The bonus section in my last post has gotten too long so I am writing an extra post before the Kiana Tom re - post. This gives me the chance to put something on the blog I have been hoarding for quite some time now.
That´s right, I´m talking about the Hostess Twinkies ads that appeared in all of the Bronze Age comicbooks I read as a kid. You know how you find stuff while you are looking for something else ? As faithful followers of the blog know this happens to me on a frequent basis and it is indeed how a lot of my posts come about. In this case these ads are something I put into a special folder together with other ads and oddities I find that way.
I always thought that I would use them to spice up my posts - you know, put in one of those Spider - Man Twinkies ads in a Spider - Man post and such - but since I am woefully behind on my posts I don´t always have the time to go over them once more and see if I can cram then into a post.
Lately there has been a resurgence of these ads - partially because there was the news that they were going out of business - and I have to say I found the most ads these last few days. A lot of it has to do with nostalgia and I have to say it also is a great part of the appeal for me. When they appeared in the comics I read as a teenager - since I only got american comicbooks through an uncle - I didn´t think much of them as they were always there. What´s more, since we didn´t have Twinkies in Germany they always remained this abstract thing. In Spain there were some similar baked products but I still never found out if they really tasted that good.
So what is the lasting appeal of these ads ? As I said, part of it is nostalgia.
Another part is that they always use the same formula : there is a villain who is ultra cheesy right down to the awful name but who still manages to get the upper hand on the hero whose last resort is whipping out a pair of delicious Twinkies. And I always wondered where they kept those pies.
Something I only learned to appreciate in my later years is the art as those ads were drawn by some of the big names in the comicbook industry : Neal Adams, John Romita, Curt Swan, Sal Buscema, Gil Kane, Ross Andru, Ernie Colon, George Tuska, Joe Sinnott, Dick Giordano etc since they probably meant a hefty paycheck even if it was not high entertainment.
But those were other times and comicbook artists were not thinking so much about their legacy and more about where their next meal was coming from. And Marvel Comics was not the only comicbook company who made those Hostess Twinkie ads. There was DC Comics, Harvey Comics really with a lot Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Casper, Wendy and Sad Sack ( a comic I never heard about ) ads as well as Gold Key with Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Wylie Coyote and the Roadrunner and Daffy Duck.
Now if you have been here before you know that I like to group things so in this post we have only Marvel stuff. There will be other posts for DC Comics, Harvey Comics, Gold Key Comics and probably some other stuff like independent comicbook companies and Hostess Twinkie ad homages.
Even splitting it up into these companies there are more Hostess Twinkie fruit pie ads than I can cram into a post. So I have tried not to put too many ads with the same super hero into this. I mean you can probably do an entire post alone with the Spider - Man ads ( and maybe I will do that ) but I don´t want these posts to become too boring. I also found some original art but I don´t want to put them all into one post so in this one we have two from THOR and there will be other pages in following posts.
As always this is a totally subjective selection that is based on personal preference and those ads I still remember. But I will include some links where you can find all the Hostess Twinkie ads you want. By the way, does anybody know if there is a book that collects all these ads ? Assembling them all would probably be difficult - as well as getting the right from all the different comicbook companies - but I would surely buy such a book.
As always I have to give credit where credit is due because without the following guys I quite literally couldn´t have done this post and when you are looking for Hostess Twinkie ads there are two main resources : the first is MIKE`S AMAZING WORLD OF COMICS . Besides a lot of other stuff like public service ads and ads for Saturday morning cartoons they have the best scans of the Hostess Twinkies ads and the only downside is that it´s sorted by publication date, not by comicbook company or character.
If you want them sorted by character you can find that on SEAN BABY but the scans are of much lower quality. I also found some Hostess ads on THE BRONZE AGE OF BLOGS , THE VINTAGE TOY ADVERTISER , BRANDED IN THE 80s and 13TH DIMENSION even has two posts, one for Marvel Comics and one for DC Comics ( which will be the topic of our next Hostess Twinkies ads post ). Of course there have been many spoofs of these ads over the years and BOOKSTEVE`S LIBRARY has twoposts on the Hostess parody ads from First Comics, which will be the topic of a future post on TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN. Which may or may not include some material from the master collection of The Line Is Drawn over at COMIC BOOK RESOURCES .
Longtime readers may remember that I used to link to them more often when I wrote about comicbook news on a regular basis. My, how times have changed. Today all the news about comicbooks are so depressing or ridiculous ( or in the case of Disney´s new NEW WARRIORS series both ) that I haven´t been on this site - or any comicbook news site for years.
Before we come to Today´s eclectic list of awesome anniversaries there is a celebrity birthday I missed which I have to include in this post. The reason why I missed it is that before Yesterday I had no idea who Dian Parkinson was or that she provided the breast two reasons why most male viewers watched The Price Is Right between 1975 and 1993 religiously.
And the reason why I didn´t know her is that like the Hostess Twinkie fruit pies The Price Is Right is something I never experienced - like a lot of other game shows with ultimate sexbombs and my only chance to discover them is purely by accident and through the wonders of the internet.
Now the reason why I am including her in this post Today is that her 75th birthday was on November the 30th and while I don´t want to go back to that date and change one of my old posts to include her I also don´t want to wait until November. Especially with the way things are going now with the Corona virus and a lot of other things. So I am writing a little cult siren entry for her now and if I don´t make it till November at least I have that off my plate. And if I really DO make it to November - and don´t forget her birthday which is also a possibility - I can do a little of the old copy / paste flim - flam, maybe shorten the text and add some things here and there.
And it´s not like I can say that much about Dian Parkinson since up until Yesterday I didn´t know she existed. So I have to rely completely on what I found out on various internet websites and I have to say I am really disappointed with imdb because you might think that as somebody who had one of the longest tenures on The Price Is Right they would have more information but they don´t even have a decent biography for her.
So I am trying to piece one together here for future reference. Born in Jacksonville, North Carolina Dian won the Miss District of Columbia USA title at age 21 and competed in the Miss World USA 1965 pageant where she placed fourth runner - up. The same year she won the Miss World USA contest and went on to represent the United States in the international Miss World contest and was first runner - up to Lesley Langley of the UK.
That year she also traveled with the Bob Hope USO Show performing in Vietnam during late December and served as the Queen of the Bob Hope Desert Classic golf tournament. But Dian´s big break came in 1975 when she landed the coveted position of one of Barker´s Beauty model on The Price Is Right. I did a little research and apparently there was a plethora of well shaped hostesses ( man, Today everything is about hostess one way or another ) although double D Dian was one of the most popular ones.
Which must have had something to do with the fact that the producers of the show knew pretty well why people watched The Price Is Right and used every excuse to put Dian´s booming ( one hundred percent all natural !!! ) 36D - 23 - 37 beachbody in a bikini or at least a swimsuit.
I mean, there really were a lot of jacuzzis, whirlpools, tanning lamps, sail boats or just bikinis that were given away as prizes and every time there was a trip to an exotic locale - or just about any place on the world - they just whipped out another tiny bikini which often could not fully contain Dani´s impressive talents, much to the delight of her numerous male fans.
The bikini barrage continued until 1993 when she left the show and in 1994 she sued The Price Is Right host and executive producer Bob Barker for sexual harassment regarding daily forced sexual acts in the late 1980s.
According to Dian Parkinson she had to spread her incredibly long and perfectly shaped legs like a fillipino hooker and let Bob use her as his personal blow up sex doll if she wanted to keep her job and he dicktamed her hard for three years, slam - banging her brains out six ways to Sunday.
Now some writers on the internet make it seem like this didn´t happen and that Dian made the whole thing up as a revenge because she was fired from The Price Is Right but I don´t think that the women who come forward with these kind of claims make them up. For that they still have to endure too much humilation and also it wouldn´t be too far fetched.
With such a sex goddess like Dian Parkinson being constantly in tiny bikinis who wouldn´t take the opportunity to put her porn star bod to the test ?
In any case, the lawsuit was withdrawn in April 1995 because it became too costly for Dian and had already taken a heavy toll on her health. But The Price Is Right´s loss was PLAYBOY magazine´s gain as they decided it was time for a 47 year old nude model and the rest is history as they say.
Parkinson was the cover girl of PLAYBOY in December 1991 and again in May 1993, appearing in nude pictorials in both issues. She also appeared in a feature newsstand publication entitled PLAYBOY Present Dian Parkinson which led to taped appearances in PLAYBOY Celebrity Centerfold : Dian Parkinson in 1993 and PLAYBOY´s Celebrities in 1999, both featuring Dian.
We stay with ultimate blonde sexbombs who have posed naked in PLAYBOY as Today´s first celebrity birthday babe is exciting Ela Weber who turns 54.
Longtime readers may remember her since one of the very first animated GIFs I EVER posted on this blog was of her erection inducing cleavage.
Born in Dettelbach, Bavaria, Germany as Manuela Hannelore Weber like so many others before her Ela had to go abroad to be successful. It´s not like she didn´t try to make it here. Ela appeared in Flieg mit Air - tl ( yep, that´s the kind of witty puns you get from german tv shows ) with Frank Elstner and applied as a host for Peep ! replacing Dieter Bohlen´s ex sex toy the exotic half sudanese Nadja Abd El Farrag. Who pretty much run the show into the ground after Dieter Bohlen´s former blow up sex doll the 34C mega MILF VeronaFeldbusch made the show a huge success.
Ela would have led the show to new heights but she quit when the bosses of RTL 2 wanted to have sole control of the videos shown in the show. She also wasn´t happy with the way german shows present women in general :
" They make women come across the television screens as plain Janes. If you see the ladies on the street after the show they are better dressed and have better make up. They are almost glowing. It´s unbelievable ! "
In the late 1980s she moved to Italy where they were more appreciative of her qualities and Ela used her breast assets to the best of her abilities :
" I go completely overboard depicting the femininity of the infamous german Busenwunder. I play the caricature of the blonde sexbomb. "
Ela became famous for her various tv appearances where she displayed her titanic teutonic 36D twin torpedoes be it as a guest on such shows like Quelli Che Il Calcio with italian real life Power Girl Federica Ridolfi and theoftenre - posteditalian mega soccerMILFSimona Ventura or as a member of the cast of such variety shows like Scherzi Aparte and Stranamore.
The former gas station owner turned model / showgirl got her big break as the assistant of Paolo Bonolis and became known to a bigger audience when she started co - hosting the Canale 5 quiz show Tira E Molla.
With such hugely developed star qual - titties it would have been crazy not to use it for the big screen and Ela has appeared in such movies as Uomini Senza Donna, A Spasso Nel Tempo, Mucho Macho and Se Lo Fai Sono Guaiwhere she played the Doctor I wish I had during my rehab.
As a model she used her fascinating features as a spokesmodel for Playtex and her mouthwatering 36D - 24 - 36 measurements that are guaranteed to skyrocket the sales numbers of any men´s magazines can be enjoyed in a nude calendar shoot for Auto Oggi and the german edition of the PLAYBOY.
And she is very popular with the italian viewers - especially the male ones - because of her giant melons which she presents in plunging cleavages and skimpy outfits which have led to various hot wardrobe malfunctions .
With her huge set of lungs it was only a matter of time before Ela turned her attention to singing especially since her body was made for videos.
We are staying with music and another model turned actress, Leslie Parrish who celebrates her 84th birthday. Although I am not 100 % sure about that since her american wikipedia entry states her birthday is on the 18th of March. Leslie started as a talented and promising piano and composition student at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and became a model because it earned more than as a waitress or piano teacher. She was Miss Color TV where she was the human test pattern to check the
accuracy of skin tones during broadcasts but it soon became apparent that she was destined for greater things. Her first big role was in the 1959 Lil Abner musical which is the only reason why I knew her name in the first place.
Usually I list some of the birthday candidates credits but then I read that she appeared in more than 100 tv shows including Batman and Star Trek so maybe we can skip this part just for once. Coming back to the first time I saw anything with Leslie Parrish it all goes back to a video with her from the Lil AbnermusicalI found on YouTube. This was back when the movie people still gave a damn about being true to the original source material.
Since I have already written about Lil Abner in last year´s belated Tom Peyer birthday post including videos for the first Lil Abner movie from 1940 with Buster Keaton, an unsold tv pilot plus the Lil Abner cartoon we come to our next candidate. One of the indispensable contributors to MAD is Al Jaffe who turns 99 and who not only did a ton of the usual parodies but also his famous Clever Answers To Stupid Questions and he earned himself a place in the comic history books as the inventor of the MAD fold in pages ( you can find 13 of these over at 13th DIMENSION ).
Some say that the most sincere form of flattery is imitation and there were many magazines who tried to cash in on the success of MAD or like the german MÜD ( which means tired ) issue more a parody of a parody.
I think I may have posted an episode of Tales From The Cryptkeeper but I don´t think it was in very good quality. And while the stories are not nearly as innovative - nor gruesome - as the original EC Comics horror classics and the series is more apt for children between 3 and 6 I wanted to post some while there are a few on YouTube. I haven´t watched many episodes ( one I remember was about two kids who ended up in hell because they skipped school to play video games - educational overkill much ? ) but this one reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Keeping the horror theme going our feature film of the day is The Blood Beast Terror a.k.a. The Vampire - Beast Craves Blood with Peter Cushing.
It seems you have to be careful what you wish for because while finishing my last post I went over all the black and white art of Jim Starlin and realized that not only have I not done a post on his birthday on the 9th of this month but I have all the original art from an issue of CAPTAIN MARVEL.
Mind you, not the Bronze Age classic but the new series by Peter David.
Of which I am not the biggest fan for various reasons that I don´t want to go into detail for time reasons. Those who visit the blog on a regular basis have heard me complain about these things enough and for the rest it is not that important. Just let it be noted that in my opinion there was a lot of room for improvement. Which is one of my major grievances with Peter David. If the series would have been bad because he´s a hack and can´t do any better that would have been okay. But he has shown that he can write on a much higher level - provided he puts enough effort into it.
So when the series is subpar because he doesn´t care about the readers and just wants to follow his own quirks and feed his own ego and even goes as far as inserting scenes in a comic shop so he can rebuff readers who complain - that´s when I start having a problem. And that´s when I am not willing to pay money to finance a writer´s ego trip. Anyway, I said I wasn´t going to go into detail about the things that I didn´t like in Peter David´s CAPTAIN MARVEL run so I have already said more than enough.
Now you might ask yourself if I dislike it that much why am I making a post about it ? Well, for one while there are a lot of things I did not like there were a few things that I liked enough to buy some issues. And it´s not that Peter David is a bad writer per se. It´s just that he has a lot of stuff and personal hang ups he likes to put into his writing which at first you don´t notice but over the course of a few years can get very repetitive and formulaic. So at some point you stop reading the story and only wait for the STAR TREK reference, the reference from a current blockbuster movie to drop and who is going to say " And don´t call me Shirley. " and when ( by the way, I am 100 percent sure that Count Duckula used that running gag first ). So it may not be as much Peter David´s fault and more my own because I have just gotten over - saturated with his writing.
Another factor that made me question the validity of this post was the fact that the original art pages are very small. I would have preferred it if they would have been bigger but you can see the art well enough and it´s also not that often that you find an entire issue. I think I found it on COMICARTFANS but I don´t remember in whose gallery. If you recognize the pages and want me to put a link int he post send me an e - mail.
Okay, so far I have talked a lot about the reasons why NOT to make this post. So let´s take a look at why I finally decided to do it anyway. I said in my last post that I wanted to do another post for Halloween or around Halloween and while the story from issue eleven is not a scary story it does have something to do with the dead - in this case Genis - Vell´s father Mar - Vell - and especially departed family members. It may not be what you deal with in the american version of Halloween but it´s what El Dia De Los Muertos the mexican´s celebration of the dead is all about.
The story also feature Thanos who is on everybody´s mind right now thanks to Avengers : Infinity War ( which was not as bad as I had feared but suffered from tons of needless SJW crap ) so that´s another bonus.
And as I have already said so far I have not done a post for Jim Starlin´s birthday this year. Or ever. Now that I think of it I never did a post for him. So now I can check that form my bucket list and he can share it with Peter David if he wants. So let´s travel back to a time when things were not quite perfect with Captain Marvel but at least he was not a woman.
Not that I have a problem with a female Captain Marvel. We had a very capable female Captain Marvel during one of my favorite runs by Roger Stern, John Buscema and Tom Palmer ( and one day I can hopefully continue my posts on that series ) and she was black. But the entire publicity stunt they did with Miss Marvel becoming Captain Marvel so that a new heroine can claim the title Miss Marvel - not the biggest fan of that.
Anyway, this introduction has already taken up more of your time than necessary so let´s dive right into the issue and happy Samhain to you all.
Life and death have always been big themes in Jim Starlin´s comic work - especially death - so it should not surprise anybody that most of the links I have bookmarked for him deal with that topic. Since I still hope to write the respective DEATH IN COMICS : THE MANY DEATHS OF ADAM WARLOCK and DEATH IN COMICS : THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL ( THE REAL ONE ) post so I am saving a few but I am putting the other ones on the blog.
Even if the expiration date on some of them might have already run out.
Since there was not a lot of Bronze Age Captain Marvel in this post we are kicking it off old school as DORK FORTY ! waxes nostalgic on Jim Starlin´s Thanos Saga in three parts part one / part two / part three . At this point it is already old news since Jim Starlin has already finished Thanos : The Infinity Siblings with Alan Davis ( who seems to relegate himself to these self contained stories nowadays which makes following him extremely difficult ) and the follow up Thanos : The Infinity Conflict is slated to hit shelves on November the 13th but for those who have been out of the loop with all the Infinity Something Something minis there is a review of Thanos : The Infinity Relevation on RECORDED LAND SHARK ATTACKS and you can see some preview pages on COMICBOOK ( Man, before somebody pointed it out to me I never notice how few comic book related websites have the word comic in the title. How are people supposed to find us ? ).
Now I said in my introduction that I never made a post especially for Jim Starlin but I mentioned his series Final Crisis : The Death of the New Gods in my post BIG BARDA : DEATH, LIES AND VIDEOTAPES ! which I recently pimped, I did the ( hopefully ) first black and white post on George Perez contribution to The Infinity Gauntlet and I wrote a bit about his epic - in both senses of the word - series Dreadstar in MY EPICLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNEY TO DREADSTAR . I don´t think I ever managed to write the follow up post I planned on doing but the series has my utmost recommendation.
It is still unpublished in Germany which is one of the reasons why I was so blown away by it once I decided to hunt down those issues. I previously had gotten my hands on a spanish issue but as so often other things took up my mind so I never followed it. It also wasn´t that easy to find back issues at that time. So one day while doing my search list it dawned on me that it was high past time to start looking for the series - which may have to do with the fact that I just bought the two Dreadstar / Metamorphosis Odyssey trades which were still in black and white and had the pages that Jim Starlin glued together from shredded copies - and I was dumb struck.
Not only by the unbelievable quality of the writing and art but also by the fact that you never heard anything about the book here in Germany. The complete Metamorphosis Odyssey has been reprinted in the hardcover Jim Starlin´s Dreadstar : The Beginning ( which I think I pimped when it was offered at amazon at a bargain price ) or if you don´t have the money you can get the more affordable trades. So far there is no hardcover of the Dreadstar series but for the waiters for the traders there is the first Dreadstar Omnibus which reprints the first 12 issues and the second one which contains issues 13 to 26 is announced for January the 8th of 2019.
Speaking of things for my spanish readers, we start the celebrity birthdays with the candidates from Yesterday and the first one is tv host / reporter / actress / comedian / photo model Cristina Pedroche who turned 30.
There are probably very few people in Spain who don´t know who she is ( and the number is even smaller among the male populace ) since she has been constantly on tv screens, first as a guest on Se Lo Que Hicistes then on Otra Movida until she became a fix member of the daily comedy show Zapeando. I have to say it took me a while to take a shine to Cristina but she slowly won me over by wearing bigger and bigger cleavages on her guest appearances. I am not saying that she did it solely for my benefit but it did work. One of the reasons why Cristina has such a huge fan following - besides the fact that she is mas bueno que el pan how we say in spanish - is that she is a geek at heart. She is very outspoken about the things she likes ( even if they are not popular or trending at the moment ) and her proudest moment was not any tv show award she won but that she was honored to do the season kick - off for her favorite soccer team.
Besides her banging bikini body that she is never shy to display and her wardrobe that can only be described as beyond risque the reasons why Cristina is so hugely beloved by the spanish populace is her irresistible smile, the fact that she is up for anything without any concern if she may look stupid and her ability to laugh at herself. She often sings - very badly - on the show and is very aware of it. She just doesn´t care. In short, Cristina is that hot sexbomb next door you always had a crsuh on who is funny, witty, smart, your best friend and your best lover. Or to quote one of my favorite lines from Sledge Hammer : she will be a wife AND mistress.
I am trying to keep this section short ( I know, epic fail Subzero ) so I only want to mention that I already wrote at length about her in last year´s pre - Halloween post. Which not only has more animated Cristina Pedroche GIFs and videos than you can shake a you - know - what at but also includes the rest of the celebrity birthdays from October the 30th.
We continue with another hot latina, Giselle Gomez Rolon who also celebrated her 30th birthday Yesterday ( although in Giselle´s case the important number is 34, 34D that is ). With her giant melons she would have been a prime candidate for my SEARCH FOR POWER GIRL series.
Since I could not find any good pictures nor GIFs I had to make my own which meant going through the video frame by frame and even though some websites pixelated the shots of Giselle Gomez Rolon I can say without any doubt that she was wearing panties - unlike Sharon Stone ( unless she was using a body double ). And all the people who got upset surely have seen the original scene with Sharon Stone so it´s not like this would have been the first time they saw a woman´s unmentionables.
I have included a new video with the argentinian model and you can find more GIFS and videos of 34D Power Girl Giselle Gomez Rolon in this post .
We continue with another hot sexbomb, the lovely 38D nubian goddess Nia Long who turned 48 which means that if I had sex with her I would still do it with a woman who´s younger than me. Ay, chupate eso, Will Smith !
Of course this will not impress Will Smith since he probably banged her brains out when they were together. Now maybe you have heard of the Mandela Effect - which is in short when people think things happened a certain when in reality it is not true but because so many think it is true it is considered fact by most people - but the truth is that Will´s wife Jada Pinkett Smith was never on The Fresh Price of Bel Air. But they did meet on set. Okay, most people think that Jada then only Pinkett played Will´s girlfriend who tamed him and got him to give up his womanizing ways but while it is true that she auditioned for the role she was considered too short and so the role was given to Nia Long. Personally I would have given the part to Nia in the first place since I think she´s way hotter than Jada.
Anyway, Jada WAS on the set of The Fresh Price of Bel Air because she auditioned for the role of Will´s girlfriend and that´s when she met him.
Of course a big part of that show´s success and continued appeal around the world ( there are probably only a few people on the face of the planet who can´t recite the lyrics to the title song in their sleep ) is TatyanaAli who grew from a cute little girl into an incredible sexbomb over the course of that series and who got to show her musical skills.
Much to the chagrin of the show´s producers she really bOObed all out in later movie appearances like The Clown at Midnight or Fall Into Darkness .
Now Will Smith has gone on record that the relationship between him and Tatyana Ali has always been that between a big brother and his little sister but I don´t believe that he never put her body to the test not even once.
The same goes for Nia Long since she and Will also were together in Made in America and if you have seen the movie you know how absolutely do - able Nia looks in that movie. And Will was in his sexual prime. So it´s a sure bet there were some r - rated rehearsals going on in their trailers.
Besides The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Made in America Nia Long is best known for Boyz n the Hood, Friday ( which I have seen both ) and the Big Momma´s House movies which I have not seen. She has some lingerie scenes in the movies but so far seeing Martin Lawrence in women´s clothing has kept me from watching it. I don´t know why so many people think it´s especially funny to see a grown man wearing women´s clothing.
I did see The Best Man and The Best Man Holiday back to back because I was unaware of the first one and only found out about the big brouhaha they made when the second one came out. I think I first heard of this on an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show where the cast appeared and Nia looked like the star of one of those MILFs Like It Big porns that are so popular now. Which is why I knew I already wrote something about her.
Longtime readers may remember that I cut off the part with her, Tatyana Ali, Letoya Luckett and Kenya Moore from the post because the upload time for all the animated GIFs was way too long. Ah, the naiivite of youth.
We are staying in the 90s with Deprise Brescia who celebrated her 53rd birthday. The name may not be familiar to Today´s audience guys from my generation have seen the former fitness and swimwear model that is into art these days on such shows like High Tide, Silk Stalkings, Renegade and more recently Forever and Two And A Half Men. But the thing that kicked off her career and made her famous was winning The Bikini Open 1 as well as The Bikini Open 4 ( which was the first Pay Per View of the franchise ) and she co - hosted The Bikini Open 5. Here is her Bikini Open profile :
The first title Deprise won was Miss Venus International in 1991 which launched her over 20 year long career as a very successful bathing suit model. She's won three cars, 27 titles, trips, cruises, jewelry, furs and more, all from a swimsuit. Despite all this it was actually pretty difficult to find any decent pictures with her now that most of my babe picture archive is gone. But I guess that´s because her big time was in the 90s.
Since I already posted The Bikini Open 1 and The Bikini Open 5 ( I could not find The Bikini Open 4 which is a bummer because it was one of the best episodes ) and her profile video is a bit short here is The Bikini Open 7 - The Bikini Bowl in which all the previous winners competed against each other. It was recycling but the viewers could call in and vote which was not that old at that time. They don´t make shows like this anymore.
So far I had written five posts on Yaya - two of them are pretty safe but theotherthree are absolutely not safe for work - and I keep mentioning her on variousJLA castingposts and any other posts involving exotic sexbombs like Kiana Tom, Ava Cadell, Akira Lane, Miko Lee, GailKim or Minka and I swear the completely NSFW BIG YAYA HAN POST is still in the pipeline. In the meantime I have made twonew posts about Yaya which showcases a part of her anatomy that I have ignored too often - her legs.
Coming back to hawaiianheartbreaker and PLAYBOYcenterfoldKianaTom, as an actress her most famous part was in UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 2 or UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - THE RETURN how it is sometimes called were her short bit part at the beginning is the only redeeming value of the flick.
In the scene Jean Claude Van Damme and KianaTom´s character Maggie are running an exercise run against the universal soldiers. They are separated and KianaTom is captured by wrestler Goldberg. Now I don´t know where the logic is here as he´s supposed to be some kind of cyborg but he does what any healthy man would do in his situation. Namely tie the helpless KianaTom whose shirt reveals a really huge bulge to a tree.
But it gets even better as Goldberg ( named Romeo in the movie which might explain why he tries to get it on with Kiana ) rips open her shirt !
Now that´s what I call entertainment : we´re only six minutes into the movie and we already see Kiana´s bra - clad melons exposed ( sadly she doesn´t go bra - less although she definitely has the hardbody to pull it off, but since she doesn´t show more skin it is the erotic highlight ). It is just a quick glimpse, but you can see that Kiana really doesn´t have much to be ashamed of because those perfect heavenly hangers look amazing !
This year I haven´t done a re - post of KianaTom yet because I tried to find out more about this scene but it is not mentioned in any interviews.
And it would not surprise me if this was one of those very lucky instances where a blooper ended up in the movie since I am not sure if Bill Goldberg was really supposed to rip Kiana´s shirt wide open or if he just seized the opportunity to do what any strapping lad in his position would have done.
He probably botched a few takes on purpose so he could keep on exposing Kiana´s spectacular breasts. Speaking of spectacular breasts, maybe Bill went even further and also ripped off her bra. I mean, it would not be the first time something like this would be deleted from a movie ( remember the rumors that HalleBerry´s giant breasts obliterated her Catwomancostume but somehow there was no camera rolling that caught it on tape - on a movie set - so they could not put it in the extras ? ) or you would only hear about it decades later ( like with ErikaEleniak´smindblowingstriptease on UnderSiege where only now Pamela Anderson accused ErikaEleniak of having had sex with Steven Segal to get that role while ErikaEleniak denies any such stories ). So likewise it may have been that Bill Goldberg not only ripped Kiana´s shirt open unscripted but that he also got rid of her bra and got busy motorboating her huge melons - which ruined every take - until she agreed to let him have his way with her in the trailer afterwards. But as I said I could not find anything about this particular scene. Maybe there is something in the movie commentaries.
The only thing that brings this down is that some sources claim that Kiana used a boob double for the scene. Which is hard to believe since it really isn´t necessary. Dammit, Kiana´s bodyisbanging and if you check out the frames just before her pigeons fly loose you can see her big bust ready to explode. So the only reason why they would have used a double would be that she was too erotic and they shot somebody with a smaller chest. I´m no expert on chest sizes especially when it comes to american chest sizes but I like to believe that we get to see the real Kiana. And if not then I stick to the theory that Kiana´s at least as gifted as her body double or that Kiana´s chest is even bigger because otherwise it makes no sense.
In any case I´d like to get more information on who was her body double for the scene since she must also be a pretty hot number. Back to the scene, there isn’t a whole lot of skin here, but the bra busting moment might have you doing some serious Van Dammage to your man region !
Which makes it even less understandable that she didn´t do a nude scene in Universal Soldier 2. It´s not like Kiana has any problems with nudity since she not only posed naked for PLAYBOY, no, she also confessed that she is such a perfectionist that she had to wait until the right time in her career where she felt her body was in the best shape it has ever been in.
Too many actresses or female celebrities get the urge to do nude pictures when they are older or they want to show that they are still hot but most of them didn´t think of doing naked photos in their younger years and so their new pictures are useless because we have nothing to compare it to.
But Kiana did it right, she made it at her physical prime and her pictorial is awesome ! It´s no wonder her issue completely sold out in one month. It seems Kiana had a blast doing it too. In her own words : What a wonderful liberating beautiful experience to shoot with renowned photographers and PLAYBOY. I had the pleasure of meeting Hugh Hefner several times and was invited to their many wild parties at the iconic Playboy Mansion.
As you may know, I posed for the Celebrity Cover & layout for PLAYBOY before getting married. It was a big decision for me to do it or not. They had approached me and my agent several times. Each time I said no thank you. My mentor / BFF / mother and I discussed it at length and with her guidance, decided to do it. My father had Playboy magazines in his closet, I used to sneak and look at all the beautiful photos of the women. ( all of the therapists out there are now having a field day ! lol ) The Playboy staff was so wonderful to work with, I had photo approval, choices of locations, photographers, makeup artists, stylists ... I actually did two shoots : one in studio, and one in Mexico. Extensive interview and layout.
The same time I did the magazine, Universal Soldier Movie had just hit the theaters. What a fun time ! We shot the photos at a 10 million dollar circular mansion in Mexico over looking the water. The property had upside down trees ( roots at the top ), full wait staff, indoor pool in my penthouse suite and BATS ! Yes bats ! Eek ! I called down and they sent up " bat spray. " lol. badump bump chi. My artist mother joined me on the trip. She is very liberal and open minded. She sketched me as I posed.
As for her role in the film, Maggie is hardly used ( no pun intended ) and many reviewer bemoan that she didn´t get naked. I don´t know where the producers are coming from as they fumbled one of the biggest pulls of the movie when they decide not to make her a bigger part of the movie.
Really guys, which producer in his right mind passes up an opportunity to get a body like this naked ? Let´s just be realistic
here. If a hot exotic sexbomb likeKianaTom with a pornstarhardbodythat just won´tquit was my co - worker I´d definitely spend all my free time slam-banging the living daylights out of her until I had tamed Kiana to be my obedient sex slave.
So for those who can´t getenoughofKianaTom you might want to check the infamous Bodyshaping Bikini Workout ( part 1 / part 2 / part 3 ) that YouTube already took down once as long as you still can. Probably because besides KianaTom you also get the no less stunning Kimiko Tanaka who is an exotic mix of american indian and japanese. So you get two exotic sexbombs wearing tiny bikinis for the price of one which must have lead to countless guys getting the mother of all nosebleeds because of oppai overload. Plus in the second part Carla Dunlap substitutes KianaTom.
Coming back to Deprise Brescia after this long tangent about Kiana Tom, having appeared in more than one hundred commercials she advertised for Pepsi, Coca Cola, Miller Beer, Coors, Budweiser, Peugeot, Coty Perfumes, Adidas, Reebok, Nike, Kellogg's, Proctor and Gamble, Game - Stop, Central Sports, LA Gear, Bally's Fitness and many more. She hosted and co - hosted Bodyshaping and Co - Ed Training for 6 years teaching people to work out.
We come back to comic books with P. Craig Russell who turned 67 on that same day. I don´t know if it was the first work I saw of P. Craig Russell but his adaption of Michael Moorcock´s Elric of Melniboné in Epic and the first Marvel graphic novels are some of my favorite comics by P. Craig Russell and they are definitely the first comics where I took notice of this artist.
So naturally I got his Killraven graphic novel when it came out and I don´t know if I was already aware of that character through his appearance in Marvel Team - Up or if this started my interest in that particular future.
Now I won´t go as far as saying that P. Craig Russell is one of my favorite artists since there is a lot of his stuff out there that I never cared to get like his adaptions of Oscar Wilde stories or certain operas but he´s also not an artist that I go out of my way to avoid. One of the reasons why I include these birthday sections is that with all the things life throws at you some things are forgotten and it´s nice to be reminded once in a while that maybe I should get these Elric comic books now that Titan Books has released them in nice new hardcovers. I may already have one or two of these but they are either split up
between issues of Epic or my hardcover is so worn out that buying a new one might be a good idea.
By the way, did I mention that from the 34 issues of Epic Illustrated that came out from Marvel Comics in the United States of America only 16 were published in Germany ? One of these days I have to start hunting for them since I am not sure if I have not missed some of the best parts like the story The Potty´s Over by Bernie Wrightson from Epic Illustrated issue 25 which you can find on THE HORRORS OF IT ALL ( sorry kids, adults only ).
It seems this section is stuck in my teen years as the first birthday Today is Severine Ferrer who celebrates her 41st anniversary. I mentioned her before since she appeared on Dance Academy as the littlesister of mega busty Vanessa Demouy whom I cast as the french super heroine Silver Fox in the first part of my Casting the Justice League of America movie series.
The original title of Dance Academy might have been another since the germans love to change the titles of tv series and especially coming up with new ones that are completely different than the original title. Which makes finding it hopeless as there are dozens of Dance Academy shows. I would like to watch it again not only for Vanessa but also for Severine.
Who was not that little since her booming body was busting out and her perky boobs were stretching out all her t - shirts to the utter delight of all viewers but especially her male co stars who started to constantly drool all over her nubile teenage dream body. I remember vividly that she did get more and more
scenes of jumping up and down later in the series as her boobs had grown to that perfect size where they are already big enough to jiggle at the slightest move but not that big that they started to sag.
I also have to pay tribute to one of the big heroes of my childhood, Carlo Pedersoli, the man, the myth, the legend who would have celebrated his 88th birthday Today. Better known to the world at large as Bud Spencer ( he chose his pseudonym based on two of his favorite things, Budweiser beer and Spencer Tracy ) he was one part of an unbeatable comedy duo together with Mario Girotti also known as Terrence Hill that kept the german movie going industry afloat almost single - handedly during the 80s and much of the 90s ( and you can find a ranking of all of their movies on RECKER`S WORLD OF FANTASY). And while Mario always played the sunny boy who has his way with the swooning ladies Carlo was the headstrong and phlegmatic but ultimately good - natured guy who sent his opponents to sleep with brute force. Kind of an italian Ben Grimm but better looking.
Before his very successful acting career Carlo Pedersoli had been an equally successful swimmer, the first to swim the 100 meters freestyle in under a minute. He won various italian swimming championships 10 years in a row and went on to compete in the olympic games in Helsinki and Melbourne. He has been a stunt man, lawyer, politician, singer, composer, music producer, manufacturer, script writer, fashion designer, inventor and founder of the Mistral Air airline. Not necessarily in that order, mind you.
His movies ( he also did a lot of movies without Terence Hill and had a successful movie series with Phillip Michael Thomas best known as Tubbs on the original Miami Vice series as his sidekick / partner) are still shown on tv since they have reached cult status. And make no mistakes here, on some days the best thing you can hope to find on german tv is a vintage Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movie but I am not sure if the generations that came after the 80s and 90s have any idea how big those two were.
Originally I wanted to post one of their many movies but I could only find the full movies in spanish or english and this is one case where you have to watch it with the german dubbing. Most of the time the german voice overs as not as good as the original actors or don´t care very much but now and then they catch the ball and with these movies they hit a home run. Granted, the fight scenes still work in a different language but it´s just not the same without lines like : " Mach Platz ich bin der Landvogt ! " or " Undwatismitdekohlen ? " or in one movie Terence Hill always gets Bud Spencer to pay because " he only has big bills. " to which Bud always replies : " Das du dich nicht schämst einen alten Mann so abzuzocken. Nochmal machst du das aber nicht mit mir. " to which Terence just replies : " Ha, ha. Denkt er. " Thankfully I found a special that french tv station arte made a few years before Carlo´s passing. If you see something good about pop culture on german tv it was probably produced by the french.
The last few posts I have included a lot of Halloween - related movies but Today I just could not decide on a particular movie. Luckily I came across more videos from Joe Bob Brigg´s Monstermadness. That´s the kind of series I miss and what it lacks in sex appeal and a host like Vampira or the better known Elvira it makes up for with the buxom mail girl. Which I first thought was just one girl but after finding more clips I am convinced that there were at least three different mail girls on that show. Okay, I chose Today´s clip mainly based on the outfit of the bra busting mail girl but with this show I could have picked any video and it would have fit.
What fits Today´s topic like an infinity gauntlet ( pardon the pun ) is our comic video. As a long time comic fan I have problems communicating with the movie going crowd since the story of The Infinity Gauntlet was used for Avengers : Infinity War while the Infinity War comic had a completely different story. And while I was greatly disappointed in the movie I am curious to find out the general public´s reaction to what comes next and especially if Adam Warlock or the Magus will be making an appearance.
All of that is not of importance - or if it is than only as prologue - since our video skips both, The Infinity Gauntlet and also The Infinity War to jump directly into The Infinity Crusade. At that point Ron Lim was the go - to - guy for all the Infinity mini series that Jim Starlin seemed to churn out so effortlessly and while his art had become a bit formulaic ( probably due to the always dreaded deadline pressure ) it was still very enjoyable. He had his best time on the Silver Surfer book and I must confess I have no idea what he does now apart from the occassional annual. I do miss Ron Lim.
Speaking of Avengers : Infinity War, since we don´t have a movie video ( or we already have two if you choose to count the one about Bud Spencer and the one from Joe Bob Brigg´s Monstermadness ) here is a retro trailer for the movie solely made from footage of the 80s Marvel Comic movie adaptations. And while some people may find it cheesy I would have paid money to see Burt Reynolds as Tony Stark or Chuck Norris as the Punisher.
And has everybody but me forgotten that David Hasselhoff played the original Nick Fury, the white super spy with the eye patch and a stogie ?
Time to wrap up my 985th post. I tried to keep it short by resisting the urge to include the usual parts about Yaya Han and Jeannie Mai as well as the five video combo for Lianne Grethel or Oana Andoni but I think I went a bit overboard with Kiana Tom. That is what happens if I do not get to make the annual re - post. On the plus side I have included all the videos with Kiana from Flex Appeal and other shows I could find on the flip side there might be some doubles in there somewhere. But who checks out all my links anyway ? Coming back to wrapping up this post, I was also quite conflicted which cartoon video I should include and I was about to post another episode of Count Duckula for obvious reasons ( who remembers what I wrote at the beginning of this post ? ) when I came across a new video which is more suited for a special Halloween post. I never heard of it but apparently Monster of Frankenstein was produced for italian tv.
