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The Beach Girls (1982)

Phoebe Cates’s other great ’80s teen sex comedy also

features Saw babe Betsy Russell, scream queen Brinke Stevens, and loads of sexy surprises.

If summertime 1982 served as cherry-popping Ground Zero for the decade’s teen sex comedy phenomenon—and seeing as it contained the premieres of Porky's, The Last American Virgin, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, it did—then the subsequent swelter season’s Private School (1983) was the first direct fallout. And what a gloriously radiant after-effect it is.

To be sure, a spate of raunchy teen farces did rush into theaters during the ’82-’83 school year—among them: The Beach Girls, Homework, Joysticks, Losin’ It, Goin’ All the Way, My Tutor, Pink Motel, Spring Break, (the mighty) Screwballs, and (the also mighty) Zapped!

But Private School represented Hollywood’s first full-scale attempt to concoct an all-out teen sex comedy blockbuster, calculatedly combining familiar genre tropes (nerds, jocks, nudity-producing pranks, cross-dressing one’s way into the girls’ shower room, etc.), and then adding Phoebe Cates—the naked girl from Fast Times—up on top like a beautiful, brown-nippled bow.

Me-WOW!

Welcome back my friends. It’s good to have you back in Castle Rackula.

After reviewing My Bloody Valentine 3-D last week, my mind has been on horror remakes. Some obviously, are more successful than others.

One sure-fire way to be more successful is to do what My Bloody Valentine 3-D did and amp up the gore and nudity.

Especially the nudity.

With that in mind, this week I’ll be revisiting one of my favorite horror films of the early 1980s, Paul Schrader’s Cat People.

Read more after the bite.

Baring Boobs, Bush and Butt, Bronzing on the Beach is Beneficial, Bawls Babe

Against the prevailing wisdom of the American Medical Association and the mammoth advertising budgets of corporations peddling sunscreen, tit-tastic Transformers star Megan Fox espouses exposing oneself to the sun and saltwater at the beach.

"I find that being out in the sun is better for you than people think,” muses Megan, “Like, when I started going back to the beach and being in the saltwater and the sun, my skin improved a lot. So, I benefit from sunshine."

Click below to read more and check out a classic nude sunbathing pic from The Beach Girls.

As I was watching on of those Mac commercials on TV today in which a young hip guy represents a Mac and a nerdy older guy represents the PC and I immediately noticed the blonde babe playing the PC guy's therapist was none other than Corinne Bohrer, who got a three-star skin rating when she exposed mams, muff, and mudflaps in the golfing drama Dead Solid Perfect (1988) and appeared (clothed but sexy) in the classic teen sex comedies Joysticks (1983) and The Beach Girls (1982). Then in another Mac commercial I noticed that the woman playing the yoga instructor who was helping the PC guy to relax was Detroit-born rack-tress Judy Greer, who showed rack and rug in the sci-fi comedy What Planet Are You From? (2000). I'm pleased to see how Mac is using some of my favorite nude actresses in their commercials. Who's next? Laura Gemser?