dismissed the theory and proffered a more pragmatic explanation; the girl's dress, given the warmth and humidity of the evening, might have stuck to the chair and that had caused it to ride up.  I countered that it had nothing to do with the dress but the manner in which the girl moved.  Rather than opening her legs to get up from the seat, she should have swiveled to one side with her legs pressed together and then stood up.</p>
<p>The girl's mother must have overhead me and passed this information to her daughter because, when they decided to leave a few minutes later, the girl followed the exact procedure I had described.  I was thus denied a third and final view.  She had reverted to her basic instinct.</p>
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