Fleshbot: great moments in self promotion

Any doubts about Amy Fisher's involvement...

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:58:17 EST

Any doubts about Amy Fisher's involvement with or assent to the DVD distribution of her homemade sex adventure are probably erased by the news that she will be the special guest DJ at her own sex tape release party. So we're going to go out on a limb and say that she's cool with the whole thing.

Meet "The Indian Playboy"

Dashiell Bennett — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:11:41 EDT

Richard Manon bills himself as a self-made entrepreneur who gave up a cushy corporate finance job to become the first American of Indian decent to direct his own porn movies, a claim that is so unverifiable that it has to be true. We can't seem to figure out what the titles of any those movies might be, but we do know that he's turned his porn endeavors into an interesting little vanity project called "The Indian Playboy," a pseudo-documentary about his life and career that (judging by the trailer below) brings new meaning to the phrase "independent film." We don't know a lot of playboys who have a wife and a roommate, but we confess that the idea has us intrigued, mostly because we want to know how you shoot a 65-minute film about the making of a porn movie that doesn't contain any actual nudity or sex. It does contain Charlotte Stokely in a bikini, however, which at the very least deserves a Golden Globe nomination.

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· The Indian Playboy Movie Trailer (YouTube)
· The Indian Playboy (theindianplayboy.com)

Jodie Marsh Wants You (To Marry Her)

Fleshbot — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:15:42 EDT

What do you do when you're a British glamour model and tabloid fixture with a string of bad relationships behind you and (more to the point) a gaggle of younger babes getting more attention than you are lately? If you're Jodie Marsh, you launch a website to audition prospective spouses by standing toplessly atop a wedding cake in London's Leicester Square and wait for the world—including all those reporters and, uh, bloggers—to beat a path to your door: "I'm desperate to settle down with the man of my dreams so I'm launching a nationwide search to find a fella, but not just a boyfriend. I'm on the look out for a husband ... I know my soul-mate is out there, I just don't want to wait any longer to meet him." In case the website doesn't do the job, Jodie will also be starring in her own reality series chronicling her quest for domestic bliss on MTV this summer; we assume it will also feature the men who best answered questions like "Tell me about the best sex you ever had!" and "Is money important to you?" (She is, after all, one of the richest chavs in the UK, so weeding out any dates who are just out to make a quick pound would understandably be a priority.) Of course, if she was just doing this for attention we suppose Jodie could have just gotten a boob job and earned herself just as many new column inches as the whole marriage stunt. But that would be verging on overkill—and if there's one thing Jodie is famous for besides her already impressive (and allegedly natural) rack, it's subtlety.

· Marry Jodie Marsh (marryjodiemarsh.com - thanks Mr. Z)
· "Jodie launches search for a husband" (metro.co.uk)
· Jodie Marsh (official website + blog @ jodiemarsh.tv)
· Jodie Marsh (more career highlights @ Wikipedia)