Celebs Need to Stop Taking Pictures of Their Naughty Bits

This isn't the first time we have issued such a warning and we know it probably won't be the last. But here we go again, putting this out there as a public service announcement in the hopes that some lost famous soul will heed our wise words.

Famous people: don't take X-rated pictures of yourselves and send them to other people...any other people. That means don't send them to your girlfriend (because that's not gonna last), your wife (also tenuous) and definitely not to some chick who hasn't even agreed to go on a date with you (Yup, Brett Favre, still looking at you). Don't even send them to your doctor if you have a funny rash or any members of your family for any reason at all (wrong, for entirely different reasons).

The most recent nudie pic offender is none other than singer Chris Brown, who really has enough on his plate these days. Over the weekend a full frontal shot Brown obviously took of himself in a mirror and sent into the universe, emerged online. The photos could have been part of a trade of sorts with ex-girlfriend Rihanna -- what looked like her half of the set leaked back in 2009.

We hate to invoke a double standard, but it is true that for male celebrities the naked photo is much more of a punchline than for the ladies. Maybe it's the inherent narcissism in the men's pics. While women who take photos of themselves in compromising positions seem to be doing it because they're sadly eager to please, the men simply seem to be showing off. That is rarely sexy.

For example, the "leaked" nude photos of teen mom Amber Portwood, were more tragic than anything else. Yet Brown's just seem silly and detract from his cred as a serious artist, which is how you want people to view you before you release an album.

At the end of the day, we urge celebrities, male and female, to keep it in their pants ... it being that digital camera, cell phone or flip cam. Save the nudity for your one on one (in person) time. If we can help just one celebrity avoid an unfortunate crotch shot, we feel like we've done our good deed for the day.

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Maroon 5 to write new track with their fans!

On March 22nd, fans of LA based Maroon 5 will be able to get into the studio with them to lay down some tracks. Now, unfortunately this doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to sit alongside Adam Levine and fiddle with his guitar stings, as the whole thing is being created over the web… so you’ll be sat in your bedroom watching them and fiddling with yourself. Yes, we know we’re immature, but we still found that funny! 
In collaboration with Coca-Cola, the event is being promoted as a virtual all-access pass to the recording studio, via the use of interactive projection technology. Blimey, that sounds all very high tech! The idea is for their fans to see every aspect of the bands progress and to put them in the heart of what’s going on. Here fans will be able to contribute creatively by sending in lyrics, rhythms and riffs over a 24 hour period, they’ll also be able to comment on what they’re seeing and hearing and post pictures. It's going to be one great big group effort!
Coca-Cola’s Director of Global Entertainment Marketing, Joe Belliotti, said, “This is the most ambitious and experimental effort in music Coca-Cola has ever undertaken. For the 24-hour session, we are deploying and developing new and emerging technologies to allow as many people as possible to be part of the event and gain insight into the creative process that goes into making great music.”
Well, we’re off to pen some creative ideas… anything to get Adam’s attention!

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Oscar foreign directors talk financing their films (AP)

By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang, Ap Entertainment Writer – 2 hrs 17 mins ago

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – "Biutiful," the haunting tale of a cancer-stricken father and one of this year's five foreign language Academy Award nominees, would never have been made today, the film's director, Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu, said Saturday during a panel at the Academy's headquarters.

He said he doesn't think he would be able to find funding.

"I started shooting literally one month before the economic collapse in 2008," Gonzalez-Inarritu said. "This film would never be financed again. The fact that he's dying? It would just be impossible to make a film like that again. I was really privileged with the resources that I had. The budget I had was like $20 million, so it was expensive for a film like this."

That figure seems meager when compared to such Oscar contenders as "Inception" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," whose budgets were in the $200 million range. But Gonzalez-Inarritu said finding distribution for the Mexican film, which stars best-actor nominee Javier Bardem, was difficult in the United States because of the film's dark tone.

The other nominated foreign-language filmmakers were envious of the "Biutiful" budget. Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of the overprotective family drama "Dogtooth," said the debt crisis in his country, which funds the production of approved Greek films, made it tougher to shoot his next film. He said "Dogtooth" originally cost about $250,000 to make.

"It's really difficult to raise the money," said Lanthimos. "I did my next film with even less than that. I don't know how much it will cost me in the end. It's really difficult when the Greek Film Center doesn't have money. We know the situation with Greece. My next film was approved to be funded by the Greek Film Center, but they don't have any money."

Rachid Bouchareb, the Algerian director of "Outside the Law," said he didn't have to battle a budget to make his film about three Algerian siblings in France during Algeria's struggle for independence, but he did have to fend off controversy in France where "Outside the Law" was intensely criticized for its depiction of Algeria's fight for liberation.

Susanne Bier, the Danish director of "In a Better World," insisted that any financial limitations spurred creativity while making her film about a pair of separated parents and their bullied son.

Denis Villeneuve, the Canadian director of the Middle East drama "Incendies," said he only filmed scenes that would end up in the film in order not to waste money.

"What you see on the screen," said Villeneuve, "is what we shot."

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