Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Radha Mitchell and
Alexa Davalos go full frontal in
Feast of Love, here's what Radha had to say about her nude scene.
Beautiful 34-year old Radha Mitchell has reason to blush when we meet to discuss her latest, and most controversial film to date, ''Feast of Love''. For the first time in her career, she bears more than just her soul as she portrays a realtor who has a passionate, intensely sexual affair with a married man. “And I probably won’t again. That is probably it, so you’d better go see this one,” Mitchell says, laughingly.
''Feast of Love'' explores sex, love and relationships among a myriad of individually complex characters. Directed by Oscar winner Robert Benton, Mitchell’s character is not the most likeable woman she has ever played on screen, and was drawn to her fascinating ambiguity. “I like characters that aren’t instantly likeable, and the challenges of this was how do you make this somewhat sympathetic or how can people relate to the character, without toning it down and turning it into something else completely,” Mitchell explains, as we chat in a Beverly Hills hotel room. “There are only so many scenes in which to do it, so there was often discussion around ‘Is that too much?’ ‘Is that not enough?’ you know, between me and the director and even the producers at times. But I always felt that she needed to have a hard edge, to be tough and a little cool, because that was kind of who she was, and yet you had to sort of understand why she was that way.” Mitchell feels that “some of the most deeply romantic people become incredibly cynical if they’re unfulfilled in their love. So she has this cynicism and as the story goes on, I guess she finds a way to open her own heart and that’s a kind of difficult bizarre journey, but it works.”
Mitchell says she was drawn to “the complexity of it. I liked the fact that she was confused about what she was trying to create. Love is often described as something so simple and so easy to understand and often it’s not. I liked that she was confused in her love and that there was this intense compulsion with some person, that you wouldn’t probably find many times in your life and yet it was an unattainable experience, so she had to make this compromise of being with somebody who’s safer. Sometimes you have to make mistakes in order to understand that they are mistakes. So I like that lack of clarity and the different layers to her.” Despite what she goes through and her initial lack of sympathy, the actress says there were aspects of the character that she could relate to. “I can definitely relate to her emotional intensity, and on a deep, emotional level I understood it.”
While Hollywood rarely explores love and relationships in a frank and mature fashion, it is this maturity and honesty that appealed to Mitchell. “The movie examines the love of two people that are incredibly innocent and haven’t had any bad things happen to them and then the love of two people who are in their thirties and there’s all these sort of social complexities to it, ideas about where you should be in your life or what’s moral and what’s immoral and so forth.” As for the film’s copious amount of explicit nudity, Mitchell concedes thinking long and hard before agreeing to do a film, which involved full frontal nudity. “It’s certainly confronting to play out but the sensibility, and it’s more European than it is American,” she says, referring to a pivotal moment involving a bitter argument that takes plays in the nude. “It’s not so puritanical and people do get naked in the bedroom together and that’s kind of how it is. So if the story is going to be real it’s going to be a reality of two people having a fight, in the nude, as you would, in life. People behave that way, so there’s a naturalism to that but then, to play out that naturalism, granted the convention of our society, in front of a bunch of crew members is something else.”
Despite an Oscar winning director at the helm, Mitchell did have her reservations. “Normally in these things there’s some sort of statement in the contract like ‘You will show this much of your boob’ or whatever. It’s very specific, whereas in this they just said ‘Are you comfortable with this or not, because if you’re not, don’t worry about the film’. So you had to sort of sit there and think about, ‘Am I comfortable with that?’ ‘Am I not comfortable?’ ‘How do I feel about that?’ Obviously I was comfortable with it enough to agree to it and then the experience of it I found quite liberating in a way,” Mitchell concedes. But she also doubts she would do such explicit nudity again. “I wouldn’t want to make a career out of that because it could be misinterpreted and perceived in a different light to what my intent was. Therefore it wouldn’t be something I would constantly do, not because it was such a bad experience, it’s just not an agenda that I want to create.”
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is "obsessed" with big breasts.
The British socialite, who regularly moans about being flat-chested, is often jealous of other women's mammaries.
Tara said: "I do have breast envy. You're always obsessed with what you haven't got. When I was filming my new TV show 'Dirty Cows' the girls had such enormous, massive breasts. I just went around touching them and thinking, 'Ooh, those are old, those are new, those are borrowed.' "
While Tara wishes she had fuller breasts, she insists she isn't "vain" enough to have boob job.
The 35-year-old TV presenter said: "I'm not interested, I'm not vain enough to start going to hospital to have my body changed. I'm just the way I am - far from perfect. I've got lines on my face, but I am not a surgery freak."
Monday, August 27, 2007
According to Christa Parker,
Melanie Brown "Scary Spice" was involved in a lesbian three-some relationship with her for two years!
Christa Parker, 35, is the mother of two and claims that she met Scary Spice at the school where both their children attend. Christa says soon after they met, they began a lesbian relationship.
Christa then introduced Mel to Elizabeth Rodriguez, 26, a sex toy saleswoman, and the three women began their threesomes, reports the Daily Mail.
Christa, who claims she began her relationship with Mel in 2005, said, "I had only had sex with a woman once before ... but Mel was obviously very experienced with woman. She is a great kisser."
But all good things come to an end, and Christa says that the three broke-up when Mel started to date Eddie Murphy.
Christa now says that she's worried about Mel, since she married Stephen Belafonte, a man that's been charged in the past with beating women.
She said, "Mel is so vulnerable. I'm very worried about her. I hope she's happy. I just don't want to see her hurt."
Monday, August 27, 2007
Gillian Anderson gets naked in her latest,
direct to DVD, movie Straightheads. She has coupleof nude scenes in the movie.
In first one she takes off her top and dress exposing her boobs as her husband
watches her over a hidden camera.
In second scene she’s has sex with her
husband with some nice shots of her boobs and erect nipples.
US DVD release of Straightheads is set for September
18th.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Mariah Carey has posed nude for September's issue of
Interview magazine. Well, kinda. The pop starlet appears in nothing but a draped shawl for the new shoot with Interview magazine. The star also gives a candid interview in the mag, and even talked about her breakdown back in 2001.
“I consider the breakdown a breakthrough - I needed to hit rock bottom, however it happened." She said.
“I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard, fighting so hard against the system."
Monday, August 27, 2007
Paris Hilton did a topless photoshoot for September
issue of German GQ magazine, she try to cover her boobs with a teddy bear but in
one of the photos there’s a shot of her right nipple.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Mr. Skin's look at upcoming celebrity nudity in Mr. Skin Minute Video.
Catalina Sandino Moreno in The Hottest State,
Nicki Lynn Aycox in Perfect Stranger and
Madeline Zima in Californication.
Friday, August 24, 2007
I just finished watching
Confess on DVD and there’s no Ali Larter’s nude scene on it. She does make out
with a guy for a minute or so but it’s all done under the sheets, you can’t
actually see anything. I also listened to director’s commentary on the DVD and
he didn’t say anything particular about Ali Larter’s nude scene or said anything
about cutting out any extra footage of the film.
A few days ago reports
came out that Ali Larter goes topless in Confess, but unfortunately not in the
version I saw.
Here’s the supposed Ali
Larter’s nude scene review from cndb posted a few days ago:
I work at a Blockbuster Video and we
received our shipment of 'Confess' a few days early. We also got 'Blades of
Glory' early, too... guess the shipping people just fucked up. Anyway, we
haven't put these movies on the shelves yet, but I did take a copy of 'Confess'
home to give it a look. I heard the rumors about Ali Larter's nude scene and
wanted to see for myself. I didn't skip around, just watched it from start...
and about an hour in I was getting worried the rumors weren't true. Then Ali
and the main guy start making out and he grabs her breasts through her shirt.
He unbuttons her top then pulls her bra down, giving an excellent view of her
breasts. Ali's bra stays on, but the dude starts grabbing her boobs as she
pulls her pants off. Finally her bra comes completely off as she takes off her
panties, which exposes her ass (obviously). So Ali's standing there completely
naked (no bush) as the guy gets his clothes off then he lifts her into bed and
they start to go at it. Ali's on the bottom and her breasts jiggle nicely as
she's pounded. They fade out to black and then it's the next morning. Ali and
the dude are sitting up in bed, but the blanket is covering her breasts. I
thought it was over, then Ali reaches to the night table to stop the alarm from
beeping and both her breasts pop out again. She throws the covers off and walks
to the bathroom, giving a spectacular view of her ass. All in all, Ali's naked
for about 3 solid minutes of 'Confess', which should be enough of a reason to
check it out, but I thought the movie was pretty good too!
Either the blockbuster guy made it all up
or there’s another version of the movie floating around somewhere.
On the brighter side there is one nude
scene in the movie. Jill M. Simon goes topless as she is blackmailed by her
boss. Here are a few caps from that scene and one picture of Ali Larter from
the movie.
Confess comes out on a
DVD on August 28th.
Friday, August 24, 2007
With R. Kelly's child pornography trial less than a month away, prosecutors are saying that the veins in his hands will prove that Kelly is the man featured in the infamous video tape, having sex with an under-aged girl.
According to chicago's CBSb affiliate WBBM, during a pre-trial motion yesterday (August 21), prosecutors said they hope to bring in an expert witness who has examined the vein patterns of the man's hand in the videotape, which they believe is consistent with Kelly's hand.
Defense attorneys scoffed at the tactic, calling it bad science and not as conclusive as using fingerprints. Judge Vincent Gaughan temporarily put off a ruling on the prosecution's motion to bring in this witness.
The judge also ruled that both the jury and media will be allowed to view the entire 26-minute video that allegedly shows Kelly, among other things, urinating on an under-aged girl. Lawyers for the prosecution apparently asked the judge to reconsider the decision, alleging that it may re-victimize the girl in the video. But judge Gaughan upheld his decision, saying the young woman that prosecutors say is featured on the tape has denied it is her.
As previously reported by SOHH, the alleged girl in the tape, is set to testify in the r&b superstar's defense, denying she is the young girl in the video. She is identified as the daughter of a man who played bass in Kelly's band, and Kelly refers to the girl as his "goddaughter" in the liner notes of his TP2.com album. She will be turning 23 in September.
While she is a witness for the defense, prosecutors are expected to counter those claims by calling to the stand the young woman's relatives, friends, parents of friends, and others, to testify that she is the girl in the video, and that she was about 14 when it was made.
The girl and her parents reportedly have told police and a grand jury that it was not her. Refuting the claim is the girl's aunt, former R&B artist, and Kelly protégé, Sparkle, who confirmed that it is indeed her niece in the video.
The Chicago-bred crooner is facing 14 counts of child pornography and is facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted. The trial is set to begin on september 17.S
Thursday, August 23, 2007
I wanted to write this post sooner but the
search was giving me so much trouble, I decided to first concentrate on that. Anyway
it should be working now...
As everybody noticed by now, the site has a
new design (if the page is looking a bit weird try using CTRL-Refresh). I never
intended for the old design to stay up for I think it was around 4 years. When
I was programming the site for the second time (yes there was the first) I just
didn't want to lose any time on design until the features were all there. But with
sites you are never finished and I never got around to it... So last year I
took some time off to work on the design, and created most of what you see
today, but was again pressed for time and didn't implement the changes.
Anyway, the new design is up, judging by
your feedback it is either love it or hate it. I for one like it much better
than the old one, but that doesn't mean it is without its flaws. I will definitely
tweak it in the future. What I did spent
quite some time on, was making sure it stays user friendly. So hopefully you
will quickly find what you are looking for.
Some of you wanted to know what happened to
A-Z index. I actually didn't think
anybody would miss it, so I decided not to include it in the new site. But
since so many of you asked about it, it will be back in a couple of days.
Some of you also wanted to know what
happened to Today’s Birthdays section. It is still there, you just have to
scroll down a bit.
I decided to make a couple of more features
for this site in the coming months, so this is a perfect opportunity for you to
tell me what you are missing. You can submit anything, your ideas, what you
like and don’t like about the site. Just keep it site or nudity related.
