Day: February 12, 2019

Isabel Lucas in The Loft (2014)

A large, sexy Beyonce album

“Toni Braxton wore a revealing and semi-sheer dress on the red carpet for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards last night!”

Jemima Kirke in Untogether (2019)

“Sloan” is always tanned, rested and ready. She’s as sexy at 43 as she ever was.

Woods tweeted: “Please join me in using proper grammar, syntax, and spelling. The correct pronoun usage in the English language is “he” for a singular male and “she” for a singular female. “They” is used for the plural of either males, females, or both. Don’t be bullied by hare-brained liberals.”

Dictionary.com tweeted: “They has been in use as a singular pronoun since the 1300s. Among its best known users in history: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen.”

Scoop’s notes:

Woods is just being a prick, and dictionary.com’s post, while factually correct and vaguely amusing, is totally irrelevant to Woods’ point.

1. Dictionaries and grammar books serve separate purposes. A dictionary is descriptive, and a grammar book or style manual is prescriptive. The fact that a usage exists does not mean that it is proper, even if Shakespeare himself used it. For example, Shakespeare used terms like “more corrupter” and “most poorest.” Does that mean it is correct to use those constructions today?

2. The editors at dictionary.com must have used up too many credits on library science to fit any logic classes into their academic schedules. Ever if we were to assume that ol’ Billy Shakespeare and his hifalutin literary pals always used words correctly, a usage of any kind that was correct for them is not necessarily correct today, nor should it be, because languages are fluid. There is simply no logical connection between dictionary.com’s point and Woods’. If we adopt Chaucer’s usage as our standard, then we will only use “gay” to mean “lighthearted and carefree” and we should correctly refer to male homosexuals as “geldings” or “mares.” (NOTE: Chaucer did not distinguish between homosexuals and eunuchs, for reasons he is too dead to explain.)

3. I can also be a prick. There is a grammatical error in dictionary.com’s tweet. The word “they” should be in quote marks to indicate referring to a word as that word, just as I did earlier in this sentence. Without the quote marks, the sentence begins “They was,” as in “They wuz just about to filch the roscoe when the coppers showed their ugly mugs and told ’em to scram.” (Caveat: It is possible that dictionary.com did this on purpose to demonstrate a whimsical singular use of they, as kind of a literary joke consistent with their point. Maybe. But like Lou Grant, I hate whimsy.)

Having noted that dictionary.com is full of manure, let me point out that Woods is as well. No matter what the grammar books say, using the singular “they” is sometimes the only way to avoid either confusing declarations or the dreaded “his or her” construction.

For example:

A teacher addresses the co-ed class, “Everyone should create his own solution.” Yup. That’s perfect grammar, and perfectly confusing, since it binds the boys, but implies that the girls in the class may use another student’s solution. To get around the problem, the teacher must change the directive to “his or her,” or “their.” While “their” is, in theory, grammatically incorrect, it is the solution I prefer.

I would certainly support the use of the singular “they,” and there is no reason not to accept it because, as noted earlier in bold, languages are fluid.

That said, I hate it and it is often confusing.

Here is Maud Adams in Tattoo (1981), which was filmed when she was 35.

Maud was in two Bond films about a decade apart, Octopussy and The Man With The Golden Gun. I’m assuming you are willing to call then Bond films even if they starred Roger Moore, which they both did. That guy was Bond for a very long time, 1973-1985.

Here is her full-frontal scene in Z: The Beginning of Everything

This was among the top ten in our Best Nude Scenes of 2017.

Christina has been the most consistent performer in our annual polls. She is the only actress to finish in the top ten four times, and she is one of only three women to win twice. (Anne Hathaway and Heather Graham are the other two-time winners, but Christina is the only one to win twice outright in the live polling era. One of Heather’s wins was a retro poll two decades after the fact, and one of Hathaway’s was a tie for first.)

Her other top finishes:

First for Prozac Nation in the Top Nude Scenes of 2003

First for Black Snake Moan in the Top Nude Scenes of 2007

Ninth for After Life in the Top Nude Scenes of 2010

Her first winner, Prozac Nation, was actually filmed in in the summer of 2000, when Ricci was only 20. Her most recent winner was the TV production Z, in which her nudity was filmed when she was in her mid 30s.

Linnea Quigley in Return of the Living Dead (1985)

So long ago, the original B&W version was the only picture that appeared in the very first edition of the Fun House in 1995. I’ll bet even you long-timers don’t remember that one. Here’s the colorized version.

Scar-Jo in Under the Skin

It’s not a very flattering picture. She’s a little flabbier than I remembered.

Autumn Holley – B&W .gif

She is a NY-based fashion model. You can see her home page and portfolio here.

UPDATED with a .gif

Nearly six years after it was filmed, London Fields has now been released in a home video format.

I have not watched it, and don’t intend to, but the general response has been terrible, which goes a long way to explain why it has been bottled up for more than five years. It’s rated 4.6 at IMDb and scores a perfect ZERO on Rotten Tomatoes.

Anyway, here’s Amber’s booty as it was six years ago.

And here’s a .gif of the scene.

Selena Gomez – Feb 11th Instagram

Whitney Cummings on Instagram – damned sexy!

(Thanks, submitter. Good one!)

Stefanie Estes (Brief Butt) in Ellie (2013) [Short Film]