AN ODE TO SASHA GREY

Sasha Grey is a former "adult" film actress who's attempting to go "mainstream" like a number of other former "adult" film stars have tried with oftentimes minimal success (Jenna Jameson, are you listening?). Sasha thus far has had top billing in an "indie" flick The Girlfriend Experience where she plays--what else!--an escort and she had a recurring role on the rather overrated "bromance" TV series Entourage where she played the girlfriend of one of the "entourage" members as--what else!--herself. Sasha, as anyone who's ever, uh-hum, watched her former movies can easily attest to, gained an apparently well-deserved reputation in the "adult" film world as one of the more--shall we say--extreme "adult" film actresses (like, for instance, I once saw her in an "adult" flick doing "doggie" with a guy who was actually stepping on the side of her face, which, if you must know, is one of the FEW things I'm not into!). Sasha has also managed to keep herself in the pubic, uh, I mean, public eye by doing things like getting into a pissing contest with Howard Stern and catching heat for daring to read to schoolchildren. (And, yet, people still take their kids to Catholic church. Go figure!) I personally, uh-hum, like Miss Grey--besides, of course, the obvious reasons!--because, unlike some who have been "adult" film stars (Linda Lovelace, are you listening?), Sasha has NEVER expressed regret and/or has bashed her former--again, shall we say--occupation. Whether or not she'll achieve "success" in so-called "mainstream" Hollywood remains to be seen. Of course, if she doesn't become successful as an A-list--or even a B-list--Hollywood actress/celeb, she can always go back to doing what she apparently does BEST! (And, of course, we ALL know what THAT is, don't we, fellas?) A sidenote: Linda Lovelace died in a car accident some years back. Before her untimely death, Linda made somewhat of a comeback (pardon the pun!) in the "adult" business by appearing in one or two fetish-oriented stroke mags, which is, of course, rather odd considering how she was an anti-smut "activist" for a number of years and even claimed how she was forced--even at gunpoint--by her former husband to appear in all those "adult" movies, including the by-now-classic Deep Throat. Of course, Linda Lovelace won't be the last "adult" film star to have a rather two-faced attitude about having appeared in "adult" films. I just hope Sasha Grey DOESN'T follow in Linda's footsteps, at least as far as the anti-porn diatribes go (which I don't think she will, but I, of course, could be wrong!).