The Thomas Chronicals

PING (pĭng) v. - an abrupt shift in long-held attitudes and beliefs, the result of which is usually contradictory to a person’s history, which also suggests an instability of mind, characterized by hysteria and wild accusations.

I believe I have been Pinged.

Lesbian Sex Scenes

Gemma Atkinson needed a stiff drink before filming lesbian sex scenes

Hollywood actress Gemma Atkinson has revealed that she had taken a stiff drink before filming the raunchy sex scene for the movie Boogie Woogie, in which she plays an lesbian artist.
Gemma has been casted alongside Ray Winstone’s daughter Jaime.
Atikson said that she had to perform a full on lesbian sex scene with Jaime. “I had to do a scene with Jaime - a full-on lesbian session - and we’d literally met an hour earlier, the Daily Mail quoted her, as saying.
“In the film we meet in a club and go home and have sex. So we had a few shots of vodka, closed the set and just did it. We did it in one take with two cameras. “I asked to keep my bottoms on and the director let me so that was cool. When it came to the kissing, he basically said: ‘I just want you to go for it because the more you do it the more happy it’s going to be’ she added. However, Jaime said she was more at ease doing the scene with Gemma than she was with her male co-stars. As both the stars had met for the first time they were comfortable filming the intimate scenes. “We’d only met about an hour earlier but we both said that if we knew each other already it wouldn’t be right, she added. When I got home I felt a bit abused - I got straight into a bath,” she added. (ANI)

New to ABC, Cashmere Mafia - Coming in January

Four ambitious, sexy women who have been best friends since business school, Mia, Zoe, Juliet and Caitlin, try to have it all. They aren't just powerful and intelligent as singular executive sensations in a man's world; they've bonded into a formidable unit  A female "boys' club" -- to support and counsel each other through good times and bad. How better to climb up the corporate ladder than with your buddies at your side? Set in glamorous New York City, where titans of media, finance, advertising and publishing reside, these driven women, who daily share their relatable and relevant problems dealing with both the boardroom and bedroom, combine their smarts, wit and humor to deal with personal and professional misfortunes and stunning triumphs. Whether it's coping with rocky marriages, fending off scheming colleagues or just trying to find themselves in the midst of chaotic lives, these compelling women use their valuable friendship to keep centered.


Ever since Mia Mason (Lucy Liu) was a young girl, all she ever wanted to do was win. Now as a sexy, competitive woman in the publishing field, that drive to be first has intensified, even pitting her against her fiancé for a key position. What price will she have to pay to stay on top of the mountain?


Zoe Burden (Frances O'Connor), an investment banker with a handsome, loving, work-at-home architect husband, Eric (Julian Ovenden), and two small children, seems to be the prototype for the woman who has it all. The couple face their 24-7 waltz of balancing full-time work and the challenge of being good parents with good humor, but the wheels may be coming off the cart, forcing Zoe to re-evaluate her life.


For Juliet Draper (Miranda Otto), the Chief Operating Officer of a major hotel chain, appearances come first -- no matter what's going on behind closed doors. And she will have to work overtime to keep up the façade of a perfect life with her philandering husband, Davis (Peter Hermann), and her rebellious 14-year-old daughter. Juliet decides on a unique method of payback for Davis' indiscretions and simultaneously, in a bold move, must decide to drop her public image to step out in the world.


Caitlin Dowd (Bonnie Somerville) is a top marketing executive for a cosmetics firm. Like the other women, she is excelling professionally, but she's still discovering who she is personally and sexually. She's worked hard to get ahead, but still counts on her street smarts to keep her there, while her sense of humor and a sweet wackiness makes her all the more attractive. In the pilot, Somerville's character, Caitlin Dowd, a cosmetics industry VP (pictured above on the far left), unexpectedly finds herself falling for — and getting involved with — another woman at work.

In the pilot, Caitlin finds herself inexplicably attracted to a woman she hires named Alicia, who is described as "37, British, with a striking physical beauty made all the more appealing by a disarmingly scattered, un-self-conscious air. Men want to be with her, women want to be like her." (No word yet on who has been cast in this role.) Caitlin finds herself flustered and nervous whenever she's around Alicia, from the very first time she interviews her, and working with her becomes increasingly difficult. Caitlin eventually brings it up with her three best friends over lunch, telling them, "It's like someone waved a wand and the sun came out and my libido made a surprise guest appearance, and I wanted to book a week in Paris right then and there." But Caitlin can't quite bring herself to tell her friends she's talking about a woman, so she lets them assume she has a crush on a male co-worker.

It will be great to see how this character deals with discovering her sexuality and further how the character develops as the relationship blooms with her co-worker. Can't wait!

"Cashmere Mafia" stars Lucy Liu ("Ally McBeal," "Charlie's Angels") as Mia, Frances O'Connor ("A.I.  Artificial Intelligence," "Mansfield Park") as Zoe, Miranda Otto ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Starter Wife") as Juliet, Bonnie Somerville ("NYPD Blue," "Kitchen Confidential") as Caitlin, Peter Hermann ("Law & Order: SVU," "United 93") as Davis and Julian Ovenden ("Related," "Butley" on Broadway) as Eric.

Quotes

i'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.

i make mistakes.

i am out of control and at times, hard to handle.

but if you can't handle me at my worst,
YOU SURE AS HELL DON'T DESERVE ME AT MY BEST

-Marilyn Monroe