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Chloe Fineman has some big ones (strapped on)
This picture brings to mind a question that has plagued mankind’s sharpest minds from time immemorial: Why would fake knockers have ghost nipples?
The late, great Spinoza wrote three volumes on that one question, a question that remains unanswered despite having been addressed by every great thinker from Socrates to Steve Bannon.
“Film fragment discovered: Louise Brooks like you’ve never seen her before”
Many other rare snippets were found in that same discovery.
I knew her – kinda. I stood around in the same group where she stood around. OK, to be fair, I guess I didn’t know her at all. I grew up in Rochester, home of the Eastman House and its collection of vintage films. The curator of the film collection was the preservationist Dr. James Card, who was a huge Louise Brooks fan, and persuaded Louise to give up her life of seclusion in New York to come to Rochester to study and write about her life, and/or the films of her era. On a nice summer evening after a screening at the Dryden Theater, Dr. Card would often hold court outdoors to discuss the film, or other film-related topics, with anyone who was interested. It was a smaller group than you might think – always fewer than two dozen, sometimes only a handful. I was there from time to time, when I was 16 or so, thanks to a friend who was an aspiring filmmaker and film scholar. I really had nothing to say in these gatherings, so I just took it all in. Miss Brooks joined the discussions only rarely. She was actually a film scholar, but she did not say much more than I, and rarely did anybody dare to address her. She had that kind of mystique, and maintained that kind of wall around her. Nobody called her or referred to her as anything but Miss Brooks, including Dr. Card, who was reputed to be her lover. (Their relationship was extremely complicated.)
I barely remember her. I recall that she was so tiny as to be nearly invisible. When she was in her prime, she had been listed at 5’2″, and the full-body pictures of her show a healthy physique with strong thighs and calves (see the nude below), but she must have been several inches shorter when I saw her, and could not have weighed more than 90 pounds. Her signature hair style was replaced with a pony tail drawn back severely from her thin face. If I saw pictures today of what she looked like then, I would probably say that she was an attractive older woman, but to my callow, juvenile self she was just a shriveled old lady. If I remember correctly, she spent most of her time thinking and writing about the films of G.W. Pabst. I certainly didn’t impress her since I didn’t really know who she was, and I thought Pabst was the Blue Ribbon Beer guy.
A minor correction to that video. In the 1950s, she was not a prostitute or a call girl as we normally picture them, although “courtesan” is probably fair. She was the mistress of three rich men simultaneously, and has referred to herself as a “kept woman.” Your nomenclature may vary.
As you may know, she did pose for nude photographs in her prime.
In 1925 a photographer named Jean de Mirjian got his name in the papers when Miss Brooks sued to stop his distribution of some naughty photos he had taken of her in 1923. She also posed for Alfred Cheney Johnston (above).
Butts exposed
There are those who say that our fates are regulated by our names. According to those who believe in self-fulfilling prophecies, if you name your child Rocky or Duke he’s not likely to become a professor of philosophy, and naming him Schuyler or Nigel will not create a path to the Heisman Trophy. I assume this theory also has some implications on surnames, given that … a Columbus man named Butts has been accused of indecent exposure for allegedly baring his buttocks in front of an elementary school.
He also exposed his genitals, but unfortunately for this story, his first name is not Dick.
Harry also would have been good.
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Joking aside, one of the richest men in Texas is the chairman of the H-E-B supermarket chain. His name is Charles Butt. The chain’s name is short for Howard Edward Butt, Chuck’s dad.
Texas specializes in unfortunate names. One of the Lone Star State’s most distinguished citizens was Ima Hogg, heiress and daughter of Governor Big Jim Hogg.
Tate McRae – lip-slip?
The haters may say she’s got pantaloons on under her shorts, which is fine, but a flesh colored panty can trick me into thinking I am looking at pussy 100 percent of the time.
Rowena King and Karina Lombard – full-frontal nudity in Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre. It describes the background of Mr. Rochester’s marriage from the point of view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress, the famous “madwoman in the attic.” Australian filmmaker John Duigan directed the film. If we had a filmmakers’ hall of fame for nudity, he would be one of the first inductees. His very next film was Sirens, the holy grail of film nudity.
Wide Sargasso Sea was adapted from the eponymous novel by Jean Rhys, and there is an interesting story behind the novel. Rhys had been a fairly successful writer in the 1930s, but she went full Salinger around 1940, moving completely out of public life, eventually descending into poverty. She was so reclusive that Selma Vaz Dias, a filmmaker who wanted to adapt one of Rhys’s novels, had to take out a public ad in 1949, asking whether anyone knew how to get in touch with the author. The two women eventually became collaborators and close friends. Following years of persuasion from Vaz Dias, Rhys finally resumed her writing career while in her 70s – after having published nothing for a quarter of a century. It was in this late stage of her life that she wrote Wide Sargasso Sea. She had a heart attack while she was writing the novel, but recovered sufficiently to complete it. Modern Library and Time magazine have placed it on various “top 100” lists.
Rowena King was trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She currently appears frequently in series work. (IMDb listing.)
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“Karina Lombard,” per IMDb, “is an actor, screenwriter and director. She is Italian, French and Native American. Born in Tahiti, the youngest of five children, she was raised and educated in Spain, Switzerland and Peru. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, French and German.” Her career was soaring in the 1990s, when she landed a plum role opposite Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall, but her only credit in the past five years was in a grade-B Billy Zane film called The Oath (3.5 at IMDb).
Lola Petticrew – full-frontal nudity in episode 5 of Say Nothing
Say Nothing is an historical drama limited series created for Disney+, and currently streaming on HULU. Detailing four generations in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, it is an adaptation of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, a 2018 book by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Becky G is a sensible dresser
Becky G took daring to the next level at the 2024 Latin Grammys, flaunting her body in a sheer, netted gown that exposed her curves for all to see.
Leonie Dahan-Lamort topless in Bitten (2023) + nudography
AKA La Morsure
A Catholic schoolgirl is convinced tonight is her last night on Earth and decides to attend a costume party with her best friend.
Defoe’s video is here.
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