Originally I just wanted to do a short mention of the anniversary of Hugh Hefner´s birth in the bonus section of my spotlight on the Goblin Queen for X - MEN MONTH but then I decided that a man who not only changed my life for the better or the lives of entire generations of men - and women - around the globe but improved humanity itself deserves better.
Now I won´t list all of the women who have been in the pages of PLAYBOY magazine ( in the original publications as well as in the foreign editions - at least to the best of my knowledge ) because there are already enough websites dedicated to that. Instead I am listing the ones I have featured on the blog which I have been writing over the last sixteen years with some links where to find them since 1,165 posts are a lot to go through.
Also I am not going to list them alphabetically but according to their date of birth including their measurements when available. And since this will be a resource for myself a well as my readers I will not only list playmates but every sexy female celebrity that has been in the pages of PLAYBOY.
Now this will not be a complete list since I spent the last two days going through all my old posts up and only managed to make it to the middle of 2017. It´s more of a Best Of The Breast and as always it´s completely random and subjective. Which means I will favor personal favorites and might skip some others. And if I have forgotten somebody drop me an e - mail. As always things got a longer than expected so I will probably need more than one post. With that said let´s start and see how far we can go.
We are off to a great start on January the 1st with wrestling sexbomb Kimberly Page ( who often gets mixed up with Playmate Of The Month in May 1987 Kymberly Paige whose birthday is either also on January the 1st or April the 6th ). Kimberly Page is of course known to wrestling fans as the Diamond Doll, valet of Diamond Dallas Page in the ring and his personal blow up sex doll at home. For the longest time her husband was the only one who got to see her stunning 36D - 25 - 36 measurements naked until Kimberly appeared in PLAYBOY newsstands pictorials from 1994 to 1999.
Everybody lusted after Kimberly´s giant boobs and I remember an episode of Monday Nitro where she got a key to a hotel room and prepared some champagner and dolled herself up in her raunchiest Fuck Me lingerie ( at least as raunchy as possible without getting censored ) awaiting her hubby to give her a good pounding. Only to discover that it was Ric Flair who had sent her the key who wanted Kimberly to do some spreading and sweating while pumping his rock hard nature boner. It´s no wonder Big Poppa Pump wanted to dicktame her to become one of his sex freaks.
Now in the 90s somebody at WCW Wrestling must have felt that Kimberly was wasting her talents just being arm candy for her husband and so one of the best ideas EVER in wrestling was implemented : the Nitro Girls.
Naturally with Kimberly as the front woman. And though she wasn´t the best dancer and sometimes had trouble with the choreography she more than made up for that with her other qualities. So far Kimberly Page doesn´t have her own cult siren entry but I mentioned her in this post about my favorite female wrestlers and in this Nitro Girl spin - off post .
On January the 2nd we have hawaiian hottie Tia Carrere who has been scorching up the big screen and the small screen with her 36D - 24 - 35 measurements. Some of her best scenes are in the comedy High School High opposite Jon Lovitz and Tia is the only reason to watch that flick.
Apropos, Tia Carrere was also the female lead in Relic Hunter, a show that flopped despite it´s brilliant pitch : do an Indiana Jones tv series but instead of Harrison Ford make the archeologist a hot exotic sexbomb. I never understood why the series was not more successful since Tia wore sexy outfits, took off her clothes a few times and showed lots of skin.
And as longtime readers of the blog know I can´t let the opportunity pass to mention one of my favorite flicks, True Lies where Tia Carrere played femme fatale Juno Skinner although she didn´t show much skin herself.
Staying with movie sexbombs on January the 10th we have ultimate 33 - 25 - 35 bikini beach body Janet Jones Gretzky who is no stranger to regular readers as I mention her quite often in the bonus section.
She has been in a few movies but she is best known for her appearance in Police Academy 5 - Mission Miami Beach in a stunning swimsuit alongside Busenwunder Leslie Easterbrook. She is the main reason why people still watch the movie - or at least wait with switching off until her part is over.
We keep the babes in bikinis theme going on January the 13th as we come to our first BAYWATCH related birthday with one of my favorite born for porn tv sex bombs of all times, 36D - 22 - 32 nubian über sex goddess Traci Bingham ( or Traci Banghim like I call her ). She got her cult siren entry in 2013 and subsequent re - posts in 2014 , in 2016 , in 2017 and this year .
Speaking of afro - american aphrodite Traci Bingham, she almost was used like a nubian blow up sex doll by one of the horny BAYWATCH producers :
" One of the producers came into my trailer because he wanted to see me in person. He asked me to put my red suit on, and wanted to look at me in the swimsuit. I don't know if it was a sex thing or a sexual - harassment type of deal, which I felt it was because he was looking at my 36D breasts intensely. He wanted to know what the deal was with my insanely huge breasts. When I told him that I was not padding my suit he didn´t believe me and said he had to make sure for himself. First he just kind of, like, touched under my breasts but then he slid his hands under my swimsuit and began to fondle my breasts. When he pulled them out and started to bury his face between them I could feel he was getting a huge erection. "
" When I grabbed him and shoved him out of my trailer he said he only wanted to make sure that I didn´t pad my suit but I´m sure that if I hadn´t stopped the pervert he would have assaulted me sexually. "
And for more on such baywatchable babes like Erika Eleniak ( who is of course most famous for her incredibly steamy striptease in UNDER SIEGE ), Krista Allen ( best remembered for getting her freak on as french blow up sex doll EMANUELLE in 8 made for tv movies ) or natural born go go dancer Carmen Elektra check out my latest BAYWATCH SPIN - OFF POSTS.
Another BAYWATCH cast member whose birthday is on January the 13th is Nicole Eggert. So far I haven´t written much about her but she did star in a grim and gritty super hero movie from the 90s called The Demolitionist.
We come to a real boob star heavyweight on January the 19th with aptly named double D Busenwunder Dolly Parton a.k.a. the natural viagra substitute. And while I have mentioned the megabusty sexvixen with the titanic twin torpedoes often on the blog she only got her own spin - off post which also featured real life Power Girl Anna Nicole Smith last year.
She is famous for being the original singer of I Will Always Love You which Whitney Houston covered in The Bodyguard and which became a favorite on casting shows since then and holds the Guinness Book world record for a woman with the biggest breasts in a non r - rated movie ( which have been reported to be anything from 38CC up to 48E !!! ) in Nine To Five.
With a first name that is short for blow up sex doll and the corresponding body she was predestined for a career in porn movies ( where her porn name would have been Sex Dolly or Dolly Part´ Em ) and it is all the more astounding that she managed to have a clean and very wholesome image.
If there ever was a woman born to play a whorehouse matron in a musical it´s Dolly Parton and it´s a crying shame she never got to play Power Girl.
On January the 20th - although I am not sure if 1966 or 1967 - we have afro - american aphrodite Stacey Dash . Stacey is really the only reason to watch the Clueless tv series since she busted out to her 34C - 24 - 34 measurements on that show. Sadly she waited with posing for PLAYBOY until she was 40 years old although her pictures still turned out pretty hot.
We are turning international on January the 23rd with bulgarian pop folk singer Andrea Teodora who goes by the stage name Andrea or Sahara. She was of course in the bulgarian version of PLAYBOY thanks to her 36D - 24 - 35 measurements and while I haven´t done a full feature on her so far I posted some music videos of Andrea here , here , here , here and here .
Closing out the month of January on the 27th is 80s playmate Karen Velez.
With her 37E - 23 - 35 measurements it´s no wonder that she not only became Playmate Of The Month in December 1984 but also the very first puerto rican Playmate Of The Year in 1985. As a geek trivia she was married to Six Million Dollar Man / Fall Guy Lee Majors from 1988 to 1994.
Continuing with quintessential playmates of the 1980s we begin the month of February on the 1st of the year 1966 with one of my favorite centerfolds, the tall, buxom and brunette brabuster Donna Edmondson .
My days of reading PLAYBOY are long gone but I still kept my copy of the german issue with Donna Edmondson in a secure place. Which by the way didn´t have Donna on the cover but german bunny Kirsten Schaefer.
Back to Donna Edmondson, I don´t know if she was predestined to take her clothes off for men´s magazines but in her high school yearbook she was voted " Most likely to become a bunny. " Which she did and thanks to her stunning 36F - 23 - 35 measurements she not only became Playmate Of The Month in November 1986 but was voted Playmate Of The Year in 1987.
Now since I read the german issues I had no idea how people in America react to certain playmates ( which is one reason why writing these entries is interesting - I learn so much ) and I had no idea about the controversy because Donna Edmondson was called The Virgin Playmate after it came out that at the time she did her nude pictorial for PLAYBOY she was still a virgin. Which got all the tv stations interested in interviewing The Virgin Playmate Of The Year from the Bible Belt
which got all the politicians and religious zealots involved. I remember that at that time there were a lot of politicians who wanted to make a name for themselves by posing as paragons of virtue and decency by attacking the easy targets like movies, magazines and comics. People from my generation may remember how one politician furthered his career by driving the Volksverlag out of business while the other publishers did nothing. Because the money grubbing bastards were too busy thinking
about which licenses they were going to bid for once the Volksverlag had to cease publication. According to what I read a report by the Meese Commission prompted all 7 - Elevens to pull the issue of PLAYBOY from their shelves and Joan Rivers ( who had an interview in that same issue ) did her best to rake Donna over the coals.
In the end all we have Today are fond memories of Ms Edmondson´s great pictorials and she hasn´t done bad for herself as she took a job as a tax accountant after the whole scandal where she met her husband with whom she has three kids. The best revenge is a life lived to its fullest.
Also born on February the 1st but in 1974 we have Lisa Marie Scott.
This professional ballet dancer of japanese descent became Playmate Of The Month in February 1995 and was the first playmate to be featured on the PLAYBOY website. She also pursued a film career and you might have seen her in Friends, Baywatch Nights, Married With Children, Playboy videos or midnight classics Ringer with Shannon Whirry or The Corporate Ladder with Ben Cross, Talisa Soto, Meilani Paul and Kathleen Kinmont .
After her film career Lisa went back to college to study and majored in history summa cum laude. She then went on to law school but soon found out that it was not the job she wanted so she went back to modeling.
We have our first Andy Sidaris related playmates starting on February the 7th 37E ( !!! ) - 23 - 35 Playmate Of The Month in March 1984 Dona L. Speir.
Her exceptional talents include breasts as big as her head and just as visible. She also has the smooth, muscled legs and
firm, ripped glutes of a person who makes her living with her physique. Her face is framed in a mane of brightly cast blondness. She is best known for her role of secret agent Donna Hamilton, the go - to gal in Andy Sidaris' flashy series of spy - chick erotic thrillers since 1987. The highly successful, often imitated, never duplicated Andy Sidaris formula can be distilled to bombs and bullets and boobs and beaches and Bond gadgetry and hot tubs that double as think tanks. The intangible thread that pulls it all together ? Dona Speir.
The first time I mentioned Andy Sidaris was way back in 2013 but it took me until 2015 to do my first spotlight post on him and afterwards Dona got her own cult siren entry in 2016 with re - post in 2017 and again in 2018 .
We skip a week to February the 13th where we find Roberta Vasquez.
The big breasted latina is well known to longtime readers from baring her breast ASSets in many Andy Sidaris movies in fact I cast her as Big Barda in the ANDY SIDARIS SPECIAL EDITION in the special Subzero bonus round of my Casting the Justice League of America movie series. And while I have not done a solo post for her - yet - she has been regularly mentioned in the original Dona Speir cult siren post and all subsequent re - posts of it.
Roberta Vasquez was born in Los Angeles, on February 13, 1963. She became Playmate of the Month for November 1984, her measurements then were 40DD - 25 - 36. She stood at 5'8", weighing 125lb, with some of the most perfect natural breasts to ever appear inside PLAYBOY magazine.
Andy Sidaris was probably THE BEST director of action movies for adults and his cast is a WHOS´S WHO of playmates : 40DD Playmate Of The Month November 1984 Roberta Vasquez , hot 34D Page 3 girl turned sex therapist Ava Cadell , 41D Penthouse Pet Of The Year 1993 Julie Strain , Samantha Phillips, 34D Playmate Of The Month May 1994 Shae Marks , 36D Penthouse Pet Of The Month February 1993 Julie K. Smith , 34C Playmate Of The Month September 1993 Carrie Westcott or Dona Speir to name just a few.
We have our first german centerfold on February the 15th with Schlager starlet Tanja Shitawey a.k.a. Tanja Thomas a.k.a. Tanja Gisela Hewer a.k.a. Michelle a.k.a. etc. who posed nude in the german PLAYBOY in April 2006.
As with most german celebrities I was unable to find her measurements aside from that she´s a 34C so I have to list them as unknown. So far I haven´t done a feature on her because with all the different names she used it´s difficult to find good pictures of her so I only posted a video.
Going on to February the 18th we have 34C - 23 - 33 beachbody Heidi Mark and I came across her by accident. I posted one of the Thunder In Paradise movies that were shot to get a network to buy the series because I could not find the episode I was looking for. Or rather the episode with this hot bouncing action prone beachbombing bimbo.
As usual I came across this episode while I was looking for Playboy clips of Jacqueline Sheen. It is episode three of the first season ( or episode four if you count the pilot movie as two episodes ) called Sea Quentin
and I think Sting guest stars. The wrestler, not the singer. According to her imdb sheet the woman in the red bikini with the
integrated bouncing action appeared in six more Thunder In Paradise episodes and her name is Heidi Mark. She was Playmate Of The Month in July 1995, appeared on Baywatch , Silk Stalkings and various episodes of Married With Children.
It´s back to german Sexbomben on February the 23rd with 36D MILF Andrea Sawatzki and I wrote a feature on her just recently in this post .
Speaking of playmates on Married With Children, on February the 24th we have Playmate of the Month April in 1986 Teri Weigel. Because of Teri´s perplexing 36E ( !!! ) - 22 - 34 physique and her protruding torpedo shaped sweater puppies she became quite popular and was in a few specials from PLAYBOY. She also was one of the few playmates who also appeared in PENTHOUSE although not as a Pet of the Month. She was just everywhere during the 80s. She later had her breasts enlarged and did porn but in my opinion she looked best in her appearances on Married with Children.
What I completely brainfart on is Teri also appeared in Baywatch ( she is topless in the pilot episode although that part can sometimes be censored ), Predator 2 and Savage Beach by Andy Sidaris. Fun fact : Teri Weigel and Carolyn Liu both were in PLAYBOY´s Sexy Lingerie 3 and both appeared in Andy Sidaris movies but not together. Carolyn Liu is also very well known in Germany amongst people of my generation since she took her clothes off on Tutti Frutti with Power Girl Monique Sluyter as did Sandra Wild, a blonde sexbomb with giant breasts who also was in an Andy Sidaris movie.
And I just wrote a spin - off post with all the usual links to Janet Jones Gretzky and real live Power Girl Leslie Easterbrook who had the most famous scene in Police Academy 4 - Citizens on Patrol in which she emerges from a pool in a wet t - shirt. And while the obligatory Andy Sidaris actresses / playmates / sexbombs like Roberta Vasquez , Ava Cadell , brunette Cynthia Brimhall, Dona Speir , Julie Strain , Shae Marks , Julie K. Smith and Samantha Phillips are mentioned the main part is about blonde brabuster Monique Sluyter and the obligatory plethora of Tutti Frutti girls .
Closing up the month of February more internationally on the 28th we have 39D ( !!! ) - 25 - 39 mammary massita Monica Farro, a former Miss Uruguay and star contestant on argentinian dance show Bailando Por Un Sueno. I have already posted a few clips from that show so I don´t have to explain it ( basically it´s the porn version of Dancing with the Stars as the female contestants have all done porn or at least appeared in
adult movies and instead of normal dances they do super steamy stripteases ).
She is a total knockout with the prototype heart shaped butt, she has been numerous times in PLAYBOY, MAXIM and other men´s magazines and she gives the best interviews. I don´t know if you can believe everything she says though as she confesses to be a total sex freak,having sex up to six times on one day and possessing three g - spots. In Monica´s words :
I love doing it in the shower, it makes me hot. Whenever I feel horny I say : " Let´s hit the shower ! " My favorite position is with my boobs pressed firmly against the wall while being taken hard from behind. I like kissing with water pouring down between my lips....both sets of them.
In bed I can give you a brilliant class about everything. I´m the born sex instructor and I love playing the role of horny teacher. Whenever I get the chance to give some boy, who has just reached the peak of his staying power and can come dozens of time, some deepthroat sex ed I switch to " total nympho mode " going for a weekend sperm extraction marathon.
Which ruins him for all girls. I know that sounds hard ( pun intended ) but so far there have been no complaints from any of the guys I dicktamed.
Including her in these posts is always a struggle because she is just too sexual. I have put her in a special real life Power Girl post together with russian 43E - 24 - 36 Schaubusenbesitzerin ( some things you just can´t translate ) Anna Semenovich. In the case of Anna it has nothing to do with her material being too explicit I just wanted to post more pictures.
Now the reason why I put Anna Semenovich in the post with Monica Farro is that her birthday falls on March the 1st, and we will have to continue with that month in part two of this celebration of Hugh Hefner´s legacy.
Man, this post is fully packed and we only managed to cover two months.
If this continues at this pace I will need six posts to cram all the sexbombs from PLAYBOY magazines into them. On the other hand which male would complain about five more posts full of playmates and other hot women ?
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Friday, March 03, 2017
Flash Friday - Through the looking glass !
You must be really tired of me telling you that I´m late with my FLASH FRIDAY posts so I won´t use that excuse Today since I´m actually not sure if I´m late or if I´m early or right on time or what. It´s a bit complicated.
But let´s start in the here and now. It´s Saturday and I am putting the finishing touches on the post so you might think that I am late. I am not.
Because I originally wrote the post in February and had already posted the main part when I realized it was Curt Swan´s birthday. So as I had already failed to do a special Curt Swan post last year - and there was no hurry to put the FLASH FRIDAY post on the blog - I put this post back into the draft folder. So you could say I am early because I wrote this post three weeks in advance. But - when I originally wrote it I was also late. Oh, boy. You see, the same week I had already posted a FLASH issue for Valentine´s Day but the FLASH FRIDAY post before that was back in January. So I do not know if I am coming or if I am going, if I am late or if I am early and if you get the strange feeling of Deja Vue that you have seen this post before than you are right. Whew, did you understand any of this ? Me neither.
Anyway, when I first put this issue of FLASH on the blog I wrote a brilliant intro which was probably the best piece of writing I have ever done on this blog without patting myself on the back too much. It was short but still poignant, witty, extremely clever worded and - might I say it ? - even a bit philosophical. One of this true moments when you can grasp the true meaning of life and I have to admit I had to get a tissue to wipe away a lonely tear, so moved was I. BUT you might say if it was that good why did I erase it ? The answer is : for my readers. Because as much as it might have changed the life of everybody who might have read it back then forever it only worked within the context of when it was originally written and if somebody would read it now it would make no sense and all the meaning would be lost. So it is with a heavy hart that I have to delete such greatness even if I´m sure that the new introduction will not even achieve a fraction of that. But it is all for the sake of my beloved readers.
Now if you have only started reading TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN this year you are probably going " Wait a minute, the special Valentine´s Day post was FLASH issue 129 and this is issue 133 of THE FLASH. Where´s the beef ? " ( okay, nobody who wasn´t around during the 80s will probably use the expression where´s the beef ? but you get what I mean ) and you are absolutely right. The thing is that I already posted FLASH issue 130 , issue 131 and issue 132 which are part of the excellent Emergency Stop written by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar so you might want to go back and read those before continuing with this. I also already posted FLASH issue 134 in advance so don´t be surprised if our next issue is FLASH 135. By the way, we are nearing the end of Paul Ryan´s run on FLASH as there are only two more issues left to post. I´m open to suggestions on how to continue - and if to continue at all - the FLASH FRIDAY posts. I think if nobody objects I´d like to continue with Paul Pelletier´s issues from the series.
Anyway, here is finally the continuation from the cliffhanger I posted in July last year, sorry it took me so long. I hope the long wait was worth it.
Today I have no link section beforehand as all the links have to do with the celebrity birthdays which start with Jessica Biel who turns 35 and I hope the german press has figured out who she is by now. Because I remember that when Esquire voted her the Sexiest Woman Alive in 2005 the entire german press was lucid because the title had gone to an total unknown ... at least if you are a reporter in Germany who never goes to see a movie.
Now Jessica has had her ups and downs, the downs being Blade : Trinity ( really, after the first one they just could not get it right ) and the Total Recall remake ( which at least brought new record sales of the original movie and showed that you just can´t make a Schwarzenegger movie without Arnold ) for which she - almost - made up with displaying her goods in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and in Powder Blue.
Although you might want to do yourself a favor and fast forward to the good parts in the last one before you get so depressed you want to kill yourself. Like I said, Jessica has almost made up for her bad decisions, all we need is another movie where she shows her obvious superior stripper skill but this time without the unnecessary drama, thank you very much.
We are staying with great performers - although the more dressed type - as Ronan Keating celebrates his 40th birthday. Going over all my videos from casting shows I realized there is a whole generation out there which only knows Ronan from being a judge on The Voice and The X - Factor and has no idea of his boyband past. I wonder what would happen if one of those girls found out. As for any connections to comics : come on his name is Ronan and his day job is being a member of X - Factor. Nuff said.
We are staying with teen heartthrobs although we make the jump from cult boybands to cult tv shows as David Faustino turns 43. He has been in everything from The X - Files to Batman Beyond and The Legend Of Korra but he is best known as Bud Bundy on hit tv show Married With Children.
Speaking of Married With Children and Bud Bundy, one of my pet peeves is giving proper credit to all the unsung heroines who give their all to provide us viewers with entertainment. For years I have searched for information about the Busenwunder who plays Roxanne, the classmate with the big double airbags Bud lusts after when he celebrates his 18th birthday. If you have pondered the question yourself I can disclose that the girl´s name is Gina Puzo and apparently she quit showbiz after this.
And to stay on this subject, a few days back I posted one of the Thunder In Paradise movies that were shot to get a network to buy the series because I could not find the episode I was looking for. Or rather the episode with this hot bouncing action prone beachbombing bimbo.
As usual I came across this episode while I was looking for Playboy clips of Jacqueline Sheen ( which I ended up not using ) whom we will see further down the countdown. It is episode three of the first season ( or episode four if you count the pilot movie as two episodes ) called Sea Quentin and I think Sting guest stars. The wrestler, not the singer. I could only find a foreign version that has the german dubbing with a voice over in another language which is also not english. So people who only speak english are punked two times but even if you understand german the voice over is so overpowering that you can´t hear the german dubbing. According to her imdb sheet the woman in the red bikini with the integrated bouncing action appeared in six more Thunder In Paradise episodes and her name is Heidi Mark. She was Playmate Of The Month in July 1995, appeared on Baywatch and also was in various episodes of Married With Children.
Which brings us back to David Faustino. I already posted the documentary about the cult television series in an earlier posting so here is a reunion where the actors talk about their experiences. Since I am always mega busy with running the blog I have not had the time to watch all of it.
Next we have a comic related birthday and as a collective sigh of relief goes through my readership I want to pay homage to italian artist Claudio Castellini´s 51st anniversary. I have to admit that I had a hard time to find some artwork from him and going through some of his works I remembered how prolific he was. I am not sure if DC vs Marvel was the first time I saw his artwork but he did a lot of top notch projects for the Silver Surfer and the Fantastic Four. He also did the Logan : The End mini series which was less than memorable but with the new Logan movie on the horizon Disney may reprint that to make a quick buck with poor clueless comic newbies.
Now my italian is not so good and does not cover much more than what I could get from some episodes of Quelli Che Il Calcio and my tapes of La Blue Girl ( I got the italian version at a really hidden second hand shop because the german version was heavily censored ) but I guess this interview on FUMETTOLOGICA has something to do with Nathan Never.
Longtime readers may remember that I wrote about this series which is published by Sergio Bonelli Editore who also produces Dylan Dog, Martin Mystery and Tex Wyler. I don´t know if Claudio Castellini did any interior artwork but I know he did a slew of covers and you can find a gallery of Claudio Castellini´s covers for Nathan Never at DIME WEB . What I DO know is that he did issues of Dylan Dog although I don´t think they have come out in german yet. Coming back to Marvel vs DC, this is rather about the movies than the comics but Solon Papageorgiou has an article called Marvel vs DC : Defending DC over at MOVIE PILOT , Brian Salvatore at MULTIVERSITY COMICS explains How Marvel Has Succeeded ( By Becoming DC ) and as usual Terry Hooper at COMIC BITS ONLINE has the real scoop on the difference between Marvel and DC ( I will genuinely miss this blog ).
We come to our second playmate, Hope Marie Carlton who turns 51 and she also was a Playmate Of The Month for July although this time in the year 1985. She is best known for playing Taryn in the Andy Sidaris movies where she was later replaced by Roberta Vasquez. Who not only had more curves than her but also contrasted nicely with Donna Speir. I don´t know, the whole combination of the busty blonde with a bustier blonde did not work for me as well as the formula of busty blonde and even bustier raven haired latin sex pot. As coincidences would have it Hope also appeared on Married With Children. Now I would be tempted to do an Andy Sidaris post but I just did the Dona Speir re - post last month and I don´t want to give my readers a case of severe sexbomb overload especially keeping in mind that the re - post of sci fi cult siren Jolene Blalock goes online on Sunday. But fear not if you need more hot babes, I thought I had posted all my Andy Sidaris links but somehow I missed the reviews of Hard Ticket To Hawaii and Picasso Trigger on NOT COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU.
Okay, this is beyond weird. Our third playmate Jacqueline Sheen, who celebrates her 54th birthday was also Playmate Of The Month of July and get this : it was in 1990 which is right in the middle between 1985 and 1995. While I am too confused to know what to make of all this it doesn´t apply to Jacqueline Sheen who has the nickname Action Jackson no doubt because of her sexual appetite and relentless body. And what a body it is.
Not only is it one of the best sculpted in the history of Playboy with it´s perfect 36D - 24 - 34 measurements, she also has those bikini tan lines that drive some men ( me included ) crazy. She was not in Married with Children but she was on an episode of Silk Stalkings, appeared in various Playboy videos and she´s one of the playmates that has been in most Playboy Special Editions with 24 under her belt. There are just so many terrific pictures of her that I had six posts on my old blog to fit them all which made picking just two extremely difficult. Although I had to discard a lot of them right away because you could see something you were not supposed to, you could not see her face or she was wearing sunglasses.
While I am still pondering the ramification of The 5 Year Apart Playmate Trifecta Of July we return to comics and one of the often overlooked or forgotten writers, Max Allan Collins. On his 69th anniversary most people have seen Road To Perdition but are blissfully unaware that it was a comic book before it became a blockbuster starring Tom Hanks and Daniel Craig.
What´s more it was only the first of a trilogy but people also totally forgot this. I know this because the same thing happened to me. After I saw the movie I found out about the comic and I wanted to get some of them - especially after finding out that some of the artwork was done by one of my favorite artists : Jose Luis Garcia Lopez - but then the big DC crossover happened and then the big Marvel event happened and then they raised the prices of comics and then I lost another job and then I had to apply for financial support and then the accident happened and the operation happened - the usual life stuff. Anyway, thanks to this blog section I was reminded of Mister Collins work and to whet the appetite of any future customers out there here is some of Jose Luis Garcia Lopez´ artwork.
Now I did not pick the following links especially for this post because after seeing a video on YouTube about the so - called ten best comic movies ( which were almost all Marvel movies that had come out in the last five years ) and writing about the criminally underrated The Phantom I started thinking about how my list would look like. Which got me thinking about all the great comic adaptions I had seen which were based on european comics like Anacleto - Agente Secreto, Largo Winch, Tex Wyler or comics the younger generation never heard of ( which could be Guardians of the Galaxy or Iron Man from what I hear ) like The Shadow, Flash Gordon or Nick Knatterton. One of the candidates I thought of in the list of movies most people are not aware are based on comics was Road To Perdition but as always other people were faster than me therefore you can find the movie on IFC´s list of 10 Movie You Didn´t Know Were Based On Comics, it´s on the RANKER list of The Best Movies You Didn´t Know Were Based On Comics ( which also includes Dylan Dog ), CINEMASTANCE´s list of 20 Movie You Didn´t Know Were Based On Comic Books, SCREENRANT´s list of 20 Movies You May Not Know Were Based On Comics and last but not least on DEN OF GEEKS list of Top 25 Underappreciated Comic Book Movies.
Speaking about being underappreciated, Bruno Bozzetto celebrates his 79th birthday and I can´t believe imdb states that he is best known for Allegro Non Troppo ( I have literally no idea what that is ) and totally ignore his worldwide success Mr. Rossi Looks For Happiness. I devoured this series as a kid and I still love it. What´s more, back then I did not understand most of its political and social criticism or the funny aspect that Mr. Rossi spends his entire day putting fish in can only to open the same can of fish for every meal. But not only is it one of the best cartoon series for kids and adults alike it also has one of the best soundtracks ever.
Our last birthday shoutout goes to the late James Doohan who is of course best known as Scotty from the Star Trek universe. Since we had a lot of Star Trek videos in the last posts for the birthdays of Jeri Ryan and Gates McFadden ( not mentioning Jolene Blalock´s birthday on Sunday ) I am going to skip that especially since I am running out of videos to post. Still I wanted to acknowledge this anniversary so here are The Origins Of 11 Famous Star Trek Lines from MENTAL FLOSS which I came across while looking for a cover where Scotty is featured prominently. Which was not very easy. After going through all the covers I really got a hankering to look for some Star Trek issues the next time I can do some dollar bin diving.
I totally forgot that DC and Marvel had lengthy runs and I think one was even written by Peter David. Now I don´t want to step on anybodies toes but after writing Star Trek for years you might think a person would lose all inklings to continually put Star Trek references in all your comics.
As always we end the post with a Flash video, this time with the trailer for the Invasion crossover. I have heard that there will be new crossovers but this time only between Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl and Flash although the last one is rumored to feature the Music Meister.
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I get up in the morning when people tell me I have to get up. I eat when people tell me I have to eat. I think when people tell me I have to think. And always what they want me to think. I am a human being whose assured future has already been planned by others.
But let´s start in the here and now. It´s Saturday and I am putting the finishing touches on the post so you might think that I am late. I am not.
Because I originally wrote the post in February and had already posted the main part when I realized it was Curt Swan´s birthday. So as I had already failed to do a special Curt Swan post last year - and there was no hurry to put the FLASH FRIDAY post on the blog - I put this post back into the draft folder. So you could say I am early because I wrote this post three weeks in advance. But - when I originally wrote it I was also late. Oh, boy. You see, the same week I had already posted a FLASH issue for Valentine´s Day but the FLASH FRIDAY post before that was back in January. So I do not know if I am coming or if I am going, if I am late or if I am early and if you get the strange feeling of Deja Vue that you have seen this post before than you are right. Whew, did you understand any of this ? Me neither.
Anyway, when I first put this issue of FLASH on the blog I wrote a brilliant intro which was probably the best piece of writing I have ever done on this blog without patting myself on the back too much. It was short but still poignant, witty, extremely clever worded and - might I say it ? - even a bit philosophical. One of this true moments when you can grasp the true meaning of life and I have to admit I had to get a tissue to wipe away a lonely tear, so moved was I. BUT you might say if it was that good why did I erase it ? The answer is : for my readers. Because as much as it might have changed the life of everybody who might have read it back then forever it only worked within the context of when it was originally written and if somebody would read it now it would make no sense and all the meaning would be lost. So it is with a heavy hart that I have to delete such greatness even if I´m sure that the new introduction will not even achieve a fraction of that. But it is all for the sake of my beloved readers.
Now if you have only started reading TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN this year you are probably going " Wait a minute, the special Valentine´s Day post was FLASH issue 129 and this is issue 133 of THE FLASH. Where´s the beef ? " ( okay, nobody who wasn´t around during the 80s will probably use the expression where´s the beef ? but you get what I mean ) and you are absolutely right. The thing is that I already posted FLASH issue 130 , issue 131 and issue 132 which are part of the excellent Emergency Stop written by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar so you might want to go back and read those before continuing with this. I also already posted FLASH issue 134 in advance so don´t be surprised if our next issue is FLASH 135. By the way, we are nearing the end of Paul Ryan´s run on FLASH as there are only two more issues left to post. I´m open to suggestions on how to continue - and if to continue at all - the FLASH FRIDAY posts. I think if nobody objects I´d like to continue with Paul Pelletier´s issues from the series.
Anyway, here is finally the continuation from the cliffhanger I posted in July last year, sorry it took me so long. I hope the long wait was worth it.
Today I have no link section beforehand as all the links have to do with the celebrity birthdays which start with Jessica Biel who turns 35 and I hope the german press has figured out who she is by now. Because I remember that when Esquire voted her the Sexiest Woman Alive in 2005 the entire german press was lucid because the title had gone to an total unknown ... at least if you are a reporter in Germany who never goes to see a movie.
Now Jessica has had her ups and downs, the downs being Blade : Trinity ( really, after the first one they just could not get it right ) and the Total Recall remake ( which at least brought new record sales of the original movie and showed that you just can´t make a Schwarzenegger movie without Arnold ) for which she - almost - made up with displaying her goods in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and in Powder Blue.
Although you might want to do yourself a favor and fast forward to the good parts in the last one before you get so depressed you want to kill yourself. Like I said, Jessica has almost made up for her bad decisions, all we need is another movie where she shows her obvious superior stripper skill but this time without the unnecessary drama, thank you very much.
We are staying with great performers - although the more dressed type - as Ronan Keating celebrates his 40th birthday. Going over all my videos from casting shows I realized there is a whole generation out there which only knows Ronan from being a judge on The Voice and The X - Factor and has no idea of his boyband past. I wonder what would happen if one of those girls found out. As for any connections to comics : come on his name is Ronan and his day job is being a member of X - Factor. Nuff said.
We are staying with teen heartthrobs although we make the jump from cult boybands to cult tv shows as David Faustino turns 43. He has been in everything from The X - Files to Batman Beyond and The Legend Of Korra but he is best known as Bud Bundy on hit tv show Married With Children.
Speaking of Married With Children and Bud Bundy, one of my pet peeves is giving proper credit to all the unsung heroines who give their all to provide us viewers with entertainment. For years I have searched for information about the Busenwunder who plays Roxanne, the classmate with the big double airbags Bud lusts after when he celebrates his 18th birthday. If you have pondered the question yourself I can disclose that the girl´s name is Gina Puzo and apparently she quit showbiz after this.
And to stay on this subject, a few days back I posted one of the Thunder In Paradise movies that were shot to get a network to buy the series because I could not find the episode I was looking for. Or rather the episode with this hot bouncing action prone beachbombing bimbo.
As usual I came across this episode while I was looking for Playboy clips of Jacqueline Sheen ( which I ended up not using ) whom we will see further down the countdown. It is episode three of the first season ( or episode four if you count the pilot movie as two episodes ) called Sea Quentin and I think Sting guest stars. The wrestler, not the singer. I could only find a foreign version that has the german dubbing with a voice over in another language which is also not english. So people who only speak english are punked two times but even if you understand german the voice over is so overpowering that you can´t hear the german dubbing. According to her imdb sheet the woman in the red bikini with the integrated bouncing action appeared in six more Thunder In Paradise episodes and her name is Heidi Mark. She was Playmate Of The Month in July 1995, appeared on Baywatch and also was in various episodes of Married With Children.
Which brings us back to David Faustino. I already posted the documentary about the cult television series in an earlier posting so here is a reunion where the actors talk about their experiences. Since I am always mega busy with running the blog I have not had the time to watch all of it.
Next we have a comic related birthday and as a collective sigh of relief goes through my readership I want to pay homage to italian artist Claudio Castellini´s 51st anniversary. I have to admit that I had a hard time to find some artwork from him and going through some of his works I remembered how prolific he was. I am not sure if DC vs Marvel was the first time I saw his artwork but he did a lot of top notch projects for the Silver Surfer and the Fantastic Four. He also did the Logan : The End mini series which was less than memorable but with the new Logan movie on the horizon Disney may reprint that to make a quick buck with poor clueless comic newbies.
Now my italian is not so good and does not cover much more than what I could get from some episodes of Quelli Che Il Calcio and my tapes of La Blue Girl ( I got the italian version at a really hidden second hand shop because the german version was heavily censored ) but I guess this interview on FUMETTOLOGICA has something to do with Nathan Never.
Longtime readers may remember that I wrote about this series which is published by Sergio Bonelli Editore who also produces Dylan Dog, Martin Mystery and Tex Wyler. I don´t know if Claudio Castellini did any interior artwork but I know he did a slew of covers and you can find a gallery of Claudio Castellini´s covers for Nathan Never at DIME WEB . What I DO know is that he did issues of Dylan Dog although I don´t think they have come out in german yet. Coming back to Marvel vs DC, this is rather about the movies than the comics but Solon Papageorgiou has an article called Marvel vs DC : Defending DC over at MOVIE PILOT , Brian Salvatore at MULTIVERSITY COMICS explains How Marvel Has Succeeded ( By Becoming DC ) and as usual Terry Hooper at COMIC BITS ONLINE has the real scoop on the difference between Marvel and DC ( I will genuinely miss this blog ).
We come to our second playmate, Hope Marie Carlton who turns 51 and she also was a Playmate Of The Month for July although this time in the year 1985. She is best known for playing Taryn in the Andy Sidaris movies where she was later replaced by Roberta Vasquez. Who not only had more curves than her but also contrasted nicely with Donna Speir. I don´t know, the whole combination of the busty blonde with a bustier blonde did not work for me as well as the formula of busty blonde and even bustier raven haired latin sex pot. As coincidences would have it Hope also appeared on Married With Children. Now I would be tempted to do an Andy Sidaris post but I just did the Dona Speir re - post last month and I don´t want to give my readers a case of severe sexbomb overload especially keeping in mind that the re - post of sci fi cult siren Jolene Blalock goes online on Sunday. But fear not if you need more hot babes, I thought I had posted all my Andy Sidaris links but somehow I missed the reviews of Hard Ticket To Hawaii and Picasso Trigger on NOT COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU.
Okay, this is beyond weird. Our third playmate Jacqueline Sheen, who celebrates her 54th birthday was also Playmate Of The Month of July and get this : it was in 1990 which is right in the middle between 1985 and 1995. While I am too confused to know what to make of all this it doesn´t apply to Jacqueline Sheen who has the nickname Action Jackson no doubt because of her sexual appetite and relentless body. And what a body it is.
Not only is it one of the best sculpted in the history of Playboy with it´s perfect 36D - 24 - 34 measurements, she also has those bikini tan lines that drive some men ( me included ) crazy. She was not in Married with Children but she was on an episode of Silk Stalkings, appeared in various Playboy videos and she´s one of the playmates that has been in most Playboy Special Editions with 24 under her belt. There are just so many terrific pictures of her that I had six posts on my old blog to fit them all which made picking just two extremely difficult. Although I had to discard a lot of them right away because you could see something you were not supposed to, you could not see her face or she was wearing sunglasses.
While I am still pondering the ramification of The 5 Year Apart Playmate Trifecta Of July we return to comics and one of the often overlooked or forgotten writers, Max Allan Collins. On his 69th anniversary most people have seen Road To Perdition but are blissfully unaware that it was a comic book before it became a blockbuster starring Tom Hanks and Daniel Craig.
What´s more it was only the first of a trilogy but people also totally forgot this. I know this because the same thing happened to me. After I saw the movie I found out about the comic and I wanted to get some of them - especially after finding out that some of the artwork was done by one of my favorite artists : Jose Luis Garcia Lopez - but then the big DC crossover happened and then the big Marvel event happened and then they raised the prices of comics and then I lost another job and then I had to apply for financial support and then the accident happened and the operation happened - the usual life stuff. Anyway, thanks to this blog section I was reminded of Mister Collins work and to whet the appetite of any future customers out there here is some of Jose Luis Garcia Lopez´ artwork.
Now I did not pick the following links especially for this post because after seeing a video on YouTube about the so - called ten best comic movies ( which were almost all Marvel movies that had come out in the last five years ) and writing about the criminally underrated The Phantom I started thinking about how my list would look like. Which got me thinking about all the great comic adaptions I had seen which were based on european comics like Anacleto - Agente Secreto, Largo Winch, Tex Wyler or comics the younger generation never heard of ( which could be Guardians of the Galaxy or Iron Man from what I hear ) like The Shadow, Flash Gordon or Nick Knatterton. One of the candidates I thought of in the list of movies most people are not aware are based on comics was Road To Perdition but as always other people were faster than me therefore you can find the movie on IFC´s list of 10 Movie You Didn´t Know Were Based On Comics, it´s on the RANKER list of The Best Movies You Didn´t Know Were Based On Comics ( which also includes Dylan Dog ), CINEMASTANCE´s list of 20 Movie You Didn´t Know Were Based On Comic Books, SCREENRANT´s list of 20 Movies You May Not Know Were Based On Comics and last but not least on DEN OF GEEKS list of Top 25 Underappreciated Comic Book Movies.
Speaking about being underappreciated, Bruno Bozzetto celebrates his 79th birthday and I can´t believe imdb states that he is best known for Allegro Non Troppo ( I have literally no idea what that is ) and totally ignore his worldwide success Mr. Rossi Looks For Happiness. I devoured this series as a kid and I still love it. What´s more, back then I did not understand most of its political and social criticism or the funny aspect that Mr. Rossi spends his entire day putting fish in can only to open the same can of fish for every meal. But not only is it one of the best cartoon series for kids and adults alike it also has one of the best soundtracks ever.
Our last birthday shoutout goes to the late James Doohan who is of course best known as Scotty from the Star Trek universe. Since we had a lot of Star Trek videos in the last posts for the birthdays of Jeri Ryan and Gates McFadden ( not mentioning Jolene Blalock´s birthday on Sunday ) I am going to skip that especially since I am running out of videos to post. Still I wanted to acknowledge this anniversary so here are The Origins Of 11 Famous Star Trek Lines from MENTAL FLOSS which I came across while looking for a cover where Scotty is featured prominently. Which was not very easy. After going through all the covers I really got a hankering to look for some Star Trek issues the next time I can do some dollar bin diving.
I totally forgot that DC and Marvel had lengthy runs and I think one was even written by Peter David. Now I don´t want to step on anybodies toes but after writing Star Trek for years you might think a person would lose all inklings to continually put Star Trek references in all your comics.
As always we end the post with a Flash video, this time with the trailer for the Invasion crossover. I have heard that there will be new crossovers but this time only between Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl and Flash although the last one is rumored to feature the Music Meister.
New to the blog ? Everything you need to know about TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN : top ten posts / more posts of interest / best of the best
I get up in the morning when people tell me I have to get up. I eat when people tell me I have to eat. I think when people tell me I have to think. And always what they want me to think. I am a human being whose assured future has already been planned by others.
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