Always on the threshold of fame, but never quite able to cross it, Phoebe was into the art of self-promotion when the internet was just a gleam in Al Gore’s eye. If she were twenty now, she would be an influencer of some kind. She’s actually 53, and still workin’ it, occasionally topless.

Dascha Polanco is clearly wearing nipple pasties in these pictures from the Glamour Women of the Year Awards, but the pasties look see-through, and I see something that looks like a nipple through them!

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Singer Elena Rose showing her nipples in a sheer dress at the Latin American Fashion Awards opening cocktail party in the Dominican Republic!

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This is a cute romantic comedy from Spain about a stand-up comic who falls in love with an actor/author in experimental theater. It follows the usual formula of “they love each other – they hate each other – they love each other,” but what makes it clever is that the hate portion of the relationship is acted out while they are on stage together. And they are playing themselves in a play she wrote about their relationship! They try to sabotage each other as much as possible, which ruined the drama, in theory, but ruining the drama actually improved the play. The audience reacted like the audience for Springtime for Hitler – they found the play to be a hilarious comedy, and were really impressed with how realistic the acting was!

Michelle Jenner is the female lead, and she is really a great find, a lovely woman with a great gift for exuberant comedy, ala Meg Ryan. Unfortunately she remains well covered in all the romantic moments, so Maria Hinojosa, as the “other woman,” had to take up the slack. (Not that it’s a bad thing. Maria is gorgeous.)

My video is only DVD quality, but here is a Blu-Ray clip

Italian drama; AKA Nasty Love

After her elderly mother’s strange death, a woman returns to Naples for the funeral and stays to investigate her mother’s final days, confronting family memories in the process.

Johnny Moronic’s videos are here (Scroll down.)

UPDATE: Added Defoe’s 4K video

This is a lavishly mounted new French production from HBO. It takes place in the same universe and portrays the same characters as Dangerous Liaisons, but takes place some years earlier, portraying how the Marquise de Merteuil gained her power.

The Marquise de Merteuil is the corrupt, scheming woman portrayed by Glenn Close and Annette Bening in previous adaptations of this story about pre-revolutionary French sybarites. In this prequel, the cynical manipulator of the future begins as an innocent orphan seduced by the callous Valmont, who assumes a false identify and pretends to marry her, then disappears. This humiliation makes her determined for revenge. She sets out to obtain the skills necessary to seduce a rich, titled man, thus obtaining power of her own.

In addition to Anamaria, there is also a scene with unidentified extras at a debauched party, ala Eyes Wide Shut.

Videos, including the anonymous orgy participants, and the upgrade to 4K

Anamaria Vartolomei has appeared here several times. Her best nudity was in “L’Evenement”

Kennedy has one day to get her shit together or get kicked out of school for good. Instead of buckling down, she rallies a ragtag crew for a midnight pool-hopping adventure through the lavish estates of her college town. But under the surface, Kennedy is searching for answers to the questions tearing her up inside in the wake of her father’s death. As the secrets spill, this wild escape becomes a cathartic journey of self-discovery.

Don’t watch the film for titillation. The film is about as sexy as My Dinner With Andre.

In its “wide” release (88 theaters), this film grossed $23 per theater per day. I suppose that works out to between one and two people per day. Assuming at least two screenings per day, the theaters were often completely empty.

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From Variety:

Though the credits don’t say so, ‘‘Devil’s Paradise’ is adapted from Joseph Conrad’s “*Victory,’’ about a strange, lonely man (Jurgen Prochnow) who’s spent much of his life wandering around some distant islands.

Escher, the Prochnow character, is in partnership in a coal mining venture on a small island with a disreputable Irishman (Tony Doyle) who, early on, is murdered by natives. Escher travels to the mainland town and checks in at the inaptly named Grand Pacific Hotel, run by an arrogant German (Mario Adorf) and his native wife.

Here Escher meets the sinister Mr. Jones (Sam Waterston), a pervert, who ‘‘likes to be entertained’’ and who travels together with his quietly ruthless companion, Gato (Dominique Pilon). Escher also meets a lovely half-English girl, Julie (Suzanna Hamilton), who plays sax in an all-girl band, and who has just discovered that Adorf intends to have her for himself. Escher helps her escape to his island, where they fall in love, but they’re followed by Waterston and Pilon who precipitate the film’s action climax.

Given the project’s literary antecedents, it’s no surprise the characters are prone to philosophize from time to time, and since the film is set in the 1930s, there are further resonances to be found in the subtext.

I mentioned yesterday that I had nothing from this film. It wasn’t that difficult to find, although the quality of this transfer is terrible, and it’s a Belgian DVD with hard-coded Dutch/Flemish subtitles.

So it goes.

I think we can add it to her full-frontal credits, or at least we could if we could see that the hell is going on:

I added the videos to her nudography

Only difference between her and a blowup doll is a heartbeat

Spanish singer and actress Ana Mena showing nipple in a sexy see through dress at the Los40 Music Awards in Valencia!

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