The TV Evangelists (1) Jimmy Swaggart (unfortunately all the files are removed but it's a good document)

The TV Evangelists (1) Jimmy Swaggart

Posted on August 31, 2008 by bi-grab

Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana) is a Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism who reached the height of his popularity in the 1980s. Swaggart is first cousin of recording artists Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. The sons of three sisters, all of them share similar middle names and play the piano. All were born within a year of one another.

Swaggart is the son of a Baptist minister and started preaching on street corners at the age of nine. He established a media empire buying up radio stations to separate as many gullible Americans from their money as possible ’spread the word of God’ but by the mid 70’s his attention had turned to TV. By 1983 he was the most popular TV evangelist in the USA.

In 1986, Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies of God minister Marvin Gorman, who was accused of having an affair with another pastor’s wife, who was at the time undergoing counseling with Pastor Gorman. Some said this was done out of fear that Gorman was taking away from Swaggart’s audience and donations. Gorman was based in New Orleans and was adding stations throughout the southern region and was beginning to add stations on the west coast and the northeast. Gorman was also in the planning stages for a weekday telecast. Once exposed, Gorman was defrocked from the Assemblies of God and his ministry all but ended.
The following year, Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies Of God televangelist Jim Bakker’s sexual indiscretions and appeared on the Larry King Show, stating that Bakker was a “cancer in the body of Christ.” He and similarly-minded Baptist evangelist Jerry Falwell investigated Jim Bakker and eventually discovered his indiscretions. In 1987, Jim Bakker’s ministry was falling apart as a result.

As a retaliatory move, Marvin Gorman hired a private detective to follow Swaggart. The detective found Swaggart in a Louisiana motel on Airline Highway with a prostitute, Debra Murphree, and took pictures of the tryst. Gorman presented Swaggart with the photos in a blackmail attempt to force Swaggart to come clean, but Swaggart refused. Gorman then presented the pictures to the presbytery leadership of the Assemblies of God, which decided that Swaggart should be suspended from broadcasting his television program for three months. Perhaps only by watching the video above can anyone jusdge the level of Swaggart’s contrition.

On February 21, 1988, without giving the details of his transgressions, Swaggart tearfully spoke to his family, congregation and audience, saying, “I have sinned against you, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God’s forgiveness.” On a New Orleans morning news show four days later, Murphree stated that while Swaggart was a regular customer, they had never engaged in intercourse.

Against the ruling of the governing body of the Assemblies of God, Swaggart returned to his television pulpit long before his three-month suspension expired. He stated, “If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.” Believing that Swaggart was not genuinely repentant in not submitting to their authority, the Assemblies of God immediately defrocked Swaggart, removing his credentials and ministerial license.

On October 11, 1991, Swaggart was found in the company of another prostitute, Rosemary Garcia, when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the street. According to Garcia, Swaggart stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. When the patrolman asked Garcia why she was with Swaggart, she replied, “He asked me for sex. I mean, that’s why he stopped me. That’s what I do. I’m a prostitute.”Rather than confessing to his congregation, Swaggart told his flock this time that “The Lord told me it’s flat none of your business.” His son Donnie then announced to the stunned audience that his father would be temporarily stepping down as head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for “a time of healing and counseling.”

Swaggart’s escapades have been celebrated in song at least twice from two very different sources. First of all this revenge attack from Ozzy Osbourne who had been attacked by Swaggart as being a Satanist for his 1980 record ‘Suicide Solution’.

And this is the third part of Frank Zappa’s Texas Motel Medley which uses three Beatles songs to satirize TV evangelists in general and in this song Swaggart in particular.

(Transcription from Rochester, NY, March 11, 1988 by Douglas Obrecht)

Let me take you down, ’cause we’re going to… the Texas Motel.
Don’t mind the smell.
It’s nothing to get hung about.
Please leave your cash on the table.

Weeping looks better with eyes closed…
While I’m confessing all my sins.
[Oh, please forgive me. Oh, I've sinned!]
It’s getting hard to plook someone, but it all works out.
It’s all pornography to Jim.

Let me take you down, ’cause we’re going to… the Texas Motel.
We might go to hell.
But we’ll have lots of company.
Falwell and Pat and that weasel.

No one knows who’s in my dream…
[Bud McFarlane, ladies & gentlemen]
I mean it must be high or low. (I think)
[freshly indicted] I mean, I can’t you know, tune in, but it’s all right.
[He can plea bargain this one]
That is, I think it’s not too bad.

Let me take you down, ’cause we’re going to… the Texas Motel.
Don’t mind the smell.
It’s just some jizz from Jimmy-boy.
How ’bout some hay for the donkey?

No one knows, sometimes think it’s me…
[Ed Meese, ladies & gentlemen] But you know, I know when it’s a dream.
[I think]
I think I know, I mean, I guess, but it’s all wrong.
[Wait a minute, that's right]
That is, I think I disagree. [Uhh...]

Let me take you down, ’cause we’re going to… the Texas Motel.
Don’t mind the smell.
It’s just some old pornography.
Just keep on strokin’ that sausage.
Just keep on strokin’ that sausage.
[Jimmy-boy!] Just keep on strokin’ that sausage.

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Good morning, darling, our viewers! 7 video 7 days (GOT This in my Inbox from my RuTube Account [Russian YouTube] Translated it For You)

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7 video 7 days - from RuTube

Good morning, darling, our viewers! 

Today, our collection of mainly teaches that you should never surrender, despair and lose heart. Only positive, just full speed ahead!

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Rollers of the week:

1. The American who has reached the border states of consciousness, he went for a beer in a supermarket, but mostly wandered in other spaces, trying to get back on their feet. And still won. Strong sight!
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2496948.html

2. Another young American decided to while away a boring evening at the hotel in the company of his beloved flute and ushered in a new musical genre. Hussars, be silent!
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2496989.html

3. Sasha Gray is known to many, if not all. But after this episode it becomes apparent that it is primarily an actress, and only then - the porn ...
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2508905.html

4. The fashion for gay divorce is gaining momentum and moves from the U.S. in friendly Ukraine. A local media to help them in this. Well, we also do not stay away ... :-)
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2484011.html

5. And this is the worst movie of the week. Sensational in the world history of an Australian mother and her baby-lucky, escaped from the train - as it was.
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2508991.html

6. Another lucky, escaped from death. Long live the quick feet! (Incidentally, this is our countryman ...)
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2510664.html

7. And finally - a bit of pure positive. Having scored a beautiful goal, football player decided to feel the audience. :-))))))))
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2521942.html

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Google to get more “real-time” with the search results…

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The words were barely out my mouth about the urgent need for Google to get more “real-time” with the search results…

..when Voila!
BOTH Google and Bing
announce strategic alliances with Twitter.

Naturally, the Twitter grapevine was ablaze with the news.

I have 3 things to say about this (besides, “I told you so!” ).

1. SEX

Like sex, this is bigger and more pervasive than most people realise.

Social Media is now bigger than porn. And Google and Bing garner most of the search engine traffic for the English-speaking world.

This move not only marks Twitter’s Cinderella ascendancy to what some have termed “being a first rate citizen” of the burgeoning real-time Social Media spaces. (In these spaces, Twitter has long been looked down upon as Facebook’s 2nd rate, country-mouse cousin).

It’s also a watershed for search engines generally. It’s a crossing of The Rubicon, into a search world of a more immediate search result context.

The search brass ring: Give searchers the most relevant and most current results. Now!. Image Credit: Janek M

And it’s not just “real-time” search that’s the magic pill here. It’s the combination of real time search and searcher relevance that’s so virile and potent from a search perspective. 

In that context, this may very well be one of the sexiest things to happen to both Search and Social Media in about 6 months. Which is aeons in cyber terms.

2. SEARCH

As @jowyang suggests:

There are a lot of blog posts and articles about the Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and Google Deals, but most miss a key insight. Social Search Shifts Power To Twitter Users, As They Influence Search Results.

He expands his thoughts on that in his post written with Charlene Li about social search and how customers will influence search results over brands.

One of the key points of that is that this trend towards micro-media (and social search) requires companies to pay attention to the real time and social web for marketing, support and competitive strategies.

From a search professional’s perspective, it means our search methodologies will need to be modified and possibly even re-invented – to cater for this rapidly changing search landscape. 

Some of the relatively crude “blast” techniques some marketers have used to try game Social Media spaces will not work. Inevitably, Twitter and the search engines will work mutually to distil better signals and separate them out from the Social Media noise. As they do that, Search Marketers will need to adopt more sophisticated techniques to get results.

3. SOCIOLOGY

Lastly – this Google-Bing-Twitter real-time search-fest doesn’t really surprise me because it’s smack-bang on target with mega-trends affecting all of us.

Trendwatching.com’s megatrend for October 2009 is Nowism.

A bit more about that megatrend from their site:

NOWISM | “Consumers" ingrained lust for instant gratification is being satisfied by a host of novel, important (offline and online) real-time products, services and experiences.

Consumers are also feverishly contributing to the real-time content avalanche that’s building as we speak. As a result, expect your brand and company to have no choice but to finally mirror and join the ‘now’, in all its splendid chaos, realness and excitement.”

As Trendwatching points out – the human desire for instant gratification is nothing new:

….our current consumer societies handily accommodating and encouraging this relentless pursuit of instant information, communications, pleasure, if not indulgences. En passant reducing the ‘now’ to mere minutes, if not seconds….

What is evolving though is how quickly and easily we can do that and what mechanisms are available to do so.

So, the Google-Bing-Twitter ménage à trois is merely a symptom of a much greater trend.

It’s in sync with Zygmunt Bauman's "Liquid Modernity”

Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to organise their lives.
 
Such fragmented lives require individuals to be flexible and adaptable — to be constantly ready and willing to change tactics at short notice, to abandon commitments and loyalties without regret and to pursue opportunities according to their current availability.

In liquid modernity the individual must act, plan actions and calculate the likely gains and losses of acting (or failing to act) under conditions of endemic uncertainty.

Anyone who has spent enough time getting to grips with Twitter will realise, this is exactly the paradigms Twitter serves so well: The online quest for the Instant Information Orgasm.

Enough waffling on about sex and socialism though.

Let’s cut to the chase and raise our champagne glasses to Nowism… And to Twitter as a vehicle of liquid modernity in Search.

Viva the hotbed of instant Search gratification!

For another angle on this story you may want to consider this very entertaining talk given by Rory Sutherland, in which he talks about the fact that intangible value is becoming more and more important - things like real time search and immediate information and influence have huge relevance to or world today.

 

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Jane Aldridge of Sea of Shoes - NEVER CEASING TO BE AMAZING - 25 Need-To-Know Bloggers | Online | Mediaite

Niche Experts

Jane Aldridge of Sea of Shoes

There is nothing the internet loves like precocity. The young — with their technological precision like second nature — are gawker at, admired and admonished in equal parts for their willingness to immerse themselves in a virtual world and overshare without a second thought. They captivate their peers and parents alike with diary-style prose and self-portraits while shrugging off any concerns for privacy or the death of introspection. On immaculate display as a pinnacle of online excess and cult appeal is teenage fashion blogger Jane Aldridge, the proprietor of Sea of Shoes.

Shy of her 2010 high school graduation, Alridge fields tens of thousands of hits per day on her one-girl shoe blog, featuring well-lit digital photos of herself adorned in the latest designer or thrifted threads with a focus on footwear. With a seemingly endless clothing budget, Aldridge embodies an aspirational fashion fantasy without pretension or condescension, favoring an “aw shucks” grin to a cold model’s stare. It’s voyeurism that doesn’t inspire intense jealousy and has resulted in numerous mentions in Teen Vogue, a fan letter from Kanye West and even her own shoe line, J. Aldridge by Sea of Shoes for Urban Outfitters.

In addition to wisdom and style beyond her years, Aldridge works another online inclination in her own favor: the fetishization of “The Real America.” Given that so much of blogging royalty is based in urban centers, especially New York City, there’s an insatiable longing for simplicity and an endless fascination with pastoral landscapes, especially in photo blogs. Aldridge lives in Texas, about an hour outside of Dallas, and her cosmopolitan sensibility — sparkling diamonds and leather boots — surrounded by foliage or dirt is an unassailable aesthetic online. But she’s too sweet to be contrived and too passionate to be mocked. And, oh yeah, she called her school’s heel height policy her “Waterloo.”

When Gourmet folded, Christopher Kimball, the publisher of Cook’s Illustrated, opined in a New York Times op-ed that “in a click-or-die advertising marketplace, one ruled by a million instant pundits, where an anonymous Twitter comment might be seen to pack more resonance and useful content than an article that reflects a lifetime of experience, experts are not created from the top down but from the bottom up.” Pastry chef David Lebovitz, who contributed to Gourmet a few times but is better known for his top-notch blog, proves that sometimes, the ground up gets it right.

The aptly named davidlebovitz.com is an old-fashioned personal blog that isn’t an old-fashioned personal blog. It devotes a lot of virtual ink to idiosyncrasy and reminiscence, much of it focused on Lebovitz’s experience as an American expat living in Paris, but in the midst of all that it’s about as good a food blog as you can find. It strikes the sweet balance between recipes (Breton buckwheat dumplings; idiot-proof chocolate cake), advice (how to prepare shelling beans) and food porn (mmm…burger). And the expert is rewarded by the instant pundits; even though it’s a one-man show, it gets comparable traffic to Eater and half as much traffic as gourmet.com and bonappetit.com.

Lebovitz also has a delightful Twitter feed. Sample Tweets: “wouldn’t it be great if OXO designed a bed?” “@divinacucina Maybe with the prize money Obama can buy some cooler jeans?”

Eskay of Nah Right

Over time, the writing of bloggers has delineated itself as a wholly unique style. Newspaper journalists, magazine writers, and amateur writers have all adapted to making content for the web. But what about the blogger as curator, forgoing original written words altogether? Such is the role of many of the internet’s primary tastemakers from fashion (see Jane Aldridge, below) to technology (see Jason Kottke, above). Carefully selecting links to worthy content elsewhere has become a niche of its own. For efficient tastemaking, acknowledgment is often enough and analysis or comment often distracts from work that could otherwise speak for itself.

Eskay, the pseudonym-cloaked rap blogger responsible for Nah Right, is one of the foremost examples of an online curator with king-sized influence. Despite all of the niche music blogs covering genres from Baltimore club to Brazilian favela funk, despite of the sway held by bastions of the indie rock internet like Pitchfork or Stereogum, the blog circuit has rendered the rap landscape almost unrecognizable. Nah Right, in particular — with its simple photo-plus-mp3 template and free-for-all, off-topic comments section — has made and mocked stars with seismic sway. As the defacto head of a rap blog conglomerate, New Music Cartel, eskay originally ran the show solo based only on his personal taste, but now he commands a small army.

The jewels of the major labels over the last two decades — even rapper behemoths like 50 Cent and Jay-Z  – are now subject to the whims of a former graffiti artist from Staten Island. And we’re all the better for it.

Fred Wilson of A VC

Somewhere behind the scenes, money makes the internet run. Those front and center in technology can often be mistaken for the ones who make things go, but there’s almost always another level of power — someone in the background pulling strings and putting up dollars. And then there’s Fred Wilson, who’s both.

As an eminent venture capitalist and principal of Union Square Ventures, Wilson has an immense understanding of technology investment. Luckily, he’s willing to share. A VC is Wilson’s relatively lo-fi blog, featuring, quite simply, “Musings of a VC in NYC.” But it’s not his Wharton MBA or twenty-plus years experience that fortify his online presence; it’s his humble ability to translate the market into terms we can all understand. He started in the mid-90s with investments in Alacra and Geocities, and now has his hand in numerous buzzy projects including Etsy, del.icio.us and Outside.in. He’s consistently insightful and though he has a reverence for big powers like Google and Apple, his good name comes from surviving failure and transcending the web 1.0 and 2.0. The Silicon Alley Insider put him at the top of their SA100 for 2008, but by now everyone — even outside of the techy fishbowl — should take notice if they care about the future of their beloved internet. Start by following Wilson on Twitter.

Ray Wert of Jalopnik

After a career in politics (including a stint as a campaign organizer for John Kerry), Ray Wert was tapped to run the automotive blog of record, Gawker’s Jalopnik. While Wert may fly under the radar at Gawker Media — the car beat doesn’t get the recognition of the flagship site, Jezebel, or Deadspin — but as the editor in chief, he has as much attitude as anyone there and might actually be their biggest hotshot. Along with being quoted often in the New York Times and regular television appearances, Wert also helped to convince General Motors to hold a full-on car race complete with its own website. And Jalopnik’s name for the Big Three implosion — Carpocalypse — was officially inducted into the lexicon by the Times and credited to Jalopnik. That’s pretty official.

Jalopnik’s traffic spiked as the Big Three crumbled, but they’ve managed to maintain growth and are consistently duking it out with sister site Jezebel — both with visitor numbers and in the comments section. The site knows how to make waves with stunts like aforementioned GM race or taking an electric car to drive around an auto show in Detroit and it all happens under Wert’s watch. Jalopnik also has an aesthetic appeal even to those unfamiliar with the world of cars and they know how to please the outsiders: just check out the Megan Fox gallery, their gift to the world.

And he’s still man enough to pose like this.

25 Need-To-Know Bloggers | Online | Mediaite

BUTT » BUTT AFTER HOURS: ANTINO ANGEL

  

The minute BUTT After Hours photographer Hanser walked into our office last Friday with Antino Angel, we knew it was going to be a unique experience and a great interview. We were not disappointed. Angel arrived in New York in 2000, and clearly hid his light under a bushel. We’d never seen or heard of him due to his reclusive ways. Now after being bitten by the showbiz bug, Angel spends most of his time planning for his new career as a burlesque performer – working on his big act while covering his body with gothic tattoos, which is where our chat began.

BUTT: So tell me about your tattoos.
Antino: This one, on my left hand, is ‘Sinner’; on my right hand is ‘Saint’. On my left wrist is ‘Amo’, which means ‘love’ in Latin; on my right wrist is ‘Odi’, which means ‘hate’ in Latin. Then on my left forearm I have an angel/devil, which symbolizes my personality.

You actually have two devil/angel tattoos I see?
Yeah. You notice that they’re both in submissive positions? I’m very submissive – passive/submissive, I guess you could say. And the angel and devil means that they’re both good and bad.

Well, everything so far is opposites.
Yeah, I love the juxtaposition of contrasting elements.

So what else is there?
There is the spider on my chest, in the web. I have a thing for spiders – especially female spiders, because they kill the male after they fuck him.

So what is it about that appeals to you?
I just think it’s kind of erotic, sadomasochistic. And that’s where ‘homme fatale’ [points to tattoo on his chest] comes into play – you know, ‘femme fatale’, ‘homme fatale’… I have a sentence going down my back in French – ‘I love the enjoyment of violation, fuck me’. It stops right at the crack of my ass. And two dragons.

And some birds, no?
Yeah, ravens. I have this thing for ravens.

And the rose?
The rose is actually not finished. It’s going to be 5 more roses that are going to be added, and they’re all going to be wrapped around my waist and dropping towards my pubic area.

Oh, a thorny rose garden?
(laughs) That too, but the rose is also the symbol of the vagina in some cultures, so it’s down there by my pubes.

So where do you come from? Tell me about your origins.
I’m from Atlanta originally, born and raised. My childhood was kind of weird. Everyone has a dysfunctional childhood these days. I didn’t get along with my step-father – my mother’s been with him since I was four. Her and my real father were never together. My step-father’s kind of raised me, but in the years when I was a pre-teen and teenager, we couldn’t stand each other. I have another little brother, who’s his – their son, and he used to show blatant favoritism. And I was gay, I was growing up very effeminate and he couldn’t deal with that.

It’s like a fairytale. The evil stepfather and the favored child.
Yeah, I guess it’s weird. And then my parents, on top of all of that, were very strict, so you really couldn’t do anything. So I kind of drifted in my head – I used to make up different characters, things of that nature. 

When did you move to New York?
February 2000.

Where have you been hiding yourself?
Oh, I’m such a recluse!

Oh, ok, so what do you do when you’re at home on a Friday night, like, when you’re just sitting at home?
You want me to be honest with you? When I’m not working or at the gym, when I’m at home I’m probably working on my burlesque act or having sex. I’m a freak, I have, like, a sex addiction.

Really?
Yeah. (laughs) It’s kind of bad.

How many times do you have sex?
It’s not that I have sex that many times, but I’m always thinking about it, and I’m a complete porn addict. My whole burlesque act is consumed with it.

Do you feel like it’s problem behavior?
I do think it’s an obsession, but I don’t think it’s become that serious to the extent that it’s interfering with my normal day-to-day activities. You know, if I was calling in sick to work because I couldn’t get away from the porno screen! So it’s nothing like that, no.

So, say, someone comes over, and they’re there for sex. Do you negotiate a whole scene with them, what do you do?
If it’s not one of my usual fuck buddies – say it was somebody that I just met off of a sex site or something – generally we get all of the red tape out of the way before he gets there. Like, what are you into, what kind of role do you play, what do you dislike, what are your limits? ‘Cause it’s so unsexy to have to tell someone or ask someone in the middle of it. So we get all the script out of the way before he actually gets there.

So what happens?
They come in, I offer them something to drink, we’ll drink, watch TV and talk a little bit, and then the clothes come off!

So you don’t have a whole thing like, “I’m gonna be tied up, and you’re gonna come in and find me”?
Oh no, not really.

Fantasies like that don’t concern you?
I would like to, but I don’t know…

Because I see that as fitting with your whole thing – you pick your own tattoos, you’re working on a burlesque act, you make up characters -
I tried the fantasy role playing thing a couple of times, but I’ve yet to find a dude that’s really good at it. I don’t put that out there online that I’m looking for that. There was one dude who wasn’t really into it. It was this white guy and I explained my fantasy ‘Okay, so we’re gonna play slave-trader and slave. You gonna be the slave-trader and I’m gonna be the slave that you’re forcing to do things. I’m gonna be the black female slave.’

Wow. So you were a female?
Yeah, But I wasn’t, like, in…. it was just in the imagination. So we’re doing it, and I was, like, ‘You have to say ‘nigger’ – it’s okay!’ And he was like, ‘No, no, I can’t say that, that’s wrong’. We were role-playing, come on, say it! It goes along with the territory! And he couldn’t do it!

So the master and slave – you place it in a historical context but it’s still a fantasy about domination and submission?
Yes. Just the whole act of being dominated turns me on. But it’s so funny – guys who have been with me, that I’ve had ongoing things with, they always say ‘You say you’re submissive, but you’re really a control freak! The submissive setting is under your control!’

So you’re the slave, but you’re really calling all the shots?
Yeah, but you would have to observe really in-depth to see that I’m the one. And I guess that’s probably a turn-on too – letting someone think they’re in control of all aspects, when it’s really me that’s the one in control. And that’s probably what gets me hot too. If I’m not being satisfied or turned on then it’s time to stop.

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What Gets Me Hot! (1984) (You can't see this movie because Traci Lords lied about her age to get into pictures)

You can't see this movie because Traci Lords lied about her age to get into pictures. Nonetheless, this is a great porn movie. Traci gives a fine performance. She and the rest of the ladies obviously enjoy what they are doing. The men do, too.

Though the script is nothing to write home about, the acting is acceptable and the sex is great.

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My Hypothetical Thoughts, 23 April 2008

Author: iwatchxxx

This film should not be seen, due to it featuring an underage performer, and if you watch it you are a horrible, horrible person.

But if you were to watch it anyway, I would expect it to have a very nice scene involving a maid, which would be made better by the fact that unlike most newer films, the actress seems to be having a good time. I would thoroughly enjoy this. And since thats really the only memorable part, I'll just give a brief overview of what I would expect to find.

Scene 1 = 9/10 (Worth watching just for this)

Scene 2 = 7.5/10 (Not bad, +1 for the end)

Scene 2.5 = 10/10 just for horrible humor, epic.

Scene 3 = 7/10 (Feels like it was thrown in at the end, but its interesting enough)

Scene 4 = 7/10 (Good, end was kind of a let down)

Scene 5 = 7/10 (Would have been 8.5 if a certain substance ended up on her face instead, such a waste...)

Scene 6 = 8/10 (Kind of a combination of 2 scenes. The outdoors one has a few really nice parts. The indoors one isn't anything special.)

Scene 7 = 8.5/10 (Nice surprise, good way to end the movie)

Overall I would give it an 8. And if you don't have enough time for the whole thing, just watch the first 20 min or so, you'll thank me.

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Actually she was 15yrs old, 2 September 2009

Author: bt2879 from Australia

Actually she was 15yrs old , She only made 1 porn movie at age 18 before FBI arrested her , so all her movies were made when she was underage , Some other pornstars investigated during the early 80's and possibly appeared in porn movies underage include Alexandria Quinn , Kristara Barrington and Ali Moore , These other girls didn't draw as much attention possibly due to the fact they weren't very popular or overly attractive , at least one of the pornstars appears alongside Traci Lords in more than one movie , There is one movie were possibly all of the actors appear making nearly the entire female cast underage at the time the movie was filmed. Does this still happen today ?

To the guy from netherlands , first of all , she was arrested the day after her 18th birthday , would have been 8th may , thats late 87 is it ? and you say she coulndt have possibly made any movies before she turned 16 , yet she was penthouse pet in September 84 and the story read she had starred in dozens of porn movies , so she starred in dozens of porn movies prior to September yet her first movie according to you wasn't produced and released until late 84 ?

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Traci's debut - and it shows, 8 June 2008

Author: harry-tresoor from Netherlands

I have seen this movie again this weekend. And I have seen a lot of other movies with Traci Lords. This is supposed to be her debut in the industry - and it shows - only in the end she gets a straightforward f*ck scene with young Tom Byron.

This movie was released in late 1984, Traci was born in early 1968, so she must have been 16 in this flick. Late in 1987 it became known that Traci (real name = Nora Kuzman) was lying about her age. It was a major mayhem in the industry and all of her videos were pulled back from the stores.

This movie is a nice-to-have from a historical POV. It has some kinda story (what am I blabbering) but it is sub-standard pron - even for the 1980's. Of course Traci did not fully developed her sexy sounds that made her so lovely in her later movies.

Her f*ck mate in this movie is young Tom Byron. Traci made a lot of movies with Tom, her favorite partner. There are no indications that they were a couple, but there are some really sensitive clips around with the two that could make you think otherwise.

In 1987 - just a few days after her 18th birthday - in France she did the movie "Traci, I Love You". It was her climax. Her one and only adult movie of legal age (and her most sexy one). Shortly after she got busted by the FBI for faking her age on her driving license. After that she went undercover to let the storms pass by.

She later came back in a lot of other acting jobs. Traci is not "just" another pron-chick. She has an above average personality and history, Nora is a strong woman (and she is super sexy).

I rate this move 4/10 from a pron POV and a 6/10 from a historical POV. Try to get the 8/10 "Traci, I Love You" - her last movie and by far her most erotic (without Tom Byron).

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A career begins..., 7 May 2008

Author: delphiaa from United States

Nude women float in a space as a woman's voice hums along. Lannie, played by the multi skilled Traci Lords (Tracy) has been dreaming about naked women again. Why? Her mom (Helga Sven) brings up boys and tells her about a new man, Mr. Kennedy (Don Hodge), who she thinks likes her, but is too shy to say anything.

Mark Radner's (Shone Taylor) hangs with Jeff (Tom Byron) and Kevin (Marc Wallice) talking guy talk. Kevin brings up Debbie and Jeff gets teased about not getting any. Mark blackmails his pilfering maid. He brings her upstairs for a triple teaming.

Lannie and friends share girl talk by the pool. Debbie, (Bunny Bleu) goes topless with Cheryl (Susan Hart). Lannie takes the cue and follow. Cheryl talks about how she lost her virginity while babysitting with Bill (Greg Rome). She was nervous about going down at first, but he made her comfortable. Debbie boasts of making guys "beg for it." Kevin says he make girls like Debbie beg for it. The friends left when Mrs. Waters show up. She has her sights on Mrs. Waters Mr. Kennedy.

Mrs. Radner (Maria Kay) is peeved at boyfriend (Herschel Savage) for driving fast. She "recovers" and comes unto him. She assures him that her son Mark isn't home. Mark hides and watch as they go at it by the fountain. Scene is too short. Richard Mailer and his people should have extended it, or exclude the sex scene between older people like Helga Sven and Don Hodge.

Lannie, Jeff, Debbie and Kevin meets. Taking the hint from Kevin, Jeff takes Lannie in the kitchen. Debbie teases Kevin before sex. Lannie's dress get wet and she teases Jeff after getting naked. He gets too excited and finishes before starting. Lannie later pleasures herself to Jeff. The scene cuts back and fort between Lannie and a DREAMT encounter with Jeff (Tom Byron) outside on a picnic table.

It's like being teased without teasing. Some anticlimactic artistry by director Richard Mailer: The debut sex scene of the highly sought after Kirstie Elizabeth "Traci Lords" Knussman is during a dream sequence. Viewers get a sample of her distinctive "sexual terrorist" moans. Traci Lords would later write that her first filmed scene was spontaneously done in a kitchen with Tom Byron. Byron has a "sweet, dopey, puppy-dog thing" which apparently tingled her. The production crew proceeded to seize the moment as they were in the act. In any event, THAT encounter isn't in this movie. Lords wrote of a poolside three way BEFORE production of What Gets Me Hot! Herself, another female and male. Regard for her allegedly rose when news of said escapade made the industry rounds. She didn't get paid for it.

Other than their numerous on-screen copulation, there's been no mention by Lords of a personal relationship with Tom Byron.

Mark talks to Kevin, then seduces Kevin's girlfriend Debbie at his house. He becomes her master. Making her get naked for some secret tongue pleasure from Wendy(Leslie Thane). Louis (David Sanders) joins in. Wendy tongues Debbie until Mark tells her to open her eyes—shocking her. A foursome happened.

Debbie tells Lannie Kevin is a boy. She wants a man like Mark. Lannie has other plans after finding out what gets her hot. She looks over at Cheryl (Susan Hart). (Some poetic money shot of sorts). We now know Traci Lords was, how they say, "gay for the stay" in porn. It could be the effects of the drugs.

Cast (in credits order)

	Traci Lords	...	Lannie (as Tracy Lords)
	Shone Taylor	...	Mark Radner (as Sean Alexander)
	Helga Sven	...	Mrs. Waters (as Helga)
	Tom Byron	...	Jeff
	Bunny Bleu	...	Debbie (as Bunny Blue)
	Marc Wallice	...	Kevin
	Susan Hart	...	Cheryl
	Don Hodge	...	Mr. Kennedy
	Maria Kay	...	Mrs. Radner (as Mary Kay)
	Herschel Savage	...	Mrs. Radner's boyfriend
	Steve Powers	...	Ted (as Steve Hand)
	Leslie Thane	...	Wendy
	Greg Rome	...	Bill
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Dorothy Onan	...	Sarah
	David Sanders	...	Louis

Original Music by
Christopher Saint Booth

What Gets Me Hot! (1984) (V) - Full cast and crew

Traci Lords Why Is She Famous? - Her first film was What Gets Me Hot!

Why Is She Famous?

Traci Lords is best known as the most famous and successful underage adult film star, having done 100 movies as a teenager. She has since tried to go mainstream, while appearing in low-budget movies and the occasional high-budget ones like Blade (1998).

Editors' Rating: 75

Readers' Rating

Sexiness

79

Traci Lords' past certainly raises the eyebrows of quite a few men. In fact, she remains one of the most searched celebrities on the Internet (including on AskMen.com). Though she plays down her sexiness, she won't have a hard time finding men who'll swear by her sex appeal.

Success

72

According to porn industry insiders, Traci Lords made over $1 million from her X-rated movies, and even had video companies give her $10,000 a month, furnish her with an apartment and a Mercedes. Traci's take is that she made only $20,000 during her time in the industry.

At least she managed to get some work in mainstream roles, including calendars, posters, acting jobs in such C-list films as Extramarital, Me and Will, You're Killing Me and Epicenter. Though those films were trash, she still managed a small but memorable role in the Stephen King TV series The Tommyknockers. She was also a contestant on the TV reality show Celebrity Paranormal Project in 2006.

Quotes

"If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me." -Traci Lords, on her tainted past.

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Biography

Traci Elizabeth Lords was born May 7, 1968, in Steubenville, Ohio, originally named Nora Louise Kuzma. The Traci Lords we know today, controversy and all, is a combination of Nora's high school best friend, Traci; the character Katharine Hepburn played in The Philadelphia Story; and the last name Lords, after her favorite actor from her favorite show, Hawaii Five-O's Jack Lords.

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Traci Lords moved to Lawndale, California, with her mother and three sisters, fleeing her alcoholic father. While a student at Redondo Union High School, she ran away from home at the age of 15 after having had an abortion. While living with a man in his 40's, Traci went to Jim South's World Modeling Agency (for adult movies) with a friend's sister's birth certificate, which read Kristie Elizabeth Nussman, age 22.

Her "roommate" accompanied her to Jim South's Agency (he claimed to be her stepfather), and convinced Mr. South that Traci would soon be a porno movie star, and after Traci stripped and showed that she was certainly not shy, she was in.

Her first film was What Gets Me Hot! in 1984. By the time she was 18, she had starred in more than 100 porno movies, such as Open Up Traci, Two Timing Traci, Sex Fifth Avenue, and Holly Does Hollywood -- each gradually more graphic.

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Traci Lords was a porno queen; she was recognized worldwide and got mobbed wherever she went. But when authorities found out that she was underage while in these movies, prosecutors arrested Traci as well as the owners of her porn movie agency, X-citement Video Inc., and the hundreds of films she appeared in were deemed illegal and taken off the shelves.

In 1984, Traci posed for a Penthouse centerfold, in the same issue that ultimately exposed Vanessa Williams, but the issue is also considered illegal.

The only "Traci" movie that is considered legal is Traci I Love You, which she sold to a distributor. She may have been just a porno actress, but Traci was also a businesswoman who wrote her scripts, and developed Traci Lords Productions along with her boyfriend at the time. The company produced movies such as Traci Takes Tokyo and Beverly Hills Copulator.

traci lords in the tommyknockers
Traci Lords left the porn scene for a while and returned in the late '80s to do television appearances and B-movies. She appeared in Wiseguy, Married... With Children and MacGyver, and movies like 1988's Not Of This Earth (her first mainstream movie), 1989's Fast Food, 1990's Cry-Baby, 1991's A Time To Die, Raw Nerve and Laser Moon, and the 1993 made-for-TV movie The Tommyknockers, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Among her many roles, the higher profile ones include those in the films Serial Mom (1994), Virtuosity (1995) and Blade (1998); a recurring role on Melrose Place in 1995; appearances on Roseanne, Nash Bridges; and a part as herself in D.R.E.A.M. Team (with Traci Bingham and Angie Everhart).

She apparently lost a role in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, to Sadie Frost Jude Law's ex-wife.

Traci is also a singer, who has contributed her vocals to the Manic Street Preachers' Little Baby Nothing, the Ramones' Somebody to Love, and performed songs for the movies Virtuosity and Mortal Kombat.

traci lords in celebrity paranormal project
In 2000 Traci Lords appeared in two flicks -- Epicenter and Certain Guys. She also appeared on TV's First Wave. In the next few years Traci could be seen in the movies Chump Change (2001), Home (2003), Frostbite (2005), and Crazy Eights (2006), as well as the TV shows Gilmore Girls and Celebrity Paranormal Project.

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Traci Lords What Gets Me Hot! and her life as a fast-rising porn star was marred

Traci Lords may be considered as one of the most controversial porn stars ever to come out in the adult industry back in the 80’s because of her young and innocent looks and insatiable appetite for hardcore sex in front of the camera. It was later proven that Traci was only fifteen years old when she made her first porn flick entitled What Gets Me Hot! and her life as a fast-rising porn star was marred with controversy that involved the use of drugs and other issues. Long after that she dabbled herself in acting for mainstream films which showed her prowess as a genuine actress.

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Life after porn - Extras - The Independent

Traci Lords

Traci Lords supposedly named herself after Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from the classic rom-com The Philadelphia Story, but her own film debut was rather less auspicious. She became famous (make that infamous) for appearing in porn films and Penthouse magazine when aged just 16. Her first film, made in 1984, was called What Gets Me Hot! After her arrest for making adult fare while under age, Lords moved into the mainstream, appearing in films such as Blade, and television series such as MacGyver, Will & Grace and Melrose Place. She even sang for the Manic Street Preachers on their 1992 single "Little Baby Nothing".

Sharon Mitchell

Sharon Mitchell, formerly a famed lesbian porn performer, is now the director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which she established in 1998. She appeared in more than 2,000 movies in the 1970s and 1980s, but her career took a dark turn when she became addicted to heroin, a habit she shook off in the 1990s. In 1996, she was brutally raped by a "fan" and left the porn industry. She founded her health organisation for adult film performers after acquiring a PhD in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in swinging San Francisco.

Linda Lovelace

Linda Lovelace (real name Susan Boreman) ended her life as an anti-porn campaigner. She starred in Deep Throat, the 1972 film which involved her engaging in sexual practices she later claimed were performed under duress. Indeed, she said her husband (and pimp), Chuck Traynor, regularly threatened her with a gun. After publishing her autobiography, Ordeal, in 1980, Boreman joined the feminist anti-pornography movement. She died following a car accident in 2002.

Life after porn - Extras - The Independent

What Gets Me Hot! - Wikipédia

What Gets Me Hot!

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What Gets Me Hot!
Réalisation	Richard Mailer
Scénario	Richard Mailer
Production	Island Home Video
Durée	79 minutes
Sortie	1984

Note: Cet article est basé sur la version anglaise de Wikipédia.

What Gets Me Hot! est le titre d'un film pornographique américain avec Bunny Bleu, Susan Hart, Dorothy Onan, Marc Wallice, Sean Alexander, Tom Byron, Greg Rome, Herschel Savage (aka Hershel Savage), Maria Kay, Helga Sven, Leslie Thane, et Traci Lords. Il a été écrit et réalisé par Richard Mailer.

Traci Lords tient le rôle principal, c'est son premier film pornographique. Elle avait seulement 16 ans lors du tournage, ce qui explique que ce film est considéré comme illégal dans certains pays notamment les États-Unis, où l'âge légal pour figurer dans un film pornographique est de 18 ans. Cependant, il doit être précisé que les créateurs du film ignoraient l'âge de Traci Lords. C'est en 1986 que le FBI découvre que Traci Lords a tourné la plupart de ses films alors qu'elle était mineure. De fait, tous ces films ont été retirés de la vente aux États-Unis.

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