- Title: FRANCE: PORN STARS ARRIVE IN CANNES FOR ANNUAL HOT D'OR AWARDS.
- Date: 18th May 2001
- Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 15-16, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS PORN STARS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND HOLDING TROPHIES 2. PORN STARS ARRIVING AT NOGA HILTON HOTEL 3. PORN STARS WAITING OUTSIDE HOTEL AFTER BEING REFUSED ENTRY 4. PHOTOGRAPHERS 5. PORN STAR SHOWING OFF BREAST AS MANAGER TRIES TO MOVE CROWD OUT 6. POLICE ARRIVING AT HOTEL 7. PORN STAR SURROUNDED BY BOOING PRESS 8. POLICE MOVING CROWD 9. PORN STAR ON THE PHONE 10. SOUNDBITE (French) UNIDENTIFIED PORN DIRECTOR SAYING: "It shows that we are still not accepted by the classic cultural festivals and that we are still despised." 11. POLICE LOOK ON AS PORN STARS POSE FOR PRESS OUTSIDE HOTEL 12. PORN STARS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS OUTSIDE HOTEL 13. GIANT "HOT D'OR" STATUE CARRIED ALONG THE CROISETTE 14. PORN STARS POSING IN FRONT OF "HOT D'OR" STATUE 15. PORN KING LARRY FLYNT ENTERING PRESS ROOM IN HIS WHEELCHAIR 16. FLYNT HAVING PICTURE TAKEN BY PHOTOGRAPHERS 17. WS OF CONFERENCE ROOM 18. SOUNDBITE (English) PORN KING, LARRY FLYNT: "If moral values work for you and your family it's fine. But don't try and impose them on other people. So, this censorship fight is not just linked to the government trying to censor what people read. You won't find a single politician in any country whose got elected without an affiliation which is connected with the name. So, we are really talking about the church, and church has had its hand on our crotch for over 2000 years and the government is continuing the same thing, feeling if they can control our pleasure centre, they can control us." 19. VARIOUS PORN GIRLS AT THE "HOT D'OR" AWARD CEREMONY POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS 20. SOUNDBITE (French) UNIDENTIFIED PORN ACTRESS SAYING: "Well, Cannes represents the film industry, and we are part of the film industry, and it's always a pleasure to be here and mix amongst our peers, eventhough they have a different gender of work that they submit. Unfortunately this year we did not have such a welcoming from the city, which is unfortunate, but the media seem to still love us." 21. PORN STARS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CANNES, FRANCE
- Country: France
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- Story Text: Porn stars from around the world came to Cannes for
an award ceremony celebrating a side
of cinema that the city's official film festival wants to ban.
Porn actresses who flew to Cannes on Tuesday (May 15)
ahead of the 10th edition of the "Hot
d'Or" porn industry awards were refused the entry of the Noga
Hilton after managers complained it would
give them bad publicity.
After police prevented porn stars from getting into the
hotel to participate in a press lunch, porn stars
staged a protest outside the hotel - baring breasts in front
of the crowd and the photographers.
"It shows that we are still not accepted by the classic
cultural festivals and that we are still despised,"
said one of the porn stars.
Local officials want to ban the "Hot d'Or", and this year's
ceremony could be the last on the Riviera.
Porn king Larry Flynt who appeared in the French Riviera
resort against the backdrop of the Cannes Film
festival, which has become a magnet for porn stars seeking to
steal the limelight. Flynt has had many well documented
battles with the courts in the United States around the issue
of censorship and continued on the same theme in his press
conference.
"If moral values work for you and your family it's fine.
But don't try and impose them on other people. So, this
censorship fight is not just linked to the government trying
to censor what people read. You won't find a single politician
in any country whose got elected without an affiliation which
is connected with the name. So, we are really talking about
the church, and church has had its hand on our crotch for over
2000 years and the government is continuing the same thing,
feeling if they can control our pleasure centre, they can
control us," Flynt said.
Despite the misgivings of city officials, the Hot d'Or
ceremony managed to take place, and ironically this year the
majority of the participants opted for more modest attire than
in previous years. The future of the ceremony still remains
in doubt.
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