question: Why can't there be a movie that tells a strong story, is full of humor and pathos, is packed with powerful performances, and features a lot of explicit sex — hard-ons, cum and all?

Sex is a conversation. Why can't a scene with two people having real sex be as dramatically interesting as a scene with them talking in a restaurant? Why can't there be a film that makes you say, "I laughed, I cried, I came!"

There's also a series of articles by someone going through the audition process in the salon sex section, Naked on the Set.

http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/03/13/festa/index_np.html

The Sex Film Project

] SALT LAKE CITY, March 14 -- The self-styled "Prophet of
] God" suspected of kidnapping Salt Lake City teenager
] Elizabeth Smart may have been driven by a revelation
] telling him to gather seven young wives into a polygamist
] family, police and media reports said today -- with
] Elizabeth and, possibly, her favorite cousin as the first
] "wives."

Polygamy Cited as Motive in Kidnapping (washingtonpost.com)

] The Hubble Space Telescope has detected an extensive
] atmosphere of hydrogen enveloping and escaping from a
] newfound planet of a distant star, scientists have
] reported.
]
] .
]
] The discovery comes as no surprise, astronomers say, but
] it is important nonetheless as apparent confirmation that
] the extrasolar planets observed so far not only are much
] like the solar system's Jupiter in size but also are
] similarly huge gaseous bodies.

IHT: Hubble detects a new, distant planet

] A long dry period punctuated by three intense droughts
] probably played a major role in the mysterious collapse
] of Mayan civilisation in Mexico, according to a new
] study.
]

News in Science 14/3/2003 Fall of Mayan cities blamed on long dry spell

] ALIEN WATCHERS in the SETI@home project haven't yet found
] any alien life forms in four years of scanning the skies
] and getting folk to use their PC downtime to process the
] results.
]
]
] But their endeavours have turned up a few leads - five
] billion, in fact, according to the team.

SETI homes in on alien signals

] Mars radiation 'serious risk' to astronauts
]
]
] Nasa's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has confirmed suspicions
] that the radiation on Mars could endanger astronauts sent
] to explore the planet.
]
]
] Scientists say the high radiation levels also suggest any
] extraterrestrial life would have little chance of
] surviving unless it were shielded beneath the planet's
] dusty, cold surface.

Ananova - Mars radiation 'serious risk' to astronauts

] The cruisers and destroyers are armed with Tomahawk
] missiles, satellite-guided weapons which would be used in
] the early days of any war in Iraq to destroy key
] installations.
]
]
] Originally the US had planned to fire missiles from the
] eastern Mediterranean through Turkish airspace.
]
]
] However the Turkish parliament recently voted against the
] deployment of US troops on its soil, therefore the ships
] will instead pass through the Suez canal into the Red Sea
] and fire through Saudi Arabian airspace.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US beefs up firepower

] Oil has held the United States hostage for a century, but the
] nation can be energy-independent in 10 years. Here's a five-point
] plan to reshape the economy.

Wired 11.04: How Hydrogen Can Save America

Don Johnson, Mr. Miami Vice, stopped in germany with a suitcase containing bonds, stocks, and credit notes worth 8 Billion .. yes BILLION dollars.

The Miami Herald | 03/13/2003 | 'Vice' or price? TV star Don Johnson car-shopping with $8 billion to spend

] SALT LAKE CITY, March 12 (UPI) -- The search for
] Elizabeth Smart came to an end Wednesday when the missing
] teenager was found alive and well in the Salt Lake City
] suburb of Sandy. The teenager was kidnapped at gunpoint
] from her family's Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002.

United Press International: Elizabeth Smart found alive in Utah