.jpg)
2008/04/30
Supposed Hendrix Sex Tape Is Offered
Exclusive! Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape?!
October 3rd, 2007 Jimi Hendrix
One porn company, Vivid Entertainment, has registered dozens of domain names to promote a Jimi Hendrix sex tape. Jimi Hendrix, yes, that one. The rock and roll god himself, supposedly has a sex tape floating around. At least, that’s what it looks like, ladies and gentlemen. List of domain names:
Supposed Hendrix Sex Tape Is Offered
function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1367208000&en=0d41f6b4902a498b&ei=5124';}
function getShareURL() {
return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/arts/music/29vide.html');
}
function getShareHeadline() {
return encodeURIComponent('Supposed Hendrix Sex Tape Is Offered');
}
function getShareDescription() {
return encodeURIComponent('In a twist on the recent string of sex tapes of Hollywood’s young stars, Vivid Entertainment plans to release what it says is a film from the vaults of classic rock: a sex film supposedly of Jimi Hendrix.');
}
function getShareKeywords() {
return encodeURIComponent('Rock Music,Celebrities,Vivid Entertainment,eBay Inc,Hyperion Press,Jimi Hendrix');
}
function getShareSection() {
return encodeURIComponent('arts');
}
function getShareSectionDisplay() {
return encodeURIComponent('Arts / Music');
}
function getShareSubSection() {
return encodeURIComponent('music');
}
function getShareByline() {
return encodeURIComponent('By MIREYA NAVARRO and JEFF LEEDS');
}
function getSharePubdate() {
return encodeURIComponent('April 29, 2008');
}
Sign In to E-Mail or Save This
Reprints
Share
Digg
Mixx
Yahoo! Buzz
Permalink
writePost();
new_york_times:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/arts/music/29vide.html
By MIREYA NAVARRO and JEFF LEEDS
Published: April 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES — In a twist on the recent string of sex tapes of Hollywood’s young stars, Vivid Entertainment plans to release what it says is a film from the vaults of classic rock: a sex film supposedly of Jimi Hendrix.
Skip to next paragraph
LARRY C. MORRIS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969.
Related
Times Topics: Jimi Hendrix
Above, the cover of a new DVD from Vivid Entertainment, which markets pornographic films.
The film shows a naked man who resembles Hendrix, the guitar legend who died in 1970, wearing a bandanna in his Afro, having sex with two brunettes in a dimly lighted bedroom. His full face appears on screen for only a few seconds, with his eyes closed. In other portions there are flashes of his profile. But his hands, bedecked with rings, roam large on the screen at times. The film has no audio.
Vivid, a large maker of pornographic movies that is releasing the film this week, has created a 45-minute DVD, called “Jimi Hendrix the Sex Tape,” that combines 11 minutes of sex footage with a retrospective of Hendrix’s career in the 1960s (but with none of his music included). The company, which has also released tapes of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, Kim Kardashian and others, will sell it for $39.95 in stores and over the Internet, and will also offer the film for downloading.
But the identity of the man in the film, which has circulated among Hendrix aficionados for years, is fiercely disputed by experts and former associates. And the DVD arrives on the heels of a string of hoaxes involving star look-alikes and one other dead superstar. Internet news reports recently cast doubt on the claims of a New York collectibles dealer who said he brokered the sale of an explicit Marilyn Monroe film.
The marketing of the intimate moments of dead stars adds a strange new dimension to the surge of voyeuristic entertainment that has swept Hollywood, where sex tapes can be considered a means to stoke or revive careers. It indicates how far people will go — and how far legends may fall — as audiences clamor for unvarnished details of celebrity life.
Vivid Entertainment said that after an extensive inquiry led by private detective agencies, it stands by the Hendrix film as the real thing. “I believe that we did our due diligence, and as a result of that clearly believe that it’s him,” said Steven Hirsch, Vivid’s co-chairman. “If they said that it wasn’t him, I would never have put it out.”
Mr. Hirsch said he became convinced that the tape was authentic after tracking down the man who shot it with an eight-millimeter camera; they reached a monetary agreement “for his approval for us to distribute this.” But Mr. Hirsch and his lawyers declined to say how the man was located or to put a reporter in touch with him, saying they were bound by a confidentiality agreement signed at the man’s insistence. No one was able to identify the women in the film, Mr. Hirsch added.
According to the sex-film distributor Howie Klein, who sold the tape to Vivid, the film surfaced when a collector discovered a tin labeled “Black Man” in a box of rock memorabilia bought at an unidentified auction in London. Upon recognizing Hendrix, Mr. Klein said, the collector decided to sell the tape. It was offered on eBay, apparently unsuccessfully, more than a year ago, although it is not clear if the same collector was involved.
The collector approached Mr. Klein in July but insisted that his identity not be disclosed, Mr. Klein said. He declined to say how much he paid for the tape but indicated it was less than $50,000. Mr. Klein sold the tape to Vivid, he said, because the company had the resources to handle it better than he could.
The DVD includes commentary from two women who met Hendrix and say they believe the tape is real: Pamela Des Barres, the author of “I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie” (1987), and Cynthia Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster. Ms. Albritton is known for doing plaster casts of the genitals of rock stars, including Hendrix in 1968. (Mr. Hirsch said both women were paid for their contributions to the video but declined to be more specific.)
“I’m 100 percent sure it’s him,” Ms. Albritton, 61, said in an interview from her home in Chicago. “The facial bone structure is the same. The eyebrows and the mustache are true to the style he was wearing in 1970.”
登録:
投稿 (Atom)
