Nerve. The Film Issue. Update.

• "[T]wo of last year's films may have banished older men from my erotic imagination forever." Kara Jesella on Shopgirl and The Squid and the Whale.

• Ada Calhoun talks with Mary Harron about The Notorious Bettie Page.

• Scotty Schwartz appeared in over 100 commercials, in The Toy with Richard Pryor and as Flick in A Christmas Story before he was a teenager. Susannah Breslin asks him how he made his way into the adult film industry.

• "In the Middle East, where freedom sometimes feels like it hangs by a thread, the production of porn is a political statement unto itself, and young people are making that statement consciously and deliberately." Marisa S Katz on the industry in Israel.

• An amusing piece from Shalom Auslander: Movie stars are actually a major turn-off.

• F Russell asks video clerks for sex advice. You'd think that'd be a really bad idea, but you know, they made me laugh more than a few times.

• Lisa Gabrielle's been dreaming of being Jennifer Aniston. And she doesn't even like her.

Posted by dwhudson at March 31, 2006 6:30 AM