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| by Dave Michaels |
May 31, 2000
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| Wicked Pictures, reports the following:
* Wicked Contract Girl Stephanie Swift recently served as Mistress of Ceremonies for the 2nd Annual Miss Nude Florida Pageant. The winner, Samantha Marks, took home the title and $20,000 dollars in prizes as well as
winning a part in an upcoming Wicked movie. The unnamed picture will feature
Swift.
* Contract director Jonathan Morgan and Contract Girl Temptress are set to
be the subject of an upcoming article in TALK Magazine. The piece will
follow the two and cover the making of a porn movie.
* Jenna Jameson, longtime Wicked Contract Girl and one of the most popular actresses in the history of adult video, served as hostess of a recent Fredericks of Hollywood fashion show in Boston, MA. The newsletter announced that Jenna is currently dancing on the strip club circuit and is taking a
break from filming. No mention is made of Jenna's "retiring" from adult
videos entirely.
"Talking Blue Yanked From Time Warner Cable"
Viewers of Talking Blue TV in the West San Fernando Valley under the Time
Warner Cable system are less one cable access show about the adult film
industry. Earlier this month, while Time Warner was coming under fire for
withdrawing the ABC channel amidst Sweeps Weeks, the local Time Warner Cable
affiliate in Chatsworth, CA pulled the plug on Talking Blue.
Programming coordinator Javier Moreno would not disclose details for
rejecting the broadcasting of the show other than to state that the show did
not fall within the guidelines of acceptable programming for the community
channel.
Talking Blue TV has played on the West San Fernando cable system for the past
six years without interruption. Show producer Dave Michaels notes, "It was only after the recent change in management at Time Warner Cable did the show suddenly become unacceptable."
Under terms set forth by the Federal Communications Commission, cable systems
are required to carry community access programming. Such programming does
not fall under the restrictions of normal FCC rules, but rather a loose
definition of "community standards". It is through the cloudy definition of
the term that allows cable access shows to carry programming that would
include language deemed unacceptable on network television, as well as
depictions of sexuality. Even such television taboos as nudity are
considered within "community standards" in many areas.
"It really is a violation of our rights of free speech for them to be doing
this to us," says Michaels, adding, "I would hope that fans of the show in
that area, or any area where censorship is an issue, would call into Time
Warner and complain."
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