Apple has finally allowed pornography into the iTunes App Store. The application, called Hottest Girls, costs $2 and includes “2200+ images of topless, sexy babes and nude models”.
UPDATE: TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has pulled the app from its App Store, stating, “it appears someone over at Cupertino [has] ultimately decided to reject the first such app.” However, the removal of the app is only a temporary one, according to the app’s developer, who states the he made the decision to stop distributing the app himself.
Allen Leung, developer of Hottest Girls, posted on his web site that his app is “temporarily sold out” due to overload on his image server.
via Porn Comes to the iTunes App Store | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
If you think The Dark Knight s “Why So Serious” campaign or Joaquin Phoenix s outlandish behavior on the Late Show with David Letterman are something new you re sadly mistaken. Stirring up controversy and publicizing the sensational have long proven surefire ways of generating ticket sales at the box office. This first of two parts looks at the history of gimmickry up until 1960. With movies sex as always sells. The Broken Oath 1910 The Publicity Hoax Independent Motion Picture Company founder Carl Laemmle stole Biograph Studio s then-anonymous Florence Lawrence by promising her marquee recognition. Up till then she was simply “The Biograph Girl”. He also generated massive publicity by fueling a false story about how Lawrence had been killed in a NYC streetcar accident. Once enough sympathy had been raised Laemmle admitted it was a “cowardly… silly lie” via an ad in Moving Picture World. Shortly thereafter at the premiere of The Broken Oath 1910 Lawrence made an appearance with leading man King Baggot at a St. Louis train station. These events mark the first major movie industry publicity stunt to receive widespread press. Child Bride 1938 : Teenage Nudity Legendary producer promoter Kroger Babb took his pic Child Bride on the road and made the most of its sexploitation content with taglines like “A throbbing drama of shackled youth ” and “Where Lust was called Just.” Banned in many locations because of its underage nudity the “educational” aspect of the plot about the dangers of underage marriage was designed to circumvent Production Code restrictions. The movie claimed to have a positive goal too: “If our story will help to abolish Child Marriage — it will have served its purpose.”
via AMC – Blogs – Future of Classic – The List – Greatest Movie Hoaxes, Gimmicks and Stunts.
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