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January 10, 2006
Porn to Run: The Times Visits the AVN Awards
After all of last weekend's highbrow preening--from the South American cinema dispatches of Larry Rohter and Alan Riding to Dennis Lim's profile of the woefully underappreciated Andrew Bujalski--today's New York Times succumbs to the silicon-and-spotlight bloodrush of the 2006 AVN Awards.
In other words, the Gray Lady does porn:
The 23rd AVN awards presentation here was a campy mix of Hollywood cliché and X-rated clips watched with 3,000 of your closest friends and industry insiders. The acceptance speeches tended to be brief, befitting a film industry with little emphasis on dialogue. ...
Saturday night ... was an unapologetic, hearty celebration, with a flashbulb-drenched red carpet entrance and awards presented in 104 categories, including best performances in a wide range of explicit acts and sexual positions. The more conventional were for best director, supporting actor and actress, screenplay and the most anticipated award of the evening: best feature.
The Times's Matt Richtel delivers most of the standard adult-film industry factoids you would expect--a record $4.3 billion in sales in '05, porn audiences are tired of the pizza-man-tipped-with-blowjob cliché, etc. However, click on the multimedia links to the left of his story for a more revelatory, almost hypnotic video piece about the growth of porn-on-demand and other developing technologies.
It is all quite amazing stuff, although Richtel leaves out the essential point that jacking off on one's video iPod indeed voids its warranty. Just trust me on this one, gang.
Posted by stvanairsdale at January 10, 2006 12:02 PM
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