#261136 - 04/06/0803:13 PMRe: What are you reading?
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I just finished Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography edited by Carly Milne. It is a collection of short autobiographies written by women in porn (both in front and behind the camera). XPT's own Holly Randall has a chapter. The Tera Patrick chapter was the wackiest. This is one crazy cunt. Things like Evan Seinfeld being a rock star genius that understood her and Suzy Randall hitting on her when she stayed at the Randall's. How the whole world was out to fuck her over financially, sexually and emotionally until she discovered her soul mate, Evan, who would protect her.
I also just finished The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay by Jenny M. Jones. If you are a big fan of the movie, you will like this book. It takes the shooting script and "annotates" it much like the trivia section on IMDB or like Pop Up Video did to music videos on VH1 like ten years ago. Lots of production, casting, and studio politics information. It tells you things that differ from the novel, deleted scenes and other factoids that are interesting (at least to me as a trivia fan). One of the most interesting things was how Francis Ford Coppola took the novel and marked it up to help with the direction. He also wrote many notes to himself about particular scenes and many of those notes reflected him questioning about how Hitchcock would have done that particular scene. I didn't realize that Hitchcock was a great influence on Coppola.
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