Blog Posts about Barbarella

John Harrison is the pied piper of sleaze. A passionate advocate of all things weird and wild, John is a collector and expert on a number of sordid subjects including comic books, amusement parks, horror movies, true crime, stag films (Anal Dwarf is one of his prize possessions), and vintage paperback novels.

John is also the author of Hip Pocket Sleaze, the definitive book on paperback pulp from Headpress Books. Hip Pocket Sleaze is not only an entertaining and insightful overview of the pulp paperback and its many interesting incarnations- lesbian pulp, Nazisploitation, sexploitation, hippiesploitation, and more- but also a handy how-to guide on how to get some of these lurid, lusty and oddly fascinating vintage books into your grubby little hands.

A freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia, John has written for scads of print and online publications (including the Mr Skin blog!), is currently working on a new book, Rene Bond: America's Tragic Teenage Fantasy.

Check out our fascinating (Sk)interview with John Harrison after the jump!

Jane Fonda pushed aerobics in the '80s, but now the 73-year-old is advocating another type of pulse-pounding activity: sex. She recently published Prime Time, a manual to living well in your "golden years" that encourages couples to keep their marriages ablaze with the aid of porn and sex shops. But Fonda also has a personal cure for the low libido blues, one that she claims led to the best sex of her life at age 71. Here's what she told Britain's Sunday Telegraph Seven magazine:

Here's something I haven't admitted publicly yet: I discovered testosterone about three years ago, which makes a huge difference if you want to remain sexual and your libido has dropped. Use testosterone. It comes in a gel, a pill, or a patch.

Speaking of testosterone, get yours flowing by checking out Jane Fonda in her Barbarella (1968) prime, nude on MrSkin.com!

Asylum.com's "Token Girl" Opens Up for a Q&A on Celebrity T&A

Mr. Skin has long admired AOL’s guy-centric entertainment site, Asylum, and one major reason (or is it two) has been Emily McCombs and her uproarious video reports from “A Woman’s Perspective.”

Raven-maned, tattooed funnylady Emily grew up in suburban Oklahoma (“It’s the middle of the Bible Belt,” she notes, “and secular entertainment was frowned upon, so any nudity I managed to see on television or in movies was enjoyed with one eye on the door, one finger on the channel change button, and a sizable dollop of guilt”).

At present, Emily resides in New York City where, for kicks, she sings in an all-girl barbershop quartet. She swears.

Alas, Asylum will be closing up shop this week. However, Emily will continue to amuse and inspire online via “A Woman’s Perspective” (though it will be called something else). Do be on the lookout for her and dive on in now to her Mr. Skin Skinterview.

Yesterday we heard that spicy chef Giada De Laurentiis was hooking up with singer John Mayer. Juicy Giada issued a statement saying that the rumor was completely untrue, but it still must have been too much to take for her grandfather, Dino De Laurentiis, who died yesterday at the age of 91.

The Italian-born De Laurentiis produced roughly 150 films during his astounding career; Fellini's La Strada, Dune, and Conan the Barbarian among them. But don't miss Mr. Skin's favorite Dino-produced skin classics.

Mandingo
Diddle your dingle to Mandingo (1975), the story of a cruel slave-master in the 1840s who trains his servants to be bare-knuckled boxers. Whether you prefer black mamas or white mamas, there's something here for everyone, from the creamy cocoa casabas of the stunning Brenda Sykes to the Oreo skinterracial sex scene starring milky Susan George.

Barbarella
Barbarella (1968) is Jane Fonda nude in zero gravity. That's really all you need to know.

Ragtime
An adaptation of the E.L. Doctorow novel, Ragtime (1981) gives us the delicious Elizabeth McGovern in her single greatest nude scene--and her first! One look at Liz with her boobs, pubes, and butt bare, and you'll think it's Shagtime!

Blue Velvet
Dino also lent his production skills to David Lynch's brooding 1986 cult hit Blue Velvet (1986). Ingrid Bergman's daughter-turned-model-turned-actress Isabella Rossellini bares all in the most skincredible perv-formance of her career. Maybe the fact that a fellow Italian was producing convinced her.

As De Laurentiis said of another of his famous productions, King Kong (1976): "When monkey die, everybody gonna cry." Today, everybody's crying over you, Dino.

We're Fonda Both of Them

The press has made a big to-do about the similarities between the world's sexiest woman Angelina Jolie and mega fox Megan Fox. They're both impossibly hot, they have long brown hair, they're mysterious and tattoo-covered and share an insatiable sex drive.

So it was only a matter of time until they found themselves vying for the same role!

Click "more" for the full scoop on these two willowy goddesses duking it out to become the new Barbarella.

Michelle Fatale: The Count Rackula Skinterview

Horror director Michelle Fatale made her first short film Dead Line in 2004 and promptly won official selection at the IFFNTX.com film festival.

Michelle’s subsequent film credits include Paraphilia, Closet Monster, Monkey Vs. Hooker, and Werewolf in a Women's Prison (a personal favorite of the Count’s).

Recently, Michelle finished a new movie called The Cleaner and stopped by Castle Rackula to have a live (so to speak) chat.

Read more after the bite!

Eva Herzigova bares tit-alia in GQ Italia. (MDolla)

Let's all fight about this list of the 50 Sexiest Music Videos. (Nerve)

Barbarella goes terminally psychedella at Hollywood Forever cemetery. (Defamer)

Big O, Daddy-o! Petra Nemcova goes all Bettie Page via rockabilly hairdo.(I'm Not Obsessed)

The BBC covers DDD-cups and beyond in the documentary Big Breasts and Me. (Boobie Blog)

Luscious Lindsay Lohan side-boob. (College Humor)

Kim Kardashian is titanically sexy in a teal dress. (DRW)

Drunk Celebs: A Retrospective. (CityRag)

Meet Aurora Jolie, Vaginal Virgin (Fleshbot).

Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson hot it up at the premiere of their lesbo movie (Derek Hail)

Gwen Stefani is awesomely nine months pregnant. (Dlisted)