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Or the fact that Maya Angelou used to be a prostitute, as if former prostitutes can't articulate racial burden artistically, can't grow from their past. We moralize according to our beliefs, our narrow minds.
Again blown up.
http://people.com/celebrity/pee-wee-actor-settles-kiddie-porn-case/
"Paul Reubens — best known as onetime TV character Pee-wee Herman — pleaded guilty on Friday to an obscenity charge as part of a settlement in a child pornography case.
The actor, 51, had faced charges stemming from a 2001 search of his Los Angeles house, during which police said they found materials that appeared to depict children engaged in sexual activity. In a press release, Reubens’s Los Angeles-based rep, Kelly Bush, said the alleged improper images were from his “extensive historical art photography collection.”
In the settlement, Reubens agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor possession of an obscene image “with the intent to exhibit his collection,” said Bush. He was fined $100, received three years’ probation and agreed to be registered as a sex offender, the Associated Press reports.
“We view both of these counts equally in terms of serious nature of child pornography,” Eric Moses, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office, told the AP.
In his own statement, Reubens said, in part: “I am glad the prosecutors finally dismissed the child pornography charge without me or the taxpayers having to pay for a costly circus-like trial. I am disappointed any part of my art collection was ever deemed inappropriate. Taking responsibility by calling a few images in this collection ‘obscene’ and paying a $100 fine seemed like the sanest way to make it end.”"
Edit: Be careful about reading this, you may end up loving the man.
"In July 1991, while visiting with relatives, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Florida for masturbating during a film at an adult movie theater.[42] During a random police inspection, a detective who had observed Reubens detained him as he was readying to leave. (This sweep also resulted in three other arrests). When detectives examined his driver's license, Reubens told them, "I'm Pee-wee Herman", and offered to do a children's benefit for the sheriff's office, "to take care of this".[54] The next day, after a local reporter recognized Reubens' name, Reubens' attorney made the same offer to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in exchange for withholding the story.[54] In 1971, Reubens had been arrested in the same county for loitering and prowling near an adult theater, though charges were dropped. His second arrest was in 1983 when Reubens was placed on two years' probation for possession of marijuana, although adjudication was withheld.[55] On the night of the arrest, Reubens went to Nashville, where his sister and lawyer lived, and then to New Jersey, where he would stay for the following months at his friend Doris Duke's estate.[11]
The 1991 arrest was widely covered, and Reubens and his character both became the subject of ridicule. Disney-MGM Studios suspended a video that showed Pee-wee explaining how voice-over tracks were made from its studio tour. Toys "R" Us removed Pee-wee toys from its stores.[42] It was commonly thought that Pee-wee's Playhouse got cancelled due to the arrest; in actuality the show was already retired as Reubens, claiming an overworked crew and fear of decline of quantity and quality in material, had decided against a sixth season. However, the popularity of the show had put it into syndication, which CBS revoked in fall of 1991.[55][56][57] Reubens released a statement denying the charges.[58]
On November 7, 1991, Reubens pleaded no contest. The plea kept the charge off Reubens' record and obligated him to spend 75 hours performing community service, making an anti-drug public service announcement that he would write, produce and finance.[59]
Despite the negative publicity, many artists who knew Reubens, such as Cyndi Lauper, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Valeria Golino, spoke out in his support.[35][42] Bill Cosby defended Reubens, saying, "Whatever [Reubens has] done, this is being blown all out of proportion." Other people who knew Reubens, such as Playhouse production designer Gary Panter, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Big Top Pee-wee director Randal Kleiser, also spoke in support.[24][35] Reubens' fans organized support rallies after CBS canceled the reruns, picketing in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.[42][60] The TV news magazine A Current Affair received "tens of thousands" of responses to a Pee-wee telephone survey, in which callers supported Reubens by nine-to-one.[42]
Reubens, who for years would not give interviews or appear on talk shows,[56][58] did make a subsequent public appearance as Pee-wee at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards on September 5,[61] where he asked the audience, "Heard any good jokes lately?" He received a standing ovation. Reubens then appeared as Pee-wee once in 1992, when he participated in a Grand Ole Opry tribute to Minnie Pearl.[20][24] As part of his community service, Reubens returned to the Pee-Wee character for a public service announcement, as well as reviving one of his Playhouse characters, a claymation character named "Penny" for a second PSA talking about the dangers of substance abuse....
...In November 2002, while filming David LaChapelle's video for Elton John's "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore", Reubens learned that police were at his home with a search warrant, acting on a tip from a witness in the pornography case against actor Jeffrey Jones,[68] finding among over 70,000 items of kitsch memorabilia, two grainy videotapes and dozens of photographs that the city attorney's office characterized as a collection of child pornography.[2] Kelly Bush, Reubens' personal representative at the time, said the description of the items was inaccurate and claimed the objects were "Rob Lowe's sex videotape, and a few 30- to 100-year-old kitsch collectible images."[69] Reubens turned himself in to the Hollywood division of the LAPD and was charged with possession of obscene material improperly depicting a child under the age of 18 in sexual conduct.[70] The district attorney looked at Reubens' collection and computer and found no grounds for bringing any felony charges against him, while the city attorney, Rocky Delgadillobrought misdemeanor charges against Reubens on the last day allowed by the statute.[71] Reubens was represented by Hollywood criminal defense lawyer Blair Berk.[72] In December he pleaded not guilty through Berk, who also complained that the city attorney failed to turn over evidence to the defense, which City Attorney Richard Katz countered that prosecutors were not required to do until after arraignment, after which they did; neither side disclosed the contents.[73]
"One thing I want to make very, very clear, I don't want anyone for one second to think that I am titillated by images of children. It's not me. You can say lots of things about me. And you might. The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true."
Paul Reubens on the charges.[27]
In March 2004, child pornography charges were dropped in exchange for Reubens' guilty plea to a lesser charge. For the next three years, he was required to register his address with the sheriff's office and he could not be in the company of minors without the permission of a parent or legal guardian.[27] Reubens later stated that he was a collector of erotica, including films, muscle magazines and a sizable collection of mostly homosexual vintage erotica,[2] such as photographic studies of teen nudes.[27] Reubens said that what the city attorney's office viewed as pornography, he considered to be innocent art and that what they described as people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation was, in fact, a judgmental point of view of the nudes that Reubens described as people "one hundred percent not" performing sexual acts.[27] Being an avid collector, Reubens had often purchased bulk lots, and one of his vintage magazine dealers declared that "there's no way" he could have known the content of each page in the publications he bought and that he recalled Reubens asking for "physique magazines, vintage 1960s material, but not things featuring kids".[2]
He spent the next two years in Florida, caring for his terminally ill father, who died in February 2004 of cancer.[5][74]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens
"In July 1991, while visiting with relatives, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Florida for masturbating during a film at an adult movie theater.[42] During a random police inspection, a detective who had observed Reubens detained him as he was readying to leave. (This sweep also resulted in three other arrests). When detectives examined his driver's license, Reubens told them, "I'm Pee-wee Herman", and offered to do a children's benefit for the sheriff's office, "to take care of this".[54] The next day, after a local reporter recognized Reubens' name, Reubens' attorney made the same offer to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in exchange for withholding the story.[54] In 1971, Reubens had been arrested in the same county for loitering and prowling near an adult theater, though charges were dropped. His second arrest was in 1983 when Reubens was placed on two years' probation for possession of marijuana, although adjudication was withheld.[55] On the night of the arrest, Reubens went to Nashville, where his sister and lawyer lived, and then to New Jersey, where he would stay for the following months at his friend Doris Duke's estate.[11]
The 1991 arrest was widely covered, and Reubens and his character both became the subject of ridicule. Disney-MGM Studios suspended a video that showed Pee-wee explaining how voice-over tracks were made from its studio tour. Toys "R" Us removed Pee-wee toys from its stores.[42] It was commonly thought that Pee-wee's Playhouse got cancelled due to the arrest; in actuality the show was already retired as Reubens, claiming an overworked crew and fear of decline of quantity and quality in material, had decided against a sixth season. However, the popularity of the show had put it into syndication, which CBS revoked in fall of 1991.[55][56][57] Reubens released a statement denying the charges.[58]
On November 7, 1991, Reubens pleaded no contest. The plea kept the charge off Reubens' record and obligated him to spend 75 hours performing community service, making an anti-drug public service announcement that he would write, produce and finance.[59]
Despite the negative publicity, many artists who knew Reubens, such as Cyndi Lauper, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Valeria Golino, spoke out in his support.[35][42] Bill Cosby defended Reubens, saying, "Whatever [Reubens has] done, this is being blown all out of proportion." Other people who knew Reubens, such as Playhouse production designer Gary Panter, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Big Top Pee-wee director Randal Kleiser, also spoke in support.[24][35] Reubens' fans organized support rallies after CBS canceled the reruns, picketing in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.[42][60] The TV news magazine A Current Affair received "tens of thousands" of responses to a Pee-wee telephone survey, in which callers supported Reubens by nine-to-one.[42]
Reubens, who for years would not give interviews or appear on talk shows,[56][58] did make a subsequent public appearance as Pee-wee at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards on September 5,[61] where he asked the audience, "Heard any good jokes lately?" He received a standing ovation. Reubens then appeared as Pee-wee once in 1992, when he participated in a Grand Ole Opry tribute to Minnie Pearl.[20][24] As part of his community service, Reubens returned to the Pee-Wee character for a public service announcement, as well as reviving one of his Playhouse characters, a claymation character named "Penny" for a second PSA talking about the dangers of substance abuse....
...In November 2002, while filming David LaChapelle's video for Elton John's "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore", Reubens learned that police were at his home with a search warrant, acting on a tip from a witness in the pornography case against actor Jeffrey Jones,[68] finding among over 70,000 items of kitsch memorabilia, two grainy videotapes and dozens of photographs that the city attorney's office characterized as a collection of child pornography.[2] Kelly Bush, Reubens' personal representative at the time, said the description of the items was inaccurate and claimed the objects were "Rob Lowe's sex videotape, and a few 30- to 100-year-old kitsch collectible images."[69] Reubens turned himself in to the Hollywood division of the LAPD and was charged with possession of obscene material improperly depicting a child under the age of 18 in sexual conduct.[70] The district attorney looked at Reubens' collection and computer and found no grounds for bringing any felony charges against him, while the city attorney, Rocky Delgadillobrought misdemeanor charges against Reubens on the last day allowed by the statute.[71] Reubens was represented by Hollywood criminal defense lawyer Blair Berk.[72] In December he pleaded not guilty through Berk, who also complained that the city attorney failed to turn over evidence to the defense, which City Attorney Richard Katz countered that prosecutors were not required to do until after arraignment, after which they did; neither side disclosed the contents.[73]
"One thing I want to make very, very clear, I don't want anyone for one second to think that I am titillated by images of children. It's not me. You can say lots of things about me. And you might. The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true."
Paul Reubens on the charges.[27]
In March 2004, child pornography charges were dropped in exchange for Reubens' guilty plea to a lesser charge. For the next three years, he was required to register his address with the sheriff's office and he could not be in the company of minors without the permission of a parent or legal guardian.[27] Reubens later stated that he was a collector of erotica, including films, muscle magazines and a sizable collection of mostly homosexual vintage erotica,[2] such as photographic studies of teen nudes.[27] Reubens said that what the city attorney's office viewed as pornography, he considered to be innocent art and that what they described as people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation was, in fact, a judgmental point of view of the nudes that Reubens described as people "one hundred percent not" performing sexual acts.[27] Being an avid collector, Reubens had often purchased bulk lots, and one of his vintage magazine dealers declared that "there's no way" he could have known the content of each page in the publications he bought and that he recalled Reubens asking for "physique magazines, vintage 1960s material, but not things featuring kids".[2]
He spent the next two years in Florida, caring for his terminally ill father, who died in February 2004 of cancer.[5][74]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens
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He was sometimes weak, sometimes inappropriate, and had unquestionable talent before he was outed as a human.
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Porn actually led the way for VCRs and DVD players because back when they were big you actually had to purchase/rent porn to play on them. There weren't a whole lot of bootleg VHS porn tapes going on, at least not enough to hurt the industry. They made a metric fuckton of money off of VCR and DVD sales, I think they even played a huge role in the Betamax vs VHS thing. Once the internet matured and free porn sites are now a dime a dozen it's very hard to make anything close to what pornstars made in the "heyday" of porn.
He was defended by Bill Cosby, who did unspeakable things, and should be in jail (IMO). The perfect crime, her words, his words, until victims saw through their shame and embarrassment to protect potential future victims. Society growing through empathy. If enough women (or previous girls in Alabama, everywhere really, maybe less than back then) speak truth, you're done for idiot! Your career, family, forever tarnished, literally erased from the airwaves.
You're doomed even if you get a blow job from a transsexual prostitute, or jerk off in a movie house that displays thirty foot porn on the screen, women allowed, but men only, some seeming to be polishing something in their laps.
If it goes against common morals in your country, and especially if you're famous, no matter the level of your "crime," you can start the swan song.
You're doomed even if you get a blow job from a transsexual prostitute, or jerk off in a movie house that displays thirty foot porn on the screen, women allowed, but men only, some seeming to be polishing something in their laps.
If it goes against common morals in your country, and especially if you're famous, no matter the level of your "crime," you can start the swan song.
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And before that, magazines and picture shows, before that, depictions on 2,000 year old pottery (NSFW). Horny are we.
"The most frequent sexual act depicted in Moche pottery is anal sex"
Evidently the preferred birth control method 2,000 years ago.
Being 24 when Pee-Wee's Playhouse premiered, I was too old for it, or so I thought. Adults kept telling me that I had to see it. I realized that part of its appeal was that Pee-Wee always had something for the big kids.
And then there was this immoral. "Acquired" Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Why not "acquired" diabetes or heart disease or many cancers? Only for the homos.
Edit: At the same stadium in London as George Michaels' rendition of the Queen song (above) after Freddie's death.
Edit 2: When I say "for the homos," I meant when we transitioned from calling it GRID (Gay-Related) to AIDS, many still thought of it as a gay disease (including me), when in actuality it was probably transferred from that donor simian specie into humans while probably a straight man cut himself while cutting up dinner for the family as early as 1959, maybe earlier.
Edit: At the same stadium in London as George Michaels' rendition of the Queen song (above) after Freddie's death.
Edit 2: When I say "for the homos," I meant when we transitioned from calling it GRID (Gay-Related) to AIDS, many still thought of it as a gay disease (including me), when in actuality it was probably transferred from that donor simian specie into humans while probably a straight man cut himself while cutting up dinner for the family as early as 1959, maybe earlier.
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