HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — Archstone Distribution has acquired the North American rights to director David Ren's '40s noir-inspired pulp actioner "The Girl From the Naked Eye."The R-rated film, about a escort service driver who sets out to avenge the murder of his prostitute girlfriend, stars martial artist Jason Yee and Samantha Streets and features a supporting turn by former adult star Sasha Grey.

Grey is coming off Magnolia Pictures' trippy indie drama "I Melt with You" and will next be seen in Periscope Entertainment's horror film "Would You Rather", the Danny Trejo revenge thriller "Skinny Dip" and the sci-fi thriller "The Scribbler," with Katie Cassidy and Eliza Dushku.

The 24-year-old star of more than 200 adult titles was also tapped to play a part in Matthew Wilder's "Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story," but the project is currently in production limbo. "The Girl From the Naked Eye" will have a limited theatrical run on June 15. To see the film's NSFW trailer, go here.

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Actress Sasha Grey was recently working as part of a TV Pilot project in our Powerstation Studios Recording Facility in Florida. She has recently been part of some pretty big things including The Girlfriend Experience and HBO’s Entourage to name a few. Sasha Grey’s love for music is no secret. She is an avid musician and DJ these days. Her industrial project aTelecine is worth checking out for sure. She has also appeared in Eminem’s video for “Space Bound” and in artwork for the Smashing Pumpkin’s album, Zeitgeist. It was a pleasure having her in our Florida studio. A pleasure to work with. Hopefully we will be seeing her again soon. You can see more photos from her recent session by clicking here.

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After the bruising, battering and bloodying Las Vegas resident Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto inflicted on each other during their bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night, actor and rapper Common headed to the Bank in the Bellagio to host his post-fight party.

Arriving at nearly 1 a.m. Sunday, Common and his group of 10 friends enjoyed cocktails at a VIP table overlooking the dance floor before he got on the mic for a performance at 2 a.m. The group partied until the early hours of the morning, and Common departed 30 minutes before the lights came on for his hotel suite.

Down the Strip at Haze in Aria, Grammy Award-winning hip-hop star and actor Nelly performed a set of new and older hits at the CityCenter hotspot. Nelly, along with Justin Bieber and Triple H, accompanied Mayweather Jr. into the ring before Saturday’s boxing match.

And actress, DJ and former adult-entertainment superstar Sasha Grey kicked off adult-only Bare Pool Lounge’s summer-long, weekly Sexy Beats party featuring a rotation of female DJs. Grey took to the turntables for the Cinco De Mayo celebration.

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Vantage Media International and Periscope Entertainment have released a red-band trailer for director David Guy Levy's "Would You Rather," a "SAW" like horror film starring Brittany Snow and former adult star Sasha Grey.

Snow plays a woman who agrees to participate in a sadistic and deadly game of Would You Rather to win medical care for her Leukemia-stricken brother. Grey is one in a group of equally desperate competitors facing off against Snow for their own chance at salavation.

"Would You Rather" also stars Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (”The Wire”), John Heard (”Prison Break”), Eddie Steeples ("My Name Is Earl") and Jeffrey Combs ("Re-Animator") as Shepard Lambrick, the demented business mogul behind the game. To see the red band trailer, go here.

Grey broke into Hollywood with the 2009 Steven Soderbergh drama "The Girlfriend Experience," which she followed up with a memorable turn on HBO's "Entourage" and roles in indie features such as "I Melt with You" and the upcoming "Skinny Dip," a '70s influenced revenge-thriller starring Danny Trejo ("Machete").

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It's late. It's Tuesday. You're sitting at your computers. Here is the movie that will make your night more...fun. In The Girlfriend Experience, porn star Sasha Grey plays Chelsea, a high-class escort working in 2008 recession-era Manhattan. She charges $2,000 a night to let men pretend she's their girlfriend—dinner dates, griping about work, cozy bathrobe breakfasts: the total girlfriend experience. In the film, time jumps back and forth, hinting at and then revealing different dynamics with the various men in Chelsea's life.

The story is pretty simple: she's an escort working in the recession for Wall Street execs and upper-echelon screenwriters; she has a boyfriend who tolerates her job...to an extent; she wants to step up her game. It's an easy watch. Grey's acting is affectless and slightly jaded, which is either a testament to her ability to play a character, or a shortcoming of her feature-film acting chops. Hard to tell.

Really, the best way to go into this movie is expecting not too much and being glad to get just enough. It's worth watching, if only to see Grey's early attempts at non-adult film acting. Or just to see her in general.

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We must protect our children from sex! Or so most modern thinking goes. Interestingly, this idea of children's inherent sexual innocence is fairly recent. In fact, the Victorians created it. On the course blog for English 271: Psychoanalysis and Literature at Nassau Community College in New York, a person calling herself Professor Estevez writes of the Victorians, "For children, innocence and moral purity was defined by their ignorance of adult life and adult knowledge. Above all, childhood innocence was premised on a lack of sexuality: The child was seen not so much as a pre-sexual creature, but by definition an asexual one."

Before Lewis Carroll, Peter Pan, and child labor protection, sexuality in most homes was as obvious as the cows sleeping in front of the fire during winter. Children were seen as miniature versions of adults, albeit not quite as savvy, and they were subject to the same exposure to life as everyone else.

Indigenous people in Brazil known as the Canela, up until the encroachment of Christian missionaries, used sex for just about everything, including smoothing over conflicts, cementing political alliances, and celebrating holidays. Nakedness, frolicking, and the occasional gang-bang were seen by children on a regular basis. So much so that the kids would often mimic the sex play of adults. This was considered "cute" by most Canela.

"Cute," however, is not what families thought when, while watching Irish priest Martin McVeigh give a presentation about first communion, images of gay porn were accidentally flashed on the screen. Church officials are investigating the "accident" in response to the outrage of the parents.

Last year, former porn star Sasha Grey had to publicly apologize for daring to read stories to first- and third-graders at a school in Compton. Parents at the school, parents in blogs, and moms on The View found it very disturbing that a woman who as one blogger on KLIOU put it, "made a conscious decision to spend an exorbitant amount of time sucking dick on camera for money," would be chosen to talk to their children.

And then there was the big controversy over the photo of adult film actress Madison Young breastfeeding her baby. She was accused by fellow pornographer and sex work activist Furry Girl of being a bad mother.

"You are a revolting person. Your child will need so much therapy when she grows up and finds out how she was treated by you", she wrote in her blog.

Not everyone finds all this so offensive. Whoopee Goldberg stood up for Sasha Grey, and feminist bloggers all around came to Young's defense. There is not much to say about the accidental porn exposure. But it could be argued that showing a little bit of gay porn is a heck of a lot better than what a number of other Catholic priests have done to children.

I do not have children. I do not have the tender responsibility of protecting young minds from the world. However, I did help raise seven kids. I don't believe that a vicarious experience of porn or porn stars is inherently harmful. Especially after seeing all of these children in my care go through so many different struggles far more profound than a pretty ex-porn star reading them a story. I find all this huffing and puffing about such a minor issue fatiguing.

We live in a culture where we're surrounded by highly sexualized images. The video where Britney Spears wears her Catholic school girl outfit I'm sure was j/o material for a number of people. The video, I might add, was vastly popular to 8-year-old girls. It can be difficult these days to separate what is pop culture from what is porn.

I believe the question is not how we protect children from all of this, but instead how we create a conversation around it. Sasha Grey on The View stated that she had gone into porn because she had always been ashamed of her sexuality and it was a way to challenge her issues. Some will roll their eyes at that statement, but despite an ever-growing porn proliferation, shame is still alive and well.
That should be the source of outrage.

The Sweet Spot is a blog column about alternative sexuality by Ginger Murray who is also the editor of Whore! magazine. Check back next week for more.

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Sasha Grey Puts Clothes On for Interview Germany: Porn star turned actress Sasha Grey stars in an editorial shot by Sean & Seng for Interview Germany‘s April edition. While fashion and porn have always been sometimes-strange bedfellows, there’s nary a nip-slip in sight from Grey (sorry, dudes). Grey wears the likes of Versace and Jil Sander on location at Hollywood High School. {Fashion Gone Rogue}
Elizabeth and James Make Foray Into Home Goods: Or at least, that’s what their new Clara dress looks like. The barely-there mint green dress looks suspiciously like a bath towel. The dress, which retails for $395, also comes with straps for those ladies feeling a bit more modest. {Refinery29}

Jessica Biel Shops for Wedding Dress: Living out every girl’s idea of 7th Heaven, Biel was spotted shopping for wedding gowns in Paris this past weekend. She spent a reported seven hours in the showrooms of Giambattista Valli and Elie Saab preparing for her upcoming nuptials to Justin Timberlake. Biel raised eyebrows when she then stopped by a children’s furniture store and chic kid’s clothing store Bonpoint. {New York Daily News}

Fun with Wedding Gowns: Speaking of upcoming celeb nuptials, the lovely team at FabSugar put together a slideshow of 15 famous brides-to-be and the dresses they should wear for the big day. They matched Biel with a sleek McQueen dress, though judging by her shopping, she’s going a different direction. Check out the other 14 ladies and swoon over the amazing dresses. {FabSugar}

Phillip Lim Plans Expansion: Designer Phillip Lim shows no signs of slowing down. His brand, which is still privately backed by himself and partner Wen Zhou, plans to open 15 new stores in China by the end 2016. Just last week, they moved into a 23,000-square-foot corporate space in TriBeCa, and perhaps most exciting for Lim fans, today marks the launch of their e-commerce website. The pair plans to grow slowly and steadily. “There always needs to be a sound foundation,” says Zhou.{WWD}

Seal Is Officially “Out”: Heidi Klum filed for divorce from Seal on Friday, which is about three months after the former lovey-dovey couple announced their separation. No word on whether or not he’ll be invited to her Halloween party this year. {CNN}

Critics Pan the Fashion of the Hunger Games: The movie may have gotten rave reviews, but the fashion set is less than impressed with the film’s costumes. Many interviewed cite the film Blade Runner as the yardstick against which Hunger Games‘ futuristic costumes are perhaps unfairly measured. PR guru Paul Wilmot called the costumes “hideola,” while hairstylist Sally Hershberger said simply, “This is not a fashion film. It looks too cheap.” Ouch. {NYT}

Arizona Muse is All Smiles on the Cover of Vogue China: Hot mom and fashion favorite Arizona Muse is showing no signs of slowing down. Up next: the cover of Vogue China’s May issue, wearing Lanvin and what we’re hoping is a new haircut. Muse has every reason to smile on the cover, her very first for the Chinese edition of the glossy. {Fashion Gone Rogue}

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Sasha Grey, born Marina Ann Hantzis on March 18, 1988, grew up in the Sacramento part of North Highlands, CA. She described her hometown as a a “disenfranchised, lower-to-middle class neighborhood. I never allowed myself to be a negative product of that environment. I used it as a source of inspiration to challenge myself”.

Sasha’s mother worked for the state of California, while her father is a mechanic. At the age of five, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother. Grey attended four high schools, among them Highlands High, before graduating. Despite being dissatisfied with her education, she was able to graduate a year early at seventeen. In August of 2005, she began taking film, dance and acting classes at junior college. She also waited tables at a steakhouse until March of 2006, where she saved $7,000 for a move to Los Angeles.

On April 17th, 2006, Grey moved to LA, got tested at AIM and found an agent. She performed her first sex scene on May 1st, 2006 in The Fashionistas 2 with Rocco Siffredi, shortly after turning eighteen. Originally, Grey liked the name Anna Karina, taken after the French New Wave actress, before settling on her present name. “Sasha” was taken from Sascha Konietzko of the band KMFDM, and “Grey” represents Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

With her smirk-like smile and “the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it” Sasha quickly made a name for herself in the adult film business. Grey was featured in the November 2006 edition of Los Angeles where she was named as a potential major star, even the next Jenna Jameson.

Within a year, Sasha was the recipient of several industry awards and was named Penthouse’s Pet of the Month for July of 2007. In 2008, she became the youngest person to win the AVN “Female Performer of the Year”. Grey’s popularity lead her to appearances on the Tyra Banks Show and being profiled in the Rolling Stone “Hot Issue” in December 2008 edition, where she was called “the dirtiest girl in the world”.

In 2011, CNBC listed her as one of the twelve most popular stars in porn. CNBC noted that, while she is no longer acting in porn films, her current mainstream roles have kept interest in her earlier porn work high, and several companies continue to release compilations of her earlier work. On April 8, 2011, she officially announced her retirement from adult films on Facebook.

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FGR shares these looks from the April 2012 issue of Interview Germany. The actress is cast is a very proper light for the shoot, as photographed by Seng & Seng. Ms. Grey is outfitted in various fashions from Versace, Jil Sander and more. Shot on site at Hollywood High School. Cheeky indeed, but with class; and slightly different than her now famous and out of print sex book.

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Equal Pay Day, an organization dedicated to closing Belgium's 22 percent gender pay gap, just released this ad in which former porn star Sasha Grey makes sad faces against a backdrop of people nailing each other, and talks about porn being the only industry in which women consistently out-earn men. Equal Pay Day is also urging activist women to get temporary tramp stamps that say, "Close the wage gap, become a porn actress."

Not sure how I feel about that, but this campaign has bigger problems—its slut-shaming tactics are regressive as hell, for one thing, plus it misrepresents Grey's actual feelings about her adult film career. What's left is a garbled, sensationalistic mess that uses porn to attract an audience that it simultaneously expects to be disgusted by porn. They should have just stuck with the sexy grannies from last year.

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