Blog Posts about Klute

In a skinteresting development, veteran character actor Donald Sutherland has vehemently denied new reports about his sex scene with Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now. As we reported Thursday on the Mr. Skin blog, the new book by former Paramount executive Peter Bart alleges that Donald and Julie were actually playing hide the sausage in the skinfamous scene. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Sutherland strongly denies Bart's story, saying:

"Peter Bart mendaciously writes that he witnessed the shooting of the love scene in Don't Look Now and saw sex. Not true. None of it. Not the sex. Not him witnessing it. From beginning to end, there were four people in that room. [Director] Nic Roeg, [DP] Tony Richmond, Julie Christie and me. No one else. Wires under the locked door led outside, and this was 20 years before video monitors."

Producer Peter Katz, who co-owns the negative to Don't Look Now, also chimed in, saying, "While there was a sex scene captured on film, it was not a scene that would lead to the creation of a human being."

So...it was in her butt?

Don't Look Now wasn't the first time that Donald was lucky enough to act alongside a nubile naked lady, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. Check out some of Sutherland's most seductive costars from the swingin' 70's after the jump!

Though he is considerably less bald and golden, Mr. Skin has at least one thing in common with Mr. Oscar: an abiding love of onscreen ladies of the night. Common sense in Tinseltown states that if an actress wants the gods of the Academy to smile upon her, she should play a stripper, a hooker, or a nun. We here at Skin Central are biased towards the strippers and the hookers (though nuns aren’t always so bad), so we're turning on the red light for this skinspiratonal sampling of actresses who’ve gone from walking the streets to walking the red carpet.

Perhaps the most famous cinema call girl is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (1990). Julia charmed the Academy into a Best Actress nom after charming Richard Gere out of his pants as the ultimate hooker with a heart of gold. Body double Shelly Michelle serves most of the skin in this flick, but in one scene Jules lets a definite nip slip while rolling in the sack.

Elisabeth Shue also works hard for her money- hard enough to win an Oscar for her performance as a streetwalker in Leaving Las Vegas (1996). The scene where she pours Nicholas Cage a tequila body shot in the desert sun still has Mr. Skin all hot and bothered.

Way back in her Hanoi Jane days, Jane Fonda got liberated as a happy hooker in Klute (1971)- and got a little gold man for her trouble. Most of Jane’s nudity in the film is woefully under-lit, but her nice perky lil’ right nip pops up in this well-lit scene.

More recently, Marisa Tomei took off her top to pay the bills in The Wrestler (2008). Mr. Skin thought that Marissa’s hooters were rays of sunshine in the otherwise relentlessly downbeat film, and the Academy must have agreed, since they rewarded her with an Oscar nom.

Grab a handful of sweaty bills, because we've barely stroked the tip of the nude iceberg of skinema sex work, and Mr. Skin is gonna make it rain!

Stay tuned for more Academy-Award winning nudity all this week on the Mr. Skin blog!

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

In the history of the Academy Awards, only one woman has taken home two statues for nude appearances, and that woman is Jane Fonda. Maybe it's because she had to try extra hard to be taken seriously due to her famous parentage, or maybe it's because she just looks damn fine naked, but this Hollywood scion has blazed quite a nude trail in her career, and the little gold man named Oscar has stood erect and given her two proper salutes, for Klute and Coming Home. The oft-nominated Jane stopped getting nods after 1986's The Morning After, which was her next to last nude scene. Coincidence? Mr Skin thinks not. Hey Jane, if you want another trophy, try whipping out your Golden Globes again.