Blog Posts about Shame

The producers of William Friedkin's new movie Killer Joe (2011) are sticking to their guns.

The legendary director of The Exorcist submitted this "totally twisted deep-fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story" to the dreaded MPAA censorship board earlier this year, only to be told that extensive cuts would be needed for an R rating.

But rather than cut the already-infamous "KFC scene" where Matthew McConaughey forces Gina Gershon to give head to a chicken leg, the producers of Killer Joe have decided to wear the NC-17 rating with pride and will be releasing the movie uncut and on schedule on July 27.

The NC-17 rating, long considered a cinematic "kiss of death", has been experiencing something of a resurgence lately: Shame (2011) earned solid box office despite its NC-17 rating for graphic sex and nudity, a pattern that Killer Joe is hoping to replicate. (This will be Gina's second foray into NC-17 territory: she also co-starred in the 1995 SKINstant classic Showgirls.)

See the trailer for Killer Joe after the jump!

We're knee-deep in celebrity skin and we're not ashamed to admit it this week on DVD and Blu-ray: First, the SKINstant classic sex-addiction drama Shame (2011) hits Blu-ray for some HD FFN from Carey Mulligan and oh so many more. Also nude on Blu-ray, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air princess Nia Long shows her crown jewels in In Too Deep (1999), and nude on DVD, Vera Farmiga and Keisha Castle-Hughes (yup, the girl from Whale Rider) bare historical hootage in A Heavenly Vintage (aka The Vintner's Luck) (2009).

Also nude on DVD, the doctor is skin as Roger Corman's Cult Classics presents The Nurses Collection, bringing you sexual healing in the form of drive-in classics Candy Stripe Nurses (1974), Night Call Nurses (1972), The Young Nurses (1973), and Private Duty Nurses (1971).

More after the jump!

We can't imagine why this Hungarian poster for Anatomy Awards nominee Shame (2011) was banned...oh no, wait, we totally can.

But we do extend a one-armed salute to the filthy-minded graphic designer who had the cojones to actually make it. Anybody got a towel?

Check out all the stickiest moments from Breast Picture nominee Shame, including the full-frontal debut of Carey Mulligan, right here at MrSkin.com!

If you think that free love and freer funbags were a skinvention of the 1960s, then you've got another think coming, mister. Sexual liberation has been swinging since the early days of the 20th Century, when Josephine Baker made bananas dance with her topless "banana dance" and Clara Bow bared boobage in the first-ever Oscar winner, Wings (1927).

The provocative doc Legendary Sin Cities (2005) chronicles Shanghai's heyday as a center for skinternational sin, but you don't have to step into a time machine to experience the intoxicating decadence of the city once called "the Whore of Asia".

You just have to get your ass to Manhattan, where on January 25 Shame co-stars and masters of burlesque Calamity Chang (right) and DeeDee Luxe (left) proudly present Les Fleurs de Shanghai, a new revue that combines bump n' grind with the exotic romance of Old Shanghai.

Find out more about Les Fleurs de Shanghai, including where to RSVP, after the jump!

Photo by Malgorita Saniewska Photography

DeeDee Luxe and Calamity Chang (left) are used to taking their clothes off...sort of. They're both burlesque (that's old-timey for "stripper who doesn't strip") artistes in New York City, and so when they were called up to shoot a threesome scene with Michael Fassbender in Shame, they took it all in stride. Much more so than the reporter who interviewed them for The Huffington Post about it:

HP: Did you have to take off your clothes for the audition?

Calamity Chang: Yes. But [director Steve McQueen] was so polite, he was like, "Uh, I'm going to turn this way, just let me know when you're ready." You know, like, we're accustomed to being naked in public!

HP: On the day of shooting, was it nerve-wracking having a bunch of crew members watch you?

DeeDee Luxe: It was a closed set. It was Steve, the filmographer Sean Bobbitt...

CC: So there were really five of us in the room.

HP: I was going to say -- and then you're going to lunch with all of them!

DDL: Honestly, I don't think I would've had a problem with that.

CC: Me neither!

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...But you'll be the one leaking when you get an eyeful of these pics! Thanks to an anonymous online source, you can now ogle Carey Mulligan's full-frontal debut in Shame (2011) without also getting an eyeful of Michael Fassbender's Fassdong. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just...that's a whole different blog, man.

See the pics after the jump!

Usually it's cable babes showing big-screen beauties how it's done in the nudity department, but this weekend was a bit of a reversal: even as Shame racked up one of the biggest NC-17 openings ever at the movies, premium TV viewers were left hanging with a single boob-tube boob.

Of course, that single boob is nothing to sneeze at when it comes from Rebecca Creskoff, who ended this season of Hung breaking in a new stud in the back of a car. Ride 'em, cowgirl!

Plus, Pan Am took Mr. Skin's advice (sort of) by having star Christina Ricci strip to her skivvies for the first time on the show. (Of course, if you really want to fly the friendly skies, you can see Christina all kinds of nude here at Mr. Skin.)

More pics after the jump!