Kim Novak was the box office queen of Hollywood in the mid- to late- fifties, but she retired from full-time acting in 1966.

Wikipedia picks up the story:

By the end of 1966, she was emotionally drained and no longer wanted to live the life of a Hollywood movie star, in the glare of the spotlight with the press scrutinizing her every move. When a mudslide took her Bel Air home and cost her entire life’s savings in bulldozer fees, she moved away from Hollywood to Big Sur. From then on, acting became a job and was no longer a career of choice. Novak preferred to concentrate on her first love, the visual arts, often writing poetry to accompany her paintings, and even writing some song lyrics.

You probably haven’t thought about Kim in years, and you may be surprised that she is still around. She’s 92 now, living in Oregon, and still painting. She tells her own story at kimnovakartist.com.

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Hungarian infuencer and reality TV star Melanie Csiszer in some of the best sex videos we have ever seen in reality shows from “Eden Hotel.” The videos are quite long and totally uncensored.

Swedish rom-com. Original title: Ute och cyklar (“Outdoors and cycling”)

Lisa and Daniel, brother and sister, prepare for Vätternrundan cycling race while facing detours, past romances, and marital issues that challenge their determination.

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American cinema verite drama.

In the heart of a bustling Times Square kitchen, dreams and desperation collide as the staff each chase the elusive American dream.

There are several naked women in the film clip. Rooney Mara isn’t naked, but she’s in her underwear, and there is a slight see-through effect.

I don’t know who these two are, but it’s a cute scene:

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The plans for the fifth American Pie film have been on and off. I’m a sucker for these films, even the straight-to-video sequels, so I’ll be all over that, even though I fear that the current climate will castrate the film and fail to produce the raunchy fun essential to the vibe of the series.

The new Carême series is (choose one):

a. A biography of the brilliant NBA center, beginning with his national championships at UCLA and Power Memorial High School.

b. The story of how a supergroup created the iconic metal anthem “The Sunshine of Your Love”

c. Some French bullshit about cooking.

The correct answer is, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, “c.” Antonin Carême was a leading French chef who came from a poor family, but eventually became known as “the king of chefs and the chef of kings.” He is considered the father of haute cuisine, blazing the trail for Escoffier and others. At the peak of his popularity, he prepared meals for such luminaries as Napoleon and the Rothschilds.

You might think, “Who would care enough about that to watch an entire series devoted to it.”

I watched a lot of it.

Even though I don’t care about it at all.

I swear, I got hooked on the damned thing, even though I have zero interest in the subject matter. Yes, they have ridiculous arguments about trivialities like whether to garnish veal with seasonal vegetables, but the show runners managed to make the show juicy with plots, intrigues, jealousy, competitions, interesting characters, and the triumph of a man’s immense talent and dedication over the accident of his ignoble birth.

What can I tell you? The French love stories about great food. You might even say they really eat this stuff up.

But you shouldn’t actually say that.

Unfortunately, this Apple TV show has too many chicken breasts and too few human breasts. There are three more episodes still to air, but I have no hope at all, based on advance reviews.

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Johnny’s remarks:

Decent nudity continues in the second update for 2021 with extensive nudity in trippy horror movie Lucifer’s Satanic Daughter, fictionalised documentary There is No ‘I’ in Threesome and long thriller Rage plus decent nude scenes in horror movie My Cherry Pie, telemovie The Tender Trap and the Indonesian-made drama Yuni.