Jimmy Kimmel is no fan of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulatory body in charge of policing the airwaves. So each week he does a segment called “This Week In Unnecessary Censorship,” that takes normal every day language and makes it seems lewd by bleeping out words or phrases. As a result everything from “Sesame Street,” to “Mr. Rogers” comes out dirty…and hilarious.
Sasha Grey is the adult industry’s reigning princess of porn, a rock & roll 21-year-old with an actual mission statement — “Most of the XXX I see is boring, and does not arouse me physically or visually. I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone’s fantasies” — and few taboos. Rolling Stone’s Vanessa Grigoriadis jumped into Grey’s wild world for a profile in the new issue, and describes the Kate Beckinsale lookalike as “the smartest person I’ve ever met in that industry” (Grigoriadis has previously visited porn sets to profile XXX goddesses like Jenna Jameson).
Though the pornography biz has been reshaped by the recession and the digital age, Grey has managed to make the jump from bondage flicks on the ‘Net to a Steven Soderbergh film at the Tribeca Film Festival. But as Grigoriadis quickly learned, Grey is far from a typical porn star. She’s co-managed by Dave Navarro, pals with Billy Corgan and cites French director Jean-Luc Godard in everyday conversation. While most porn actresses would jump at the chance to get naked on the Howard Stern Show, Sasha wants to appear on the shock jock’s program with a Palestinian flag wrapped around her breasts to confront the man she believes is a closet racist.
Soon, Grey will be seen on the big screen as a call girl in Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience (watch the film’s trailer here). “She definitely has higher aspirations, far larger than porn,” says Grigoriadis. “She wants to get into indie mainstream film; I can’t see her being interested in any Michael Bay projects,” she adds, referring to the director of blockbusters like Transformers. “She took acting lessons for 10 years in Sacramento, so she wants to be an actress.”
LOS ANGELES — Peter Housley puts it simply: Twitter is a tool.
“The biggest problem with Twitter is that people log onto it and say, ‘What the heck is this?’ It’s not a user-friendly tool like Facebook, but it’s a tool.”
Housley has cashed in on the Twitter-mania with a network of sites that aggregate adult industry twitter activity and operate under the corporation NaughtyTweet.com. He’s the CEO. In all, Housley told XBIZ that his sites rack the daily goings-on of almost 600 performers, executives and other industry members.
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