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Video. (The clarity of the video is OK, but the aspect ratio is slightly miscalibrated.)
One-Trick Pony is a 1980 feature film written by and starring Paul Simon, featuring the feature film debut of Lou Reed. Simon plays a once-popular folk-rock musician trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record-company executive and a talentless producer. At the same time, he’s struggling to save his failing marriage.
Roger Ebert liked the film and wrote his usual insightful essay (3.5 stars), but it received otherwise mixed reviews. It bombed at the box office, grossing less than a million dollars.
I have the soundtrack for that movie on an LP that I bought when the film came out. I was big into movie soundtracks at the time, and still am to some extent. Anyway, Side 2 of the pressing contains the Side 2 One Trick Pony soundtrack music, as normal, but Side 1 has tracks from Side 2 of ZZ Top’s Degüello album. To be sure the record label indicates the One Trick Pony soundtrack on both sides, but they evidently made a mistake with the stamper on one side when doing the pressing and put in ZZ Top instead of Paul Simon. I have always wondered how common that sort of mistake was and whether my copy might be worth anything as some sort of rarity.
Much better Mare nudity in Threshold. Gotta be one of the only explicit full frontal nude scenes in a PG movie. (I guess because it wasn’t sexual they gave it a pass???)
I’ve never seen Threshold in good quality. The DVD looked like an upscaled VHS.
I was just thinking of Threshold when you posted this article. I was like 12 or something when I saw this on cable TV and it was quite a surprise.
In retrospect, would they actually strip the entire body naked before surgery? I would think they might uncover the chest area in this case to sterilize it, but full frontal like that?
Yeah. I can vouch for that. (Never had heart surgery, but other very invasive surgeries you’re starkers when you go under…less chance for contamination I imagine. But they do cover any unnecessary bits.)
She was pretty cute in a mousy way, too bad she never got nude again
I mean, it’s completely forgotten. I remember it because, as a horny teen, it was the only place to find full frontal nudity during the day on HBO and Cinemax. Just never happened otherwise.
Before PG-13, PG was used most often for movies for adults. It certainly did not mean a kid’s film like it became later. You can find plenty of nudity in PG films back then including frontal shots. The MPAA doesn’t make as big a deal about nudity as we are led to believe, they add up many elements to come up with the final rating. And non-sexual nudity isn’t a very big deal. There was a movie from french Quebec about 10 to 15 years ago that featured a beautiful clear shot of a topless woman and was only rated PG. Hollywood doesn’t take advantage of this because they’d rather sell naked women on premium channels than give it away cheaply in a movie theater.
Not true. You are using MPAA standards from decades ago to make commentary on modern MPAA. MPAA changes as culture changes. Movies not featuring nudity in order to sell on premium cable is just something you made up. Up until recently premium cable and movie studios were all owned by different companies in competition. Perhaps they allow something to slip by every once in a while but they are much more strict with nudity and it started changing in the 90’s then became much more strict in the 2000’s. By the 2000’s bare breast nudity in non-rated R movies became very rare.
You could never get away today with the type of nudity in mainstream non-rated R movies that you used to see up until the early 90’s. It was not rare but quite commonly seen. American parents at the time were more offended by violence in movies which is why the PG13 rating was created. When PG13 was created you could still show tits in PG movies and show even more in PG13 movies.
In fact I remember reading an interview a while back with the head of MPAA and she even admitted that they are less lenient with nudity than they used to be. She justified it by saying it is a reflection of current morals as MPAA film ratings are done by parents.
The film was somewhat autobiographical I think. Although the timeline is reversed, what Paul Simon did at the end of the film he did with Art Garfunkel’s vocals on what became the Paul Simon album Hearts and Bones.
It was going to be a Simon and Garfuknel album most likely with the name ‘Think Too Much.’
At least one song survived and is on Youtube.
As they say: as an actor, Paul is a great singer – Lou Reed has a one scene cameo & wipes the floor with him charisma wise
For anybody who isn’t aware (I just found out myself today) there is a very active ‘recapped’ (the old upcoming nudity news site) on Reddit. There are no pictures as far as I know, but all the insider information is there.
For instance:
According to a report on C-Top Molly Gordon (Claire on the Bear) is topless in Oh, Hi, and both she and Geraldine Viswanathan show their asses. No other details, but the latter is a particularly welcome surprise after the Driveway Dolls debacle.
I’m so out of culture things now I have no idea who Molly Gordon is, but a number of people there seem excited.
Cool! I know Gordon & Viswanathan, both cute & would love to see them nude