Fired Teacher 'Leah Lust' Turns to Porn After 2500 rejected resumes, Shepherd is 'My first sex teacher'

The biology teacher sacked by a Florida high school for posing in racy bikini pics has found a new line of work: porn. Unable to land a new teaching job after sending out 2,500 resumes, Tiffany Shepherd, 31, is now earning a living as "Leah Lust" in films such as "My first sex teacher," the New York Daily News reports.

"I'm not particularly proud of it. To be honest, I hate it," says Shepherd. She was introduced to the porn business by the captain of the fishing boat where the bikini photos were taken, who doesn't think much of her acting: "We sat down with her and told her she'd never get a teaching job again. So I told her, use ‘em before they fall to the ground. But God, does she need to work on her acting."

Got a YouTube Smash? Now You Can Share Ad Revenue

Think you’ve got the next “Chocolate Rain”—or any other recent viral video—in you? Well, now there’s a chance you could actually make money off of it, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. YouTube is rolling out a new Partnership Program that will offer one-off “monetization invitations” to sufficiently promising videos. Before now, only prolific posters—like the chipmunk-voiced Fred, for example—could snag such deals.

Videos will be chosen based on number of views, “virality,” and compliance with YouTube’s terms of service, says the company’s blog. Auteurs simply enable revenue sharing, and YouTube does the rest, selling advertising and tossing a share of the profits into the creator's Google AdSense account. One-hit-wonder “David After Dentist,” for example, has already made its creator more than $10,000.

Pissed Airline Passenger Back on YouTube

Dave Carroll, who so memorably commemorated his terrible experience with United Airlines in the YouTube sensation United Breaks Guitars is at it again, Consumerist reports. The singer/songwriter/guitar-rights activist has released a more ambitious video cleverly titled United Breaks Guitars: Song 2, with a slightly more conciliatory tone. And don’t worry, fans—it’s just the second in a planned trilogy about the careless airline.

Pissed Airline Passenger Back on YouTube

Dave Carroll, who so memorably commemorated his terrible experience with United Airlines in the YouTube sensation United Breaks Guitars is at it again, Consumerist reports. The singer/songwriter/guitar-rights activist has released a more ambitious video cleverly titled United Breaks Guitars: Song 2, with a slightly more conciliatory tone. And don’t worry, fans—it’s just the second in a planned trilogy about the careless airline.

Fugitive Execs: Good at Scams, Bad at Being on Lam

In the midst of a recession, so-called “executive fugitives” are driven to increasingly desperate efforts to flee as schemes implode and they face ruin—or prison time. NPR examines the tactics of these con artists—and how more often than not, say the law-enforcement authorities who chase them, their flight is just as doomed as their fraud.

Executive fugitives often attempt to fake their own deaths—sometimes cleverly—but often meet their own undoing when they miss the comforts of affluence and resurface long enough to be nabbed. “It’s either familiarity, lack of human contact or you miss going to the barista to get a coffee,” explains one US Marshal.

Colleges Consider Move to 3-Year Degrees

A growing number of colleges are looking at ways to cram 4-year degree courses into 3 to help students combat tough times, the Washington Post reports. More than half of teens have changed their college plans because of the economy, according to a recent survey, and many in the world of higher education believe the time has come to rejig the centuries-old 4-year model to help students save time and money.

"It's a creative solution to a lot of different things," said the director of Chatham University's new 3-year program. "Students enter the workforce quicker, they save a year of tuition and they can go on sooner for graduate study. And no, they aren't missing anything. Academic quality stays the same." Critics, however, believe shortening courses will diminish students' academic—and social—experience.

College Students Dig Farm Internships

Liberal arts students are ditching traditional summer internships of office coffee-fetching for life on the land, reports the New York Times. As part of a generation well-versed in Michael Pollan's attack on industrial agriculture and interested in social change, these students see organic farm work as a political statement. "Everyone eats, and everyone has a vested interest in this," said one intern of his decision to spend summer down on a farm.

But the students may be in for a bit of a culture shock. The hard labor can be a strain, as can the clash between farmers and their politically correct interns. In one case, an intern in Florida threatened to report her boss for using antibiotics, a rather routine matter for the operation. For some farmers, the interns are just not worth the trouble. "They need structure. We need farmhands," said one.

Hollywood Agents Whacked by Recession

Hollywood's toughest power-brokers—the big shot "10 percenters" of the top talent agencies—are no longer immune to recession, reports the Independent. With the merger between once-rival agencies William Morris and Endeavor officially approved, 100 top agents got the ax. Officials of the new agency hope the firms' combined strength will help it weather the economic downturn, which has led to industry-wide salary cuts.

"The fallout hasn't really begun. I expect a waterfall in the coming months," said Frank Wuliger of the Gersh Agency. "When agents get fired, the actors they represent think again, because the agent-client relationship is intimate; it's like a marriage."

Gordon Gecko Returns: Wall Street Sequel Is a Go

Will Gordon Gecko have a change of heart? The fictional Wall Streeter who famously declared that "greed is good" in 1987 is returning to the big screen, Access Hollywood and Variety report. Michael Douglas and director Oliver Stone have signed on for the Wall Street sequel, which will catch up with Gecko upon his release from prison. Shia LaBeouf is expected to play a young trader.

Teen Uses YouTube to Help Dad

When Mark Gullett lost his job as a marketing executive for the Tampa Bay Lightning, his son Ben, 14, knew what to do. He made a somber YouTube video in which he told Mark’s story in short sentences on poster boards. Now, after only 6 days, the video has garnered over 20,000 views, hundreds of emails and a few job offers for Mark. “When we first saw it, we almost cried,” Mark tells the St. Petersburg Times.

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