Category: Beauty

Some of the pics/vids portray intimate acts

Lindsay Lohan at the Freakier Friday premiere in London, 7/31/25.

Full gallery here

Italian drama. Alternate title: My Daughter.

Pietro is a widower who raised his daughter with love and devotion. When he tries to start over with a new partner, her reaction is explosive. How much can he forgive her? And how much stronger than reason is love?

Ginevra Francesconi is lovely. She has a wide-eyed innocent look, like the Deschanel sisters or Alison Brie.

Videos

She looks mah-velous

An indie film directed by Hal Hartley.

Three short films about lovers’ ultimatums are set in New York, Berlin and Tokyo.

Susie basically hung it up after the 1990s. She married Nick Cave and they have twin sons. Susie is now a fashion designer, founder of a now-defunct women’s wear brand, The Vampire’s Wife. Her Wikipedia page.

From the comments:

She appears naked on one of Nick Cave’s album covers (Push the Sky Away).

There some nip-slips in the film from Miho Nikaido. She still turns up now and again in Hal Hartley’s projects.

Johnny Moronic’s videos from this film, including these women and (non-nude) Parker Posey, can be found here.

New Russian series.

Behind the facade of the prestigious clinic lies a testing ground for illegal organ transplant operations. The heroes find themselves drawn into the criminal world of underground transplantology – some of their own free will, others not.

• A successful surgeon who compromises his conscience to fund ambitious scientific research.
• A simple graduate student who happened to be next to him and is trying to save her beloved.
• A crazy journalist who has nothing to lose after a fatal diagnosis – now only a transplant can save her, but officially she may not wait for her turn.

They all have their own stories and their own aspirations, but they all find themselves hostage to circumstances in which it is impossible to remain human; all that remains is to choose who to be – a predator or a victim.

Videos

Ungeduld des Herzens, literally “Impatience of the Heart” is a 1939 novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It was first adapted into a 1946 British film called Beware of Pity. There have also been Russian and Danish versions of the same story. Surprisingly, this new version is the first in the German language.

Out of shame, pity and a longing for purpose, a young soldier feigns feelings for a disabled woman, even fueling her hope of walking again. But her growing distrust and his obsession with curing her create a frenetic spiral that drags everyone into misfortune.

Video

Swedish drama. Original title: Ett ärligt liv. Currently available on Netflix.

Simon’s law school dreams fade as he meets Max during a protest. Her anarchist lifestyle of excess and deception entraps him before he can recognize the destructive path he is on.

Video here

Perhaps you’ve never heard of this crime comedy. Few people have. It has only 1,500 votes at IMDb. Its obscurity makes it an underrated and well-hidden treasure.

I kinda think Jim Belushi himself has always been underrated because people expect him to be like John, and he isn’t. Jim is a perfect representation of the cynical, down-to-earth, working-class everyman from Chicago. John was as far as possible from “down-to-earth.” You might have believed that he was from Chicago, since he was, but he didn’t seem to be from anywhere, not even from Earth. He was a once-in-a-generation icon, and he was an original. Jim is neither an original, nor very much like John, so he always seemed to disappoint critics and audiences for one reason or another. But I think he was terrific in this film, as was the equally underrated Sheryl Lee.

Belushi is acting again, most recently portraying Ken Kesey, the legendary hippie leader of the Merry Pranksters, and the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The film is The Chronology of Water, a biopic co-written and directed by Kristen Stewart. (I have not seen it, but it rates 93% at RT, and received a lengthy “standing o” at Cannes.)

Belushi was credited in Angel’s Dance (and other films) as “James” Belushi, but let’s face it, he is not a James kind of guy. James Earl Jones was a James. People did not call him Jim or Jimmy. But Jim Belushi is a Jim. He’s too tough to be Jimmy, too informal to be James.

If I ever had had the privilege to work with the great James Earl Jones, a hero of mine, I would have called him “Jimbo” just to see his reaction. That’s not quite as outrageous as when my friend and I constantly called Senator Eugene McCarthy “Joe” at a dinner party. (Senator Joe McCarthy was his political enemy, and the two McCarthys once faced off in a famous debate.) It’s a long story. I tell it in my book. The short version is that he never realized I was kidding, although it was obvious to the dozen or so others at the table who kept trying to hide spit takes every time my friend and I thanked him for getting those Commies out of government, inevitably followed by his clueless correction. Eugene McCarthy was reputed to have a good sense of humor, but obviously not about himself. (And I found him arrogant and dismissive, which naturally made me dig the needle in deeper and deeper. He, too, was once a hero of mine – until I met him and found him to be a total douche.)

Anyway …

I discussed Angel’s Dance at great length, some would say excessive length, here. I say “excessive” because I spoil the ending and several of the jokes. OK, I admit it, it’s also excessive because it is the written equivalent of “too many notes, Mr. Mozart.” I got carried away, as I sometimes do when I really love (or really hate) a project, and like Mozart, I didn’t know which notes to remove.

See? I’m doing it again.

Sheryl Lee is 58 now and had not been seen on screen for several years until this year, when she made a comeback with a supporting role in an obscure horror film called I Live Here Now, or so says IMDb.

Also naked in Angel’s Dance, Gisella Peters, whoever she is.

IMDb says she is now known as Darlene Colaiuta, whoever she is.

If you are interested, she has her own website.

Videos of both women here

In 1893 Massachusetts, 32-year-old spinster Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for killing her father Andrew and stepmother Abby with an ax. The film explores complex family relationships and uses facts to provide a possible solution.

For some performers, their TV roles are just a prelude stardom. Steve McQueen used his role on Wanted: Dead or Alive as a springboard to superstar status. Eddie Murphy soared when he left TV. Ditto: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Robin Williams. Other TV stars, however beloved, never managed the transition to movie stardom. David Janssen comes immediately to mind, and maybe David Caruso and Tom Selleck. Elizabeth Montgomery was in the latter category. A film career never got off the ground and she spent her post-Bewitched career paying the bills in made-for-TV films. She did a good job in those, but film offers eluded her, perhaps because she was already almost 40 when Bewitched ended and that’s the age when Old Hollywood tended to relegate women to mom roles. (New Hollywood is not that much different.) She was 52 when she did Between the Darkness and the Dawn, and was still beautiful, as you can see below despite the crappy captures, but she was probably past her expiration date for film stardom as a leading lady.

The TV films rarely included any nudity, or even anything close. Her only real topless scene was in that Lizzie Borden film, which does include clear nipple exposure despite being made for ABC. (Perhaps they hoped for a theatrical release? Perhaps the nipples only appeared on the DVD, and were not in the broadcast version? Or is there some other explanation? I just don’t know the back story.)

She came close two other times:

Videos here.

I have a much better copy of Between the Darkness and the Dawn, but it was broadcast on a religious network, and they cut out the “nude” scene. As a result, the only clip I have of the mirror scene is from a VHS rip. You know how that goes.