How do these tapes go missing?
I've often wondered how tapes such as these go missing. You'd think folk would be fairly shrewd in hiding them.
Mini-Me sues online celebrity muckraker over 'stolen' sex tape
Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer has sued TMZ.com for $20m, after the online celebrity gossip rag posted a sex video in which the 2 foot, 8-inch actor sticks it to former girlfriend Renae Shrider. The pint-sized film thespian is best known for playing Mini-Me in the second and third films in the Austin Powers comedy series: The Spy Who …
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Monday 30th June 2008 12:46 GMT Jerry
Stage Managed
I've actually seen an excerpt of said video and to my mind it's pretty obvious this is a stage managed 'schlock horror' publicity stunt.
Principal incriminating fact is there is a third party involved who pans the camera as required, independent of the actors.
Either they hired someone to film their varied orifice slurping for private consumption, or this was a planned setup to try and gain a few milliseconds of world fame.
Given the history of Paris Hilton who hawked her own video for all it was worth, I'm inclined to believe this also is a deliberate own-goal.
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Monday 30th June 2008 12:46 GMT Pete James
@Stuart Bevan
There's a couple of theories on this, and all have some foundation.
A lot of personal assistants to stars (or so-called stars depending on your opinion) get given things to hold in safe-keeping. Sort of "Here, put this somewhere safe" kind of task. Why on earth they can't do it themselves Lord knows, especially something so personal, but there's a lot of videos and pics that never see the light of a lot more intimate stuff between rich and famous types. But as a lot of these PA folk are loyal to their bosses and want to stay in a job, they don't go punting trash round the press/web.
The sheer number of friends and hangers-on that come and go makes it a bit difficult to keep private stuff always hidden and things do get pinched on a regular basis from yer average celebs home.
The Celeb sex tapes genre is not seen so much as a career-ending scandal anymore - more in some case as career enhacing. Again, twisted thinking if you ask me but there are a few cases where this did give some people a head (ahem!) of steam in their work.
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Monday 30th June 2008 12:46 GMT amanfromMars
Cynical Shakedowns ......
"I've often wondered how tapes such as these go missing. You'd think folk would be fairly shrewd in hiding them." ..... By Stuart Bevan Posted Monday 30th June 2008 09:54 GMT
Oh please, Stuart, how are you to make money from anything/nothing useful/smut, if it is hidden.
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Monday 30th June 2008 12:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
2 Foot, 8 Inches
That's a pretty good ratio for such a small guy! He just about would be a tripod...
Also, if I was going for a lawsuit of this style it would be "$20M, all of the copies the defendant has made and 100% of any money that is made from them. Or $100 per freely distributed/ "lost" "backup" copy." Just to make sure it didn't go missing again.
@Stuart Bevan
They get sent to one of the owner's other houses/new house using the TNT courier service. They're pretty adept at "losing" CDs...
Alternatively his partner in what is surely now a crime (he's almost childlike so it's probably covered by appropriate Brownian UK laws...) could have leaked them- sent them to a friend to say "seriously, he IS a tripod" or assert that he isn't.
Alternatively it could have been nicked.
Putting videos like this on the 'net is bloody awful. If they want to show themselves off then they should be able to do it on their own terms.
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Monday 30th June 2008 23:07 GMT Steve
For those wanting pictures...
Could El Reg knock up some Playmobil reconstructions? I can see problems with a Playmobil "Paris - Mini Me mashup" though as all the figures are the same size...still, should give you something to do in the lunch hour.
Paris, because she'd be up for a filmed mash up with mini-me if it'll raise a few quid.
Better tie a plank sideways across mini me's arse in case he falls in!
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Tuesday 1st July 2008 11:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Liberal arts ftw
"Yeah, that's right! Because, like, he's really small! LOL!"
Yeah, we mustn't joke about things that are inherently funny, even if the person in question makes a career from people laughing at his height.
We must all be more liberal because that's RIGHT, mmmkay?
"Sometimes, I read the stories on the Reg concerning threats to humanity immediate and distant, and feel a strange, unaccountable warm glow."
Sometimes I think Douglas Adams had it right with the B-ark.
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