Blog Posts about Toni Basil

You may remember Toni Basil as the one-hit wonder babe who dressed up like a cheerleader in the early 80s to sing, "Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind." But do you remember the song's veiled reference to backdoor banging (So come on and give it to me anyway you can/ Anyway you want to do it, I'll take it like a man)?

Gimme an A!

And if you really want something to cheer about, check out Toni's appearance in the counterculture classic Easy Rider. She's not wearing a cheerleader's uniform, but we can still see her pom-poms and rah-rah-siss-boom-bush. Check out this crystal clear HD find from the Blu-ray edition of the movie. The resolution is so find it'll blow your mind. I mean load.

A teenage Mr. Skin in his parents' basement with a Betamax could only dream of the nudity made possible by technology. Times have changed, and with the advent of Blu-Ray, the Skin Team is discovering previously hidden bare bits from some of the biggest movies around.

We all knew that Lisa Bonet got naked in Angel Heart, but now we have a nice, clear bush shot. And who knew that Claudine Auger, as Domino in the James Bond classic Thunderball, also had a slip of the lip in the pool scene?

Unearthing these rare nudes is like finding archaeological treasures. Only these are a different kind of dirty.

Get the full list after the cut!

New Nudes are Big News!

“Even the greatest art works can be revitalized by new technologies,” writes Ben Greenman in the latest issue of The New Yorker.

And he’s not talking about the restoration of the Sistine Chapel.

Rather, he’s referring to the painstaking work that goes on everyday at the skinlabs here at MrSkin.com. Namely, checking to see if Heather Graham’s naked butt is visible in the newly released Blu-ray version of James Toback’s Two Girls and a Guy.

Since movies began appearing in the high-definition Blu-ray format in June of 2006, Mr. Skin’s technicians haven been re-watching every available movie to see if anything has changed in terms of nudity.

The results have been more than surprising. In fact, they’re downright skintastic, as the Huffington Post reports.

Read more after the jump.

1969 stands as the year that pop culture evolved from the mass grooviness of Woodstock and the far-out giant leap of the moon landing to the horror of the Manson Family murders and the Hells Angels stomping out flower power at Altamont.

It was also the year that Hollywood erupted with new creative freedom, emboldened by expanding societal mores and the new MPAA rating system.

Filmmakers could now dip into the palette of patently adult material, including coarse language, unflinching violence, and, most importantly, sex and nudity.

Let’s trip on back to 1969 and dig nine classic nude scenes from that headiest of daze gone by.

1. EASY RIDER
Toni Basil
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Toni strips full-frontally nude in a New Orleans cemetery while tripping on LSD.

Easy Rider is indisputably one of the hippie era’s ultimate artistic statements. Toni Basil’s “Hey Mickey!” video is one of the most indelible media images of the 1980s. How interesting that one cultural touchstone unwittingly begat another. On acid. Naked.

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

Easy Rider (1969)—Blu-Ray
STUDIO: Sony
NUDE: Luana Anders (breasts), Toni Basil (breasts, butt), Sabrina Scharf (breasts)
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda are far-out hippies on choppers who set out to find America—and sell a lot of cocaine—in the classic Easy Rider (1969). Along the way they meet rednecks and turn on a then unknown Jack Nicholson to the wonders of weed. This low-budget sleeper came from nowhere to become a huge box-office hit and single-handedly spawned the biker genre. It's heavy existential ending may bum your high, but scenes like Sabrina Scharf skinny-dipping with Hopper in the commune or a pre-"Mickey" Toni Basil romping naked through Mardi Gras on acid will keep your freak flag flying. Karen Black was also in that Mardi Gras sequence but kept her clothes on.

By Milka Magnesia

In ancient myths that span the globe, sirens were female creatures who summoned all sailors within earshot with songs so irresistible that the seamen could not help but veer off course to see the source of such impossibly beautiful music.

The joke was on them, then, when the sirens inevitably lured them to crashing deaths among the jagged rocks that the sinister songbirds called home.

Thousands of years later, rock chicks would pretty much fulfill the same role.

From Eisenhower-era sock hops to the inescapable hip-hop of today, rock chicks have looked good, sounded great, and seldom delivered when it came to celebrity skin. There have been a few flesh-baring exceptions.

And for those about to rock and show their racks, we salute you.