This weekend brought sadness not only to Pittsburgh, but to fans of classic movie nudity everywhere, with news of the passing of two of the icons of the sexual revolution in film.
Busty beauty Tura Satana, best known from her spec-rackular performance in the 1965 Russ Meyer classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and Swedish siren Lena Nyman, star of the epochal 1967 skin flick I Am Curious (Yellow) both died on February fourth.
Tura, who once turned down a marriage proposal from Elvis, was 72 and died from heart failure.
Sadly, Tura never showed off her massive mammaries on the screen, but without chesty trailblazers like her, where would the Christina Hendrickses of this world be?
Lena had been suffering from long illness and died at the age of 66, but no one will ever forget her role in taking movie nudity out of the porn theaters and into the arthouses, where it quickly passed over into the mainstream.
After her breakthrough in I Am Curious (Yellow), she starred in the less successful sequel I Am Curious (Blue) and went on to work with film legend Ingmar Bergman.
Mr. Skin would like to take this moment to offer a one-handed salute to the memories of Tura and Lena.
