Gawker: Barely Legal

Leven Rambin Turns 18, Creepy Old Men Rejoice

ian spiegelman — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:11:59 EDT

Gal-about-town and soap star Leven Rambin is officially legal today. But take note, Hud Morgan, Mark Ronson and all the other lounge-leaping, boozy 30-something-and-older NYC dudes who think they should get some of the little starlet starting now. She's still a teenager and it's still fucking gross guys! Seriously! Update: I'm being told Hud Morgan is still a shade under 30. Know what, though? Still not really a mitigating factor. Date a freaking grown-up, everyone.

Harvard Porn Mag Feeds Al Gore's Media Company

Ryan Tate — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:43:18 EDT

Al Gore's minions at cable network Current just revisited the story of Harvard porno H Bomb, which debuted four years ago. Current posted an interview with H Bomb co-founder Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg, but neglected to mention that Baldegg, class of '06, was hired by Current to solicit content after her gig running H Bomb. It's not clear how new Current's interview is; according to this page, it was recorded earlier this month, but Baldegg is identified like she's the still the editor, which she is not. Anyway, the video, excerpted after the jump, includes a nice pan across the magazine's famous orgy centerfold and the impossibly-named Baldegg sounding off about how her magazine was not porno but high-minded art.

Full video: Sex at Harvard

Julia Allison's Party For Leven Rambin

Emily Gould — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:56:52 EDT

Last night was dating columnist Julia Allison's 17th birthday bash for soap actress Leven Rambin at Tenjune, and the members of the media elite who Julia had invited were all there to celebrate. Well, okay, only HufPo gal Rachel Sklar showed up. But it was still a fun time! Until a doorman had a problem with someone (the guest of honor, maybe?) being underage.

Buttafuoco and Fisher Ask, "Stunt for What?" on Less Prestigious 'ET' Spin-off

jliu — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:58:46 EDT

Back in 2004, when Queen Bee wannabe Hillary Rodham didn't even know that she didn't know what she knows now, a more sympathetic New Yorker self-published a book called If I Knew Then... And? Turns out that Long Island Ophelia Amy Fisher would have still fallen head over shotgun for that prime rib/subprime mortgage of a man ~~Bill Cli~~ Joey Buttafuoco, if only for the chance to join the Flavor Flav/Lauren Conrad level of the Pantheon of Human Dignity. So reports today's Post, which, in an "exclusive," seems to have acquired tapes of The Insider's upcoming four-night so-inside-it's-like-a-PET-scan series on Amy and Joey's much talked-about steak-house canoodling last week. Said tape was apparently played in a room for a monkey that can transcribe and voilà: "'I love it, so I would do it," Fisher said of the idea of a reality-TV show. "We have so much fun. He's so funny. People don't know that.'"

Funny and...such a good catch! Which is to say, people also don't know how rich and famous J. Butta truly is:

"Stunt for what?" Buttafuoco fumed during the TV interview. "I could walk out of my home in California and everybody follows. I could be in Hollywood, I could be in Vegas, and it's going to happen."
He said it was not about the money - well, not all about the money.
"I don't need the money," he declared. "I'm really OK emotionally, physically and financially. But if the money comes along with the reality show that they're talking about, fine. I think we'll have an incredible show. It will be a wild show."

This is no hyperbole; one suspects that that The Real Just Shoot Me will get viewers closer to the entirety of its principals' inner lives than any reality show before it:

"I enjoy talking to Amy; I really do," Buttafuoco said. "I like being friends with Amy."

Fisher said the date had been a long time coming.
"We started talking a few years ago," she said. "He called to apologize, and he kept calling and calling."
Buttafuoco said, "She kept hanging up and hanging up. The last time we tried to make something happen, the last time we spoke, I was a really big ass and off the hook with it, so I wanted to apologize to her.
"A year ago I was really angry. I had a medical situation, and I was on heavy meds. I needed to release that part of my past and have some closure on it."

I can't help but fear, however, that Joey may get taken advantage of again. After all, based on her impromptu demographic analysis, Fisher scores at least a 25 or 30 on the standard HMTBTJZCTPP-TV (How Many Times Better Than Jeff Zucker Can This Person Program TV) Scale:

Fisher told the TV show, "We know we're unconventional and a lot of people think it's sick and strange. We're very hesitant about what people think. We care about what people think. We're nice people. We're a lot of fun."

She added: "We're going to start off slower than we did last time - although not too slow..."

America needs a good love story, Fisher claims - and so what if they're sharing their relationship with the world?

Oh, Amy, how we love thee! Not since Sarah Silverman fashioned Jimmy Kimmel (2003) out of tube socks, snot, and ressentiment for the Venice Biennale has feminist installation art done so much with so little.

Joey and Amy Get Mushy [NYP]

Harvard Porn Mag Ripped From Campus

Doree Shafrir — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:13:03 EDT

Is there no future in Ivy League porn? Harvard student sex magazine H-Bomb has lost its status as a student group, which means it can't advertise or distribute copies on campus. Said Harvard assistant dean Paul McLoughlin:

"Perhaps there is just more interest on the outside than on the inside," he said. "Maybe everyone wants to read it, but no one wants to work on it."

That could be, although we're more inclined to believe the magazine's former business manager, Vladimir Djuric, when he says: "The combination of Harvard and sex will always hold a certain public fascination... The media frenzy just snowballed until we printed our first issue." Right. Then everyone saw it. So will the magazine be able to recover from this media version of premature ejaculation? —doree

H Bomb Loses Official Status [Crimson]