Posts Tagged ‘actors’
Porn stars to take part in Cambridge debate
Shelley’s preferred position – for praying, nowadays
The historic Cambridge University Union has invited adult film stars to take part in an organised debate.
The Cambridge Union Society, which was founded in 1815, is famed for inviting international politicians and academics to its regular debating sessions. But the union is now organising a debate where students will be entertained by guest speakers including three adult film stars.
First on the bill is stripper and pornographic film actor Johnny Anglais, who was suspended from his teaching job after his work as a porn star was revealed.
He will be joined by Anna Arrowsmith, who is the UK’s first female adult movie director and once stood as a Liberal Democrat MP candidate.
US porn actress-turned-chaplain Shelley Lubben will also join the debate and discuss the question: ”This house believes that pornography does a good public service.”
Incoming union president Lauren Davidson told Cambridge student newspaper The Tab that she believes pornography is a ”hot topic” in modern society…
”At the Union this term we’ve got the traditional debates on politics, foreign policy and the media, but I thought it was important to look at the bigger picture and debate a wider range of hot topics.
‘‘Sexuality is something that everyone is very aware of and I want to create a proper discussion around it…”
The groundbreaking debate will be held on February 17 in the Cambridge Union Society’s historic debating chamber on Bridge street.
Will there be visual aids?
Police Rob Bank for Practice, Endangering Everyone
Police chiefs in China have been slammed for hiring actors to rob a bank as a training exercise – without telling anyone else.
Only the director and the deputy director of the Zhenzhou police department knew it was a drill – everyone else, including the bank, thought it was a real raid.
Four ‘robbers’ rushed into the Post Office Bank, disarmed security and demanded all the people inside drop to the floor. They even snatched a customer’s bag containing £20,000, reports Guangzhou Daily.
Critics said police officers, unaware that it was a training drill, could easily have used their guns on the fleeing robbers.
They were also concerned about the psychological effect on bank cashiers and customers who had been put through a traumatic situation.
The kind of story that can be completely ruined by healthy skepticism.
Actor robots take Japanese stage
First there were dancing robots, then house-sitting robots and now a new breed of acting robots is making its big debut on the Japanese stage.
The play, which had its premiere at Osaka University, is one of Japan’s first robot-human theatre productions.
The machines were specially programmed to speak lines with human actors and move around the stage with them.
Playwright Oriza Hirata says the work raises questions about the relationship between humanity and technology.
Once you get away from the hustle, of course, you know the work raises questions about the relationship between humans and humans pretending not to be humans. That’s all.
Not that we have any shortage of robot-like actors.
