Shock and Awe Marketing Tutorials in Plain English

To all my friends on foes online,

Are you bad to the bone?  I know I am.  And I don't really think that is such a bad thing.  For those of you that know, Nicole Nikolay (another totally scandalous blogger) and I have been in the process of writing a book called Sacrilicious: the art of shock and awe marketing.  Well, as our manuscript grows and we get closer to the end, we thought we'd launch a blog and a YouTube channel (coming in the next few months) to grab some readers, some attention and, well, raise some hell. Of coure, what ensued was pure mayhem.  And when I say mayhem, I mean, that kind of mayhem where you are pretty sure you are going to hell and the only thing you start praying for now is that they serve good wine there.  So, with our new Rosemary's Baby live on the NET, we are inviting contributors and readers to join in the fun on the Sacrilicious Marketing website.

If you'd like to contribute or you have suggestions for the site, please contact me through this site.

Obviously, we are still adding all the content, but you can get the idea from the site as you see it in its evil little infancy.

Sacriciously,

-Mary

Now, since one does not kick off te sacrilicious without a totally taudry post... here are:

The Top 13 Celebrity Sex Tape Leaks of All Time.

1.      Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson and then-husband Tommy Lee had various interludes from their honeymoon placed online by Internet Entertainment Group in 1998 as one of the earliest internet celebrity sex tapes.

Pamela Anderson and Bret Michaels (singer of the band Poison) had a sex tape released as a DVD on 7 September 2005. The footage had been circulating on the internet for many years.

2.      Bob Crane of Hogan's Heroes fame made numerous home sex tapes in the 1970s with early VCR technology. His exploits were immortalized in the movie Auto Focus.

3.      Dustin Diamond of Saved by the Bell fame authorized the release of a 40-minute sex tape in 2006 in the hopes that it would bring in profits and provide a boost to his career.

4.      Fred Durst, the frontman for the band Limp Bizkit, had a video of him and an unknown woman having sex leaked onto the Internet by a repairman who had been repairing his computer.

5.      Kelsey Grammer sued Internet Entertainment Group under the mistaken impression that it had purchased from his former girlfriend Cerlette Lamme a sex tape the couple had made. He dropped the suit after IEG counter-sued and stated that it had not bought or possessed the video.

6.      Tonya Harding and her husband Jeff Gillooly had a sex tape that was leaked onto the internet and subsequently became so widely available that the couple decided to legitimately release it on their own. It is commercially sold by Penthouse Home Video as the "Wedding Night" tape, although the wedding gown was actually a Halloween costume.

7.      Paris Hilton and then-boyfriend Rick Salomon recorded themselves having sex in a hotel room, shot in night-vision. Hilton initially attempted to stop the distribution of the tape, but later agreed to its release. She now receives profits from the tape. Unusual for a celebrity scandal, the notoriety surrounding the tape only served to increase Hilton's fame.  This footage, along with additional full-color footage, was released commercially under the title 1 Night in Paris.

8.      Socialite Kim Kardashian confirmed the existence of a sex tape of her made by then-boyfriend Ray J. She threatened to take legal action to block its planned distribution by Vivid Video.

9.      Joanie Laurer (better known as Chyna) and fellow professional wrestler Sean Waltman (aka X-Pac) appeared in a home sex tape sold under the title 1 Night in China. Unusually, the tape was not accidentally leaked, but was actually solicited to pornographic film distributors by the duo, possibly in an attempt at a career boost.

10.  Rob Lowe faced controversy in the 1980s; he taped himself having sex with two young girls, one of whom turned out to be underage.

11.  Nicole Narain and Colin Farrell have a 13-minute sex tape. Farrell confirmed the existence of the tape and successfully obtained a court order blocking its distribution, but in January 2006, copies of the tape appeared on the Internet.

12.  Robert Ritchie (AKA Kid Rock) and Scott Stapp (former singer of the band Creed) appear in a sex tape from 1999 where the two engage in sex acts with four groupies. California pornography company Red Light District planned to release the tape in 2006, but one of the women involved filed to block it. Ritchie also filed an injunction, called Stapp an "idiot", and blamed him for the tape's leak.

13.  Verne Troyer, actor and stuntman, is currently suing over the release of a sex tape between himself and a model, which he claims was stolen and is in the hands of the same film producer that released Paris Hilton's sex tape.