Showing posts with label Coleen Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coleen Camp. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

A cult siren spin off : the Landers sisters !

Once again a part of the post has become longer and longer so I have decided to give these two Hollywood hotties their own little post.


It also is a chance for me to post the clips of Audrey and Judy Landers which I have included in previous posts in the form of links. Although it is more a chance for my readers since I am pretty sure most of them don´t bother checking out the links so these videos will be brand new for them.



One of the problems of writing for such a long time on these posts is that things can change while you are trying to finish them. Sometimes you can go back and fix them but sometimes you can´t so we have a little callback in this post. You may remember that in my last post I mentioned Audrey Landers who was a cast member of Dallas and who together with her sister Judy Landers was one of the hottest commodities of that time.


Before the Hilton sisters, Mother Nature blessed us with the stunning Landers sisters, and if you were a teen in the 1980s, the only crack you were on was the roughly twelve inches of cleavage shared between Judy Landers and her sister Audrey. They helped keep the boob in " boob tube " for over a decade, with appearances on nearly every hit tv show requiring a dyed in the scalp blonde with the breast busting bikini body to match.



The 80s gave us a lot of the Landers sisters, mostly on the small screen, where they were often fashioned in as little clothing as possible and even less dialogue. It's hard to imagine though, or it's hard when you imagine, just how famous older sister Audrey Landers became playing the perennial bubbly blonde for our perpetually perky peckers. The sexbombs dazzled us with their own brand of twin magic long before the Bellas arrived on the scene and I must confess I prefer their version of it since here we got two sexbombs for the price of one while Bree is just a poor version of Nikki since she got her boobs inflated to pornstarsize. But back to the Landers.



With their perfectly shaped breasts, butts that won´t quit, legs almost up to their chins plus their lean and fit tireless bodies these blow up sex doll were just born for porn and back in the 80s they were the hottest blonde double d combo everybody fantasized about as two thirds of a sandwich.


Which makes it even more astounding that they never did porn or even explicit sex scenes. To top it all off there are no juicy behind the scenes rumors of the sisters where you might expect some wild foursomes going on at the set of Dallas with Audrey Landers, Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal ( or any of the hot sexbombs like Stacy Sanchez, Michelle Johnson, Priscilla Presley, Charlene Tilton, Deborah Shelton, Coleen Camp, Morgan Fairchild, Barbara Carrera, Tracy Scoggins, Claudia Christian, Lesley Anne - Down or Janine Turner who appeared there ).







Or at least some stories about crazy marathon sex orgies after shooting Madame´s Place or whatever show Judy Landers was shooting since she was clearly the one with the ultimate porn star body. Don´t get me wrong, Audrey´s body was nothing to scoff at and she has the prettier face. But while Audrey has " bedroom eyes " her sister Judy has " sex eyes " - she knows that you want to have sex with her and it´s only a matter of  time.


Plus, she has those pronounced cheeks you only get from years of oral sex.


So it´s no wonder that the more sophisticated looking Audrey landed on Dallas and Galactica while Judy mostly got the parts of the dumb blonde.


In real life neither of them were but they clearly were unaware of the general public´s perception of them as the ultimate sex symbols. Proof of that is the fact that they did a very tasteful but non - nude ( and non - paying, so thanks for that ) PLAYBOY pictorial for publicity reasons only.







They thought it would help the direction of their career and that the roles they would be offered would change from cheerleaders to more mature roles. Of course the incredibly sexy pictures had just the opposite effect since a lot of people had not actually seen the pictorial and just assumed they had done nudity and so all of the roles they were offered had nudity.


Like I said, for two such incredible sexbombs it´s astounding that they managed to life a life without sex scandals and they are both married and have two kids, Audrey has twin sons and Judy has two daughters. There have been a few attempts to do a reality show with the sisters but their everyday life turned out to be too boring for the networks and since they refused to spice it up to get more viewers nothing ever came out of it.



I have a few more clips to add and I want to start with the comedy Stewardess School, one of Judy Landers best known movies. She later appeared in Dr. Alien a.k.a. I Was A Teenage Sex Maniac which got some kind of a fan following but I could not find a good clip from that movie.



Since the videos above are much more in favor of Judy I wanted to add another one with Audrey from Dallas. I still haven´t finished to watch the series because I made the mistake of taking a break. This is a show that was made to binge watch because it pulls you in completely and once you are out it is extremely difficult to get back into it. I think when I start again I have to go back to the famous episode in which Bobby Ewing comes out of the shower alive and well again. I don´t know how many episodes I saw beyond that but I have a feeling that this is the best point of re - entry. And it shows you how iconic this show is that even if you have never seen an episode of Dallas you know exactly what I´m talking about with the scene where Bobby Ewing steps out of the shower.



While I made a reference to twin magic Audrey and Judy Landers are not actual twins, in fact Judy was born two full years after Audrey. They still managed to play twins in some movies. Not in Ghost Writer though where Audrey again played the classy one and Judy took on the role of sexbomb.



Now I thought about going through all my bookmarked music videos to find one that does not feature Audrey Landers and still somehow fits the feel of this post but that could have taken a few days. I wanted to add one with Audery but at the same time I didn´t want to post one of her cheesy Schlager songs from german tv. Luckily I found this clip from an episode of MacGyver no less where she apparently plays a rock star doing an anti drug video. I might be going out on a limb but does Rock Against Drugs really work ? Isn´t the motto Sex & Drugs & Rock´n Roll ? I mean Audrey Landers definitely has the first and the last one covered here.



Coming to Sex & Drugs & Comic Books, while the underground comix movement started in the USA in the 1960s it wasn´t until 1980 that the Volksverlag was founded and classic artists like Gilbert Shelton, Bill Griffith or Robert Crumb reached a wider audience in Germany through their cult publication U - Comix. So for germans who grew up in the 80s watching Dallas and reading underground comix goes hand in hand. Or joint in hand.



One of the reasons why I back dated this post to the same day when I started the Bob Layton Iron Man post ( when actually I am writing this three days later ) is that instead of having to deal with more birthdays I have missed I get to cherry pick the videos. Granted, it can be difficult to choose the right videos but on the other hand I can select some unique findings or videos that always fall to the wayside. So for this post I have selected one from Phantom 2040 which I always skip in favor of another video about Lee Falk´s famous creation ( which was one of Bob Kane´s inspirations for Batman ) because I already posted one or two episodes somewhere. But with all the posts I made I don´t have the time to go back and find them and they may already been erased. With that in mind I am putting up the first five episodes for those readers that might have missed it and even if the other videos are still on the blog the show is that good that it warrants repeating it. Unlike the godawful tv version. 



Speaking of unique findings, for this post I want to take a break from the horror anthology movies so I am closing things for Today with the first episode of Nowhere Man, a show I have never heard of and naturally found while looking for something completely different. Maybe some of my readers can help me out with this since I have no idea if it was good.



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My own ward, Speedy, is a junkie !

Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Larry Hama Day, he is a real american hero

As you may have guessed from the title I´m paying homage to one of the best known writers of pop culture classics on the day of his 67th birthday.


And while he has written a lot of different comic books he is best known for his war books like THE NAM and G. I. JOE where he took a handful of toys and built a world around it that has fascinated and entertained whole generations up to this day. So while I somehow managed to miss the G. I. JOE thing completely although I grew up in the 80s I know what a big part in comic history it has ( the silent issue is one of THE most referenced comics ) and as usual I wanted to add one of my favorite things to the post so I selected a few of my favorite Mike Zeck covers from the original series and some of the ones that followed later from IMAGE and IDW.


Before we come to Today´s celebrity birthdays I have to mention that fellow blogger Terry Hooper from the cantankerous COMIC BITS ONLINE had his anniversary Yesterday and as usual I was already halfway through my Master of Kung Fu post before I noticed. Anyway, since he´s a bit touchy about his age I won´t go into that and if you are an avid follower of his blog - or just go there occasionally - please leave a few comments before it closes down its doors forever. And if you are already going there buy some of his comics which I can only recommend especially the Return of the Gods : Twilight of the Superheroes phonebook ( you can really do some damage with this 332 page sucker ), the D - Gruppe comics and The Bat Triumphant. I don´t know why he´s not selling more comics with the low quality material the big two are currently putting out but maybe comic readers prefer to suffer in their misery to trying out new things. Or maybe it´s only a question of re - packaging things for Today´s audience.


Starting the birthday roll call is Anna Torv and I can say that she turns 37. She´s best known for playing FBI agent Olivia Dunham, Agent Zuckerguß in Germany on one of the best tv shows ever Fringe. This is one of the few instances where the german translation was better than the original because Agent Zuckerguß was so on the nose. Aside from that I prefer to watch the show in the original language setting because Broyles sounds way to sophisticated in the german language. The only problem I have is that at the same time Fringe aired in Germany there was this commercial by ex Germany´s Next Top Model judge Bruce Darnell who looks like Lance Reddick´s secret brother and every time he was on I heard in my head : " Du brauchst einen Wechselkurs. " Anyway, two additional reasons to watch it in the original language is that in the first episode they are in Germany and if you watch it in german they are talking german the whole time but if you watch it in english they only speak german at the beginning. Also, Kirk Acevedo who plays agent Charlie Francis has the most raspy voice I have ever heard on tv and in the german dubbing he sounds nowhere near as cool. Like I said, Fringe is one of the best series on tv and my Mom has binge watched the complete series at least a half dozen times.  


Karl Urban celebrates his 44 birthday and if you haven´t seen his Dredd movie you´re missing out. Not only does it capture the spirit and feel of the Judge Dredd comics co star Olivia Thirlby does a terrific job as Psi Judge Anderson and even does a short nude scene. Well, kind of since it´s really short and out of focus but she looks absolutely amazing. I thought about making an animated GIF of that scene since it is too short but I don´t think it would be safe to post anyway ( as is another GIF I found with what might have happened to Judge Anderson if the convict got his wish, a really excellent animation but NSFW ) and I think this gives you a good enough idea. And go watch the movie for c#r!ssakes. Here´s hoping Karl and Olivia reprise their roles in another Dredd movie.


As of Today Coleen Camp is 63 years old and while she has appeared on tv shows like Happy Days, Starsky And Hutch, Man From Atlantis, Dallas, The Dukes Of Hazard, Magnum P. I, Tales From The Darkside, Murder She Wrote, Tales From The Crypt and Roseanne and been in such box office hits like Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, Game Of Death, Apocalypse Now, Police Academy 2 : Their First Assignment, D.A.R.Y.L., Wayne´s World, Sliver, Last Action Hero and Die Hard With A Vengeance she will always be remembered for playing Yvette, the maid with the Russ Meyer measurements and the Power Girl cleavage in the murder mistery Clue.


The story from Tales From The Crypt she appeared in was Korman´s Kalamity from issue 31 illustrated by Jack Kamen. Since his style was perfectly suited for romance comics he would always get the stories that start out as romance and end in the usual ec style and this story was his favorite since it depicted the transition from romance to horror perfectly.


The story is about a comic artist whose drawings come to live committing murders and Coleen plays his nagging wife who gets her come uppance.



One year older with 64 is Liam Neeson who has managed to have a second career as the guy you don´t want to cross in movies like Non - Stop, 96 Hours, Taken, Taken 2 and Taken 3 ( isn´t it about time they learned not to take anything from Liam ? ) or just the tough guy and manly man in movies like The Grey. Besides of being one of the voices of Geoff, the robot on Craig Ferguson´s The Late Show he has played the iconic roles of Hannibal on the very successful movie remake of A - Team, Zeus in the not so successful remake of Clash Of The Titans and the sequel Wrath Of The Titans, jedi knight Qui - Gon Jinn in Star Wars : Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and the animated Star Wars : The Clone Wars and Ras Al Ghul in the ridiculously good Batman Begins and the equally ridiculously awful The Dark Knight Rises but to guys from my generation he is the guy from Rob Roy, Shindler´s List and Darkman. When that movie came out it didn´t seem like it but there is still comic book life in that character.


Last week I found some Weird Al Yancovic videos on YouTube and if you haven´t seen Episode 1 he sums up the entire movie in The Saga Begins.



Today there were just too many musicians who celebrate their birthday so I had to skip the next two. The tiger Tom Jones turns 76 and since he´s on the jury of The Voice it would have been to difficult to pick a video.

With Roberto Blanco who celebrates his 79th birthday I just couldn´t find the one I was looking for. Here in Germany he never had the chance to tap his real potential and while he had big success with Schlager hits like Der Puppenspieler von Mexico or Ein bißchen Spaß muß sein he had his biggest success in Cuba where the son of cuban descent was the first foreign artist who had his own show block in the revue show of the famous night club Tropicana in Havanna in 1987 to rave reviews.

In the end I decided to go with a Prince song and it really hasn´t sunk in yet that he´s gone. What will live on forever is his great music like Purple Rain, here in the version of up and coming music superstar Dami Im.



Speaking of great musicians who have departed this earthly plane singer / actor Dean Martin would also have celebrated his birthday Today and I always liked the Dean Martin / Jerry Lewis combo. From all their movies Artists and Models is one of my favorites because it is about comics. If you haven´t seen the movie it works in a similar way to the Axe Cop comic : Jerry Lewis has nightmares of the hero Vincent, the Vulture which his pal Dean Martin turns into comics. Unbeknownst to both the secret formula X34 minus 5R1 plus 6 - X36 they use in the comic brings them to the attention of spies. The usual hijinks ensue. Shirley MacLaine as the seductive Bat Lady ( die Vampyr Lady in german ) is my favorite part.



I couldn´t end without the G. I. Joe cartoon and I found a clip that doesn´t put the show down or is just a mix of the different intros.



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