I was surprised to see the Longhorns beat Georgia
I also surprised myself by feeling happy about it. My daughter graduated from UT, and both her mother and I went to grad school there, so I guess I have some subconscious attachment that I wasn’t aware of until they beat an SEC team in a major bowl!
The final order of finish.
It was a great year, reminiscent of the mid-90s. As I wrote about 1996, the second twenty from 2018 are as good or better than the first twenty from some other years. In fact, there are probably 25 or more 2018 scenes that could have finished #1 in 2008!
There were some surprises for me.
I did not expect Sally Hawkins to win. Oh, it’s a great nude performance in a Best Picture winner, but I didn’t even expect her to do well because it was first seen in January, and I figured “out of sight, out of mind.” And after all, she’s not a busty young chickadee. By the way, there has been a bit of backlash against this film. It is rated only 7.4 at IMDb, which is low for the Oscar champion.
I thought it would be between Lachman, Lawrence, Gilpin and Pike. I was surprised that people liked Higareda’s scene slightly more than Lachman’s, but that was also a great one. Altered Carbon was absolutely the rookie of the year.
I thought Sevigny’s and Stewart’s nudity in Lizzie would attract more enthusiasm.
Emma Stone? WTF? It was one breast for one second. It was probably the weakest scene on the list. If that had been a lesser-known actress I wouldn’t even have put it among the choices. You guys must have been longing for some Emma flesh.
Lady Gaga – I expected her to do much better. She showed the works, if only for a second, and she’s a huge star.
Dakota Johnson – I found her scenes a waste of time, and not at all erotic, but Mr. Skin picked her among the top ten, so I thought she would have supporters. I was wrong. You guys, like me, were indifferent to her charms.
If you’re curious, I voted for Pike. It’s great nudity, and she is my dream woman, more or less.
This is not the best Lynda Carter scene in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976), but it’s a mighty nice four seconds.
Bail Ling is topless in The Gene Generation (2007)
Excellent capture!
Anna Brewster, looking a lot like Natalie Portman, did this full-frontal scene in Versailles (.gif, s2e7)
Anna has stayed sort of under the radar, but she has done a lot of nudity in the past five years.
Ann-Margret and Hannibal Lecter – together at last!
The film is Magic (1978)
Greta Scacchi in White Mischief (1987)
Apparently Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) was young once, but he appears to have been just as arrogant and villainous then.
Jennifer Lopez in U Turn (1997)
I’m not sure exactly what she did because I don’t keep track of things like that: maybe exercise; maybe diet; maybe surgery, maybe a professional makeover; maybe all of the above or something else, like selling her soul to Satan.
(In the unlikely chance that Kardashians have souls.)
I wish I could say it was that close, but the score is deceptive because of an early 93-yard interception by UCF. That one play represented about a 14-point turnaround. Instead of LSU being up 10-7 at that point with a completion, UCF took an early 14-3 lead. Apart from that play, LSU’s defense dominated the game and UCF could not move the ball in the air. Of course, there was an extenuating circumstance. UCF’s star quarterback was injured and could not play. The second-string quarterback was absolutely not ready for prime time. He was 11 for 30, for a mere 97 yards. That’s a pathetic 3.2 yards per attempt, if you’re scoring at home.
LSU dominated the yards from scrimmage, 555-250.
LSU dominated the return yardage, 111-6.
LSU had 32 first downs, UCF only 17.
Based on those stats, you would expect LSU to win by a score of approximately 48-18 if penalties and turnovers had affected both teams equally.
In other words, the one team I actually root for got their asses kicked. Man, I wish QB McKenzie Milton had been ready to play, but his knee was banged up so badly he may not be able to play next year.
