Luciana Grasso and Estefania Nicolo topless in Vera and the Pleasure of Others (2024)

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Coming-of-age dramedy from Argentina. It has not been widely circulated, judging from the small number of votes and reviews at IMDb.

Vera, in between school and volleyball classes, rents out an empty flat to teenagers looking for a place to have sex. Her scheme to make money develops into the discovery of her own sexual desires.

Luciana Grasso

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Luciana Grasso (left) and an unknown

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Luciana Grasso (top) and Estefania Nicolo

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Estefania Nicolo

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Sinatra Monroe in Once Upon A Time In The Valley (a new porn parody)

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I don’t really know anything about the porn biz, and I’m not usually interested, but this looks like it might be kinda fun:

Once Upon A Time In The Valley recently premiered on Wicked, and is set in the glittery, cutthroat world of the Los Angeles adult entertainment industry!
Stunning and busty redhead Sinatra Monroe stars as “Red” in the first episode, “Welcome To The Valley.”

Sample captures here.

Nostalgia – Edwige Fenech and others topless in The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

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Italian giallo. Original title: “Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?” The Italians seem to love their long titles. The literal translation is “Why are those strange drops of blood on Jennifer’s body?” I think Bergman made entire films where fewer words were spoken. 1

Having recently escaped the clutches of her ex-husband’s sex cult, a beautiful model is stalked by a masked killer whose previous victims include the former occupants of her new apartment.

Aesthete just did some new 1080HD videos from this film.

And as you would expect, Tuna was all over this film in his day:

Carla Brait

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Edwige Fenech

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Paola Quattrini

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Edwige Fenech is a nudity legend. She was the queen of two exploitation genres: commedia sexy all’italiana and giallo (sexy, violent pulp thrillers). I haven’t tried to count her career total of nude scenes, but I’m guessing it is 50 or more, which may be a record for non-porn actresses. She is still around, still acting from time to time, and still looks great. (She was 74 in this video.)

Footnote 1: I have previously recounted my experiences watching American movies with subtitles when I lived in Europe.

In going from English to Norwegian, some cowboy would say something like “You boys circle around and cut them varmints off at Danger Pass. The rest of you – follow me and we’ll cover their rear.” That would be translated into Norwegian as “Kom.” (I didn’t make that up. I can’t remember the sheriff’s precise verbiage, but I got it as close as I could. It was at least two long, complex directions that were translated as “Kom.”)

Meanwhile, in Italy … A person would say something like “maybe,” and the Italian subtitles would fill the screen, then continue to the next page, covering in detail all the various reasons why the speaker could not give a definitive “yes” or “no.”

I was always curious what it would be like to watch an Italian movie with Norwegian sub-titles, with the Norwegian translator skipping all the fluff and covering only the bare essentials, as is their wont. I imagine it like this:

First sub-title, ten minutes in:

Grevinnen er død (“The countess is dead”)

Next, and final subtitle, two minutes before the end, as the police inspector gathers the suspects:

Morderen var deg, oberst. (“The killer was you, Colonel”)

5 Outdated Grammar Rules To Break

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As the story goes, Winston Churchill had the ultimate comeback to someone who told him he should not end a sentence with a preposition: “That is a rule up with which I will not put.”

I’ll add one more to the list.

Forget about using nominative pronouns after the verb “to be” or equivalent verbs like “to become.”

I had a professor who said, “‘It is I’ is actually correct English, but unless you want to be deemed a pompous ass, you shouldn’t say it unless it is immediately followed by “Don Quixote, Lord of La Mancha.”

I considered what he said and realized he was right. Has anyone ever answered the telephone query “Who is this?” with “It’s I” or “It is I”? If you heard that, you’d assume you were talking to a weirdo.

This is a case where I don’t always follow my own advice. I had those rules drilled into my brain so incessantly that, without thinking, I still type things like “Yes, that was she.” The app called Grammarly annoyingly corrects my correct English and tells me to use “her,” as I suppose it should, to reflect modern usage.

Of course, that app also just tried to correct its own name in the paragraph above, so perhaps it still needs some refinement.