UPDATE: CAA Not Sorry! THR Reporting Agency’s Explicit Sundance Party Featured Strap-On Penis And Simulated Sex

UPDATE: Nikki Finke, who’s ill, reports that CAA is not apologetic for the party.

PREVIOUS: Now it’s clear why CAA doesn’t invite the media to its annual Sundance talent agency event. The Hollywood Reporter’s Matt Belloni is reporting that CAA’s Sunday night packed party featured “a team of pole-shimmying, barely-dressed burlesque dancers. At least one of them upped the ante by dancing with a strap-on penis, which sources say she used during an extended routine to tease the photo-snapping crowd of CAA clients, film executives and other festival-goers. Two dancers also performed what was described by a source as a simulated sex act on a bed in the party space… The act was too suggestive for at least one female party-goer who tells The Hollywood Reporter she was offended and left the event… ’The performance by Simon Hammerstein’s The Act LV was more explicit than intended,’ a CAA rep tells THR. ‘We regret if this created an uncomfortable setting for any of our guests.’” The risque revue is based at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas. The CAA event was held at the Claim Jumper on Main Street on a night when major several agencies were vying for major Hollywood players. Here is an Internet photo of CAA principal Kevin Huvane, CAA’s Chris Andrews, and movie producer Harvey Weinstein attending the party where guests according to THR were busy snapping photos of the women performing. Hard to believe this is 2013 and grown men still act like this.

via Deadline.com http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/thr-caas-explicit-sundance-party-features-strap-on-penis-and-simulated-sex-agency-apologizes/

The Photo Behind The Photo

A fun, little vignette about the photo shoot for Obama’s first official portrait.




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Observer Names CEO

Jared Kushner has tapped his brother-in-law, Joseph Meyer, to be the first chief executive of the Observer Media Group, the Kushner-owned entity that houses the New York Observer and other publications.

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UPDATE: Spotted on New York subway: GOOGLE Glasses…

UPDATE: Spotted on New York subway: GOOGLE Glasses…

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Man cited for riding camel during Sundance fest…

Man cited for riding camel during Sundance fest…

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Sundance 2013: CAA ‘Regrets’ Risque Burlesque Party Performance


An event held on Main Street on Sunday night featured at least one sexually explicit dancer.

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via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-caa-party-burlesque-dancers-414161

One nation, under caffeine: http://t.co/nOWq4JYh via @WashingtonPost #inaug2013

One nation, under caffeine: http://t.co/nOWq4JYh via @WashingtonPost #inaug2013

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Shhh haters we elected her too.

Shhh haters we elected her too.

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Reframing “takers” as “takers of risks” is some pretty fine word-fu.

Reframing “takers” as “takers of risks” is some pretty fine word-fu.

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The Data of Death – A Visualization

What were the greatest causes of death in the 20th century, our “worst century”?

War? Disease? Natural disasters?

We gathered and examined mortality data from  around the world – from disease to murder to mudslides – then calculated and visualised what killed the most people.

The result is a 6m x 2m visualisation art-piece for the Wellcome Collection’s free London exhibition, “Death – A Self Portrait”. (open daily until the 24th Feb 2013).

The show explores the iconography and cultural imagery of death, exhibiting totems, death masks and other memento mori from around the word.

The experience culminates – as all things really should these days – with a mega, wall-sized dataviz:

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We’ll share the full image and data with you after the exhibition closes.

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