In a skinteresting development, veteran character actor Donald Sutherland has vehemently denied new reports about his sex scene with Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now. As we reported Thursday on the Mr. Skin blog, the new book by former Paramount executive Peter Bart alleges that Donald and Julie were actually playing hide the sausage in the skinfamous scene. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Sutherland strongly denies Bart's story, saying:

"Peter Bart mendaciously writes that he witnessed the shooting of the love scene in Don't Look Now and saw sex. Not true. None of it. Not the sex. Not him witnessing it. From beginning to end, there were four people in that room. [Director] Nic Roeg, [DP] Tony Richmond, Julie Christie and me. No one else. Wires under the locked door led outside, and this was 20 years before video monitors."

Producer Peter Katz, who co-owns the negative to Don't Look Now, also chimed in, saying, "While there was a sex scene captured on film, it was not a scene that would lead to the creation of a human being."

So...it was in her butt?

Don't Look Now wasn't the first time that Donald was lucky enough to act alongside a nubile naked lady, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. Check out some of Sutherland's most seductive costars from the swingin' '70s:

burstynIn 1970 Donald starred in the psychedelic spoof Alex in Wonderland, where he played a burnt-out movie director looking for inspiration. Mr. Skin is tripping on the groovy sight of Ellen Burstyn's bulging sin cushions!

Box office sensation M*A*S*H (1970) proved that while war is hell, it can also be pretty damn stimulating when Sally Kellerman, aka Hot Lips Houlihan, is around.

wyeth Sutherland stayed on the Vietnam tip when he played the role of Jesus Christ (yes, that Jesus Christ), the fantasy friend of Timothy Bottoms in Johnny Got His Gun (1971). Timothy's fantasies feature the hooters of Sandy Brown Wyeth, who also pops up in Mr. Skin's fantasies from time to time.

fonda 2That same year, Donald co-starred with Hanoi Jane herself, Jane Fonda, in Klute (1971), where we got a brief and shadowy, but still lip-smacking good, peek at Jane's perky pair.

casiniDonald had a critically acclaimed supporting role in dirty-minded director Bernardo Bertolluci's war epic 1900(1977).When this historical epic came to DVD in 2006, a deleted scene featuring a real threesome between Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, and Italian eyeful Stefania Casini proved that the turn of the (last) century was far naughtier than anyone ever suspected.

digard 3Donald Sutherland is mostly known for his dramatic roles, but this versatile actor has also appeared in some of Mr. Skin's favorite comedies. How can we forget his turn as a swingin' acidhead professor in Animal House(1978)? Or his cameo as the "clumsy waiter" in Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), which also features the mind blowing pressed mams of B-Movie goddess Uschi Digard? Donald even had a cameo in the neo-dude comedy Beerfest (2006)!

For more righteous retro rackage, check out Ellen Burstyn, Sally Kellerman, Sandy Brown Wyeth, Jane Fonda, Stefania Casini, and Uschi Digard on MrSkin.com!