Blog Posts about Joely Richardson

You might celebrate Mother's Day by sending your mom flowers or a card. Here at MrSkin.com, we recognize the day as a way to laud celebrity moms and their famous daughters who have both dared to bare! From Goldie Hawn and her sexy spawn Kate Hudson to classy Blythe Danner and asstacular Gwyneth Paltrow, these gorgeous babes keep tit in the family.

Like udder, like daughter!

Spring is in the air and here at Mr. Skin we like to celebrate the warm weather with the frolicking flesh of the season's perkiest posies. And Ludivine Sagnier, Joely Richardson, and Laetitia Casta are sure to turn your spring into sprung. So get your stinger ready for the fertile flowers of the Top 10 Nude Stars Frolicking in a Field.

The British aren't exactly known for their decadent, Baroque sensibilities, but director Ken Russell, who passed away this weekend at the age of 84, spent his life trying to change his country's "stiff upper lip" image.

Russell rose to prominence with 1969's Women in Love, which shocked viewers with its skinny-dipping scenes, homoerotic undertones, and depiction of- horrors!- the female orgasm. At the time British filmmaking was dominated by "kitchen sink realism," which rejected fanciful plots and elaborate sets in favor of grey, dour stories about grey, dour people. Russell's bombastic style flew in the face of all these ideas, as described by Geoff Andrew, head of the British Film Institute:

"He used surrealism, exaggeration, colour, music, costume, to push things beyond realism. No-one was doing that in Britain, and the 'shockingness' of his style was part and parcel of that. He didn't feel he had to restrain himself - he didn't want to be part of this grey world," Andrews told the UK's Channel 4.

Another shocking aspect of Russell's films was their plentiful nudity- Helen Mirren, Kathleen Turner, Joely Richardson, Theresa Russell, and Michelle Phillips (to name a few) have all done nudity in Russell films, and Glenda Jackson was one of the first mainstream actresses to go full frontal in The Music Lovers (1971). That same year, Russell's film The Devils (1971) was widely banned thanks to its depiction of the intersection between sex, violence, and religious ecstasy, a controversy Russell welcomed, as he did with the many outrages his films sparked over the years.

A great lover of classical music, Russell gleefully combined high culture and cheap thrills in films like Lisztomania (1975), Mahler (1974) and Lady Chatterly (1992). But he was equally comfortable in the gutter, as shown by his streetwalking sagas Whore (1991) and Crimes of Passion (1984), and this combination made him the perfect conduit to bring the Who's depraved rock opera Tommy (1975) to the big screen.

Russell had trouble securing funding for his elaborate epics later in his career, but his innovations (and skinnovatons!) in the art of cinema have assured his influence will be felt for many years to come.

Get an eye-opening education in the nude sensibilities of Ken Russell with our Ken Russell Movies: The Very Breast Scenes playlist, right here at MrSkin.com!

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

The Shield: The Complete Series
STUDIO: Sony
NUDE: Paula Garcés (body double—breasts, butt), Michele Hicks (breasts), Aisha Hinds (breasts, butt), Natalie Amenula (butt), Donielle Artese (butt), Rina Fernandez (breasts, butt), Jenya Lano (breasts, butt), Marguerite MacIntyre (breasts), Nicki Micheaux (breasts, butt), Ellis Perry (butt), Susan Santiago (breasts, butt), Tamlyn Tomita (breasts, butt), Gina Torres (butt)
Bad cops make good TV. That’s certainly the case in the excellent F/X series The Shield. It stars Michael Chiklis, who has come a long way from playing John Belushi in Wired (1989) and portraying a cop on the hit TV drama The Commish. He plays the crooked detective who leads a team of criminal peace officers who are more interested in getting a piece of the pie, whether that’s money or honey. And they get a lot of both. Thanks to the series being produced on a cable network, there’s also ample nudity, though it’s usually hard to see with the fast edits. Still, the mean streets of Los Angeles are filled with heavenly angels who can’t wait to spread their wings for the bad boys of the LAPD.

Each Tuesday, be sure to check in with Mr. Skin to get the complete skinny right here on the hottest DVD releases. Here is the randy round-up for the week of October 21, 2008.

20. Wonder Woman (1976-1979)

Network: ABC

Tele-Vision: Lynda Carter

Skinopsis: Lynda Carter brings the classic comic-book character to voluptuous life while America marvels at her superpowers and watches intensely to see her flap those eagle wings.

What’s Hot: Lynda Carter, Lynda Carter, Lynda Carter. Bullets and bracelets. Those satin tights. Truth, justice, and the T&American way! And Lynda Carter!

Sexy Star Pics:

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Nip/Tuck premiered on cable's FX network on this date in 2003.

After several years of struggling, the cable network FX scored a hit with Howard Stern's sexy Baywatch parody Son of the Beach in 2000 (featuring Jaime Bergman and Leila Arcieri), and then nailed down a TV classic with the savage (but skin-friendly) cop show The Shield two years later.

Empowered by those daring, censor-defying series, FX went even further out on a limb—and got even more actresses out of their clothes—with the debut of its plastic-surgery-themed drama Nip/Tuck. Controversy greeted the show from its first episode, which seemed to only make Nip/Tuck get more provocative.

For a blast of how this show has dared to bare, join us after the (pun intended) cut.