Martha Plimpton Nude

Naked in New York Again!

With Broadway facing falling ticket sales, promoters have decided to fall back on the one thing that always guarantees cheeks on the seats (and wadded up tissue under them), female nudity.

To that (rear) end, Mr Skin Hall-of-Famer Mary-Louise Parker will take the stage and do what she does breast!

Hedda Gabler, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s classic story of a neurotic woman who attempts to make a success of her husband with disastrous results, opens at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway this month with Weeds star Mary-Louise in the lead.

Read more after the jump.

Philadelphia native Arthur Penn, who electrified cinema in 1967 as few filmmakers ever have by directing Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde, was born on this date in 1922.

With its unprecedented violence and romantic anti-heroes, Bonnie and Clyde revolutionized what was possible in Hollywood -- and not the least of that was sex and nudity.

For Arthur Penn, that prospect climaxed with Night Moves, wherein teenage Melanie Griffith bares lip-smacking labia-and-anus-intensive back-burger during a skinny dip.

Read – and see – more after the jump.

Wherever men of ideas and action gather to exchange theories and compare experiences, the talk invariably comes around to praising those few accomplished gentlemen among us who have wallowed in the physical delights of a mother and her daughter. The notion of gaining access to the most intimate, moistest recesses of two women, one of whom has squirmed from the womb of the other, is too much for a meek-willed male to contemplate without swooning. It's a hale and brave fellow who embraces the reality of copulating with two successive generations of directly descending females.