Alicia Vikander’s full frontal in Ex Machina
This was our Top Nude Scene of 2015
Les Actrices Françaises Nues à l’Ecran has been updated
New pics for the week ending 10/12:
Roxane Arnal in “un adultère”:
Audrey Bastien in “phallus malus”:
Diane Rouxel in “volontaire”:
Clémentine Poidatz in “Housewife”:
Director Ruben Fleischer Attempts To Explain Venom’s Biggest Plot Hole
(SPOILERS, of course)
“American democracy in crisis”
I feel that this article buried the lead (or lede, as they like to write now):
81% of seniors say they are certain to vote in the mid-terms, versus only 35% of the youngest voters (18-29). That should bode well for the G.O.P., but it mystifies me. Those youngsters will have to live 50 years or more with the consequences of the elections, yet so many of them give zero fucks.
Lead vs lede
“Lede” has only been in the Webster dictionaries since 2008. Before that it was simply newsroom jargon, but not even that for long. The earliest appearance of the term dates back only to the 1970s.
(Even now I guess it would be considered an Americanism. It is still not in the OED except as “obs. variant of lead n. and v.” It appeared as a spelling of the metal as early as 1300, and as a variant spelling of the verb meaning “to cause others to follow” as early as 1375. Remember that English did not have uniform spelling guidelines until the middle of the 18th century. Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. Before that, no source was considered authoritative, so one might be able to find any word spelled in any imaginable way. Ol’ Billy Shakespeare wrote out his full name three times in signatures. He used three different spellings, and none of the three is spelled as we do today: William Shaksper; William Shakspere; William Shakspeare.)
Movie Ratings and the CLDS
Here’s how the R rating, which turns 50 this year, became off-limits to many Mormon moviegoers — and why it may not be the case anymore
Donatella Damiani topless (.gif)
Donatella Damiani In La liceale seduce i professori (1979)
That’s one for those who miss the sight of large, natural breasts on camera. (Who doesn’t?) She was a beauty, best known for her role in a 1980 Fellini film, The City of Women. As far as we know, she is still alive and would not be that old (63), but her current whereabouts seem to be a bit of a mystery. Her IMDb credits stop in 1984, when she was still in her 20s. The Italian Wikipedia says she was also in this 1995 film, but IMDb doesn’t list her in the cast, and the English Wikipedia does not concur with the Italian. Assuming she was not in that 1995 film, she has not appeared in public since a March, 1985 appearance in Playmen, which may have been shot much earlier. Searching online, I could not find an explanation for her disappearance from the film industry, nor a clue to her current status.
