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HBO gets raw -- or is it raunchy? (HBO gets into the hardcore porn business)
The Chicago Tribune ^ | July 14, 2007 | Scott Collins

Posted on 08/20/2007 11:59:41 AM PDT by DesScorp

Bosoms and things: That's not exactly a plot summary of "Tell Me," but it's not a bad place to start. Because that's where many viewers will start. Whatever else it may or may not be, "Tell Me," at least in its current form, will set a new precedent for prime-time TV when it has its premiere Sept. 9: No previous series, on pay cable or anywhere else, has dared show anything even close to this much skin; the climax, if you will, of the first episode finds a woman (Sonya Walger) in her 30s masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm, with the entire act and all relevant body parts plainly visible. Even Jane Alexander — yes, that Jane Alexander, the snow-domed, regally poised 67-year-old former chief of the National Endowment for the Arts — drops trousers for some frisky senior sex

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: cable; hbo; morals; porn; trashtv
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To: andy58-in-nh

I wouldn’t say that, since we didn’t get a happy ending.


81 posted on 08/20/2007 6:19:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: dangerdoc

“You’re telling me that I have to read the manual and program my box ‘

OH, the horror. How did you ever get online?


82 posted on 08/20/2007 6:26:02 PM PDT by gcruse (Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
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To: gcruse
Wow. Thanks for posting this. I might have missed it otherwise. I’m cuing up the TIVO right now. Thanks again!

I wonder if we'd see your sarcastic oh-so-sexually-liberated hipster insouciance if your mother, sister or daughter performed for the cameras in similar fashion.

83 posted on 08/20/2007 7:52:56 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
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To: DesScorp
I'm waiting for the HBO "Ron Jeremy Special." Just kidding!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

84 posted on 08/20/2007 7:54:24 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: AHerald

Sarcasm? Hey, I’m looking forward to the series. I’d never have known about it if not for this article. FR is the best!


85 posted on 08/20/2007 8:01:39 PM PDT by gcruse (Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
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To: Yossarian

she also portrays Penny Widmore on Lost. She always looks pretty good there, maybe this was an off day for her.


86 posted on 08/20/2007 8:09:31 PM PDT by isom35
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To: BurbankKarl

Californification on Showtime is equally disturbing.


Showtime freaked me out way back in the early 80s when I was in High School. It was loaded with pro-gay stuff. That’s when I first decided that maybe I really didn’t like tv.


87 posted on 08/20/2007 8:23:00 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: isom35

Ah, that’s why she looked familiar.


88 posted on 08/21/2007 5:08:13 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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To: gcruse

Not a horror but my free time is on a budget. I see no point in paying for a service that makes me spend time to prevent intrusion in my life.

I don’t sign up for free trips or chances to win a free car for the same reason.

BTW, poor attempt at sarcasm.


89 posted on 08/21/2007 5:39:22 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: ichabod1
what looked like an old lady to me when I was a kid now looks like a sweet young thing, in many cases

:-))

90 posted on 08/21/2007 8:52:34 AM PDT by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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