With the great, titan of acting and frequent genius Karl Malden passing (at 97 years of age god bless him), I’m posting one of my favorite Malden movies and performances — Baby Doll. Though there’s many brilliant Malden performances to choose from, this one will leave you fuzzy and buzzy. And I think we all need some of that right now.
“There isn’t much of you, but what there is is choice. Delectable, I might say… You’re fine-fibered. Soft and smooth…You make me think of cotton. No! No fabric or cloth, not even satin or silk cloth, and no kind of fiber, not even cotton fiber has the absolute delicacy of your skin.”
So says a predatory Eli Wallach to an aroused and “hysterical” Caroll Baker in one of the most notoriously erotic mainstream films ever produced at that time. The movie was Baby Doll, director Elia Kazan’s tragic-comic follow up to his already steamy masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire, his controversial On the Waterfront and his poignantly powerful East of Eden. Used to a certain amount of censorship and hullabaloo (especially for Streetcar), Kazan was most likely, not prepared for the maelstrom of controversy when Baby Doll, a sultry Southern gothic he intended as a “sleeper” was released in 1956.
Naked tweeting: the next frontier in staged celebrity nudity?
Twitter allows the subject more editorial control over the photos and no doubt gains them followers, though it lacks the chance element of a red carpet slip up. Sometimes the celeb are stripping for a good reason Lance, and other times there seems to be no good reason Lohan.
Click through for some of the clothing-light portraits that Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz and more have posted on their Twitter feeds and decide if it was too much or just right.
Chinese Internet users won an important victory this week when the Chinese government indefinitely delayed implementation of the widely condemned “Green Dam” filtering mandate. In a face-saving move, China, noting that “some manufacturers have said the workload is too large, the time too short and that they are not fully prepared…” announced that “according to the actual situation, the pre-installation can be postponed.”
That’s the good news. The better news is that, although this isn’t the first time the Chinese government has retreated from an unreasonable Internet related mandate, it is the first time that there has been such a transparent, coordinated and vocal effort both in and out of the country to halt the order.
The “Green Dam-Youth Escort” plan would have forced companies to install state-approved Internet filtering software on every computer sold in the country. Efforts to implement the plan appear to have foundered under broad opposition from computer industrytrade associations and governmental leaders in the United States, Canada and Europe; and most critically, a savvy network of connected Chinese activists who exposed the folly of the plan and the faults in the technology, and knew how to stir up tensions and disagreements between factions inside the government.
Okay, okay, I promise that the title of this post is the first and last dick joke I’ll make today. That having been said, don’t expect the same courtesy from the new HBO show “Hung”, which takes every opportunity to make juvenile penis jokes (sample joke: the get-rich seminar that inspires Ray to become a man-whore is led by a guy who encourages the audience to find their “special tool” that will help them succeed).
Now, I’m not going to get into a big debate about prostitution, how it’s portrayed in Hollywood, why joking about having a pimp isn’t funny, etc etc. For me, I hear “comedy + man whore” and think, “Yeah, I will watch that.” So, I tuned in to the pilot episode last night to check it out.
The general premise of the show is this: Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane, a.k.a. “poor man’s Aaron Eckhart“) is a down-on-his-luck guy who happens to have a massive schlong. So he decides, as one does, to put his giant penis to good use as a male prostitute. Aiding him in this is Tanya (Jane Adams, a.k.a. “Niles’ wife who he dumped for Daphne on Frasier“), who offers up her services as a pimp.
Body painted Air NZ staff star in our new Bare Essentials of Safety video, created for our Domestic 737 services Check out the additional videos at http://www.nothingtohide.co.nz
With the proliferation of MySpace and Facebook have come a slew of ridiculous pictures that chicks usually obnoxious tweens take so they can post them and show everyone that they are popular and hot. First, there was that one armed picture, usually taken while pouting or with mouth suggestively open. Then there was the peace sign pose, almost always taken with another girl. Bonus points if one or both girl’s tongues were sticking out. Next, came the sexy body picture taken by aiming a camera at your dirty bathroom mirror. When we thought it couldn’t get any worse, faux lesbian pics cropped up everywhere. And now, our worst nightmare has come to pass. The dreaded “boob circle” has hit Facebook photo albums across the globe. [COEDMagazine]
After the jump, a step by step guide to making your friends think u r omg soooo hawt with a boob circle photo!
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=7b70b564-a007-4234-b961-2d0132370db6 "Kim Morgan: Black Malden Moan: Baby Doll")
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=242179b8-8c23-4106-a07a-fe460c925249 "Celebs Strip Down On Twitter: Digital Overshare? PHOTOS, NSFW")
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=5f53bcb0-b64a-4619-9fe5-0d48c7e5fa86 "Leslie Harris: Chinas Green Dam Overflows and Bursts")
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=c7b061ef-9a1d-4c87-af62-991c68fb709a "Phallic Phailure: Why HBOs Hung Left Me Limp mad typist Open Salon")
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=a3e11cb0-60b8-4e8a-afef-79aa73349c4d "YouTube Bare essentials of safety from Air New Zealand")
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=b0861773-1ba3-4d6e-b76d-2b241f91a064 "Stupid MySpace And Facebook Pictures: The Boob Circle | The Frisky")
