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Vivid Girl Sunny Leone |
LOS
ANGELES –
(May 27, 2008) – Vivid Girl Sunny
Leone, the 24 year-old adult film superstar, joined with Declare Yourself, the national
nonpartisan, nonprofit youth voter registration initiative, today to urge all
eligible 18-to-29-year-olds to register and vote in this November's general
election.
"As an
immigrant who is thrilled to exercise her right to vote in a presidential
election for the first time, I wanted to do what I could to get other young
people to participate," said Leone who only recently became an American citizen.
"There's no excuse not to register -DeclareYourself.com makes it so
easy."
The short
video, available immediately at declareyourself.com and vivid.com, and soon at dozens of other video sharing websites, features Ms.
Leone is, who is, in her words, a "firm believer in personal freedom."
"The best way
to exercise that freedom," she says in the video, "is to vote."
The video was
filmed on the Los
Angeles on the set of one of Ms. Leone's upcoming films.
About Declare
Yourself:
Declare
Yourself is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign to empower and encourage
every eligible 18-29-year-old in America to register and vote in the
presidential primaries and 2008 presidential election. Using the power of
strategic media partnerships, celebrity spokespeople, the sports arena, and most
importantly, mobile and Internet technology, Declare Yourself's campaign
blankets the landscape of popular culture with a simple, clear message: REGISTER
and VOTE! Declare Yourself registered 1.2 million young people in 2004 and has
targeted 2 million registrations in 2008.
About Vivid:
The Vivid Entertainment Group is the world's leading adult film
company. Founded in 1984, Vivid pioneered the "Vivid Girl" concept, under which
top adult film stars are signed to exclusive agreements that are styled on the
old Hollywood contract star system. Vivid has
always placed heavy emphasis on high quality erotic film entertainment for the
couples market. It has created wide brand-name awareness through its films and
through licensing and marketing programs that extend to advertising, book
publishing and such products as apparel, virility supplements, condoms,
snowboards, calendars and comic books. The company is known for its innovative
technological advances such as full function DVDs, a fast growing wireless
program that is already active in 20 countries, its Burn-to-DVD technology and
its popular website http://www.vivid.com/. Vivid is the
first adult company to release a movie on both HD DVD and Blu-ray with "Debbie
Does Dallas…Again." The company is also the first to
release a title direct and exclusively to Video on Demand. A reality series
about the making of the "Debbie" movie has become a popular Showtime TV series.
Vivid is a major supplier of content for pay-per-view networks in North America and internationally. The best selling
hardcover and paperback book "How to Have a XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid
Guide" was co-authored by the Vivid Girls and published by
HarperCollins.
The company's
Vivid-Alt imprint is headed by Eon McKai, alt-porn's dominant icon. McKai has been widely credited as the founder
of this new and edgy film genre. He has
been profiled in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and
The Village Voice. Visit
Vivid-Alt's popular website http://www.vividalt.com/. Tristan
Taormino, popular columnist with The Village Voice and an award winning
director has also launched a Vivid-Ed imprint for the company. Visit http://www.vivid-ed.com/.