Salon Article: Sad News Actor Laurence Fishburne’s Nineteen Year Old Daughter Is A Porn Star!
Pornography
Monday, Aug 2, 2010 11:03 ET
Laurence Fishburne’s daughter: A new kind of sex tape
Montana Fishburne wanted to be a star, but she didn’t follow her father’s footsteps. She followed Kim Kardashian’s
J’accuse, Kim Kardashian. When Montana Fishburne, 19-year-old daughter of Emmy and Tony award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne, felt her own Hollywood career wasn’t taking off with sufficient expedience (darn kids and their attention issues) she apparently decided to blaze the fast track to attention Kardashian style — by releasing a sex tape later this month. Tell me it’s just a dream, Morpheus!
In what surely has to be the press release most likely to make you start drinking before lunch today, Vivid Entertainment, the adult film company that gave us the notorious Kim Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson tapes, explains Miss Fishburne’s surprising foray into porn. “I view making this movie as an important first step in my career,” she says. “I’ve watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape by Vivid. I’m hoping the same magic will work for me. I’m impatient about getting well-known and having more opportunities and this seemed like a great way to get started on it.”
Vivid further promises that Montana, who also goes by the adorable porn name Chippy D, “engages in wild, erotic adventures in a car, a hotel room and even in public while visiting a mall!” Not sure this is how Judi Dench got started, but it’s a living.
The younger Fishburne’s foray into adult entertainment might be viewed as a depressing confirmation of what many of us have long suspected: that some of those shocking sex tapes those D-list celebrities didn’t want you to see are in fact carefully contrived publicity stunts. Montana, it would seem, is at least upfront about her ambitions and her strategies. She’s of legal age and certainly free to peddle movies of herself getting it on at the Pasadena Chik-Fil-A. But there’s something unsettling about Fishburne’s apparent career choice. In an interview this weekend for celebrity blogger Carlton Jordan, “Chippy” sits smiling next to the young man she identifies as her boyfriend, “J-Pipes,” while adult actor/director/world’s most terrible rapper Brian Pumper enthuses about the allure of “official first-timers” because other girls have “been penetrated so much doing gang bangs.”
Fishburne herself stays stone-faced for most of the interview, shot at a local Subway, preferring to sit glumly under a giant photo of cheese while the Dream Academy’s “Life in a Northern Town” blares ironically in the background. When asked directly how she feels about being “in the industry,” she explains, “The first time was really nerve wracking, but I have a lot of at-home experience. I know what I do and I do it well.” And when asked if this was her goal, she hesitates ever so slightly and replies, “It wasn’t a goal, but it’s a step … in a direction.”
Fishburne, who has also shaken her money-maker in one of Pumper’s rap videos, clearly didn’t just get into town for Rumspringa. Yet sitting there in that sandwich shop, she also exudes all the puppyish eagerness to please of a teenager with a boyfriend who happens to know people in the porn business. And when J-Pipes calls her “Montana,” she shoots him a startled look and corrects him, “Chippy.” Although Montana claims to be doing this for the “opportunity,” she also seems to prefer to let Chippy be the porn star. And that’s sad. Because whoever she is, today she’s just another piece of fresh meat sitting at the Subway.
Associated Press Article: French President Nicolas Sarkozy Threatens To Revoke Citizenship Of French Immigrants!
By ELAINE GANLEY (AP) – 2 days ago
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a “national war” on delinquency.
In a speech in Grenoble, the site of recent urban unrest, Sarkozy said that the current list of causes for revoking French nationality would be reevaluated and “rights and benefits” accorded to illegal immigrants would be reviewed.
Meanwhile, a video posted on the Internet showing riot police roughly rousting African immigrant squatters, including one visibly pregnant woman, from an encampment at a housing project prompted shocked reactions around the country.
The video shot by a member of a housing-rights organization shows police wearing leg protection pulling women, some with babies on their backs, and in one case dragging a woman across the ground with her infant trailing behind in the dirt.
No one was injured in the July 21 operation in La Courneuve, a suburb northeast of Paris, local officials said, but human rights advocates denounced the “brutal evacuation” of some 200 people.
Family Planning, an international women’s health group, issued a statement saying it was “scandalized, shocked, outraged and even sickened by the conditions” of the mass evacuation of women and children.
MRAP, a leading human rights group, said people in the video had all been expelled from previous housing and provided with no long-term solutions.
The squatters physically resisted, “attaching themselves to each other, lying down, sometimes kicking and hitting police,” the government of the Seine-Saint-Denis region around La Corneuve said.
The evacuation was handled “according to legal procedures and rules in such circumstances,” and no one was injured, it said in a statement.
The French president, a former interior minister, has projected a law-and-order image, and named a former police official as prefect, the highest state authority, for the region around Grenoble after youths and police clashed this month at a housing project that is home to many immigrants.
Two days ago, Sarkozy ordered the expulsion of Gypsies living in France illegally, saying their camps should be “systematically evacuated.” That order came after police clashed this month with Gypsies, known as Roma, in the Loire Valley following the shooting death of a youth fleeing police.
The pronouncement caused special outrage because Sarkozy singled out a particular ethnic group in a country official that’s official blind to ethnic origins.
Sarkozy said he wants immigration laws changed to make it easier to expel people “for reasons of public order.”
Sarkozy traveled to Grenoble Friday for the induction ceremony of a new prefect, Eric Le Douaron, and used the occasion to announce a new get-tough approach to delinquency that notably hits hard on immigrants who disobey the law.
“French nationality should be earned. One must know how to be worthy of it,” the president said. French nationality should be revoked “from any person of foreign origin who voluntarily threatens the life of a police officer” or other public authority, he said.
The violence outside Grenoble, in the southeast, was triggered by the police killing of a resident fleeing after an armed robbery at a casino. Officials said some youths fired on police in the ensuing unrest.
Tensions have simmered in heavily immigrant projects around France since nationwide riots in 2005.
Human rights organizations joined political rivals to denounce Sarkozy’s decision to target French of immigrant origin.
“The xenophobia of Nicolas Sarkozy threatens democracy,” the League of Human Rights said. For the conservative leader’s main rival, the Socialist Party, “There are rules that are valid for all French … You are French or you are not French.”
Many claimed that Sarkozy, plummeting in the polls, was using law-and-order and immigration issues to gain backing from deeply conservative swaths of the population and the minority far-right.
Guardian Article: French Police Use Excessive Force Against African Immigrant Women & Children!
French police breakup of immigrant squat brings storm of protest
- Lizzy Davies in Paris
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 August 2010 16.24 BST
Watch footage of the incident Link to this video Footage of French police using apparently excessive force while breaking up an immigrant squat has prompted outrage as activists and intellectuals accuse Nicolas Sarkozy of pursuing policies that target the vulnerable while giving free reign to the police.
The video, filmed by a member of the social housing charity Droit au Logement (DAL), shows officers roughly handling women and children as they break up a group of 150 squatters who were evicted from a tower block in La Courneuve, north-east of Paris.
At one point, a woman is shown being pulled by her legs across the ground, her baby – which she had been carrying on her back – dragged along the concrete after her.
The Seine-Saint-Denis police department insisted the level of violence was not extreme. “The operation was carried out within the rules,” it said. The squatters had been ordered to leave the premises three times and the expulsion had taken place “in relatively good conditions”.
But the footage, captured on 21 July and viewed more than 500,000 times on the internet, aroused strong condemnation by viewers and activists. Jean-Baptiste Ayrault, spokesman for the DAL, demanded an investigation.
“There is clearly a limit [to what is acceptable],” he told French radio. “Normally the police do not behave like this and I am afraid that we are seeing this kind of behaviour increasingly often. The head of state [Sarkozy] governs with the police; they feel protected.”
The footage, which the anonymous film-maker claimed in Le Parisien today to have shared in order to “show the degree of violence used” by certain members of the police, comes amid a heated debate in France about a law and order crackdown announced by Sarkozy last week.
In a bellicose speech in the south-eastern city of Grenoble on Friday, the president said he would wage a “real national war” on crime, announcing plans to revoke the French citizenship of anyone “of foreign origin” who threatened the life of a police officer.
Implying a clear link between France’s levels of immigration and its crime, Sarkozy said: “We are suffering the consequences of 50 years of insufficiently regulated immigration, which have led to a failure of integration.”
His tough rhetoric was followed yesterday by the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, who warned that citizenship could also be revoked for those found guilty of other offences such as polygamy, female circumcision or other “serious criminal acts”.
“The only thing that interests me is responding to the legitimate expectation of our fellow countrymen, without concerning myself with feelings or declarations,” he said.
The tactic of turning French nationality into a retractable status for those of non-French origin has provoked a storm of protest from most of the mainstream media and the opposition, with accusations that Sarkozy is trying to turn the country into a two-tier society.
“[The president] wants to discriminate against French people with the same crimes, the same offences, according to a person’s origin, according to the means with which they acquired French nationality,” Robert Badinter, the former justice minister and socialist, told radio France Inter today. “It runs contrary to the republican spirit.”
Commentators said they doubted that such a measure – which the government intends to try to make law as of September – would be legal given the constitution’s promise to ensure “the equality before the law of all citizens regardless of origin, race or religion”.
“I do not see how one can distinguish between two classes of citizens on the basis of whether they were born French or whether they became it,” said Guy Carcassonne, a constitutional expert.
Sarkozy’s sudden return to his “top cop” roots comes as he tries to distract the media and the electorate from the ongoing scandal surrounding the L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt and the labour minister, Eric Woerth. Previous efforts to restate his roots have resulted in a resurgence in his popularity among rightwing and far-right voters.
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