One of the greatest topless scenes in history.


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I’ve pointed out before that the 1982-83 period may have been the Golden Age of screen nudity, and almost certainly was the Golden Age of nudity in the youthploitation genre. It would be difficult to choose the nude scene of the year in those years.

Some top options:

1982

Morgan Fairchild in The Seduction (1982)
Barbara Carrera in I, the Jury (1982)
Barbara Hershey in The Entity (1982)
Pia Zadora in Butterfly (1982)
Nastassia Kinski in Cat People (1982)
Mariel Hemingway and others in Personal Best (1982)
Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Phoebe Cates in Paradise (1982)
Diane Franklin in The Last American Virgin (1982)
Julia Duffy in Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982)

1983

Leah Thompson in All the Right Moves (1983)
Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business (1983)
Virginia Madsen in Class (1983)
Caren Kaye in My Tutor (1983)
Betsy Russell in Private School (1983)
Pia Zadora in The Lonely Lady (1983)
Theresa Russell in Eureka (1983)
Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon in The Hunger (1983)
Mariel Hemingway in Star 80 (1983)
Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places (1983)
Lisa Langlois in The Man Who Wasn’t There (1983)

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I think I would vote for Leah Thompson or Lisa Langlois in 1983.

1982 is an impossible choice: I think Kinski and the two Cates scenes would be my top three, but I’m not sure of the order. Fast Times is the least impressive in terms of nudity, but is impossible to ignore because it is just so memorable.

The IMDb page for this film has no votes, and says, “Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.”

The absence of a summary doesn’t necessarily mean that nobody has seen it. It probably just means that nobody knows what this is about. I sure don’t. Maybe I should just submit a summary that says, “This film is deeply fucked-up.”

The poster should give you some idea:


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The only review I could find says, ❝River is a psychotic Trainspotting on a hallucinogenic trail.❞ Well, doesn’t that make it sound delightful!

Having noted that, I’ll add that Manon looks good naked. So the film has that goin’ for it.


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Or maybe it’s not Satan, but just one of Satan’s minions. That dude has more helpers than Santa. Wait! Maybe Santa is Satan, and is just a poor speller.

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Bec also acted in a film called American Satan, so she’s got quite a niche going on. To be fair, she was also in a Hallmark production called Christmas Tree Lane, so she’s trying to give Santa equal time.

Except for the sex scenes, of course.

Many actors try to balance prestige and commercial productions with the philosophy “one for me, one for them.” I guess her mantra is “one for me, one for Satan.”

Now I got curious. I’m wondering now whether American Satan is a Ted Cruz biopic.

Maybe a nipple, maybe not.

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The lawman Bass Reeves was a real person, kind of a real-life version of Django – a slave who became one of the best lawmen in the West. By the way, Bass Reeves had a brother named Tenor Reeves, who was even deadlier with his shootin’ iron, but failed to inspire any Old West legends because his would-be biographers couldn’t stop laughing at his squeaky voice.

Bass Reeves remains to this day one of the greatest humans named after a fish, joining:

Zebulon Pike
Salman Rushdie
Catfish Hunter
Mike Trout
Ed Muskie
Sid Bream
Marlin Perkins
Marlon Brando
Laura Harring
Gar Heard
The Cisco Kid
Mike Carp
Dore Schary
Jackson Pollock
David Soul
Aldo Ray

I disqualified “Other” Crappie Henderson because he apparently only exists in my imagination.

I should have but did not did not disqualify The Cisco Kid because one of my favorite TV shows called him “O. Henry’s Legendary Robin Hood of the Old West.” Here’s the real story. O. Henry created the character, but the original Kid was not any kind of good guy, or even an anti-hero. He was a low-down, ornery skunk, a desperado who killed people for fun. As the law closed in on The Kid, ol’ Cisco used a confederate to get a message to the lawman following him, saying that The Kid had kidnapped the lawman’s girlfriend, and had switched clothing with her in order to sneak away. When the lawman high-tailed it to the girlfriend’s house, he saw two figures in the moonlight, and shot the one in women’s clothing. Given that this is an O. Henry story, you can probably guess the ol’ switcheroo. The figure in men’s clothing promptly rode away, and the lawman then realized that The Kid had tricked him into killing his own girlfriend.

Pretty dark.

Somehow, this vile character later became a hero in movies, comics and TV shows.