June 22nd, 2011
Zoom No Strings Attached. Love and Other Drugs. Now this? Having exhausted superheroes and ’80s toy franchises, it looks like Hollywood’s rated-R sex tape initiative is in full swing. Good for them. I can almost hear the pitch. Sex tapes are hot. But we don’t get the money and they don’t have star power. Particularly in the male leads. But what if we made the sex tapes? With Justin Timberlake? See where I’m going with this? 

No Strings Attached. Love and Other Drugs. Now this? Having exhausted superheroes and ’80s toy franchises, it looks like Hollywood’s rated-R sex tape initiative is in full swing. Good for them. I can almost hear the pitch.

Sex tapes are hot. But we don’t get the money and they don’t have star power. Particularly in the male leads. But what if we made the sex tapes? With Justin Timberlake? See where I’m going with this? 

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