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November 29, 2007 -- A book is currently being shopped. Its proposal's opener says: "In 1998 a 'Baywatch' babe and an impressively endowed rock star unwittingly became stars of the biggest sex scandal of the decade, sparking the public's hunger for that celebrity sex tape, which was never meant to be seen by anyone other than the Lees."

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's embarrassingly way-out private raunchy honeymoon video somehow got stolen, shopped, then illegally broadcast on the Internet. Not only did the world watch him break some dozen traffic violations at the time, they also could watch him satisfying Hollywood's hottest female. And whilst he maybe regretted his cavalier attitude toward road safety, what both truly objected to were scenes of them knotted together in jittery, out-of-focus close-ups Doing It. They sued, ultimately relented and allowed their perspiring wrestle to run on clublove.com, the operation that originally broke this celluloid news.

Comes now 2002. Paris Hilton and then-beau Rick Salomon (coincidentally now Pam Anderson's newest husband) and their grainy footage - intercourse, outercourse, any course and you name it they tried it - shot in a darkened bedroom. This book proposal then minutely tracks what happened to it, who made money off it and how much and how come. And who are the pros who deal in this smut and smarm and sleaze.

The book title is "Hollywood Sex Tape," and we are not talking "War and Peace" here. It spotlights a phone sex empire "grossing tens of millions of dollars." It drops names of A-list actors. It unwraps the inner inner of a hard-core gonzo-style porno industry. It uses terms like offshore bankers' "banging credit cards." It ricochets from hotshot criminals to lesser-shot celebs, who think sex stuff can boost their 16th minute of fame. READ MORE

LA Times :

IF you make a movie about group sex, you must be prepared to own up to your point of view on the subject. But when actress Eliza Dushku, star of the indie "Sex and Breakfast," which opens in limited release Friday, is asked whether she's pro or con group canoodling, she giggles, before fessing up, she's more of a monogamous kind of gal.

"It doesn't even make sense to me," Dushu says on the phone from her childhood home in Watertown, Mass., where she spent the Thanksgiving holiday. That would be a pass from Dushku, 26, best known for her stint on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and as the title character on the series "Tru Calling." That's why they call it acting. "Let us live it up for you," she cracks.

Sex is certainly a hot topic in Hollywood, whether it's sexual dysfunction, unplanned sex, too much sex, too little sex. Sexual problems seem so distinctly less nihilistic -- so eminently solvable -- compared with the war in Iraq or global warming or anything else in the newspapers. The burdens of sex are driving such comedies as "Superbad," "Knocked Up" and "Juno," as well as the TV dramas like "Californication" and "Tell Me You Love Me."

Now come the twentysomethings' turn. "Sex and Breakfast" tracks two couples ("Home Alone's" all-grown up Macauley Culkin, Kuno Becker, Alexis Dziena and Dushku) who've lost the passion in their relationships and consult a therapist who advocates communal sex. Still, Dushku points out, the movie is less risqué than your average Paris Hilton sex tape. READ MORE