“Seldom has Hollywood built someone up and then thrown him aside more quickly than Klinton Spilsbury. This is a tough town, but he got a kind of instant dose of just how cruel it can be. Must’ve been incredibly difficult. If I’d been in his shoes, I might’ve stopped acting, too.”

There is really nobody to compare Spilsbury to. George Lazenby, like Spilsbury, got only one shot at an iconic lead role in a big-budget film. But Lazenby merely screwed up his chance at international superstardom. He was a successful actor before and after his turn as 007. Spilsbury, in contrast, was completely unknown when he was cast – and never worked again. To make matters worse, his voice never appeared in the film at all. The filmmakers were so disappointed with his line readings that they hired James Keach to dub the entire role.

The only kinda-sorta comparable person I can think of is Kurt Thomas, the gymnast who tried to become an actor. He got the lead in Gymkata, then faded back into the athletic world. But two significant things make him different from Spilsbury:

(1) he was an athlete trying to act and failing. Spilsbury was an actor trying to act and failing.

(2) Gymkata was not a high-profile film, and Thomas’s role was not one that was coveted by all of Hollywood.

“The research involved stimulating the clitorises of 20 adult females while their brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging.”

I don’t know if the scientists involved here are smart enough to prove this point, but I know that there’s an even more cogent argument for their genius: they thought this up in the first place. “Look, I’ll just place this device on your head while I lick your clit. It’ll only take a sec. Darn. The reading wasn’t clear. We better take a longer scan.”

Holy cow! She is stark naked for 11 minutes of screen time, almost all of it in good light with favorable camera angles. This is absolutely a contender for nude scene of the year, and I will have to add it as a finalist, even though it is not one of the choices in round one.

Imagine if Elle Fanning had done a scene like this in The Great. That would have broken the bank on the voting.

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This is the scene from Don’t Look Up that Meryl Streep wanted to do until Leo DiCaprio interceded. The story is here

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I have to say I was curious about the real Streep butt. Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon …