A reader who asks not to be identified complains that with the exception of Penelope Cruz in Volver, none of this year’s Oscar nominees for best actress appeals to his libido.
Well, Jack (name changed to protect the guilty), guess you aren’t familiar with the pre-Queen, pre-Prime Suspect career of Helen Mirren. Directors used to want her for her body; now they want her for her body of work.
Before she donned QEII’s sensible tweeds, Dame Helen famously appeared wearing little more than a strategically-placed hand and a smile in Age of Consent (1969) as a painter’s model to an artist inspired by Norman Lindsay (of Sirens notoriety). She also played the nude descending a staircase in the biopic Savage Messiah, as muse to Vorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. No one who saw The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover will forget MIrren’s voluptuous beauty.
A pair of free passes to the next Mirren feature to the first reader who correctly answers the question: Which improbably sexy 1968 film co-stars this year’s Oscar nominees Helen Mirren and Judi Dench in the near-altogether?
By the way, Jack, none of this year’s best actor nominees knock my knees, but they’re all damned fine actors. Speaking of which…
Comments (7)
As I recall, Helen Mirren took it all off in Calendar Girls, too!
Posted by Ellen | March 8, 2007 3:41 PM
Posted on March 8, 2007 15:41
That would be A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, in which Judi Dench (pre-Dame) was Titania and Helen Mirren was Hermia.
Posted by Scott | March 11, 2007 8:40 PM
Posted on March 11, 2007 20:40
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Posted by Unison | July 2, 2007 8:32 PM
Posted on July 2, 2007 20:32
There is also the notorious Caligula! Apparently the film is being reissued on DVD in a 4 disc(!) set in October with commentaries by Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, as well as a never before seen version of the film.
Posted by colinr | July 12, 2007 1:17 PM
Posted on July 12, 2007 13:17