One of the favorite gifts that Charisma, 17, has gotten from a fan of her Web site was a “Fantasia” DVD trilogy. It was just what she wanted, because. Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American psychological crime thriller film with film noir elements, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950.
Candy from strangers - Salon. One of the favorite gifts that Charisma, 1. Web site was a “Fantasia” DVD trilogy. It was just what she wanted, because she’d asked for it on her Amazon. But that’s nothing compared to the loot that a fellow “cam girl” friend has raked in off of hers: “Somebody bought her a really nice digital camera, a graphing calculator and a $1. Charisma says. Sheila, 1. Katneko,” 1. 9, raked in teen reading classics like “Catcher in the Rye,” “Of Mice and Men,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” plus a Depeche Mode CD, a scanner and a $2. Fetish Factory. The gifts came from total strangers and online friends alike, people the girls had gotten to know through their Web sites. Katneko’s younger sister, 1. Brandi, was so impressed by all of the goodies arriving at their home from people the girls had never met in person that Brandi set up a personal page on her big sis’s site so she could beg for her own loot. Brandi’s pages bear this label: “underaged piece of ass.” (Her sister quickly points out that this is a joke.) Among Brandi’s heart’s desires on her wish list: four Sailor Moon dolls. Teen webcams have met the e- commerce version of the wedding registry — the wish list. And the result of this virtual marriage is an online beg- fest that makes it easy to take candy from strangers on the Internet. Kids as young as 1. CDs and, of course, webcams — so their online fans can get an even better look at them. When her friend's affair with married ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) ends in the woman's murder, investigative reporter Rowena Price (Academy Award. Take our breed selector quiz to find out which cat or dog is the best fit for your lifestyle. We'll narrow down more than 300 breeds for you. The Strangers movie reviews & Metacritic score: The Strangers is a terrifying suspense thriller about a couple whose remote getaway becomes a place of terror. They’re as diverse as the girls who create them — and, in the grand tradition of their ancestor, Jennicam, they offer a strange mixture of distance and intimacy. There are cam boys too, but — chalk it up to hetero- horndogging — it’s girls who rule in the popularity game of the cam portals, gathering fan clubs and shaking down gifts. The wish list is the perfect tool for cam kids because it allows them to ask for exactly what they want and have it sent to their house without ever revealing a home address — the e- commerce vendor, whether it’s Abercrombie & Fitch or Amazon, doesn’t reveal the “wisher’s” location. So the relationship between the online pen pal or fan can remain entirely virtual, yet still produce the goods. The Internet may not be, as it is so often caricatured, one big cesspool of pedophiles and pervs searching for unsuspecting and underage kids to prey upon. But the spectacle of teenagers displaying themselves online in exchange for material favors is something that could make anyone a little queasy. Still, in the search for online sugar daddies, young or old, it’s the kids who understand what power they have — through what they choose to reveal and what they conceal — to titillate and suggest, with just a smile, or a bit of a tummy, or more. The cam universe is “basically like high school blown up exponentially,” says Marissa, 2. Popularity rules.” Some of the better- known cam girls have fan clubs with hundreds of members who swap photos and exchange e- mail with their idols. Earlier this year, the cam world even had its own version of the reality TV show “Survivor” — called Survivorcam — where 1. The Survivorcam motto: “Outpose. Outwhore.” Marissa won the contest, but was accused by other contestants of showing too much skin to do it. Like everything else in the insular webcam community, the meaning and morality of the wish lists is hotly debated by the cam kids themselves. Are you a “cam whore” if you put up a wish list? If you don’t show your tits, does that mean you’re not “whoring for hits”? What if you put up a wish list, but don’t show skin? Katneko’s site Linuxkitty self- consciously mocks some of the seductive come- ons of the cam world. Her cam and diary entries have won her 5. Catcher in the Rye” and other teen classics, but, she says, “The Internet community views me as untouchable because I won’t get naked on my cam.” She recently mused on her site: “Some people show tits, and some people don’t. I wonder what it is I’m whoring to get presents exactly, since I’m not the showy- fleshy type of girl.” Other girls don’t see wish lists that way. She doesn’t have a wish list on her site because she sees such blatant solicitation as a quid pro quo transaction, where fans who give gifts expect something, like a topless or suggestive photo via e- mail, in return. None of the cam girls interviewed for this story copped to any such payoff. Charisma says: “I never promise to do anything in return for the gifts other than to say thank you or send a thank you card. I’m not tricking people into sending me things. I think strangers on the Internet like to send things to other people because they’re lonely, and they try to find their happiness in our surprise and thankfulness of their gifts. Sure, you could possibly argue that we’re . Her wish list parody begins: “If you love me, you’ll buy me things.” She says, “I’m boldly mocking the people who are buying people stuff, just totally mocking the prostitution angle of wish lists.” Needless to say, no one has bought her anything. Other cam kids abhor the begging and commercialism. My site isn’t out there to make money for me, it’s just for my pleasure only,” says Ashley, 1. Virgo with three pets — “two dogs and a 1. Ashley gets so many e- mails from drooling fans begging for naked pictures of her that she offers this chilly FAQ on her site to fend them off. This is from the same girl who has her fans show her the love by sending her digital images of themselves with the words “fuck frosty” in the picture, which she posts on her site. Actually, racier versions of such photos are the transgressive currency of the webcam world; fans take photos of their naked body parts, often with the name of the site written on their cleavage or naked butt, which the cam kids then proudly display on their sites. Galleries of such devotion can be found on sites like Infinity Decay,State of Confusion and Xeres. All this butt- flashing and begging for goodies from strangers may seem tawdry or crass, but Lynn Ponton, M. D., author of “The Sex Lives of Teenagers,” cautions against jumping to conclusions. Psychologists have found that offline diaries of teenage girls are filled with lists of things that they’d like friends and parents to buy for them; the online wish lists just represent the next step — showing their desires to the world. What do the parents make of all this? Several kids said their parents wouldn’t even know how to find their Web sites if they gave them the URLs, much less what their children do online. Others say their parents use the diaries on their sites to keep up with what’s going on in their lives. And Mom can be a big fan: “My mom loves the site,” brags Katneko. Brittany, 1. 9, says: “My dad thinks I should apply my skills to getting a computer- related job, and that’s pretty much the only thing he says about it.” Brad Danielson, 3. Maine Web designer, is one older guy who has seen a lot of cams. He’s one of the creators of Eyefever. Stile Project,Superhyperdemonchild and Sinnocence) that cam kids submit to in hopes of getting listed and ranked by popularity. And even Danielson admits a certain unease about the cam sites: “I don’t know if I’d want my 1. I had a daughter.” “I think that these girls are just now discovering that they can make men do things, buy them things, and especially say things just because the men think that they are desirable,” says Bridget Therease Guildner, an 1. Corvallis, Ore., who posts her online diary, writing and photography on the Web, but no voyeuristic webcam. It teases vulnerable men — . Some cam portal sites create databases of hundreds of images lifted without always asking permission of the girls in the images. The sites mix nude images with photos of ordinary girls that are hardly suggestive at all. It’s the mixing of soft- core porn with lifted photos that raises the ire of the cam community. Daign of Daign. com, who specializes in writing bitchy reviews of cam sites on his lunch hour at work, recently posted a call- to- arms to send hate e- mail to an especially egregious site: “Did you know that our friends over at the pedophile site ? So nice that a bunch of 4. I think that these databases take undue advantage of the girls. The line for me is drawn when they are divorced from their personalities and become literal objects,” says Bridget Guildner. It’s the occupational hazard of being a cam girl to have your image stolen without your permission and put into a vast database of cam images without even your name on it. That’s the contradiction of the cam girl world — the technology that gives the girls a place to be themselves and show off is the technology that can strip them of their identity and reduce them to a nameless database of images. For the girls themselves, running cam sites is about a lot more than scattering their image across the Web or nabbing wish- list booty. Brittany says that running her site since she was 1. It’s helped me be more open and accepting of myself. I used to be terribly shy. Now, I’m more comfortable with people passing judgment on me. That used to be one of my biggest fears, people judging me without knowing me. Now, I couldn’t care less.” The girls also learn about the demands of a public life. Perfekt, who has had a site since she was 1. Some days, I want to break my camera. I hate feeling obligated to take pictures, and yet, if you don’t update your cam, it’s like you’re not in circulation.”. Strangers on a Train (film)Strangers on a Train is a 1. American psychologicalcrimethriller film with film noir elements, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1. Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1. Warner Bros. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker, and features Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock and Laura Elliott. The film is number 3. AFI's 1. 00 Years.. Thrills. The story concerns two strangers who meet on a train, a young tennis player and a charming psychopath. The psychopath suggests that because they each want to . The psychopath commits the first murder; and then tries to force the tennis player to complete the bargain. First, he must divorce his vulgar and promiscuous wife Miriam (Laura Elliott). On a train, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) recognizes Guy and knows about his marital situation from the gossip pages. Bruno introduces himself, then proposes an idea for the perfect homicide: he and Guy should . Bruno will murder Miriam, and in exchange Guy will kill Bruno's despised father. Each would be killing a stranger. Having no identifiable motive for the crimes, neither would be suspects. Guy humors Bruno's absurd murder plot by pretending to find it amusing. Bruno interprets this as agreement to the scheme. Bruno then borrows Guy's monogrammed cigarette lighter and slips it into his own pocket. Guy meets with Miriam. Pregnant by someone else, she now refuses to give Guy a divorce and threatens to cause a scandal. Guy relays the bad news to Anne, metaphorically commenting that he would like to . Meanwhile, Bruno stalks Miriam through an amusement park and fatally strangles her on the . Bruno then informs Guy that Miriam is dead, and expects him to follow through on murdering Bruno's father. Bruno sends Guy his house key, a map to his father's bedroom, and a pistol. When the police question Guy about Miriam's death, he claims he was on a train at the time of the murder. The police determine his alibi is inconclusive because he could have left the train in time to commit the murder and continued his trip on another train. Guy is not arrested, but the police assign an officer to trail him to ensure he does not flee while they investigate. To pressure Guy into fulfilling his obligation, Bruno introduces himself to Anne and meets Anne's younger sister, Barbara (Patricia Hitchcock), who physically resembles Miriam. Soon after, Bruno appears uninvited at a party at Senator Morton's house. To amuse another guest, Bruno demonstrates how to fatally strangle someone. His gaze happens to fall upon Barbara, and her resemblance to Miriam triggers a flashback. He begins strangling the woman but he blacks out before harming her. An upset Barbara tells Anne that, . Anthony's bedroom intending to warn him of his son's murderous intent. It is Bruno who is waiting there, however. Guy tries to convince Bruno to seek psychiatric help. When Guy refuses to follow through with Bruno's plan, Bruno threatens to frame Guy for Miriam's murder. Anne visits Bruno's mother (Marion Lorne) to tell her that her son committed a murder, but the befuddled woman discounts it. Bruno appears and informs Anne that he intends to incriminate Guy by planting the stolen cigarette lighter at the amusement park. Anne and Guy devise a plan for Guy to finish his tennis match, evade the police, and reach the amusement park to prevent Bruno from planting the lighter. Guy eventually wins the long match at Forest Hills, then, eluding the police, heads for the amusement park. Bruno is also delayed when he accidentally drops Guy's lighter down a storm drain and has to recover it. Guy arrives at the amusement park. Bruno stays out of sight until sunset when he can plant the lighter on the . A worker recognizes Bruno from the night of the murder and informs the police. Guy catches up to Bruno, and they fight on the park's carousel. Thinking Guy is trying to escape, a police officer shoots at him, but his shot misses and kills the carousel operator instead. The dead man falls onto the control panel, and the carousel spins wildly out of control and crashes. The worker who recognized Bruno tells the police that Guy is innocent, and the mortally injured Bruno is the man he saw that night. Guy tells the police that Bruno was attempting to plant Guy's lighter at the murder scene. Bruno refuses to clear Guy, but as he dies, his fingers open to reveal Guy's lighter. U. S. A fan recognizes Guy and attempts to strike up a conversation by asking . Guy, hardened by his traumatic experience and realising that this was exactly how he met Bruno, quickly gets up and leaves with Anne without answering. He is seen carrying a double bass as he climbs onto a train. Hitchcock said that correct casting saved him . In the casting of Anne Morton, Jack L. Warner got what he wanted when he assigned Ruth Roman to the project, over Hitchcock's objections. Rogers was effectively blind with the glasses on, and needed to be guided by the other actors. As usual, Hitchcock kept his name out of the negotiations to keep the purchase price low. He got a treatment that pleased him on the second attempt, from writer Whitfield Cook, who wove a homoerotic subtext (only hinted at in the novel) into the story and softened Bruno from a coarse alcoholic into a dapper, charming mama's boy . He called the meetings . Chandler completed a first draft, then wrote a second, without hearing a single word back from Hitchcock; when finally he did get a communication from the director in late September, it was his dismissal from the project. Hecht suggested his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde, to write the screenplay. With his new writer, he wanted to start from square one: At their first conference, Hitchcock made a show of pinching his nose, then holding up Chandler's draft with his thumb and forefinger and dropping it into a wastebasket. He told the obscure writer that the famous one hadn't written a solitary line he intended to use, and they would have to start all over on page one, using Cook's treatment as a guide. The director told Ormonde to forget all about the book, then told her the story of the film himself, from beginning to end. Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keon. Together the three women, working under the boss's guidance and late into most nights. The rest was complete by early November. He found exactly what he needed right on the Warners lot in the person of staff cameraman Robert Burks, who would continue to work with Hitchcock, shooting every Hitchcock picture through to Marnie (1. Psycho. Burks was an exceptionally apt choice for what would prove to be Hitchcock's most Germanic film in years: the compositions dense, the lighting almost surreal, the optical effects demanding. Hitchcock insists on perfection. He has no patience with mediocrity on the set or at a dinner table. There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. Hitchcock had a crew shoot background footage of the 1. Davis Cup finals held 2. While there, the crew had done some other location scouting. Hitchcock had written exacting specifications for an amusement park, which was constructed on the ranch of director Rowland Lee in Chatsworth, California. Hitchcock himself designed Bruno's lobster necktie, revealed in a close- up to have strangling lobster claws. Bruno orders with gusto and with an interest in what he is going to eat . A very good choice for train food. And the chocolate ice cream is probably what he thought about first. Bruno is rather a child. He is also something of a hedonist. Guy, on the other hand, shows little interest in eating the lunch, apparently having given it no advance thought, in contrast to Bruno, and he merely orders what seems his routine choice, a hamburger and coffee. The unusual angle was a more complex proposition than it seems. First Hitchcock got the exterior shots in Canoga Park, using both actors, then later he had Elliott alone report to a soundstage where there was a large concave reflector set on the floor. The camera was on one side of the reflector, Elliott was on the other, and Hitchcock directed Elliott to turn her back to the reflector and . Hitchcock's even- strained response: . The astheticizing of the horror somehow enables the audience to contemplate more fully its reality. This piece of film he then enlarged and projected onto a vast screen, positioning actors around and in front of it so that the effect is one of a mob of bystanders into which plaster horses and passengers are hurled in deadly chaos. It is one of the moments in Hitchcock's work that continues to bring gasps from every audience and applause from cinema students. Although Hitchcock admitted to undercranking the shot (artificially accelerating the action). Hitchcock wanted the phone in the foreground to dominate the shot, emphasizing the importance of the call, but the limited depth- of- field of contemporary motion picture lenses made it difficult to get both phone and women in focus. So Hitchcock had an oversized phone constructed and placed in the foreground. Then a grip put a normal- sized phone on the table, where she picked it up. Moritz, for a 2. 5th anniversary European excursion. While he had previous Hitchcock experience on Shadow of a Doubt (1. Hitchcock films, the director and composer . These disturbing sounds, heard to superb effect in cues such as 'The Meeting,' 'Senator's Office,' and 'Jefferson Memorial,' are not just about Bruno, but about how he is perceived by those whose lives he crosses. Cunningham at Senator Morton's soir. It was Hitchcock, not Tiomkin, whose idea brought the four evocative numbers. In a conventional movie, the tune would play in the background as a clever ironic backdrop. But Hitchcock takes music to another level. Miriam and the two boyfriends in her odd m. Grinning balefully on the horse behind them, Bruno then sings it himself, making it his motto.
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