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Shakespeare in Love (1998)

As We Count Down to the 81st Annual Academy Awards on February 22nd, Mr Skin Pays Tribute to the Twenty Actresses Who Took Home Oscar Gold for Films in Which They Flashed Flesh

The 1990s saw acclaim from the Academy coming together with onscreen nudity as never before. In fact, every woman who took home a trophy for Best Actress in a Leading Role throughout that decade had movie nudity in her filmogrphy, a trend that (so far) has continued into the new millennium. The last actress to take home a little gold man in the twentieth century was Gwyneth Paltrow. But uniting Oscar with bared flesh wasn't the only tradition Gwyneth was carrying on with her nude turn in Shakespeare in Love; she was also continuing a family legacy of undressing for the camera. Gwynnie's mom, Blythe Danner, also turned in a pair of nude performances, though she was never saluted by the Academy as her darling daughter was. Paltrow has far outdone Mommy with the volume of nude scenes in her career, which is definitely a good sign. Just imagine all the nudity we can expect from future funbag flashers in the family!

Go for the Burn! Grunt and Groan with Gwyneth

The Royal Tenenbaums are about be become Ripped Tendons n' Quads, and Shakespeare in Love will be Shakespeare in Boxing Gloves. Gorgeous golden goddess and Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow is about to release a brand new workout DVD.

According to Splash News:

Gwyneth Paltrow hopes to become the next Jane Fonda when she releases her own fitness DVD, it has been claimed. The Oscar-winning actress will share her tips for keeping in shape on the tape, sources say, as viewers follow her moves. An insider said:

"Her idea is to show, step by step, what she does every day to stay in shape. There won't be much fancy equipment involved either, because her workout is mostly yoga, some basic Pilates and flexibility and resistance training."

There won't be much resistance to an opportunity to ogle Gwyneth in tight, skimpy workout gear.

After the cut, flex your love muscle as we take you on a trip to fitness videos of stars past and present.

Kevin Bacon-that heroic man of a million connections-has enjoyed an appropriately abundant array of Oscar-winning starlets. We link them up.

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.