Almost a year after Harvey Weinstein was extradited to Los Angeles to face rape and other multiple sex crimes charges, the incarcerated former producer today learned when his trial will begin.
31.05.2022 - 20:11 / variety.com
Selome Hailu Marci Liroff wants you to know one thing for certain: “This is not porn. This is make-believe.”Liroff worked as the intimacy coordinator on Season 2 of the Starz drama “Hightown,” which features plenty of sex and stripping — but did not have anyone to coach those scenes in the first season.“I thought they did a terrific and convincing job in the first season without an intimacy coordinator,” she tells Variety.
“But I knew I could make it better.”Intimacy coordinators started to be more in demand after #MeToo era conversations about sexual misconduct on film and TV sets expanded to include the ethics and protocol surrounding on-screen sex. Notably, “The Deuce” star Emily Meade approached HBO in 2018 about needing someone to help manage the physical demands of acting in a show about sex work.
This led to the well-publicized hiring of intimacy coordinator Alicia Rodis. Liroff worked in film and TV for decades as a casting director, until she went looking for what she calls her “second act,” a chance to use her skills for something new, when she read about Rodis.“I just started digging deeper and deeper,” Liroff says.
“And it led me to a woman named Amanda Blumenthal, who was the first intimacy coordinator in Los Angeles. Her first job was ‘Euphoria’ — they threw her into the deep end of the swimming pool.”Riveted by how Blumenthal managed to facilitate such intense sexual content while maintaining safety and comfort for the actors on set, Liroff decided that intimacy coordination was the job for her.
She learned that Blumental had begun a six-month program to train others for the same job and joined the course’s second cohort.“It’s in my DNA to speak up for those that don’t have a voice,” Liroff says. “In
.Almost a year after Harvey Weinstein was extradited to Los Angeles to face rape and other multiple sex crimes charges, the incarcerated former producer today learned when his trial will begin.
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Bob Saget's closest friends are coming together to pay tribute to the late comedian following his tragic death in January.In the trailer for , released Wednesday, the funnyman is celebrated by fellow comedians Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, Jeffrey Ross and countless others in the comedy world, as well as by his close friend and co-star, John Stamos, John Mayer, and Saget's wife, Kelly Rizzo, who not only looked back fondly on Saget's storied life and career but marveled at the great friend he was to each and every one of them.«Now Bob wasn't something that was taken away from us, he was something that was given to us,» Carrey says at the start of the trailer for the tribute, which was filmed at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles in front of a packed club filled with Saget's friends and family and comedy fans.That sentiment rang true for everyone who knew Saget, with countless celebs coming forward following his death to share what a great friend he was to them.«I hope everybody here either had Bob as a friend like that, or someday has a friend like Bob,» Ross shares. «Everyone of us up here swear that we were his best friend,» comedian Paul Rodriguez echoes before landing a subtle crack at America's favorite dad, «I think that's the mark of a liar.»While everyone in attendance was sure to pay tribute to Saget, the trailer is aptly filled with lots of laughs at Saget's expense, and each other's.«I wanna read my last text from Bob,» Stamos begins. «It says, 'I love you so much.
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Attorneys representing disgraced actor Bill Cosby used what has been nicknamed the "Donkey Kong defense" during the ongoing civil trial against the actor, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at the playboy mansion in 1975. The "Donkey Kong defense" came into play against on Monday, when Cosby’s attorney pressed a key witness over previous statements that she had played the arcade game during a visit with Cosby to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, six years before its release. The testimony came in the Los Angeles County trial over the lawsuit of Judy Huth, who also began testifying Monday, but did not yet describe her allegation that Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16. Cosby denies her allegations. Cosby was not required to attend the trial.
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