Conventional wisdom holds that Nicolas Cage is a talentless actor who got lucky once or twice but more often than not is rubbish. This isn’t strictly true although a recent wave of turkeys like “Knowing” and the laughable remake of “The Wicker Man” paint a different picture. The fact that he gives his best performance in seven years is a tribute to the legendary Werner Herzog, director of “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.”
Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a cop who relishes in the destructive lifestyle that he leads. He is a drug addict and a gambling addict. He is romantically involved with a prostitute (Eva Mendes), also an addict. While investigating a homicide, he cuts off the oxygen tank of an elderly woman in search of a lead. He steals crack from a young couple and forces the girl to have sex with him while the guy watches. All in a day’s work for McDonagh.

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… It wasn’t so much about the script as becoming a part of a movie Werner was doing,” Mendes said in a telephone interview, speaking of the director of “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” “Aguirre, Wrath of God,” “The Enigma of Kasper Hauser” and “The Wild Blue Yonder,” among many others. “He had been on my hit list for awhile. It’s really every actor’s dream to work with him. Then add that I had worked with Nic Cage before and I’m a huge fan of his, and I knew I was in if I could get in.”
In “The Bad Lieutenant,” Cage plays a police lieutenant in post-Katrina New Orleans, dealing with a complex murder case while also descending into addiction and making increasingly questionable legal and moral choices. Mendes plays Frankie, the prostitute who enjoys a special relationship with Cage’s character, something close to love but maybe not quite, though the two share a devotion for each other, perhaps through their mutual flaws.

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Burlesque is an often misunderstood and sometimes-maligned form of entertainment that can be best described as vaudeville’s naughty cousin. Mention the word burlesque and many images spring to mind – pasties, feathers, fan dances – ribald music and comedy and a bevy of lovely ladies of all shapes and sizes. Some folks’ minds might hearken back to a bygone era of music halls, sideshows, pinup girls and carnival barkers, romanticizing the art form with references to Gypsy Rose Lee, Sally Rand or Bettie Page. Others might dismiss it outright as the precursor to strip clubs and a seedy underworld of vice and exploitation.

Ballyhoo’s Martin feels the area is ripe for a bustling burlesque scene – especially in the summer. “It’s just a question of people coming out to see the shows – and recognizing that it’s not the same as a strip club. This is a viable thing for different kinds of venues to put on. We get people from areas where …

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A Woman acts a boy in Myspace, flirts and dumps the neighbour who then killed herself; Law to take serious action
May 4th, 2009 Lawyer: Probation recommended in MySpace hoax case
LOS ANGELES — A defense lawyer says officials have recommended probation and a $5,000 fine for a Missouri woman involved in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. Attorney Dean Steward said Monday that the punishment for Lori Drew was outlined in a presentencing report filed by probation officials.
Brit Muslim bargirl gets 3K pound compensation for ‘tarty’ dress
June 16th, 2009
LONDON – A waitress won 3,000-pounds in damages yesterday after being told to wear an “indecent” dress – despite posing in a plunging top on her Facebook page. Muslim Fata Lemes, 33, walked out of her pub job after just eight days as the figure-hugging red gown made her “feel like a prostitute“.

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Lauren will call David when she gets into some trouble with one of her male clients doing one of her “call girl” booty calls. Auggie will confess his true feelings for Riley.
Michael will end up giving David information about Sydney’s killer.

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Posh set to join Gossip Girl cast Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): Victoria Beckham a.k.a Posh is set to appear on hit U.S. drama Gossip Girl. The wife of soccer ace David Beckham is set to play herself in the show. According to Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper, the former Spice Girl, who did…
Bollywood siblings walk ramp for ’save girl child’ campaign New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): Wearing collections of Sanjana John, the Bollywood fraternity walked the ramp for ‘Save Girl Child’ campaign during the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WLIFW). Collections of the designer were inspired by the basics…
Winehouse’s ex-hubby ’secretly dating sexy lap dancer’
London, October 18 (ANI): Amy Winehouse’s former husband Blake Fielder-Civil has reportedly been on a string of secret dates with a nightclub stripper. The 27-year-old former jailbird was said to be smitten with 21-year-old Lauren McDermott in Sheffield….

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U.S. soldier confesses to organized crime in Iraq
New Orleans, Louisiana (MMD Newswire) December 1, 2009 — Author of 2009 memoir Desert Don : The Truth Behind the Group of Young Soldiers who turned Iraq from Chaos to Cartel confesses to his part in a drug and alcohol black market which he claims runs rampart on U.S. bases in Iraq today. Beau LeJeune, a 26-year-old New Orleans native, claims he was included in a handful of soldiers who profited from drug and alcohol distribution in the war torn country, not to include prostitution, which he claims was prevalent, but which he never profited from.
In an October interview LeJeune states “…we started by just drinking the liquor that our families or our girlfriends would send. Six months later the demand became so high we were smuggling liquor from Baghdad and bringing in drugs using Iraqi translators. Before my apprehension we were using two Blackhawk’s weekly as rumrunners and pushing our translators so hard that they had to outsource. Even then I didn’t think it would end with my being imprisoned.”

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Nicolas Cage does his drugs, debts, and prostitutes thing as the main character in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes Star in a Film Written by William Finkelstein and Directed by Werner Herzog
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
On paper, it seemed quizzical that the great and quirky German director Werner Herzog would choose to make his first American cop movie this late in his career (he’s 67, but in full creative swing these days). But nagging questions quickly are laid to rest within a scene or two of this saucy, blissfully unconventional remake of Abel Ferrara’s gritty 1992 film. In Herzog’s superior version, set in New Orleans, the unapologetically “bad” lieutenant—played with a crazed glaze by Nicolas Cage—is a direct descendant of Herzog’s old pal and recurring star Klaus Kinski, an obsessive and transgressive protagonist dancing on the brink.

Grizzly Man, both thematically and in terms of the unique Herzog touch. The jungle in question this time is New O …

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Falcons: QB Matt Ryan will miss Sunday’s game against Philadelphia with a turf toe injury. Coach Mike Smith says Chris Redman, who took over for Ryan in Sunday’s 20-17 win over Tampa Bay, will start against the Eagles. Redman’s last start came in the final game of the 2007 season.
Jets: QB Mark Sanchez was limited during the team’s light practice with a sore left knee, but should be fine to play against the Bills in Toronto on Thursday.
Panthers: A broken finger 4 not coach John Fox 4 may bench struggling QB Jake Delhomme. Fox said Delhomme fractured a finger on his throwing hand late in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss to the Jets and may be replaced by untested Matt Moore against Tampa Bay … LB Jon Beason has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from an incident at a strip club. Details weren’t immediately available, but police had been investigating an incident said to have involved Beason on Nov. 15.

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Matt Ryan will miss Sunday’s game against the Eagles with a turf toe injury. Coach
Mike Smith said
Chris Redman, who took over for Ryan in a 20-17 win over the Buccaneers on Sunday, will make his first start since 2007.
Delhomme breaks finger: Panthers quarterback
Jake Delhomme fractured a finger on his throwing hand late Sunday and might be replaced by untested
Matt Moore against Tampa Bay
Extra points: Eagles wide receiver
DeSean Jackson’s status is uncertain after he suffered a concussion Sunday. … The Giants placed linebacker
Antonio Pierce on injured reserve with a bulging disk in his neck, ending his season. … Panthers Pro Bowl linebacker
Jon Beason was arrested and charged with punching a man at a North Carolina strip club. He was booked on a misdemeanor assault charge and released.

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