Asshole Fuckface Roundup #89
Prepare to have your asses blown off by tales of disturbing and horrible Asshole Fuckfacery. That’s right, it’s Asshole Fuckface day, which means I’m bringing a boatload of heinousness out of the darkness and dragging it into the light of day. Also, I’m going to write about it. So, put on your thickest leather robe, because this is going to be ugly.
First up, a little Oklahoma Asshole Fuckfacery.
Paul Duran Jr. fucked up when he was sixteen years old. He was hanging out with an older guy, named Jessie James Dalton, who was twenty-five. Duran, Dalton and another teenager broke into a home and demanded money at gunpoint. During the robbery, Dalton shot and killed nineteen-year-old Billy Ray Wayne, who also had the most stereotypical hick name possible.
They were caught and Duran testified against Dalton in exchange for a 28-year sentence and a lesser charge of robbery with a firearm. The other teen did the same and Dalton received life in prison. That was 2002. Cut to six years later.
Last week the guards at Oklahoma State Penitentiary decided it would be an awesome idea to put Duran into a cell with Dalton. Totally did not work out.
An inmate was beaten and found dead Wednesday night just 15 minutes after being placed in a cell with a man he had testified against, a state prisons spokesman said.
That’s weird. I can’t believe they didn’t hug it out.
Why they were placed in the same cell “is a good question,” Massie said.
Super good question, and the word “fuck” should be tossed in there as well.
Dalton and Duran were listed as "separates" by the prison, which meant they were not supposed to be put in a cell together. Also, when the guard was putting Duran into the cell and he was screaming, “Oh my God, he’s going to kill me because I testified against him,” someone should have noticed.
“I think the natural assumption would be they're probably not the best of friends,” Burnett said.
What up, understatement? The Asshole Fuckface who put the soon to be dead guy in the cell with the big Asshole Fuckface has not been suspended. The DA will look into whether to file charges, then won’t, because it’s Oklahoma.
Next up, some super white guy Asshole Fuckfacery.
Lou Dobbs may be the stupidest Asshole Fuckface on the planet. Besides his constant lying and sensationalist “War on the Middle Class,” he is a delightful racist. Dobbs can look at any subject that has to do with ethnicity and immediately come up with the most ridiculous take. And that’s exactly what he did this week during a rant against St. Patrick’s Day.
And by the way, I gotta wish to you, each and everyone, Happy St. Patty’s Day. I do that and I have to be honest with you, despite my fervent anti-ethnic holiday position, that’s right, I’m against St. Patrick’s Day, I’m against St. Columbus Day, St. Joseph’s Day…I’m against all of those things.
Way to take a stand, Serpico. Yes, people celebrating their country of origin are so fucked up. It angers me to no end.
By the way, is there a Jewish ethnic holiday? Is there one? No. Okay, the Jews have disappointed me….
Yes. There are many. Just because you don’t know any Jewish people, doesn’t mean their holidays don’t exist. I don’t know where Lou grew up, or where he now lives, but you have to be one hell of a shockingly ignorant Asshole Fuckface to not know of any Jewish holidays.
How about an Asian ethnic holiday? Is there one? You know, St. Jing-Tao-Wow?...
Great name. It totally sounds Asian. You should be branded with the words White Guy on your forehead, so everyone will know before you open your mouth where you are coming from. And, yes, there are Asian holidays. Actually, Lou, “Asia” is not a country. So, there are many holidays celebrated by the many different Asians from the many different cultures in the many different countries in the Asia.
I mean what is with all of these ethnic holidays? How about an American Day? How about we’re all the same kind of day?
Independence Day, Presidents’ Day, Martin Luther King Day, Thanksgiving, Veterans Day, Memorial Day. Allowing you to have a TV show is like allowing daily mind rape.
Next up, more super white guy Asshole Fuckfacery.
When one is seeking a decent Asshole Fuckface to round out the Roundup, one can always look into the latest ramblings from the Pope. Benedict XVI is on a tour of Africa, and what better way to kick it off than to say something shockingly stupid?
Pope Benedict XVI said condoms are not the answer to the AIDS epidemic in Africa and can make the problem worse.
I’m glad someone finally had the balls to say that condoms are not the best way to prevent AIDS and to follow up with a capper: Condoms make AIDS worse. Duh. If you have condoms, you’re going to fuck like a wild man, banging every ass, whether it be woman, monkey or antelope. And you’ll think you’re totally safe –- but you’re not. AIDS is crafty and can get all up inside a condom. The only way to really avoid AIDS is to not have sex. Or, you could kill yourself. That would really prevent AIDS. AIDS cannot get you if you are dead.
Finally, some disturbing Asshole Fuckfacery.
Michelle Owen is a twenty-four year old lass from Indiana. She had a bad night this week. Michelle got herself locked up for public intoxication, which was double bad because she is on parole for drunk diving. Michelle likes to party. Oh, my God does she like to party.
Naturally, Michelle wanted to take the attention off her and put it on someone else. So, she told the cops her ex-boyfriend may have been looking at kiddie porn on her computer and told them to search it. Apparently, she didn’t think about the fact that it was HER computer and there is no way to prove he was looking at the porn instead of her. But, again, she’s wasted, so the brain isn’t working all that well. Not well at all, because she forgot about a certain thing she did with a dog in front of a video camera.
Her plan backfired when cops discovered two videos of her engaged in illicit acts with a dog. Owen, 24, was charged last week with two felony bestiality counts in connection with the video files, which a detective found in the laptop's "recycle bin."
Oops. I totally forgot about my doggie porn.
A cop told Owen that he had found videos of her on the laptop and asked if she "knew what those files might be." Owen, pictured in the below mug shot, replied, "The one with the dog."
Um, yeah, the one with a dog. One can only hope this moment is on video, because it is epic.
Owen said that the videos "were just something she did when she was drunk and barely remembers it," adding that she tried to "delete them the next day when she was sober."
Oh, then never mind. If you just had your dog lick your vagina, or you jerked it off, or you blew it when you were drunk, then it’s all-good. You can actually fuck and suck any animal you want if you are drunk. It’s a weird loophole they put into the bestiality laws.
Anyway, they never found that child porn.
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Asshole Fuckface Roundup #68
This was a stellar week for Asshole Fuckfacing. They really should be proud of themselves. Asshole Fuckfaces have been at it since the dawn of time. The very first Asshole Fuckface was actually the serpent in the Garden of Eden. What a prick. Unfortunately, there was no one to write it down, so we dont know what happened. Years later, my people were assigned to write the Asshole Fuckface Roundup every week. My fathers fathers father, Seamus Reaper, actually was the first to coin the phrase, Put on your man bibs, this is going to be ugly. In honor of Seamus, put on your man bibs.
First up, some AM radio Asshole Fuckfacery.
Chris Baker and Langdon Perry are a couple of conservative radio hosts in Minneapolis. Last week, they were having a robust and thoughtful conversation about health care. At one point, a caller claimed that health care is not a right. Thats when their brains started working.
Perry responded by asking about treatable diseases that a person can live with for a long time "if you just get some basic drugs."
Baker responded, "Like Magic Johnson?"
Perry replied, "Like Magic with his faked AIDS. Magic faked AIDS."
Baker said, "You think Magic faked AIDS for sympathy?"
Perry replied, "I'm convinced that Magic faked AIDS."
"Me too," Baker said.
No, shit. Thank God someone finally said this out loud. Goddamn AIDS faker. Why wouldnt he? I mean, it was such a bonanza for him, the way it ended his career and all. Hes like the AIDS cash cow, soaking up all that AIDS money and living during a time when people were afraid to shake his hand. Everyone was faking AIDS in 1992. I mean, I had AIDs in 1992, but not 1994, you know what Im sayin?
A Minneapolis radio station says it will air public service announcements on HIV/AIDS after a pair of talk hosts accused Magic Johnson of faking AIDS.
Hey, thanks. Be sure to include the part about people not faking AIDS.
Next up, some lady Republican Asshole Fuckfacery.
Diane Fedele, president of the highly respected Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated, sends out a newsletter to her members. This months was a doosey. It included a hilarious spin on Obamas comment that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." Hell, no, he looks like the dude on the food stamps.
Well. Just let that soak in for a few minutes. Theres a watermelon, some fried chicken, some ribs and some cool-aid. And its all on a food stamp. Although, she still felt the need to explain it, in case it was too subtle.
"Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on????? Food Stamps, what else!"
HA! Hes black! I get it! But now, Diane says she didnt mean any harm.
"I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else."
Yes. Just food. That is all. None of the food on the food stamp has any sort of meaning. Its simply for nourishment.
Sheila Reines, a black member of the Republican group, was upset.
"This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes."
Um. Yeah. Thats what keeps African-Americans from joining the Party. Not all the policies and whatnot. Also, what the fuck are you doing?
Next up, some Floridian Asshole Fuckfacery.
Joseph Prudente is a 66-year-old grandpa who has lived in a restricted community called Beacon Woods since 1998. But things have not been going well for Joe. His mortgage just shot up $600 month, his Toyota was repossessed and his daughter had to move in because she is having trouble, too.
Beacon Woods requires homeowners to keep their laws green. But Joe didnt have the money to sod it and repair his broken sprinklers. The Beacon Woods Civic Association sent letters, explaining he must resod by a specific date. Joe couldnt. He explained to the association his financial situation. The Asshole Fuckface association didnt care.
"To me, keeping the house is more important than the grass," said Prudente, a retired registered nurse from New York. "I just ignored them."
So, they took him to court. In May, Asshole Fuckface Circuit Judge W. Lowell Bray handed down a court order giving Prudente 30 days to sod the yard. But that was going to be difficult, because he had no money.
The association kept at it.
In June, the court also awarded the association $795 in fees, which included a $645 attorney's fees and a $150 fee for "an expert witness."
Well, that should take care of the guy who cant afford to sod his lawn. And they kept at him.
By September, there was still no sod. Bray found Prudente in contempt of court, but said in his order that Prudente could "purge himself of this contempt" by doing the required work within the next 30 days.
Of course, Joe now was finding it even more difficult to sod the yard, with all the fines and whatnot. So, the deadline passed. Then they did the unthinkable.
On Friday morning, Joseph Prudente put on a pair of shorts and his "Grandpa Gone Wild" T-shirt. He took off his wedding band and put his heart medication in a plastic Wal-Mart bag.
Then his daughter drove him to jail. Grandpa had time to do.
Oh, well, that should get the lawn work done. Fuck you, poor guy!
His bail? Zero.
Prudente, 66, must stay in the Pasco County jail in Land O'Lakes until the required sod work is completed.
Representatives of the Beacon Woods association expressed regret Prudente had landed in jail. But they said it was his own fault.
"It's a sad situation," said board president Bob Ryan, who added that the association had followed all the correct procedures. "But in the end, I have to say he brought it upon himself."
Hopefully Bob will be eaten by an alligator.
Finally, some the National Review can always be counted on for some Asshole Fuckfacery.
Yesterday, Ed Whelan wrote a little blog about how Barack Obama should thank his lucky stars he was not aborted.
Nearly 48 years ago, a young woman, not yet 18, became pregnant in her freshman year of college. Living in a time and place in which abortion was generally illegal, she proceeded to marry the father of her child and gave birth to a son. Perhaps she would have done so irrespective of the abortion laws at the time, even if, say, she lived in a legal culture that celebrated abortion as a fundamental right.
That reminds me, Im having an Abortion is Rad potluck this Friday, come on by whenever.
Very possibly not. (I havent found any statistics on the percentage of pregnant college freshmen who abort their pregnancies, but indirect indications suggest that its very high.)
Oh, so you have zero stats, but indirect indications (your friends) say its really up there. Gotcha. So, having not spoken to Baracks dead mother, Ed has concluded her morality would have led to an abortion.
Barack Obama may actually believe, as he stated yesterday, that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided. But it may be very lucky for him, as the son born of that woman, that it hadnt been decided a dozen or so years earlier.
Oh, shit yeah. How dare he be against something when he has no idea whether or not it would have affected his life.
That Obama may owe his very life to a pre-Roe legal regime that banned abortion is, to be sure, not necessarily a reason that he should favor that regime. But it ought to lead Obama and others to think more carefully about the valuable role that protective abortion laws play.
Here, here. What an amazing argument youve laid out, based on nothing. I also have one: What if abortions were done on a sort of Russian roulette basis. Now, here me out, because I am one of those pro-abortion, celebration people. (Did I mention Im having a Go Abortion! pool party next weekend? Swimming, barbeque and abortions on the deck. Bring a suit!)
Russian Roulette Abortion would mean that when a woman found out they were pregnant, she would have to go into a lottery and if she were picked, she would get an abortion. If we had implemented this program in the 40s, George Bush may never have been born and over a million people would be alive today. Just something to think about, since we are making shit up and pulling it out of our assholes.
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Yet Another Deadly Superbug Surfaces
I can imagine the homophobic mob now
First the gays bring us AIDS, and now a deadly new supervirus.
Though I sure as hell hope I dont actually hear it. But thats what the undereducated, the ignorant, and the foolish tend to do. They take facts out of context and misappropriate them for their own purposes. And the following is a sampling of the reported facts.
A deadly strain of the MRSA superbug has been found. MRSA, if you dont know, stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureaus. Basically, it is an antibiotic-resistant staph infection. Now, "resistant" does not mean that antibiotics are completely ineffective against the bacteria. Rather, it means that higher, more frequent doses and often multiple antibiotics are required to combat the bug.
In the past, outbreaks have been found largely in hospitals, but this strain, like AIDS in its infancy, seems to be affecting the gay community most.
Research suggests it may be more prevalent among the gay community - the gay San Francisco district of Castro appears to have been hardest hit.
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Researchers say the bug has so far been 13 times more prevalent in gay men in San Francisco than in other people.
In the Castro district - where more gay people live than anywhere else in the US - about one in 588 people are carrying the bug.
In the general San Francisco community the figure was around one in 3,800.
News of MRSA is nothing new. Weve seen several new forms of the bacteria since then, and now there is a new strain...Strain #17, USA300. Like other strains, symptoms include large boils on the skin and hows this for terrorizing? can cause fatal blood poisoning or even a flesh-eating form of pneumonia.
Skin-to-skin contact allows transmission of the bacteria, and drug users and those involved in contact sports are also at a higher risk. In addition, Dr Binh Diep, from San Francisco General Hospital Medical Centre, states:
These multi-drug resistant infections often affect gay men at body sites in which skin-to-skin contact occurs during sexual activities.
But because the bacteria can be spread by more casual contact, we are also very concerned about a potential spread of this strain into the general population.
Maybe Im being finicky, but I dont particularly like when comments like that seem to indicate that drug users or gays or whoever are not parts of the general population. Probably being finicky
But what Im really worried about with regards to the sexuality link is this strain of MRSA being treated as justification for more homophobia and discrimination against the gay community. Though some doctors are saying that its not the new HIV, the fact that such comparisons are being brought up is just scary. Im hoping we wont have to fight both the world health and the intolerance issues.
Fatality says to hug someone gay today. Maybe twice since, unfortunately, she doesnt think she will get the opportunity to
Why I Love Hillary Clinton
Can a man represent women's interests as well as a woman? So asked the New York Times a couple of days ago, in an article about Obama's campaign for women's votes. It's the question at the center of all the arguments that come up any time someone says that women should support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign--plenty of folks are quite happy to transform that claim into one that the *only* reason to support Clinton is because of her sex, or that the *only* women can represent women's interests. Plenty of folks are prepared to argue that it's just as sexist to support Clinton because she's a woman as it is to oppose her for that reason.
Those claims are obviously false.
So then, why should women support Clinton?
Here's why:
even as he pursues a first of his own a black president Mr. Obama, like the rest of the field, has little choice but to compete for womens votes.
The reason Obama has to court women--in particular, feminist women--isn't just because women are 54% of the electorate, as the NYT explains. It's because for the first time in American history there's a candidate whose presence in the race makes women's issues and feminist issues a primary focus of the campaign. Women voters don't have to choose between two men who may (or may not) give a shit about women's issues based on their positions on everything else; we get a real choice between a candidate who, not coincidentally, is herself a woman and for whom women's issues are central, rather than peripheral, and male candidates who have not, to date, made women's issues central to their political careers.
The question, then, is this: does Clinton's candidacy make enough of a difference? If Clinton isn't the nominee, will Obama or Edwards or Dodd or Richardson continue to focus on women voters and women's issues? Or are they doing so now only in order to win the nomination, and will they, if they win, then go back to the old boy business as usual, in which women's issues don't matter as much as everything else?
Will they explicitly reject "abstinence only" provisions in AIDS funding? Will they see an interview with the authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves as an important platform for their presidential aspirations? Will they insist that FDA nominations be held up until decisions are made about approving contraceptives? Will they introduce legislation to help caregivers access support services?
Clinton has a page on her Senate web site devoted to women's issues. Obama doesn't, nor is there one on his campaign website. Edwards has one on his presidential campaign site; his senate page no longer exists, so I don't know if he had one when he was a senator rather than a presidential candidate.
Yes, there are other issues. Yes, those issues matter to women as well as to men. But it also matters--a lot--that women stop being taken for granted because we don't have a real choice. Whether or not you ultimately decide to vote for her, you should know that Clinton's candidacy does give us that choice.
Bitch_PhD still isn't sure if she'll vote for Clinton in the primary. But by God, I'm glad she's running.
Compassionate Conservatism, Their Black Asses
Guess what? Not only do abstinence-based sex ed programs--which include programs that emphasize abstinence but do teach about other methods for preventing STDs and pregnancy as well as those that teach "abstinence only"--not keep kids from having sex or getting pregnant. They also don't keep kids from getting AIDS. Not even as compared to kids getting no sex education at all.
And yet the Bush administration's quite proud of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief--which requires that 1/3rd of all money spent on AIDS prevent encourage abstinence. Though according to Rolling Stone,
In its first year, PEPFAR spent more than half of the $92 million earmarked to prevent sexual transmission on promoting abstinence programs.
Even though
sexual abstinence only programmes for prevention of HIV infection do not decrease or exacerbate sexual risk. . . .
The trial results also suggest that abstinence only programmes do not effectively encourage abstinent behaviour but instead are ineffective for preventing or decreasing sexual activity among most participants.
The most recent study
was designed to identify programme trials measuring any (my emphasis) biological, behavioural, cognitive, attitudinal, or other outcome, not just HIV incidence. . . .
Outcome? You might as well buy everyone a cable subscription and let them stay home, for all the difference these programs made.
Seven trials assessed participants' reports of having been diagnosed as having a sexually transmitted infection by a doctor or nurse. Every trial compared an abstinence only programme with usual care by schools or community centres. No trial found a significant short term or long term benefit, and one trial found significant adverse effects of the adult led programme. . .
If you think that sucks for us Americans, think of how much worse it's gotta be for the international "beneficiaries" of Bush's largesse--given that, again quoting Rolling Stone,
the reality facing young women and girls in Africa and other impoverished regions, who are often infected by wandering husbands or forced to have sex in exchange for food or shelter. Among fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa, studies show, more than three times as many young women are infected with HIV as young men.
Of course, hey. If they get AIDS, there's drugs for that now. Right?
Study here; short summary here.
If you want to do something to counteract the damage, you can start here.
Bitch_PhD thanks DeadRat for the link to the study.
Gang of Rapists Terrorize the Netherlands With HIV
As if conservative America didnt already view the Netherlands as a lair of sin and depravity, along comes a story that can only be described as an abomination of inhumanity... there aren't enough adjectives to describe how fucking sick this is. According to ABC News Online, a gang of Dutch men have been accused of luring gay men to orgies where the victims were then drugged, raped, and injected with their own HIV-infected blood.
After four victims came forward to Dutch police, the gang -- consisting of three HIV-positive gay men -- was arrested along with a fourth scumfuck who supplied them with large amounts of GHB and Ecstasy to aid in the rapes. Mr. Ronald Zwarter, the police chief of Groningen, where the rapes allegedly occurred, said:
(Their) stated motive was that it excited them and also that, the more HIV-infected people there are, the better their chances of unprotected sex. They considered unprotected relations to be 'pure.
Since the arrests were made, eight more victims have come forward. Numerous public figures in the Netherlands have spoken out against the crimes:
Health Minister Ab Klink on Thursday called the case "horrible", as the press splashed the news across its front pages.
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"That homos [sic] organize orgies is nothing new, but this is something else. This is unimaginable," said Frank van Dalen, the president of a gay rights group called COC.
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Said Henk Krol, the editor of a homosexual magazine titled Gaykrant: "These people were drugged, it's therefore rape, pure and simple. It's shameful, disgusting and terrifying. Those who did this are crazy."
Normally this is the point in a story where Id crack a joke, or post a zany YouTube clip, but there's nothing here to laugh at. I hate condoms as much as the next guy, but they've become a necessary part of life; as much as I typically advocate sexual freedom in all its splendor, theres just no excuse here, none whatsoever. This casual disregard for human life is just so inhumanly narcissistic and cruel. That this has happened at all is simply terrifying, like some real life twist taken from Hostel or Saw, only far, far worse.
Dita Takes the Highball...er, Road
Okay, okayquestion: what's classier, dating someone half your age or personally delivering a $100,000 charitable check to help spread the word about HIV prevention? I'm not here to ruffle any feathers or fire up any fanatics, I'm just saying that Dita Von Teesepasties, feathers and allis a classy lady, and her latest class act involves delivering a check to the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation in Sydney, Australia. Dita is there as a spokesperson for the Mac AIDS Fund, which has raised the money through sales of it's VIVA Glam lipstick. There's more info available on
Dita's site, where she says:
"I might undress for a living but I love to dress up for sex! The ultimate tools of seduction might include silky seamed stockings, dangerously high stilettos, and perhaps a tightly-laced corset... but always a nice snug condom. Safe sex is sexy."
and shares this mind-blowing statistic: "One Viva Glam Lipstick will pay for 1000 condoms in India."
Dita cleans up before heading out to save the world:
3-in-1 AIDS Cocktail Pill Approved By FDA
The HIV drug cocktail sometimes called highly active antiretroviral therapy and usually consists of a mixture of three drugs that, when taken in specific quantities at specific times of day, have the ability to suppress HIV for many years. The problem with these drugs is that they are extremely expensive and must be taken at precise times. For the majority of AIDS patients that live in Africa, access to these drugs has been a topic of controversy. Drug companies refuse to give the drugs to patients in Africa because of liability and expenses incurred. Instead, people have to acquire the anti-retroviral drugs through unsavory ways. Couple this with the fact that it is next to impossible to track the millions of rural patients with AIDS and medications will never make it to those that need it.
Now with the FDAs approval, a new pill that combines three antiretroviral drugs into one pill will give those that dont have the ability to track their own drug regimen a chance.
Although it is not yet clear how much money it will save, having patients take only one pill twice a day "should facilitate better therapies and better adherence," said the coordinator, Dr. Mark R. Dybul.
The agency posted the approval of the drug on its Web site on Friday evening. It approved the 3-in-1 pill, made by an Indian generic drug company, for patients in countries helped by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Under that plan, the United States is now the largest provider of antiretroviral drugs in the world, paying for treatment for 561,000 patients in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
The Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the second-largest provider, pays for about 541,000 patients, Dr. Dybul said, although there is some overlap in countries where both agencies work. (The United States also pays one-third of the Global Fund's budget.)
The new pill, made by Aurobindo Pharma of Hyderabad, India, combines three common first-line drugs, AZT, 3TC and NVP, which are also known as zidovudine, lamivudine and nevirapine and sold in the United States as Retrovir, Epivir and Viramune.
While three-in-one pills have been available since 2002, this is the first to win FDA approvalan important step to make these drugs more available to those that need it.
Chloë Sevigny Gets Needled
Is there any working actress with less shame and more individuality than Chloë Sevigny? The fearless fringe fashionista, infamous for her "unsimulated fellatio" in The Brown Bunny and current role as Nicolette Grant in HBO's "Big Love", will be a special guest next month at The Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Sevigny will introduce screenings of 3 Needles, a film about AIDS that spans three continents and tells three separate stories. Interestingly, Sevigny has played an AIDS-related role before: in 1995 she appeared as Jennie, an HIV-positive, New York City teenager in the cult movie Kids. This time around, Sevigny plays a Christian Nun in South Africa, whose mission is to convert and save the souls of the rapidly dying villagers. Directed by Thom Fitzgerald, who has said that "the film is really a prayer," Sevigny is joined by co-stars Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis, Lucy Liu, and Sandra Oh. 3 Needles is currently on the festival circuit and is scheduled for an American theatrical release in December.
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