Marisa Tomei and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman perform a very convincing sex scene in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

2007? Was that really 14 years ago?

This scene earned Marisa second place among our Top Nude Scenes of 2007, and she came right back the next year with another second among the Top Nude Scenes of 2008 for her appearance in The Wrestler.

Only three women have managed to finish in the top two in consecutive years.

  • As noted above, Marisa Tomei in 2007-2008
  • Anna Paquin in 20082009, for the first two seasons of True Blood
  • Jennifer Connelly in 19961997, for Mulholland Falls and Inventing the Abbots

One more

She plays women’s beach handball. As I’ve noted before, the prefix “women’s beach” indicates a great spectator sport irrespective of the subsequent noun. I probably would channel-surf past the Superbowl to watch women’s beach parcheesi or women’s beach croquet. Naked or near-naked women can make any televised game or sport watchable.

Possibly excepting bowling.

New pics 04/09: (If you don’t see pics here, this link should work)

Garance Marillier in “Madame Claude”:

Mylène Jam-Panoi in “Madame Claude”:

Leah O’Prey in “Madame Claude”:

Léa Rostain in “Madame Claude”:

Regina Anikiy in “Madame Claude”:

Joelle Luthi in “Love me tender”:

French version, with extensive comments)

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There’s something about Ireland. Oh, she’s not as beautiful as her famous mother, and her career doesn’t really seem to be going anywhere, but I just like her. Everything she does brings a little humor with it, and despite the fact that she posts as many selfies as a Kardashian, she does it without all the guile and artificiality that characterizes the infamous K Klan. She just seems like a big kid having fun.

The umpire called this a HBP, which allowed the winning run to score, but he clearly made the wrong call. His error was not a judgment call, but an incorrect application of the rules.

Rule 5.05.b.2

“If the ball is in the strike zone when it touches the batter, it shall be called a strike, whether or not the batter tries to avoid the ball.”

The pitch actually and undoubtedly was in the strike zone, as shown from multiple angles. That however, is unimportant, because umpires miss ball and strike calls all the time. Those are judgment calls, and are part of the breaks of the game. What is important in this incident is that the umpire had already called it a strike before he realized it had hit the batter, so it was not an error in judgment – he called it correctly. What he did NOT do correctly was to follow the rules! I know that the rules of baseball are arcane and anfractuous, but the umps just have to learn them.

The ump did ultimately realize his error, but not until after the game. “The guy was hit by the pitch in the strike zone,” he declared to a pool reporter. “I should have called him out.”