UPDATE:

OK, I got the message. Everybody loves Rollergirl. She got three times as many votes as the next best contender. In order get a better feel for the rest of the field, let’s drop Heather out of the running and vote for the SECOND-best scene of the year, keeping only the serious contenders in the race.

What was the SECOND best nude performance of 1997?
Jennifer Connelly in Inventing the Abbots 130 ( 29.89 % )
Charlize Theron in The Devil's Advocate 49 ( 11.26 % )
Jaime Pressly in Poison Ivy 3 42 ( 9.66 % )
Connie Nielsen in The Devil's Advocate 24 ( 5.52 % )
Kari Wuhrer in Luscious 23 ( 5.29 % )
Jessica Hecht in Anarchy TV 22 ( 5.06 % )
Kate Winslet in Titanic 18 ( 4.14 % )
Helena Carter in The Wings of the Dove 17 ( 3.91 % )
Patricia Arquette in Lost Highway 16 ( 3.68 % )
Dina Meyer in Starship Troopers 14 ( 3.22 % )
Julie Benz in Darkdrive 13 ( 2.99 % )
Julianne Moore in Boogie Nights 11 ( 2.53 % )
Andrea Thompson in A Gun, A Car, a Blonde 7 ( 1.61 % )
Emily Procter in Breast Men 7 ( 1.61 % )
Virginie Ledoyen in Heroines 7 ( 1.61 % )
Ming-Na Wen in One Night Stand 6 ( 1.38 % )
Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element 6 ( 1.38 % )
Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown 5 ( 1.15 % )
Helen Hunt in As Good as it Gets 5 ( 1.15 % )
Eva Habermann in Lexx - SI 4 ( 0.92 % )
Lucy Liu in City of Industry 3 ( 0.69 % )
Rose McGowan in Going All the Way 3 ( 0.69 % )
Jennifer Lopez in U-Turn 2 ( 0.46 % )
Angie Harmon in Lawn Dogs 1 ( 0.23 % )
Angie Everhart in Another 9 1/2 Weeks 0 ( 0 % )

College Pigskin, Week 8 recap.

I don’t pretend to be an expert on college football, and I’d never be able to predict results, but I do follow it quite closely, and I never in a thousand guesses would have thought that #2 Ohio State would lose to Purdue by four touchdowns. That has to be the surprise of the year, if not the millennium. I have nothing against Ohio State, but I will say this: If you allow Purdue to score 49 on you, you’re not a plausible candidate for a national championship. To be fair, Purdue has scored a lot of points this year. That is their fifth consecutive week with 30 or more. They have won four in a row after losing their first three.

#4 Notre Dame had the week off. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton, but it did pay off for them. They will probably rise to #3. Thanks, Purdue.

#12 Oregon got stampeded by Washington State. The game was 27-0 at halftime.

In the ever-surprising American Conference, UCF and South Florida stayed unbeaten, while Houston laid 49 on Navy to improve to 6-1. Only Cincinnati faltered, dropping their first game of the year to Temple in overtime. (That’s not as bad as it sounds. Temple was playing at home, and that team is surprisingly good. They are actually undefeated in conference play.)

And of course, Alabama was Alabama. They took a 28-0 lead in the first quarter, then coasted. They won by 37. That’s just another day at the track for them. Their average game for the year is a win by 38 (54-16). Sagarin’s computer ratings show them approximately a light year ahead of the rest of the field. The good news for those of us who root for underdogs is that Alabama may have a tough game next week. Stress: may. They will take on LSU (which should be #4 in the new polls after Ohio State falls a bit from their #2 perch) in Baton Rouge. If ‘Bama wins that one by 20 or more, you can count on them to coast to the championship game against Notre Dame or Clemson or whoever else can sneak in there.

Here is another nice collage, if I do say so myself. (It’s one of mine. I’m no Johnny Moronic, but I do have a few moments now and then.) Helena did a rear-view open crotch shot in The Wings of the Dove.

While we’re at it, here are two more of my collages of her, one picturing her in a 1986 movie (Lady Jane), the other in 1997 (more of those zany Dove Wings). She was either 19 or 20 when that fireside scene was lensed in Lady Jane, and about 30 when she did her nude scenes in The Wings of the Dove.

This is yet another of the many nude scenes Eva did in The Dreamers

This was the winner of our poll for the Best Nude Performance of 2004. It was the second most convincing victory in the history of our poll. (I doubt if anything will ever top the margin achieved by Katie Holmes in The Gift. That was truly the occasion when the times and the woman met.)

I personally chose Eva Green’s performance in The Dreamers as the best of the decade 2000-2009.

And if I ever make a list of the greatest nude performances in history, I may choose it as the top one there as well (although I’d have to give that one a lot of thought). And I’m not even a great fan of Eva. It was just that good.