Celebrity Gunk alert! Electra hated stripping...

[sunnysmiles]

I hate MSN 'news'... But I thought this was interesting - but obviously not surprising, I just hope for the day when ALL playboy centrefolds confess the same.


http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/ ... t=&abc=abc

Carmen Electra: scared to strip and not a good swimmer

(KP International) Sex-kitten Carmen Electra recently confessed she didn't enjoy the two things that may have made her most famous: baring it all for 'Playboy' magazine and being on 'Baywatch.'

Carmen Electra (CPimages/AP)
Electra revealed that stripping-down for Hugh Hefner's famous adult magazine was nerve-wracking. "I hadn't really thought about taking my clothes off in front of so many people there's a photographer, his assistant, a hair person and a makeup artist," said Electra. "It's terrifying!"

As for her role as seductive lifeguard Lani McKenzie, Electra admitted she wasn't too fond of that either. "I really wasn't the best swimmer," she said. "I'd be swimming in the ocean, trying to look good and I'd get salt water in my eyes and up my nose. We'd have to stop and do it all again. It really wasn't glamorous."

[CoolAunt]

Yeah, well then maybe she shouldn't have done it. (I'm sorry. Shitty mood.)

[sunnysmiles]

Yeah - we all feel that way sometimes. I hope you feel better soon...

But it's 'interesting' that the two things that made her famous - are the two things she wish she hadn't done... of course that's the whole catch 22 - if you are an attractive woman, you've got bare it all in order to be famous nowadays, or play a beach 'bimbo' forceably drinking saltwater - just so that they can get a good head and boob shot of you.

[rich]

Well, she made a whole lot more money off of her Strip Excercise videos where she doesn't actually strip, cashing in on women who still do.

even in Buffalo there's a "strip away the pounds" type aerobics studio with poles installed, so it's strange that a celebrity gossip columnist chose to use the word "stripping" for posing nude in playboy without mentioning that aspect at it (because "stripping" isn't commonly used anymore for merely undressing)

[CoolAunt]

Well, she made a whole lot more money off of her Strip Excercise videos where she doesn't actually strip, cashing in on women who still do.

Sounds like a bad case of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

[Starburst]

I'm sending this to my friend whose obsessed with porn--esp. Carmen. and Pam.

[oneangrygirl]

sorry, this quote doesn't impress me much. she's still working it everywhere she goes.

[sunnysmiles]

Don't ask me why I subject myself to reading msn crap...


Kilmer's strip hitch http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/ ... t=&abc=abc

'Batman Forever' star Val Kilmer was so desperate to get to a strip club he hitched a lift with a stranger.


(BANG) - Val Kilmer was so desperate to get to a strip club he hitched a lift with a complete stranger.

The Hollywood actor approached the puzzled motorist after he got fed up of waiting for his car service to collect him from a London theatre, where he is appearing onstage in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'.

After explaining his predicament the 'Heat' star jumped into the passenger seat and they drove away.

A source is quoted on MSNBC.com as saying: "It was totally bizarre. He approached a complete stranger who had parked his car outside the theater for a quick cigarette.

"He said to him, 'I'm Val Kilmer - can you take me to Stringfellows?' And the bloke obliged! Val jumped in and headed off."

[CoolAunt]

Rebecca Romijn loves X-rated sex
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowbizNews.asp?Co ... xrated_sex

I can't believe I've made it this far without knowing this earth-breaking news.

[oneangrygirl]

see here:
http://www.oneangrygirl.net/ignore.html

[sunnysmiles]

hahahahaha - are you trying to tell me something oag?

No seriously though, this kind of stuff is handy just as a reference tool... no? I.e. celebs who make things worse for the rest of us, and female celebs who we could use in our arguments re - how they didn't like doing certain things....



But if u insist....

[oneangrygirl]

do whatever you want. it's merely a suggestion that has improved my own life.

[sunnysmiles]

I'll keep it limited to this thread, as it is not 'directly' relevant...

I do think when we write about something, it is a good reference ... But I guess I just think everything is relevant.

PS - I haven't watched tv for the past five years, so I know - it's been great to get rid of it too

[MaddyH]

Maybe everything is relevant in a world of slimball-scuzbags, who completely depend on the next celebrity tip. The more I open my eyes to this gender role grooming for our youth and bashing to the people who do not conform (me), I realize it is in everything. The pizza commercials where the husband calls his wife and "orders" a pizza to look cool in front of his friends. "I hate it when you do this," she says, "Make it snappy, we're hungry" and he hangs up. Then she makes the pizza anyway. OR the Klondike Bar commercials where the husband listens and respondes respectfully to his wife and then a voice-over comes in and say's "This man listened to his wife completely and responded... Give this man a Klodike Bar."

Maybe I am over-reacting, but this kind of stuff just s me. I want this to end. I just want to be seen as an equal person... if we were seen as being equal, this would not happen.

[CoolAunt]

Maybe I am over-reacting, but this kind of stuff just s me. I want this to end. I just want to be seen as an equal person... if we were seen as being equal, this would not happen.

No, it wouldn't. Instead, we'd see each of those ads or scenes as humorous dialogs between the characters in the scenes and not caricatures of gender stereotypes.

And on a not-completely unrelated topic...

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... 9907620784

Most Strenuously Unanswerable Question Asked During a Press Conference: Of Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of Southland Tales: "You've played a kick-ass vampire killer and now you're playing a porn star. Do you consider this a step up?"

[sunnysmiles]

um ... I wonder how all those buffy loving feminists feel about this one...

[sam]

I feel like I want to know who asked that question and what the stammered reply was.

SMG is not my enemy despite her conservative politics. The roles available to female actresses are as depressingly limited in scope as you would think from your experiences with movies.

[delphyne]

I agree Sam. SMG was lucky to get the Buffy role - how many other parts like that are there for actresses? The only other one I can think of, off the top of my head, was Sigourney Weaver's in Alien and even in that the Alien she was fighting was supposed to be female. It says more about the film industry and the roles they want to slot actresses in to, that she is now playing a porn star.

Also part of the point of getting actresses to play the porn star role is so that we can all sneer at them for doing it. Men especially love sneering at whores - either real or pretend ones.

[CoolAunt]

Also part of the point of getting actresses to play the porn star role is so that we can all sneer at them for doing it. Men especially love sneering at whores - either real or pretend ones.

So true. I don't recall anyone asking Val Kilmer if he thought going from playing Batman to a porn star was a step up or Woody Harrelson if he thought it was a step up when he went from playing any human being to playing that waste of human flesh, Flynt.

[MaddyH]

Double standards. The funny thing is that most men, when I call out a double standard like this one, don't even realize things like your statement about Sarah Michele Geller being slapped by the media for being in porn, but Woody Hareldson being given praise for his role portrayal - as being a double standard. Even though you would think this is so completely obvious. Anti-feminists look at me as though I am trying to make something out of nothing.

And what is this crap about porn anyway. One minute our society says it's empowering to women, then when a women in power does it (if you can even call this a position of power at all) - she is then implied to have no morals - even degrading herself to take this role in porn. Asking if this is a step up? What sarcastic ridicule. And yet it is the same people who are moving to the next table saying it is empowering. I was suprised to see that quote, because they purport that porn is a normal thing, a "boys will be boys" kinda thing... right? But it is wrong for the woman to pose, now? Which I agree this is wrong too, but this is a glaring contradiction.

I think a lot of times, the same individuals who claim this is empowering are the ones who tear the female esteem down, because they have chosen to pose in porn. They have to know internally that this is wrong and inhumane and just plain dirty to do to another soul.