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...While preparing a column on the 50th anniversary of Playboy magazine, I made a startling discovery: many Internet websites present sexy photographs of women. (Men too. Also children and animals.) These two sites, with fat files of stars, listed in alphabetical order by first name, offer a synoptic pictorial history of actresses in various states of dishabille. For cinephiles with an itch for, say, Kathy Bates in ?About Schmidt,? or Dame Judi Dench in her unbuttoned youth - not to mention early Kelly Preston and middle-period Linda Blair - these are the places to scratch. Studying these photos may seem infra...
...Since then the cult science-fiction writer has became famous, widely-read and much imitated on the big screen. Lawrence Sutin?s terrific biography paints a full-figure portrait of the demonized genius. Even if you?re not a Philaddickt, the book is a swell read. (The Dick column provoked an aggrieved e-mail, which I?ll get to later...
...great achievers: Sir Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, the Goons. The weekly radio show starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers defined silly comedy for postwar England, influenced the Beatles and Monty Python, and made me laugh when I listened to the shows on CD last year for a column on Sellers. Puns, outlandish narrative detours and other foolery are wildly evident in Milligan?s scripts. In the ?Ill Met by Goonlight? episode, the Goons land on Crete. Sellers: ?Ooh, this beach is hard.? Secombe: ?Then we must be on con-Crete!? They...
...Naked mimes! Nuff said. No? Then add that Cirque du Soleil?s sexy cabaret at the New York New York resort in Las Vegas has some seductive pas de deux and a lovely onanistic girl-on-a-rope act. As I reported in a November column, it?s erotic and transporting...
...Flood '04 is an English concentrator in Mather House. His column appears regularly...