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R. Kelly jurors shown graphic sex video…again

June 12th, 2008 by Scott Marks

I envision an Elks Club smoker where after the stag reel winds it way through the 8mm projector, some sloshed joker in the back cocks his fez and shouts, “Let’s see it again!”

Perhaps the textural nuance and dialectical montage were too much for the jury to absorb in one viewing. This morning, prosecutors at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial replayed the graphic sex tape at the center of the case, working to lay to rest any doubts in jurors’ minds that the couple depicted on the video were indeed the R&B singer and an underage female.

Emulsion Compulsion has kept quiet long enough. Child porn accusations notwithstanding, R. Kelley is a God. This opinion is not based upon his accomplishments as a singer / songwriter. As a vocalist, I know as much about R. Kelly as I do Kelly Clarkson.

It is the auteur that I embrace. Only the jury will ever get to experience R.’s complete oeuvre. For the rest of us, there is Trapped in the Closet.

It appeared to me on some noxious entertainment program. Kelly was interviewed, clips were shown and my head cocked like a dog’s hearing a can opener. You won’t go hungry with this one.

I have only witnessed Chapters 1-12 mainly because the place where I buy my cigarettes has yet to get a used $3.00 copy of 13-22. There is something to live for!

With a nod to Chaplin, Kelly wrote, produced, co-directed, scored and stars in this serialized video soap opera that’s worthy of Ed Wood. The technical ineptitude is indescribable and there are more racial stereotypes than a ‘Snowflake’ retrospective. It’s certain that Closet devotee and EC lifer Joel Wicklund will have more to add in the comments section. And now back to the news…

During closing arguments, Kelly’s attorney’s insisted that that neither Kelly nor the alleged victim are the people on the tape. And I suppose that wasn’t Marilyn Monroe on her knees and Sylvester Stallone isn’t The Italian Stallion. Defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. told jurors that charges stemmed from people trying to extort money from the Grammy winner and noted that the man on the tape “may favor him.”

Kelly’s latest video, People’s Exhibit No. 1, shows a female dancing and urinating on the floor—the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female.

Now do you understand the jury’s need for an encore presentation?

What’s with all the bodily functions? This water sports stuff is almost as indefensible as Kelly’s inability to rhyme (”He’s opening the dresser / I pull out my berreta”). At least he didn’t pull a Chuck Berry.

Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography. Both he and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape and neither testified at trial.

As reported on Breitbart, defense attorney Adam said that the alleged victim’s relatives know it’s not her on the video because “any solid man in that family, any solid woman in that family would have gone over there and broken his legs, would have gone over there and beat the crap out of him.”


Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 (2007)

 

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Dig A Hole: Nicolette Goulet, actress and daughter of Robert Goulet

April 21st, 2008 by Scott Marks

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Nicolette Goulet, a former soap opera actress, died on Wednesday April 17th after a long battle with breast cancer.

Ms. Goulet was the daughter of singer Robert Goulet from his first marriage to Louise Longmore.

Throughout the 80s, Nicolette Goulet made the rounds of several daytime soaps. She was best known for playing Dr. Meredith Reade on The Guiding Light and recurring characters in Ryan’s Hope, Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns.

Robert Goulet died less than six months ago on October 30, 2007. No doubt his passing had an impact on her will to survive.

Nicolette Goulet was 52 and had been living in Las Vegas for several years.

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