When we read the press release today announcing that Digital Playground had signed the adorable Riley Steele&trade — yes, she's trademarked already despite the fact that as far as we can tell only one photo of her exists — as the "newest and youngest addition to the studio's elite roster of world-renowned talent", we somehow couldn't help thinking about that part in "Showgirls" where a bedridden Gina Gershon, having been literally and metaphorically crippled by Elizabeth Berkley's overweening ambition, tells her former protegé "There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs behind you." Whether this will translate to a knock-down, drag-out catfight between Riley&trade and the formerly newest DP addition Stoya&trade or veteran contract superstar Jesse Jane&trade remains to be seen, but in the meantime we're told we'll have to wait until the release of the eagerly awaited sequel to "Pirates" this fall to see Riley&trade make her onscreen debut. (Note to Digital Playground: We'd totally pay to see Riley™ in some hot catfight action with Stoya&trade and/or Jesse&trade before then, though. We're just saying.)

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