Day: January 8, 2023

A few I have not seen before:

I would absolutely support rebooting this series.

The story: “Egyptian security forces arrested Egyptian actresses Mona Farouk and Shaimaa al-Haj on charges of committing a flagrant act after featuring in porn videos.”

The videos are here.

This scene only finished 28th in our 2021 poll of the year’s best nude scenes, but if it had not been so obscure, it could easily have made the top five. I personally ranked it second, just behind Odessa Young in Mothering Sunday.

Today’s Tuna retrospective:

Somebody mentioned yesterday that Diane Lane looked just about perfect when she did her nude scenes in The Big Town. I would also place this performance by Marisa Tomei in that category – and she wasn’t even young at the time.

Marisa has never won our annual poll for the best nude scene, but she came as close as possible without actually winning. She finished second two years in a row!

• In 2007 she was the runner up for this film, and I think her scenes were better than the winner’s, especially considering that sex scene with Phil Hoffman, which is not done proper justice by still captures. You have to see it in motion.
• She followed that up with another second-place finish in 2008 for The Wrestler.

The most impressive part of her achievement was her age at the time. Although the annual poll is usually dominated by young actresses, Marisa took those two silver medals when she was in her mid 40s. Bravo, Aunt May!

She somehow flew below our radar in the best nude scene balloting for 2022. She would not have won, but she showed off a shapely booty in The Ugly Truth.

More interesting to me was her performance in episode 4 of Schattenmoor from 2019. She showed her breasts in that one, and she looked especially beautiful.

Collages by Brainscan

Tag line: “They just fucked with the wrong Heidi!”

What a bizarre movie this is. It’s as if Troma suddenly opened a division in Zurich to produce a “Swissploitation film” (their term). The plot summary: “Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.”

Coincidentally enough, that is also what we call the Wisconsin Republican Party.

The star of this crowd-funded film is Casper van Dien, but he doesn’t play an American expat. Rather he is an exaggerated parody of a wealthy Swiss politician/businessman. As the president of Switzerland, he spends his time eating chocolate flecked with Nazi gold, looking at expensive Rolex-style gold watches with his own picture on the face, consuming dairy products, and speaking English with an outrageous accent. (The film also incorporates every other Swiss cliche you can imagine: kindly goatherds, alpenhorns, yodeling, cuckoo clocks, multi-use knives, etc.)