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French drama, aka “Shirtless.” It is a very short short. (6 minutes)
A heatwave grips the city. Sarah is so hot that she decides to go topless today. Even though she’s alone at home, she still somehow feels uncomfortable about it – and tries to understand why.
Ines Boukhelifa plays the entire film topless, but with her back to the camera except for this blurry reaction shot.
French drama.
Homeless Gladys, in her fifties, lives without basics like healthcare or banking. She only cares for dancing wildly. A chance meeting with Eugénie, an old classmate, leads to unwanted help.
She’s always had a pretty big chest, but I think it’s still growing
You can find many more of her film appearances in Charlie’s archives
I just mentioned her last week in my monologue about how it’s never too late for nudity. (I allowed room for one exception, the distinguished Ms Lockhart.)
As implied above, she did no nude scenes.
Her first IMDb credit was an unbelievable 87 years ago, playing Tiny Tim’s sister Belinda in A Christmas Carol. The parts of her parents, Bob Cratchit and wife, were played by her real-life parents, Gene and Kathleen Lockhart. June’s parents also starred together in my favorite movie, The Devil is a Sissy.
I’m fuckin’ witcha on the “my favorite” thing. I had never heard of that movie until this minute.
But it is now my favorite movie TITLE.
At age 19, she was Playboy’s PMoM in April of 1979, and later had a brief film career.
There is quite a bit of misinformation about her online, even at IMDb. I will summarize the facts from a court decision denying a lawsuit filed by her mother.
To start at the very beginning, she was not born Amanda Hodges Cleveland, as reported elsewhere. She was Amanda Hodges, one of seven children of Sam and Becky Hodges. Her mother and sister testified under oath that her natural father sexually abused her for several years, starting when she was about ten. She quit school in the ninth or tenth grade, and at age seventeen, she added “Cleveland” to her name when she married Allen Cleveland and fled to California. There the locals called her “Missy” because she came from Mississippi, thus completing her transition from Amanda Hodges to Missy Cleveland.
In 1979, after turning eighteen, Cleveland posed for Playboy as a centerfold model. She had been discovered by Playboy through the magazine’s 25th Anniversary Great Playmate Hunt, a contest that her mother encouraged her to enter. Soon after she won the Playboy gig, she divorced her husband, and for the next seven years, did promotional work for Playboy and appeared in a few movies.
The Playboy work had run its course by 1986. Cleveland then moved to Montreal to work as the personal assistant of a fellow Mississippian, Nanette Workman, a successful singer who had relocated to Canada. Four years later, Cleveland moved back to Mississippi, where she worked as a bartender, receptionist, leasing agent, and apartment manager. Tragedy struck her life again when she fell in love with a man named Keith Puckett, only to have him taken from her as a murder victim in 1993. Medical records document her lingering grief from Puckett’s death.
In 1995, Cleveland married David White, but the couple divorced two years later. According to White, her drug and alcohol abuse caused their divorce. White described Cleveland’s drinking and her use of Xanax, Valium, meth and crack. This represented a relapse. During her time in Los Angeles, Cleveland had taken pills, used cocaine, and attempted suicide twice.
After a stint in rehab, Cleveland began working as a manager at Stonegate Apartments, were she met and eventually moved in with a man named Ron Allen. Allen was unemployed, apparently disabled from a back injury — an injury purportedly caused by a filing cabinet falling on him. Allen was described as controlling, dangerous, and abusive to Cleveland. According to Stonegate residents, Allen practiced “voodoo” and was “strange.” Allen had a notorious fondness for swords and knives, which adorned the walls of his apartment. He was also into what one witness described as “chanting.” As one resident put it, Allen was a “creepy person” who “did everything in black.” Two witnesses testified that Allen kept Cleveland secluded and drugged.
On April 15, 2000, a filing cabinet allegedly fell on Cleveland while she was working. (Yes, that was the exact same cause of her boyfriend’s alleged disability. It is not reported whether it was the same cabinet.) Cleveland claimed she suffered physical and mental injuries from the accident, restricting her ability to work, and prompting her to file for disability benefits as workman’s compensation.
On August 14, 2001, with Missy’s workman’s comp case still in limbo, Allen found her dead in their home. While no drugs were discovered in the home, the coroner listed Cleveland’s cause of death as “poly-pharmacy overdose.” She had attempted suicide several times between the accident and her death, as documented by several visits to the emergency room, but the coroner did not speculate whether Cleveland;’s death was accidental, suicide, or homicide. Missy’s mother sued to get some compensation awarded posthumously, arguing that there was a relationship between the work-related injury and Missy’s death, but the court rejected that claim, and the appeals court upheld the verdict.
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Nudography:
Missy appeared in one significant film: Brian De Palma’s Blow-Out (1981). Well, sort of. She actually appeared in a cheesy fictional film, Co-Ed Frenzy, that the characters in Blow-Out were working on. But that still counts as appearing in a De Palma film.
Her other nude appearance was in a B film called Let’s Do It, from the later work of Bert I. Gordon, who many years earlier had created a cheesy B&W cult classic, The Amazing Colossal Man.
Videos. Blow Out is available in 4K. In extreme contrast, Let’s Do It is a VHS rip!
The dress was designed to avoid a nip-slip, but the rest of her chest is exposed, so the effect is “topless with pasties.” I think she looks great.
“He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
Shakespeare, Henry V (Act IV, Scene III),
It was on October 25th in 1415 that Henry V of England led his troops to a resounding victory over France at Agincourt, although the English were greatly outnumbered (perhaps 4-1; estimates vary), and fighting on French territory. Making victory even less likely was the fact that his troops were basically on foot, forced to confront armed and mounted knights.
Henry had one important thing on his side – longbows. He had some 5,000 archers and they had plenty of arrows. He also had the ideal setting for his archers to confront the French cavalry. The battlefield was a narrow, muddy opening between two dense forests, basically the worst possible conditions for the French. The mud impeded the French advances, while the dense woodlands made it impossible for the French to create flanking or rear attacks. The terrain basically funneled them into direct charges, straight into hail after hail of English arrows. The horsemen who successfully approached the English lines found that the archers were protected from cavalry charges by sharpened, outward-facing stakes. In the narrow opening afforded them, with piles of bodies to their rear, dense forests on either side, and thousands of well-sheltered English longbowmen in front of them, the French could neither charge nor retreat effectively. It was less a battle than a slaughter. The English were merciless. Historians estimate that the archers fired at least a hundred thousand arrows that day, perhaps as many as a half-million. The piles of French bodies were so high that it was difficult to identify exactly who did die that day. Some of their wives had to find out over time, simply from the fact that their husbands never returned. The bloodshed didn’t even end with the eventual French retreat. The English killed the vast majority of their prisoners, sparing only those of the very highest ranks. Henry even ordered the killing of some men worth ransoming.
Here is a concise description of the action:
Per Wikipedia:
“The French had suffered a catastrophic defeat. In all, around 6,000 of their fighting men lay dead on the ground. The list of casualties, one historian has noted, “read like a roll call of the military and political leaders of the past generation”. Among them were 90–120 great lords and bannerets killed, including three dukes, nine counts and one viscount, also an archbishop. Of the great royal office holders, France lost its constable, an admiral, the Master of Crossbowmen, Master of the Royal Household and prévôt of the marshals. 3,069 knights and squires were killed, while at least 2,600 more corpses were found without coats of arms to identify them. Entire noble families were wiped out in the male line, and in some regions an entire generation of landed nobility was annihilated. The bailiffs of nine major northern towns were killed, often along with their sons, relatives and supporters. In the words of Juliet Barker, the battle “cut a great swath through the natural leaders of French society. Estimates of the number of prisoners vary between 700 and 2,200, amongst them the dukes of Orléans and Bourbon, the counts of Eu, Vendôme, Richemont (brother of the Duke of Brittany and stepbrother of Henry V) and Harcourt, and marshal Jean Le Maingre.”
In contrast, Shakespeare contended that the English casualties amounted to 29 men, of which 25 were commoners.
(Cough. Cough.)
OK, that was a bit of bullshit, let’s call it chauvinistic exaggeration by the Bard of Avon. He was not a historian, but a literary man sucking up to the English monarchy. The English probably lost about 300-400 men, but only a small number of those were magnates. Exaggeration aside, it was one of the greatest military successes in human history, since it not only destroyed a numerically superior force and most of its key officers, but it humbled and weakened France so completely that within five years the French royals had declared that the English Henry was the heir to the French throne!
(He would die about two years after that agreement without ever having sat on that throne.)
More important than any of that to us today is that the victory inspired one of Shakespeare’s best monologues, as cited above and shown below. Ol’ Shakey often used his monologues to deliver melancholy, philosophical ruminations about the fragility of life, but this was different. It was a stirring call to action for country and brotherhood.
Horror. USA
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
I don’t know who Eliane Reis is, but I’d love to see her naked in more pleasant circumstances.
Also topless (maybe) – Andra Nechita in one of those scenes where they use cutaways, close embraces, elbows, camera swirls and male hands to play hide-the-tits.
This is the biographical story of a boyband. It’s a French series now streaming on Prime.
I thought this was a purely fictional story, but apparently 2Be3 was a real group that I never heard of. According to Wikipedia, they were a big deal in France in the late 90s, but never cracked the market in the U.K. or U.S.
It’s 1995. Filip, Adel and Frank, are lifelong best friends, who dream of escaping their Parisian suburban hometown. Starting from nothing, they form the first French boy band 2Be3, and become a true societal phenomenon. Surrounded by a ruthless industry, frenzied fans, and overwhelming media pressure, can they preserve their friendship and stay true to their ideals?
Cecile is a singer/actress and the half-sister of Vincent Cassel.
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