Elisabetta Canalis topless on a balcony.

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We give a tip of the hat to humanity’s most important inventor, the unsung hero, Francoise Balcon, whose balconies gave birth to celebrity nudity in the era before films. While Balcon labored over his designs, a close friend, Louis Daguerre. was busy perfecting photography. The two men worked in perfect lock-step to give us the paparazzi photography we know today. Many say that the invention of the camera would have been almost useless without the parallel developments in balcony technology.

And we can’t fail to credit Jakob “The Lost Dutchman” Yacht for his own contribution, creating sailing craft relatively useless for either transportation or commerce, but extremely useful for displaying topless supermodels moored close enough to be photographed by slobs standing on public beaches.

Aura Garrido topless in La Sospecha de Sofía (2025)

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Spanish thriller.

Madrid, 1968. The life of Daniel changes when he’s invited to East Berlin to meet his biological mother. Under KGB threat, his twin brother Klaus steals his identity. When Klaus returns to Spain, Daniel’s wife Sofía starts to suspect.

Starts?

Silly premise. I’m guessing she would probably be suspicious within five minutes, and would know as an absolute certainty within 24 hours. The twin brother doesn’t have a memory implant, and there are so many things between a couple that are familiar only to them.


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Demi Moore naked in About Last Night (1986)

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This movie was based on a one-act play, David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” as expanded into a full-length screenplay by former SNL cast member Tim Kazurinsky. At its essence, it remained essentially a four-character play about the rise and fall of a relationship, and the effect of that relationship upon the couple’s best friends. The friends were essentially jealous, not because the couple found a love missing in the friends’ life, but because the obsessive nature of that new love totally dominated the lovers’ time, leaving the friends feeling that they had lost the people closest to them.

Demi Moore was absolutely radiant in the romantic lead. Demi was seen here before she began all of the fanatical fitness routines and plastic surgery, and I don’t think I’m alone in saying that she was almost perfect before the changes. Her beautiful face, her raspy voice, and her femininity made her a true star. The performances in romantic comedies don’t earn much respect from the Academy, but not everybody does them well, and Demi did this one very well, indeed.

Chicago itself is an important character in the film. If you love and miss old-time ChiTown, as I do, you’ll just love all the sights and sounds of the city: the familiar neighborhood watering holes; the gloveless softball games with the unique giant ball; the familiar accents; the approaching trains barely visible in the snow.

And no person is more perfectly representative of Chicago than Jim Belushi, who played a coarse, politically incorrect, life-embracing party animal. Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins stole the show as the cynical, wisecracking friends.

Overall, I found the film a pleasant way to pass the time.

Tomato Meter: 65%
Popcorn Meter: 60%
IMDb: 6.2

TRIVIA: The movie title was originally supposed to be Sexual Perversity in Chicago, like the play, but the three major TV networks wouldn’t accept the trailer ads for the film, so a last minute title change resulted in “About Last Night … ”

TRIVIA: This movie was remade and updated about 30 years later, with a twist: the four leads were Black. I have not seen the remake.


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Susan Saint James vintage

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The B&W photo is Susan Saint James at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts; August 21, 1981; photo by Ron Galella.

According to the interwebs:

I saw the Saint James nip slip on The Tonight Show, June 28, 1978. (s16e184) Host John Davidson mentioned it. The actress then pulled the other side of her dress to expose her other nipple and said, “There’s one on this side too.” The camera switched as she began to expose herself so only the audio was in evidence. You gotta love the old time live airings.

The nip-slip may be real, but there is something wrong with that photo. It seems that she is supposed to be looking at something between her hands, but there is nothing there. Yet it seems to cast a shadow.

Unfortunately, that episode of The Tonight Show is not available for a fact-check.