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A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer, who turns out to be almost as big an asshole as her husband.

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When it came to acting awards, Carrie Snodgress was the ultimate one-hit wonder. In 1970, her very first year with any credited roles, she earned Oscar and BAFTA nominations, and won two Golden Globes for Mad Housewife. She was off to an impressive career debut. She must have thought the whole acting thing was a breeze. She took no advantage of being an Oscar nominee. Instead, she took the next seven years off to enjoy her life with Neil Young and to care for their son. As a result, she was nearly forgotten by the time she returned.

She died 34 years later, having worked steadily in TV and films, eventually relegated to small supporting roles and one-time guest appearances in TV shows, with no additional nominations. She was only 52 when she acted in Wild Things, but looked more lie a rough 65. She was only 57 when she died, much too young, but looking like she had already lived her share.

She had been off to an impressive career debut in the nudity field as well. She made one other 1970 film, “Rabbit, Run,” and did a brief full rear nude scene to add to the topless action in Mad Housewife. And then – the same 34-year drought she experienced with her acting awards.

Basically, 1970 was her year.

And, for all practical purposes, her career.

She did get one shot at a role that would have mattered. During her seven-year hiatus, she was offered the part of Adrian in Rocky, but turned it down because she thought the offer was not worth returning to work for. John Avildsen, the director of Rocky, really liked Carrie’s work and eventually used her in two of his other pictures, but those films were just films, not cultural touchstones like Rocky. ‘Tis a shame. That role would have brought her the popularity and name recognition that she would have needed to revive the career she had abandoned after 1970. Of course, that’s easy to see in hindsight. At the time, nobody knew that Rocky would capture the zeitgeist and become a franchise.

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Ione Skye showing off her boobs and nipples by posing in a see through latex blouse for Easter!

Privileges is a multi-language HBO drama about an elite Paris hotel.

Inmate Adèle Charki takes a bellhop job at the Citadel hotel through a day-release program led by director Édouard Galzain. She’s caught in power struggles among staff, guests, and networks, while her relationship with Édouard turns dark.

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Talk about polarizing. This film’s reviews ran the full gamut. The Metacritic reviewers ranged from 0 (Boston Globe) to 100 (The Times).

The controversy came over the film’s central premise. In a confession session where everyone tells the worst thing they ever did, the would-be bride confesses something so horrible that it might not be forgivable, causing her fiance and everyone else there to reconsider every feeling they ever had for her. The film asks us to consider exactly how big is the human capacity for forgiveness, and how much we can trust that somebody who was a monster can completely change?

I won’t tell you want the secret was. It can easily be found online. Certain groups objected to the film because the bride who makes the confession is a sympathetic character, and thus her former behavior is normalized.

Hailey Gates is somebody who provides a sympathetic ear for the groom.

More than an ear.

But no real nudity.

This clip and capture comes from one of those gambling site cams.

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For six and a half seasons in the late seventies and early eighties, Dana Plato was America’s Sweetheart, as one of the stars of a hit family sitcom called Diff’rent Strokes. The country watched her grow up from a precocious 13-year-old girl into a lovely woman. Things got dark in the middle of season six when she developed substance issues and got pregnant. They wrote her out of the show, more or less, sending her figuratively to a farm upstate until a much-ballyhooed series finale in season eight, by which time she had given birth.

When the show’s run was over, work was difficult for her to come by, not because of a lack of talent, but because of her reputation for being undependable. Her drug abuse continued, and she fell into a life of crime, first by robbing a Las Vegas store in 1991. She received only probation for that act, because it was a first offense, because she had used only a pellet gun in the robbery, and because one of her famous friends, a certain Wayne Newton, was a very influential man in Vegas. Unfortunately, she violated that probation the following year when she forged a prescription for narcotics. That led to a 30-day stint in the hoosegow, and mandatory rehab.

The rehab didn’t take, and the job opportunities disappeared. By the mid-nineties, she was living in a trailer and working in retail to pay the bills. The only film work she could get was in low-budget grade-Z films, including erotica like the crap you see below.

In 1999, shortly after she had finished an interview with Howard Stern, which was her big hope to revive her stalled career, she died of an overdose of a painkiller. The coroner ruled her death a suicide because of the vast amount of drugs in her body and her history of past suicide attempts, but the people close to her disputed that vigorously. They said she was actually in an optimistic mood, and that her death occurred simply because she was reckless when it came to drug consumption.

Either way, she was dead at 34.

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The films:

1989 – Prime Suspect

Although Dana has a lengthy sex scene in Prime Suspect, there’s barely a nip-slip, if that. I think she did this film before she got implants. The two films below are definitely post-implant efforts.

1995 – Compelling Evidence

Compelling Evidence is rated 2.3 at IMDb, lower than The Human Centipede III, Gigli, or the movie version of Cats. That’s about as low as the ratings go. Among all the films ever made, there are only about a dozen rated lower than Compelling Evidence. Nobody reviewed it except Joe Bob Briggs, and his pithy summary was, “I won’t tell you what happens, but lemme put it this way: They won’t be studying these scenes at the Actor’s Studio.” Since Dana had substantial acting experience, she was by far the best actress in these films, but that bar was pretty low, as Joe Bob noted.

1998 – Different Strokes

Different Strokes was just another cheap soft-core film, of the kind that were so common in the nineties, but it was not awful by genre standards. It has some fairly sexy lesbian scenes between Dana and Landon Hall, and its production values made it seem like a James Cameron film compared to Compelling Evidence, which is the very bottom of the barrel.

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From the comment section:

She was also in states of undress in two grade Z, low budget films. … She was in Lethal Cowboy (1995) (co-starring Frank Stallone) and The Sounds of Silence (1992) aka Distortions (with Erik Estrada and Todd Bridges).

Along with her bunny mag appearance, of course.

This is a two-character short film. It was filmed in France, but is almost entirely in English.

After a young Swedish perfumer is stung by a jellyfish in the South of France, an attractive older man comes to her aid. His intentions remain unclear as a sudden intimacy develops.

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Low-budget horror. USA.

Fleeing her past, a troubled hiker and her dog traverse the Appalachian Trail, only to fall under the spell of a dangerous man. As obsession and visions mount, she’s drawn toward Mile 666, where lust, death, and something ancient await.

Gracie Gillam is former Disney kid Gracie Phipps, rebranded for more adult roles. (Phipps is her birth name.) She has struggled to get worthwhile roles since Z Nation wrapped eight years ago.

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Gracie Gillam (born May 4, 1992) is an American actress, best known for her roles as “Lela” in the Disney Channel’s feminist, early-1960s-Beach-Party-Movie musical franchise “Teen Beach Movie” (2013) and “Teen Beach movie 2” (2015), as well as spunky BFF “Amy Martin” in ABC Family’s “The Nine Lives of Chloe King” (2011).

The director, editor and DP were quite diligent in their quest to reveal nothing but her butt. With all the fuck-ups in the world, you’d think the odds would be against all three of them being competent, but no-o-o-o.

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