In the fast paced world of new media startups, the “cocktail napkin to boardroom” paradigm rules, as do drugs, violence, treachery, and legal manipulation: otherwise known as Twenty-First Century corporate best practices. Easy deals are the currency of success, and penny stocks and NASDAQ are the new blow. This then is the backdrop for Jason M. Kays’ Virtual Vice, an engrossing crime thriller filled with twists, turns, and back stabs.
Disenchanted entertainment attorney Ian McKenzie is caught in the golden handcuffs of a successful legal career that has him drained and disillusioned. His most recent client was last seen drunk and naked atop a Vancouver club delivering an impassioned soliloquy to unseen observers. Just as things seem miserable and pointless, Ian meets charming but dangerous Scott White, former drug trafficker turned legit dotcom scion. Scott convinces Ian to come on board to help manage his Internet startup, Metropoleis Multimedia. Luck seems to turn and the glory days of the dotcom boom promise to reverse fortunes and make everybody rich and famous. Unfortunately for Ian, things go from miserable to deadly in no time flat. Scott has not entirely cut his ties to a criminal past. His wife, Clarice Westwater, head up a high-end brothel, and law enforcement is tracking his every move, hoping for a stumble. As Scott’s confidant and consigliore, Ian soon finds himself caught in a fatal game of corporate winner-take-all.
Fast paced and written with wit and suspense, Virtual Vice will keep you entertained while it keeps you guessing and wanting more. Told in the tradition of the best in the crime thriller genre, Author Kays masterfully weaves characters you love to hate with complex plotting to produce a satisfying and thrilling tale of murder, mayhem, and corporate excess gone terribly wrong. Virtual Vice is a treat for all crime thriller buffs and for anyone who just loves a well-written book.
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9/1/2010 5:45 AM PDT by TMZ Staff So much for Heidi and Spencer in XXX … TMZ has learned the estranged couple has officially cut off negotiations with Vivid Entertainment honcho Steven Hirsch … telling him they’re no longer interested.
Sources close to the couple tell us Spencer’s rep shot a letter to Hirsch explaining, “Heidi’s made it very clear that she is not interested in releasing any tapes” … adding, “It looks like she pulled the kill switch.”
The letter also explains, “Spencer’s not interested in further destroying their relationship by pursuing an avenue she’s so vehemently against.”
Spencer’s rep also told Hirsch that Pratt “thought $5 million would be enough to convince her, but now [Heidi] is saying she’ll bring out the legal team if he persists.”
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I’m still not putting my pants back on.
Heidi Montag has fired off a letter to Vivid’s Steve Hirsch effectively shutting down any chance of the sex tape that never really existed – unless you ask Karissa Shannon – seeing the light of day now that it’s sprayed everyone in the face with hot, wet publicity. Of course, semen innuendos aside, I’m also going to assume the letter doubled as a Thank You card for actually being stupid enough to believe these two in the first place. “Seriously? Us? Your funeral.” TMZ reports:
Sources close to the couple tell us Spencer’s rep shot a letter to Hirsch explaining, “Heidi’s made it very clear that she is not interested in releasing any tapes” … adding, “It looks like she pulled the kill switch.”
The letter also explains, “Spencer’s not interested in further destroying their relationship by pursuing an avenue she’s so vehemently against.”
Spencer’s rep also told Hirsch that Pratt “thought $5 million would be enough to convince her, but now [Heidi] is saying she’ll bring out the legal team if he persists.”
I’m pretty sure “looks like she pulled the kill switch” is the type of terminology Heidi’s people want to avoid if they want to keep everyone thinking their client isn’t half-Terminator by now. “Did we say ‘kill switch?’ Clearly we meant fuzzy happy puppy dog button. AHAHAHA! *whispers into watch* Cease death algorithm. Repeat. Cease death algorithm.”
Photo: Pacific Coast News
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Seen here doing her best Buffalo Bill impression – “Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me hard.” – Demi Moore is apparently getting two-timed by Ashton Kutcher if you consider Star a reliable source, and that he’d be retarded enough to do it right outside of Madeo where Harvey Levin sleeps with a walkie talkie and a pair of binoculars:
“Ashton had this gorgeous girl pinned against the wall, and he was totally making out with her,” an eyewitness, who was on his way to the restroom tells Star. “I was shocked to see him sucking face with a girl who obviously wasn’t Demi.”
When Demi learns the truth of about the steamy session — which Ashton’s rep denied — it will be her worst fear come true.
“All along, Demi was told it would never work, that he’s going to cheat,” a friend tells Star. “When she finds out that it happened, she’ll be devastated.”
Ignoring whether or not any of this is true or not (It isn’t.), I’m pretty sure Demi Moore’s worst fear is less along the lines of Ashton Kutcher leaving her and more along the lines of having to duct tape her own chin back on. That’s probably the one keeping her up at night.
ASHTON: Demi, I cheated on you.
DEMI: Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Is my forehead still attached? I feel drafty all of a sudden.
UPDATE: Ashton is already responding on Twitter, of course: “I think Star magazine calling me a “cheater” qualifies as defamation of character. I hope my lawyer agrees.” (Thanks to Chloe in the comments.)
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Here’s Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt in Costa Rica pretending to be a divorced couple sharing custody of their dogs because that shit happens all the time. (Actually it might. You pet lovers are weird.) Anyway, for two people who supposedly can’t wait to get away from each other, they seem to spend a lot of time on tropical islands wearing next to nothing. Then again, that could all just be a clever ruse to make me think they’re still together, but trying to make everyone else think they’re not. I guess what I’m trying to say is, if Heidi’s nose fell off how high-pitched would Spencer’s shriek be? Because I’m going with it could summon bats like that thing Batman carries around when he wants to make a dramatic entrance.
BATMAN: *pushes button* This is going to look tits.
CITIZEN: Oh, no! Oh, my God. These bats are giving my children rabies! Rabies! WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THEM?! THIS IS COMPLETELY UNPRECEDENTED!
BATMAN: …. *hides in a dumpster*
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9/1/2010 12:45 AM PDT by TMZ Staff With the real estate market still in the crapper … Tiger Woods recently took out a $54.5 million mortgage for the mega-mansion he’s building on Florida’s exclusive Jupiter Island.
TMZ has obtained legal documents filed in Martin County on August 27 — four days after Tiger finalized his divorce from Elin Nordegren — in which he lists himself as a “single man” … possibly for the first time since his marriage ended.
Tiger also agrees to pay back the gargantuan loan by January 15, 2016. So, it seems there’s one group of people counting on Tiger to make a comeback — his lenders.
According to the docs, Tiger’s property spans across three parcels of land … and as we’ve previously reported, the estate will include a tennis court, oxygen therapy room, multiple pools and a state-of-the-art fitness center.
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