'Baby, Give Me a Kiss' - Los Angeles Times
Wow. A great article by Claire Hoffman, a journalist on the Hollywood and adult entertainment beat for the LA Times, about Joe Francis, the apparantly psychotic founder and cult-leader of the Girls Gone Wild franchise. It should come as no surprise that the guy is ruthless, eneretic, charismatic, and covered in dirt. The article is written from a "ride-along" POV in which Hoffman gets access to the entire GGW empire--from the distribution facilities, to court documents, to hanging with Francis himself--and shows an incredible amount of restraint. I mean, tons of restraint. Francis has so much dirt on him that the entire article could've been about his pending legal fights, but Hoffman takes her time with it, painting a very versitile picture of the man responsible for those late-night infomercials promising drunk co-eds for all the world to see.
- posted by frank crist @ 2:26 PM