The AP reported: “A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia had sex with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website and asked viewers to pay them money in return for carrying out specific sex acts.”

“Radical left-wing feminists in Chile with “ponytails inserted in their butts and performing dances” in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the military coup against Salvador Allende.”

(In an event sometimes called “the other 9/11,” the USA backed the overthrow of Allende, a democratically elected Marxist, by a military coup. The Nixon administration wanted to prevent the spread of Communism during the Cold War.)

I don’t think the ponytails are actually in their butts, so the quote above kind of overhypes the protest. Nonetheless, the impact is approximately as promised – women in thongs or with bare butts, some waving strap-on ponytails. I assume they are anti-coup, but isn’t this counter-productive? After seeing the vid, I want to join the CIA and foment a military coup so more women will do this.

Duet for One (1986) is now out on Blu-Ray, which means that the quality is now good enough to see Julie Andrews’ pubes from the rear, between her legs.

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As Robert Preston pointed out in S.O.B., she also had “a terrific set of knockers.”

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And she also showed off that set in S.O.B. (1981)

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and released half of the set way back in 1970, in Darling Lili

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By the way, she was already 34 when made her nudity debut in Darling Lili, and had already been a major star for 14 years by then. (She played Eliza Doolittle on Broadway when she was 20.) She was 45 in the S.O.B. scene, and was an astoundingly youthful 50 when she did her nude scene in Duet for One.

It has been more than 20 years since this film was released, and I just can’t remember why this scene never made our annual top 20 list. This may get the trophy for “best scene never to make the list” (in our time frame). The only ones I can recall that might challenge for that award would be Georgina Leeming in Virgin and Ludivine Sagnier in Water Drops on Burning Rocks.

As I look at our 2000 list, this is better than any scene on it, although it would not have made #1 because Katie Holmes was the flavor of the day back then. (She got more than 50% of the votes.)

Oddly enough, Casta did make the top ten that year, but for a completely different film with an inferior nude scene!


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One year after the attacks, Dave Barry wrote a moving piece about the ground where flight 93 went down, and the courageous passengers who fought back against the terrorists. That author is the same Dave Barry who writes glib and humorous articles, but there is nothing trivial or funny in this piece.

“The passengers and crew on Flight 93, when they set out from Newark that morning, had no cause in common. They were people on a plane bound from Newark to San Francisco. Some were going home, some traveling on business, some on vacation. People on a plane. Which makes it all the more astonishing, what they did.”

I wrote in the Fun House on Sept 12, 2001:

The fun is absent from the fun house. Our thoughts are with the victims, and the families of the victims. And with the fragility of our own lives. The most frightening thing for everyone is that we can imagine ourselves in their places with only the slightest change in circumstances

As any history professor will tell you, people don’t much care for the minutiae of dates. Yesterday morning, most Americans could identify only three by heart.

  • July 4, 1776
  • December 7, 1941
  • November 22, 1963

Now there will be four.