Google is reportedly planning to unveil an all-new look for Google Maps during the company’s annual I/O conference set to kick off next week. The new interface will deliver full-screen maps with no sidebars or other distractions to eat up valuable real estate. Instead, everything will be displayed in floating… … Read More
Google to unveil new Maps interface at I/O conference next week
Google is reportedly planning to unveil an all-new look for Google Maps during the company’s annual I/O conference set to kick off next week. The new interface will deliver full-screen maps with no sidebars or other distractions to eat up valuable real estate. Instead, everything will be displayed in floating… … Read More
Hamptons socialite allegedly stabbed and strangled employees
Joselyn Wohl, 33, daughter of Brooklyn real estate mogul Larry Wohl, allegedly stabbed her life coach, 31-year-old Sajjadur Rahman, in the hand with a fork. According to the New York Post, the socialite was aiming for Rahman’s face. These charges come just four months after Joselyn Wohl was…
‘Deep Throat’ porn star Harry Reems dies at age 65
Former US porn actor Harry Reems, who starred opposite Linda Lovelace in the pioneering 1972 adult film “Deep Throat,” has died aged 65, a friend said Wednesday. The ex-actor, real name Herbert Streicher, fell out with Lovelace and became a real estate agent in the western state of…
RIP, Harry Reems, Who Starred in Deep Throat with Linda Lovelace
Harry Reems, an ex-Marine who starred in Deep
Throat, the most profitable porn movie – and maybe just movie
movie – of all time, has died after battling various illnesses. He
was 65.
From The Onion A/V Club obit:
In 1973, ;Manhattan
Judge Joel J. Tyler ;famously deemed ;Deep
Throat ;obscene, variously calling it a “feast of carrion
and squalor,” “a nadir of decadence” and “a Sodom and Gomorrah gone
wild before the fire.” In 1976, Reems—along with more than 60 other
individuals and companies—was indicted in Memphis, Tennessee, and
successfully convicted of conspiracy to distribute obscenity across
state lines.
(Perversely, both [co-star Linda] Lovelace and [director Gerard]
Damiano served as witnesses for the prosecution, having been
granted immunity for their testimony. According to Reems, “Linda
Lovelace just stood there, pointed, and said, ‘Yeah, that’s the
actor I did the sex with in the movie,’ and the director stood up
and said, ‘Yeah, that’s the actor I directed to have sex in the
movie.’”)
Read the whole thing here.
Deep Throat may have grossed as much as $600 million.
Reems was paid $100 for his efforts. He eventually left the adult
movie biz, stopped drinking and drugging to excess, became a
Christian, and went into real estate in Utah. The A/V piece
includes the tidbit that Reems was originally cast to play the gym
teacher in the John Travolta/Olivia Newton John film of
Grease, but was bounced due to his clothes-shedding
past.
Hat tip: Sean
Higgins of the Washington Examiner.
Back in 2010, Reason TV asked, “Should Obscenity be
Illegal?”
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“Rainbow equality house” moves in across the street from Westboro Baptist compound
Aaron Jackson, a co-founder of environmental and humanitarian nonprofit Planting Peace, had ambitions to become more active in gay rights advocacy but didn’t know the best way to do it.Turns out, real estate was the answer.After seeing a “For Sale” sign across the street from the anti-gay hate group Westboro Baptist’s compound in Topeka, Kansas, Jackson decided to buy the property. Oh, and paint it to look like a rainbow flag.As Jackson told the Huffington Post:I didn’t know anything about the church or where they were located, but that story kept popping up. And one night I wondered, Where is this church? I got on Google Earth, and I was ‘walking down the road,’ and I did a 360 view. And I saw a ‘For Sale’ sign sitting in the front yard of a house. Right away it hit me, Oh my gosh, I could buy a house in front of the WBC! And immediately I thought: And I’m going to paint that thing the color of the pride flag.Continue Reading… … Read More
Trump, rejoice! “Celebrity Apprentice” ratings slightly up
After Donald Trump’s “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” got off to a weaker-than-usual start this season, we speculated that his political advocacy might have damaged the series (on which he doesn’t appear, much, but for the very beginning and the end of each two-hour episode).Instead, after Trump’s speech at CPAC at the end of last week, in which the real-estate magnate took Mitt Romney to task for not talking enough about his success, “Celebrity Apprentice” improved from the previous week both overall and in the prized 18-49 demographic. Indeed, the series won the 10p.m. hour among that demographic by the largest margin of the season against “The Mentalist.”With just about everything else at NBC flatlining, Donald Trump — and competitors including Dennis Rodman and Gary Busey — shall stay employed for weeks to come.Continue Reading… … Read More
