BreAnna Bell posted for Page Six: "Sean Penn, 64, passionately kisses young actress Valeria Nicov in the streets of Spain" (September 7, 2024)
In the post, Bell wrote:
Sean Penn may have a new lady in his life.
The “Mystic River” star, 64, was photographed kissing young actress Valeria Nicov while walking the streets of Madrid, Spain on Saturday.
May have a new lady in his life? It appears safe to infer that Penn definitely has a new (much younger) lady in his life. However, per Bell, Nicov, a Moldovan actress, has kept her exact age a secret, but: "[...] she’s believed to be in her 20s." However, the Daily Mail's Sharon Mai reported that Nicov is 34 years younger than Penn.
Leila George (24) and Penn (54)
Prior to Nicov, back in 2016, 54-year-old Penn started dating 24-year-old Leila George D'Onofrio. The age-gap couple married in 2020 but filed for divorce approximately a year later.
Interestingly, D'Onofrio co-starred with James Franco in Lifetime's Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (2016).
On the "Postcards from Europe" episode of the Hot Girls Talks podcast (Aug 18, 2022), Carly shared with Halley and Jaz:
"If you went to camp, you'd know that you saw plenty of vaginas in a lifetime and probably the inside of them [...] because at camp you just are, like, crazy. Yeah, it's just a thing. I don't know, like, people that went to camp know. Just camp things."
After Carly related that she saw “plenty of vaginas”, “probably the inside of them”, during summer camp, I recalled some previous posts that I wrote on nymphets engaged in oral sex, lipstick lesbianism, and age-gap relationships - all during summer camps.
For example, I related that Dominique Sisley shared in a Mel Magazine post "Why Was Summer Camp Sex So Hot?" that camp: “[...] is a mythical, esteemed rite of passage in American culture” with over 14 million tweens and teens attending every summer for: “[...] fancy-free fucking under the stars.”
Sisley wrote that even the (older) teen counselors and apprentices: “[...] get a chance to have abundant, post-pubescent sex in a variety of sandy and/or mosquito-ridden locations.”
Sisley referenced the question “Camp counselors, what's the most NSFW thing you've caught CAMP COUNSELORS doing?” that was asked on r/AskReddit. Per users, u/cdncbn and u/Sandstar643, camp sex ranged from “Sex in the washroom back closet” to lipstick lesbian sex.
u/cdncbn
Sex in the washroom back closet
Sex in the dining room
Sex in the bus
Sex in the senior staff girls room
Sex at the Friday night campfire ceremony
etc
u/Sandstar643
Camper here, I was in grade 6 on a school camping trip when we walked into the cabin. Our cabin leader wasn't there, so we checked her room only to find her lying on her bed with another counselor going at it. They were both female. I'm a male.
In addition, Sisley related that Redditors posted: “[...] talk of lost virginity [...] and late-night lesbian erotica readings.” And that when Clarrisa was a 15-year-old apprentice counselor, she and her crush, and other campers: “[...] would make out and feel each other up at night” while some of the other campers had sex - in the woods.
“Me and the other [teen] apprentices were completely unsupervised at night,” she says. “I had one camp crush. We didn't end up having sex, but we would make out and feel each other up at night. I could always hear other people doing the same thing. Once or twice a couple of people would just go off into the woods together for more serious stuff. I felt like I got no sleep at all that summer.”
Of course, the teen sex wasn’t confined to the woods. In response to the question: “Camp counselors of reddit, what is the most nsfw thing that happened at camp? [NSFW]”, one Redditor and former camp counselor posted that during "campout night", he caught two 17-year-old campers “fucking like rabbits”:
We had a "campout night" where you would sleep in tents instead of the cabins. I was a rover one night and there was an unusual amount of movement coming from a tent that wasn't with the others. I shined my light on it and it still kept moving. I went over an [sic] announced myself and opened the tent. Two of my staff members were fucking like rabbits. I quickly told them to stop and I let them get dressed. They were both 17 and I had to fire them and call their parents. Very awkward.
In the end, in response to the question, “Camp counselers [sic], what are the worst, most outrageous, or NSFW things that happen at summer camp? [Serious]”, another Redditor and former New Hampshire camp counselor posted that (some) nymphet campers may felt pressured into preteen (oral) sex due to a desire for attention and acceptance.
Oh my god, I worked at this camp in New Hampshire for two summers. Three main things.
One: everyone fucks everyone [...]
Two: half the counselor a [sic] were high the whole summer [...].
Three: it is the worst place to send your preteen daughter. The pressure that 10-13 year olds are under to perform sex acts is unimaginable. Most of them give in and then end up crying about it later [...] I caught a 11 year old giving a blow job to 16 year old.
Moving away from Reddit to literature, 17-year-old Danielle confessed in “Reality Check From Young Voices”, a chapter in Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney’s Cappiello’s Slut: A Play and Guidebook, that “lots of sexual firsts” happened at her “typical Jewish summer camp” like the filming (oral) sex tapes:
“I go to this, where promiscuous behavior is practically encouraged and cultivated [...] with no parental supervision, there are lots of sexual firsts for everyone [...] There is one girl in particular, Georgia, who is really petite and very pretty [...] Josh and another boy coerced - basically forced - Georgia to give them blow jobs, while others filmed it on their phones.”
Lena Dunham shared in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, that when she was a teen summer camper she could not stop staring at her camp counselor’s: “[...] tits swing as she changed.” And Dunham wrote that she lusted after a college student, flirted with her Australian 'bunk uncle', and discovered her “truest love” in 22-year-old Johnny:
“[...] couldn't stop eyeing everyone else, staring at their round asses as they dressed, the dusky hairs emerging from the bathing suits. “You are so bicurious!” Lena's camp counselor said after she caught Lena “[...] watching her tits swing as she changed.” And Lena: “[...] lusted after a college student and flirted with her “Australian 'bunk uncle'”.
The following summer, at the age of fourteen, Dunham found her “truest love”. “[Johnny] was blond, from South Carolina, and just shy of twenty-two.” In her bunk, Lena fantasized about discarding her “[...] clothes, approaching Johnny, and letting him put his hands all over [...]” her body.
And in E.R. Frank's Friction, a novella, while on a camping trip, 13-year-old Alex accidentally saw her teacher’s penis. In other words, "[...] his rain-slicked wet thing above a jiggling sack of skin, and a nest of brown hair. Everything." Consequently, Alex couldn't get her science teacher's, "[...] thick-looking and sluggy [...]" thing out of her head.
Possibly taking a cue from Reddit, to commence The Cut’s 2014 Summer Sex Week, Maureen O'Connor posted, in the True Stories feature, “10 Awkward, Nostalgic Stories of Summer-Camp Sexual Awakenings” (July 7, 2014). Here are some of the stories of summer-camp sexual awakenings, which includes bestiality, age-gap making out, lipstick lesbianism, masturbation, kibbutz camp sex, and oral sex - all performed by tween and teen campers:
Fake Orgasms Sweep Horse Camp
When I was 11, there was a fake-orgasm craze at Camp Rim Rock’s horseback riding camp for girls. It started when Lauren Petersen asked if anyone else had “tickling feelings” while grinding on a Western saddle. Lauren was the alpha girl of my cabin. She was cool and tough and came from New York and had a Beastie Boys cassette [...] If Lauren Petersen felt tickles on horses, then feeling tickles on horses was cool. Soon everyone was feeling tickles, or trying to feel them, or faking them. It was like the Salem Witch Trials. I will never say whether my horsegasms were fake.
[Note: This is not the first time we’ve written about “horsegasms”. For example, on “They’re Just Not That Into You...” episode of the Hot Girls Talk podcast (August 4, 22), Halley shared with Carly and Jaz: “You can also pop your cherry by riding a fucking horse. One of my friends […] she literally told all of us when we were like 9-years-old, ‘Yeah I popped my cherry by riding this horse.’”
Cruel Intentions 2 (2000)
And in Cruel Intentions 2 (2000), Cherie Claymon, a prep school freshman, masturbated upon a horse in Central Park, which was all part of Kathryn's plot to turn Cherie into the "[...] premier slut of Manchester Prep."]
Camp Spirit or Furry Fetish?
All camp hookups, in my experience, were a little predator-prey. I was 15 when a 20-year-old counselor convinced me it would be hilarious if we stole full-body squirrel costumes from the drama supply closet (the squirrel was our camp mascot) and snuck through the woods to terrorize kids who were camping in tents that night. So we put on the costumes and hiked to the campsite — and ended up making out on a picnic table in full-body fur suits, squirrel heads perched beside us.
Sexual Shaving Rituals
We always shaved our 12-year-old legs outside where the boys could see, sitting on towels spread over the pavement that connected the girls’ camp to the boys’ camp. When I was 13, my counselor got me and another camper to shave her vag before she met up with her boyfriend. We did it outside on the porch, her lying down and us on either side of her, giggling [...] I think the counselor got a perverse kick out if it [sic], even though she is straight [...]
The Girl Who Discovered Orgasms
I had my first orgasm at Jewish summer camp, the result of dry-humping against a cabin. A few years later I lost my virginity at a summer camp on a kibbutz. I had sex five times that night, including in the shower, and came every time! Talk about getting off to a good (blessed?) start.
The Birth of a Teen Hussy
The summer after seventh grade, I went on a bike tour from Vermont and into Canada.
Somewhere around the border of Canada, we camped on a beach [...] I waited until the counselor fell asleep, then snuck out of our tent and walked toward the party. It was a big bonfire, loads of booze, local teens. I met a very cute, blond 16-year-old and told him I was 15. (I was 13.) He took me into the woods, and, chalk it up to boredom or my first taste of anonymous hooking up, but I decided that I would give this stranger my first ever blow job. I didn’t tell him. I just went for it.
When I returned to my tent [...] I was promptly kicked off the bike tour, sent alone by Greyhound bus back to Port Authority for my parents to retrieve me [...] It was the beginning of many years as a teen hussy.
First Kiss: A Tale of Minor Tragedy
I had my first kiss at summer camp. “Wanna blow me?” he asked a few seconds later. I didn’t know what “blow” meant so I didn’t respond, but after a few more seconds of kissing, I knew I would do anything for this boy. He was the love of my life. So that night I asked an older girl to explain “blowing.” I’d barely processed the information when I walked into the cafeteria the next morning and saw the older girl holding hands with the love of my life. She had somehow managed to track him down and blow him before breakfast.
*****
As was mentioned, it’s not uncommon in both fiction and non-fiction for sexual acts to occur on the bus to and from camp. For example, in the “Camp” chapter of James Franco’s Palo Alto: Stories, at the YMCA water-ski camp, some 12 and 13-year-old boys dared Howard to "make out" with Angela, a Black girl, in the back of the bus. Consequently, Howard kissed Angela, the other boys saw Howard feel Angela's "small breasts", and under the towel he felt her Angela’s vagina.
Per Franco, some teens even play camping. For instance, in "Part 1: Vietnam" of "Chinatown In Three Parts", after smoking "a lot of pot" at Tom's house, Roberto suggested to Pam, "Let's play 'Camping'!" Roberto shared what he did to Pam while “Camping”:
[...] I took her pants off. [...] Her ass was fantastic, very hard. And her tits were big for an Asian. I spit on my hand, and then I put my dick inside her. It was good [...]"
Vera Papisova's Teen Vogue post "23 Masturbation Stories: Girls Get Real About Self-Love" (AUGUST 4, 2020) is a compilation of preteen and teen masturbation stories. And, of course, teen masturbation at camp was mentioned by Lindsay who shared with Papisova that, other than her "freaky camp friend", she had to wait until college to learn "[...] that other girls masturbate, too!"
Kendall Jenner with Tonight I'm Someone Else
We were (indirectly) directed to Chelsea Hodson’s Tonight I'm Someone Else by none other than Kendall Jenner whom was spotted reading Hodson’s essays poolside. Hodson wrote that she met "effortlessly cool" Bianca, a blonde 13-year-old, at a beach camp on Catalina Island.
Bianca shared while laughing, "So then he [i.e. Brandon, a middle-school bully] says to her [i.e. 11-year-old Dawn], three o'clock, I'm gonna rape you."
And Bianca inquired empathetically, "What's under your towel anyway, Will? Chelsea's never seen a dick; let her see it."
But after camp ended, Hodson regretted not having a teen lipstick lesbian affair with Bianca: "I wish I could say Bianca and I traveled through the night and the tall grass, desire clearing our path, stronger than a machete. I wish I could say we held hands or kissed or touched in some way as soon as we were alone." (Interestingly, Welcome to the Dollhouse was Bianca’s favorite (age-gap) film.)
Hodson may not have gotten her teen lipstick lesbian fantasy fulfilled, but Liara Roux related in Whore of New York: A Confession that in fifth grade (≈ 10-years-old), she had (lipstick) lesbian sex with the "very beautiful" Melissa. Outdoors. In the woods. During a youth retreat slash camp in the Catskills. The nubile nymphets met by the bonfire before Melissa looked into Roux's and licked Roux's fingers:
One day, when we were walking to whatever activity was next, she asked me if I wanted to skip it [...] As we got further away from the camp, she stepped off the trail. I followed her. We wandered through the trees, and I tripped over a rock hidden under the snow.
We got to a clearing and she plopped on the ground, then started making a snow angel. “What about your pants?” I asked. “Won’t they get wet?” [...] “They already are.” I blushed at the implication. Seeing my flushed face, she stood up, walked to me, and kissed me [...] I couldn’t hold myself back. I kissed her, putting my hands around her neck, pulling her in.
[...] I pressed myself against her and we fell in the snow [...] I rolled on top of her, kissed her again [...] She wiggled, unzipping her coat, unzipping mine, and our hands were on each other’s chests, grasping at softness. I kissed her neck; she moaned and put my breast in her mouth [...] After much maneuvering, she pulled off her glove and stuck her hand down my pants. The chill of her fingertips pressing into me.
“We walked back to camp, our faces flushed.”
As we mentioned, shockingly, sexual shannangins at camp can happen among early preteens as well. For instance, E. Jean Carroll wrote in her New York magazine piece “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal” (June 24-July 7, 2019) that she was raped by President Trump in Bergdorf Goodman, but she also discussed that, while on a family camping trip, James, an approximately 7-year-old, shoved objects into her vagina.
One day my parents gave a party. Everyone brought their kids. Arthur and Evelyn drove up from Indianapolis with James to the redbrick schoolhouse where we lived, deep in the hills north of Fort Wayne. As the parents drank cocktails in our big yard with the scent of the blooming wads of cash infusing every inch of Indiana just after WWII, the kids played up on the hill beside the schoolhouse.
James was 7 and a half or 8, a bloodthirsty, beautiful, relentless boy. He ordered everyone around, even the older kids. To me he said, “I’m going to shove this up you again.”
We’d played this game before. Our families had gone on a camping trip to Pokagon State Park, and I learned that an object could be shoved up the place where I tinkled. I don’t remember now what it was, probably a stick, or maybe a rock. It felt like being cut with a knife. I remember I bled.
Better Things
(Note: Carroll’s camp story reminded me of an episode of Better Things where, in a game of Truth or Dare, Duke dared another pre-teen, "Put four Monopoly pieces in your vagina." She did!)
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
On ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the schoolgirls were enthralled by Mr. Molina - the new Grant High School guidance counselor. Madison shared with Amy that Mr. Molina was new, single and delicious, but Amy shared with Madison and Lauren that she impregnated on the second day of band camp.
In Megan Abbott's Dare Me, nymphets shared shocking stories of "kissing their babysitters", but more relevantly, during the summer after seventh grade, Beth received a "ringlet of hickeys from a counselor".
And in the controversial National Bestseller The End of Alice, imprisoned Chappy shared a story about his teen penpal whom witnessed her cabin mates, “two little girls from Louisville, Kentucky” involved in some lipstick lesbian foreplay:
She writes of the memory of one particular afternoon [...] The story is of coming into the cabin to collect her tennis racket and finding the two little girls from Louisville, Kentucky [...] lying across the top bunk, head to toe, the brunette’s narrow foot sweeping back and forth across the strawberry blonde’s nipple, the blonde’s jumpsuit unzipped and parted to the waist. When the lovebirds sighted the girl and smiled at her, there was a flash of light like an explosion, as the sun, reflecting off the brunette’s metal tooth-braces [...]
While what I related are from recent sources, unsurprisingly, teen camp sex isn’t novel as Lolita’s Humbert noted about Lolita’s “sapphic diversions” during the late 1940s with a tent-mate:
Her astounding tale started with an introductory mention of her tent-mate of the previous summer, at another camp, a “very select” one as she put it. The tent-mate [...] instructed her in various manipulations. [...] I wanted to know if either mother learned of those sapphic diversions? “Gosh no,” exhaled limp Lo [...]
In the end, Sisley wrote that summer camp (pre) teen sex is simply a result of mixing of the sexes, which is something that orthodox Jews and Muslims have been proclaiming for centuries.
Communal sleeping, shared showers, and minimal supervision — often at the hands of slightly older and even hornier youths — add up to a pressure cooker of hormones, humiliation, awkward fumbling, and memorable discoveries.
*****
On Sale: The Allure of Nymphets: A Study of Man's Fascination with Young Girls
There’s an episode of Law & Order: SVU that’s based on the Franco\Clode Instagram scandal. Franco’s Law & Order: SVU episode was subtitled "Agent Provocateur". Here’s IMDb’s plot summary season 16 episode 11 - Agent Provocateur:
An actor is suspected of raping a 15-year-old girl, but are he and his agent trying to spin it into a publicity stunt for his new movie? And why is a tabloid journalist keeping the NYPD from discovering the truth?
Per usual, the episode began with the disclaimer: The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.
After getting the legalities out of the way, Madison, the 15-year-old, departed an Upper West Side doorman building and hopped into a yellow cab before she removed her overcoat to reveal a revealing black dress. The nymphet uncapped a bottle of gin and happily glossed her lips.
In the next scene, she was zipped into a suitcase, dragged through Tribeca’s Howell hotel’s lobby and left for dead in an alley with gin, Ambien, Xanax and condom lubricant in her system. Utilizing a racist trope, Madison told Sergeant Benson and Detective Amaro, two of NYPD’s finest, that before she could meet with a “friend” to see Wicked, she was drugged by a “Middle Eastern maybe” cab driver.
NYPD discovered, via an Instagram post, that Madison’s “friend” was Scott Russo (Shiloh Fernandez) whom was described as a “[pretty boy] actor slash painter slash philosopher” and a “Renaissance man”. It was revealed that Madison was obsessed with Russo, she watched Russo’s Caspien Sea (N.D.) - ten times, and that the age-gap couple met via Twitter DMs.
After being questioned about his relationship with Madison, Russo shared with Ice T’s character, “After Caspian Sea, that’s my fan base, young girls. There’s a bunch of them in the lobby right now. Some of them always manage to slip under the [proverbial] velvet rope”
After a waiter told the NYPD that Russo was seen doing “body shots” off of Madison’s nubile body, Russo confessed:
“Alright look. I invited her to the party. We had some drinks. I find out that she was underage; so, I excused myself. She followed me to my room. Alright, if you would have watched the playback on that [LMZ] video, you would have seen that I shut the door on her.”
Madison confirmed Russo’s claim and proclaimed to her mother in front of NYPD:
“I am not a child! And he [Russo] didn’t attack me. I followed him to his room! I wanted to be with him [...] He didn’t force me. We’re soul mates. I’ve been dreaming that this would happen. That he would fall in love with me.”
Madison went on to disclose with her mother and the NYPD that after Russo told her that she was a nice girl but that she was too young for him, she went to Skye Adderson’s room, Russo’s co-star, and had sex with him and that she lied initially because, “I didn’t want Scott [Russo] to find out that I had cheated on him. I knew that he would never forgive me.”
Ultimately, the motion to dismiss the indictment against Russo was “so ordered”, and he left the courthouse to the cheers of Madison and a gaggle of additional nymphets.
Sadly, even though Madison confessed to the NYPD that she aggressively attempted to have sex with Russo and that it was her idea to go to Adderson’s hotel room for sex, she didn’t receive even a slap on her jeune wrist. Why? #rhetoricalquestion
Caroline Howe related in her Daily Mailreview of Shawn Levy's The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Art and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont that 44-year-old director Nicholas Ray had sex with 16-year-old actress Natalie Wood.
16-year-old actress Natalie Wood & 44-year-old director Nicholas Ray
Consequently, actor Dennis Hopper went around the Chateau with a gun hoping to ironically 'beat the shit' out of Ray and "win over" Natalie.
Fucked fifteen-year-old Natalie Wood in Bungalow 2
Thus, per Franco, Wood was 15 when she was "fucked" by Ray. And only God knows how many nymphets had sex in the infamous Chateau Marmont, but Glenys Roberts related in a Daily Mailpost that:
Scarlett Johansson and Benicio Del Toro
"A 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson was so overcome by its heady atmosphere in 2004 that she couldn’t wait to get upstairs with [thirty-seven-year-old] Puerto Rican star Benicio Del Toro and ripped off his clothes in the lift. ‘We were making out or having sex or something,’ she readily admitted later."
Teens Love and Want to F*ck James Franco: A Study of a Life and Works is a study of the raunchy comments left by teens and young women on James Franco’s since deleted Instagram account, a look at the popularity of “the daddy thing” in popular culture, and an analysis of nympholepsy (i.e., a passion aroused in men [i.e., nympholepts] by beautiful young girls) and the sexual nature of teens in James Franco’s oeuvre.
Halle Kiefer's Vulturepost, "Dr. Phil Beseeches You to Please, Stop Commenting ‘Daddy’ on All His Posts" (SEPT. 11, 2020), did not surprise us, because we've posted about the Daddy Thing a number of time.
From Solitary Man (2009), where Ben Kalmen (Michael Douglas) became "clingy” after he had sex with Allyson, his teen step-daughter, whom referred to sex with her step-daddy as the "Daddy Thing". To Brett Gelman's short story "Santa Daddy" that was posted on Vice where Angela invited a middle-aged bearded man to her apartment. After she asked the man to put on a Santa Claus costume, she demanded, “Spank me, Santa Daddy! Spank that ass, Santa Daddy! Spank that 16-year-old ass! Merry Christmas!” And James Franco's Instagram account was flooded with Daddy references too.
Keifer posted:
Honestly, good luck, Phil. In a move destined to cause a tidal wave of new comments on all his videos, Dr. Phil McGraw took to TikTok this week to beg his followers: Please, for the love of God, stop commenting “daddy” on all his social-media posts.
“You have to stop commenting ‘daddy’ on all my posts,” the TV host asks over angelic harp music.
“I ain’t your daddy. I hate to break it to you, but I ain’t your daddy, and your real daddy is probably getting his feelings hurt. I appreciate the support. It’s a little weird, but I do appreciate the support.”
One may get the impression that Dr. Phil was naïve about the meaning of the Daddy reference, but his, "It’s a little weird [...]" revealed that he suspected that the Daddy references were not innocent.
Interestingly, in this regard, nymphets tend to be a bit more discrete IRL than they are online; thus, instead of asking, "Daddy?", they may ask, "Can I call you dad?"
Here are some relevant excerpts from Bidart’s “Herbert White”, which is about a married, with kids, serial killer who kidnaps nymphets and rapes them - even after death. And when the nymphet’s bodies become too decomposed for necrophilia, Herbert masturbated “letting it fall on her” :
When I hit her on the head, it was good,
and then I did it to her a couple of times,—[...] I liked to drive past the woods where she lay,
tell the old lady and the kids I had to take a piss,
hop out and do it to her... [...] When the body got too discomposed,
I'd just jack off, letting it fall on her…[...] well, like I said, she didn't move: and I saw,
under me, a little girl was just lying there in the mud: [...] I got in the truck, and started to drive,
and saw a [new] little girl—
who I picked up, hit on the head, and
screwed, and screwed, and screwed, and screwed, then
buried,
in the garden of the motel…[...] — About six months ago, I heard Dad remarried,
so I drove over to Connecticut to see him and see
if he was happy.
She was twenty-five years younger than him: [...] I kept thinking about getting a [new] girl,
and the more I thought I shouldn't do it,
the more I had to—
I saw her coming out of the movies,
saw she was alone, and
kept circling the
blocks as she walked along them,
saying, 'You're going to leave her alone.'
'You're going to leave her alone.'
Except for the part where the serial killer visited his father, whom married a woman “twenty-five years younger than him”, Franco’s Herbert White (2010) depicts that poem very closely; thus, let us take a look at “Directing Herbert White” where we learn that Bidart, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, wrote “Herbert White” while he was a student at Harvard and that Herbert White is based on “The Necrophiliac” - a medical case study in 21 Abnormal Sex Cases.
Franco went on to share in “Directing Herbert White”: “James [Franco] knew after hearing the poem read in class at Warren Wilson [College] that it was something he wanted to adapt to film. These impulses are visceral.” Yes. The allure of nymphets does cause some men to have visceral impulses.
Yet for some reason, Franco wrote: “Herbert has a secret - he’s a murderer of women and a fucker of corpses - which he can tell no one,” instead of: “Herbert has a secret - he’s a murderer of nymphets and a fucker of teen corpses - which he can tell no one.”
IMDb posted a brief plot summary for Palo Alto (2013): "The life and struggles of a group of adolescents living in Palo Alto."
No worries. We'll provide some details. The film is based on James Franco'sPalo Alto: Stories but, per the credits, it was written and directed by Gia Coppola. Coppola relied heavily on the novel for the dialogue but, taking advantage of the allure of nymphets, she took some liberties with some of the scenes.
In the opening scene, Fred asked Teddy what he would do if he could go back in time. Teddy replied that he would be a king, "And I’d fuck every virgin in the kingdom."
A little over a minute later, the following conversation took place among the stretching coed soccer players:
Chrissy: "Oh, I’m so wet. Not in a good way, either. Mr. B’s [her teacher and soccer coach (James Franco)] a hottie though."
Shauna: "Fuck, I know. Too bad he wants to get in with April."
Chrissy: "I’d go for it if I were you."
April: "Guys, that’s so awkward. I babysit his kid."
Shauna: "So?"
Chrissy wagered: "I bet he makes a really ugly face when he comes."
In one of her first deviations from the book and taking advantage of the allure of nymphets, at the 7:16 mark in the film, Coppola decided to have April (Emma Roberts) dance on a bed in a satin mini chemise. April bounced upon the bed seductively while she raised her mini slip and lowered a strap to fully expose her bra.
Like in the book, the teens played Never Have I Ever, but in the book, the game revealed that Emily had sex at school and that she had a threesome and and foursome. However, in the film, Shauna described how to play Never Have I Ever:
“You just say, “Never Have I Ever and then if you’ve done the thing you have to drink [...] Um, never have I ever given Seth Monkarsh a blowjob during free period in the senior parking lot.”
“Drink up, Chrissy.”
After Chrissy drank, she said, “Okay fine, my turn. Um, hmm. Never have I ever kissed my uncle.”
To which Shauna said slyly before she drank from her red plastic cup, “Are you fucking serious? That was private.”
The game revealed that Chrissy participated in a teen "lesbianic experience" as well. But Chrissy's blowjob in the senior parking lot and her teen lipstick lesbian "experience" and Shauna's incestuous kiss were not in the book. Why did Coppola add those to the film? That's a rhetorical question.
However, in the book and the film, Emily gave Teddy a blowjob in the bedroom of Shauna's parents. Poolside the next day, Chrissy shared, “Emily blew Teddy last night in your parent’s bedroom.” To which Shauna replied, “She will suck any dick that anyone puts in her face.” (To clarify, Teddy didn't put his d_ck in Emily's face. Emily put Teddy's d_ck in her face."
In another interesting deviation from the book, “Cock 4 dayz” was "written" in those preschool magnetic letters on an appliance in Shauna's house. Why?
While babysitting, April said to Michael - Mr. B’s son, “Come on, enough of this [video] game. Let’s watch a movie.” Michael said, “I don’t think I’m allowed to watch this movie [i.e., Fast Times at Ridgemont High].” Subsequently, a topless teen on the screen elicited a “Whao” from the elementary school aged Micheal.
After another babysitting session, Mr. B kissed April.
“I really like you.” Mr. B confessed.
“I really like you.” April confessed.
“Yeah but, I’m older and I know that there aren’t a lot of good things around, and I know you are really good.” Mr. B said to which April responded by returning his kiss.
In another scene that wasn't in the book, Coppola directed Fred to push Emily down by the shoulders and demand, “Tell me you love me,” before Emily gave him a blowjob in her parent’s backyard.
However, the following voice-over from that scene is from the book:
Emily didn’t have any friends [...] The only person she knew was me [...] One afternoon we went to Jason King’s house [...] Jason’s parents were gone [...] We were drinking sodas and vodka and smoking pot. [...] I got her into Jason’s parents’ bed and got her naked. The guys lined up outside the bedroom door. [...] We went in two or three at a time. Everyone fucked her [...] She gave me a blowjob. I asked if she liked it. She said she did [...]
Back at Mr. B’s house, the following conversation took place:
April: "Why don’t you talk to me at school anymore?"
Mr. B: "You know why."
April: "Yeah, but you can at least be nice to me and not ignore me. I mean, it’s like you don’t even like me anymore."
Mr. B, committing a age-gap relationship faux pas: "Are you kidding me. April I love you."
April, perplexed: “What? That doesn’t even make sense [...] I have to go.”
Mr. B reiterated: “April I love you [...] You can say you’re babysitting all the time and come over.”
April: “I should be hanging out with boys my own age."
Mr. B: “Why? Why do you wanna hang out with a bunch of little boys. You’re better than that. Just be with me."
But it was no use. April left.
In the bathroom between classes, Shauna complimented Chrissy, “Your tits are seriously huge today!” Chrissy, “I know, right?” Shauna, “They look amazing.” But that dialogue was not in the book. We would love to know Coppola's inspiration.
After losing the soccer game, Mr. B consoled a crying Raquel (Margaret Qualley). “Consequently, April said, “Raquel is such a cry baby [...] I mean, do you even think she’s pretty.” Shauna opined, “Raquel? Yeah, she’s fucking gorgeous.”
Despite their previous conversation ending on a sour note, after the game, April went back to Mr. B’s where they had sex on her teacher's sofa.
But after Micheal beat April in a Mortal Kombat match, he said, “I get two cookies, because I won.”
“Says who?”
“Raquel.”
“Raquel?”
“Raquel’s my other babysitter [...]”
Interestingly, the book inferred that Mr. B and Raquel had an age-gap affair too, but the film made it apparent. Mr. B pleaded, “Look, what happened between me and Raquel, it’s nothing, okay? [...] You broke up with me. And we weren’t talking to each other. Can I see you?”
April replied, “No. No, I’m not coming over there anymore.” Did April really mean it that time?
Lastly, there was some speculation that Franco's Instagram scandal was a publicity stunt for this film, but that doesn't appear to be true. Tom Shone of The Guardian gave the teen film 3 out of 5 starts and opined that Coppola had an "eye for cool composition". And Franco's Rabbit Bandini was the film's production company.
