Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Paris Hilton Or Kathy Bates?
The Wichita Eagle | 12/31/2003 | Senior skin: "Forget Paris Hilton. The most interesting naked people on-screen these days are savvier and more talented than Hilton. Wrinklier, too.
Think of them as the naked and the two-thirds dead -- actors over 50 who are baring all. It's the biggest trend in the movies, with five of 'em this month alone. The trend didn't come out of nowhere. Sir John Gielgud was revealing his titled, nonagenarian privates as far back as 1991 in 'Prospero's Books.' But Kathy Bates' gutsy hot-tub scene in last year's 'About Schmidt' seems to have kick-started a real trend, to the extent that five former Oscar nominees (Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, William H. Macy, Danny DeVito and Helen Mirren) can all be seen in their birthday suits in new movies, while hotties like Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst are keeping their clothes on.
What's up? Or, more accurately -- since all of these senior stripizens appear to have the surgically unaltered sags and puckers that God gave them -- what's down?
Surprising nudity is always a good way to get publicity, for starters, but the main reason for all the nekkidness appears to be that it's part of the movies' path toward greater realism.
'Somebody my age has to be naked in a movie,' Diane Keaton told the New York Times, her point being that, just as young, buff people aren't the only people who take off their clothes in real life, they shouldn't be the only naked ones in the movies, either."
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Think of them as the naked and the two-thirds dead -- actors over 50 who are baring all. It's the biggest trend in the movies, with five of 'em this month alone. The trend didn't come out of nowhere. Sir John Gielgud was revealing his titled, nonagenarian privates as far back as 1991 in 'Prospero's Books.' But Kathy Bates' gutsy hot-tub scene in last year's 'About Schmidt' seems to have kick-started a real trend, to the extent that five former Oscar nominees (Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, William H. Macy, Danny DeVito and Helen Mirren) can all be seen in their birthday suits in new movies, while hotties like Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst are keeping their clothes on.
What's up? Or, more accurately -- since all of these senior stripizens appear to have the surgically unaltered sags and puckers that God gave them -- what's down?
Surprising nudity is always a good way to get publicity, for starters, but the main reason for all the nekkidness appears to be that it's part of the movies' path toward greater realism.
'Somebody my age has to be naked in a movie,' Diane Keaton told the New York Times, her point being that, just as young, buff people aren't the only people who take off their clothes in real life, they shouldn't be the only naked ones in the movies, either."
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