Uncle Scoopy's world-weary musings about naked celebrities, sports, humor and other important, manly things.
Amelia Gray Hamlin with two see through moments during the recent fashion weeks that’s been happening. She wore a sheer green top at Milan Fashion Week and a see through red dress at Paris Fashion Week!
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Demonic Heritage Month began in 1921 with the adoption of a resolution authored by Belphegor Asmodeus Baker, the first Ghoul American in Congress. Baker sought to preserve the culture of his inferno-born parents, who, after passing through the gates of hell and emerging from a portal at Ellis Island, were reportedly forced to change their last name from “Bal’lak, Lord Of Death” to “Baker.”
This is quite a brilliant bit of writing from The Onion. I laughed through the entire article.
Today, over 60 million Ghoul Americans gather each year in historically demonic city centers like Chicago’s Little Pandemonium neighborhood, where they prepare a traditional dinner of necrotic limbs, dress in ceremonial blood-soaked scraps of clothing, and listen to high-pitched, satanic lullabies that cause the skulls of passersby to explode.
Lee Grant (Lyova Haskell Rosenthal) should have been on the A-list in 1952. She had just earned an Oscar nomination in a film starring Kirk Douglas, directed by William Wyler (12 “best director” nominations). Quite to the contrary, her career went into a tailspin. She had been placed on the infamous Hollywood Blacklist. Despite being an acclaimed actress, she was nearly out of work for a dozen years, forced to work under pseudonyms, picking up only an occasional TV series guest appearance. She finally came back to prominence in 1965 as a regular on Peyton Place, after which she was nominated for three more Oscars, winning one for Shampoo.
She was in the wrong generation for nudity. By the time Julie Christie won the first Oscar for a performance that included a nude scene, thus making nude scenes respectable for English-speaking performers, Lee was already 40 1. Despite a late start, she did appear in two topless scenes:
She was already 50 1 when she made her modest nude debut in Shampoo.
And she was 54 1 when she did her other nude scene in When Ya Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?
Footnote 1. I listed her true ages at the time she did those roles. She was then pretending to be much younger. As we’ve seen here many times, it was customary for Hollywood actresses to shave off as many years as they could get away with. Her birth year was 1925; it had been listed as late as 1931.
Why is she sucking on oxygen? Is that a current “health” fad of some kind?
When she first appeared on the scene as an adult I thought she was – you know, “kinda cute.” Over the years she has become much more than that – one of the world’s great beauties.
I’ve enjoyed her performances as well. She’s not “Dakota’s sister” any more. If anything, it might be the other way around.
That said, I’d love to see her do more nudity than she did in The Great
The very first episode was promising.
The promise was largely unfulfilled. There were only a few peeks. I think the best one was this scene in s2e9.
Jurnee Smollett at the Peabody Trailblazer Award Celebration in West Hollywood, October 10:
Updated with film clips
You remember her most fondly from Blame it on Rio (1984), where she did her first and best nudity.
She was then topless in an obscure 1987 effort called Beaks: The Movie. You can see from the image below that it is impossible to confirm her identity, and it does have all the earmarks of a body-double scene (shot from the neck down), but those do appear to be the same breasts we see elsewhere.
She next did a very brief topless scene in Genuine Risk (1990).
She then made a well-lit topless appearance in a 1991 episode of Tales From the Crypt (s3e11)
She would do one more nude scene after that, but exposing only her booty, in a film called Body Shot (1994).
She did a dark sex scene in Moving Target (1996), so dark that I can’t tell whether you can see her nipples. That problem was compounded with an arty double exposure that rendered everything indistinct.
The videos are here. There’s a 720p clip from Tales from the Crypt, and the two clips from Genuine Risk are from a DVD. The others are from Blu-Rays or 1080hd broadcasts.
An Aussie neo-noir pic about a down-on-his-luck P.I.
“Down-on-his-luck P.I.” seems redundant when applied to fictional detectives. Being an honest private eye doesn’t seem like the pathway to riches, at least not for the detectives in movies and TV.
Australian author Peter Corris wrote more than 40 stories about Sydney-based private detective Cliff Hardy. The Empty Beach (first published in 1982) was the fourth novel in the series.
One summer day, Marion Singer welcomes private detective Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) to the sun terrace of a beachfront restaurant. Mrs. Singer informs the detective that her husband’s boat washed ashore two years earlier, containing a note in which he announced he had committed suicide due to a cancer diagnosis. A body was never found, and she has now received an anonymous tip that John Singer is alive. She hires the investigator to find out what is going on.
I don’t know either of these actresses. Their IMDb stories are the same. They played a few small parts in the 1980s, then disappeared from the industry.
Simone Taylor
Bryan Brown punches some dude who turns out to have boobs.
That’s Peggy Wallach
The film clips can be found (as I’m sure you’ve already guessed) at the repository for all things Down Under, Johnny Moronic’s page.
