Detroit Adult Entertainment: A ribald but serious premise to HBO’s new comedy Hung
June 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsA ribald but serious premise to HBO’s new comedy Hung Working stiff
24 JUN 2009 • by Danny Hooley
Hung
Premieres Sunday, June 28, at 10 p.m.
It’s a meaty premise, that’s for sure. A guy, down on his luck, and with nothing much going for him except his huge penis, decides to capitalize on it by going into business as a prostitute who serves unfulfilled women.
So goes the basic description of HBO’s new summer comedy, Hung, and as the first sentence of this review demonstrates, things can quickly devolve into puerile dick jokes when a story begins with that idea. But hey, this is HBO, not Comedy Central, so expectations are rightfully higher.
Not that Hung doesn’t offer up some good ol’ schlong humor (how could it not?), such as when the main character, debt-ridden high school coach Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) has to vertically readjust his camera to snap a photo of his little big man for an online ad. Of course, there …
Detroit Adult Entertainment: hbo’s Hung premieres
June 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsIn HBO’s new series Hung, which premieres Sunday 28 at 9pm, Thomas Jane plays Ray Drecker, a guy who’s, well, really hung. What makes the pilot so engaging is that Ray’s endowment is the least interesting thing about him. When his wife leaves him for a schlubby-but-rich dermatologist and his life as a high-school teacher and basketball coach goes from suck to sucktastic, Ray looks for financial support from the one asset he’s got left: a long schlong. Rather than a faux-scandalized, self-titillating take on sex work, the pilot looks at the malaise of a man whose youthful promise has turned into middle-aged stasis.
The problem with the pilot, however, is its apparent attempt to be more than that.
Directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways) and written by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, Hung begins with shots of a moribund Motor City as Ray’s voice-over laments, basically, the decline of the U.S.A. Hung never fleshes out the connection between America’s doldrums and Ray’s. …
Detroit Escorts: POLICE BEAT: Short police-related stories
June 24, 2009 at 9:13 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsSex query leads to can opener attack
LINCOLN PARK — A man was attacked by a woman after asking if she was a prostitute.
A 41-year-old resident said he was assaulted at about 10 p.m. June 15 outside Pinewood Party Store, 1408 Fort St., by a woman armed with a can opener.
He said he was walking into the store to purchase beer when he asked a woman standing outside if she was working and how much she charges.
The woman swore at him and grabbed his wallet out of his front pocket. As the man tried to get his wallet back, he said, the woman pulled out a white can opener and started stabbing him in the chest.
During the altercation, the man said, he suffered a couple of small puncture marks. He was able to wrestle his wallet away from the woman, but she still managed to grab $20 out of it.
Detroit Escorts: Downturn is an excuse
June 24, 2009 at 1:13 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsAs a taxpayer, grandmother and person who cares about our city, I ask Windsor to please wake up and support its working class. I want my granddaughter to have more options than working as a Caesars’ girl or a call girl.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Escorts: Baptist ministers facing sex charges appear in court
June 24, 2009 at 1:13 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsBy Bob Allen
LIBERTY, MO — Southern Baptist ministers facing molestation charges in three states had recent days in court.
Robert M. Black, 40, pastor of New Home Baptist Church near St. Joseph, Mo., pleaded not guilty June 18 to felony counts of first-degree statutory rape and attempted enticement of a child.
Black was arrested April 8 after allegedly soliciting sex over the Internet with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. He is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 14.
A grand jury in Waco, Texas, indicted William Frank Brown, 45, June 17 on four counts of sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child.
Brown, who resigned as pastor of First Baptist Church in Bellmead, Texas, just before the investigation became public, stands accused of molesting two children in incidents that began about four years ago in another state.
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