As if the Catholic Church doesn’t have enough in it’s, er, on it’s hands these days, word is out that the church dropped €23 M on an apartment complex in Rome for Cardinal Ivan Dias’ 12-room apartment directly above the largest gay bathhouse in Europe. Which begs the question: why on earth does Cardinal Dias need 12 rooms?

Chalk up another major win for Hot House and our own AVN Hall of Fame Director Steven Scarborough! At last week’s 14th Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival (FICEB), Steven won the Best Director category for his powerful and dark direction of The Missing from Hot House Video. One of Scarborough’s darkest and most intense movies, The Missing has already been honored twice this year as Best Leather Movie, both at the 2006 GAYVNs and Grabby Awards.

Hot House Exclusive Francesco D’Macho was in the audience at the awards ceremony, heard Steven’s name announced as the winner, and wrote us an email to congratulate Steven on the win. However, there seems to be a bit of controversy with Colt Studios around who the actual winner was. I noticed on last Wednesday that the Colt blog claimed Kristofer Weston won Best Director.
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