'Magic Mike' Recalls My Nudity in Films
July, 05, 2012 10:23 am | Comments On #Magic Mike, MoviesI was chained naked to a bed in my test for the "Fan Club." I was in an orgy in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," tummy down on the bed. I was told to take my shirt off and to show a breast for editing purposes by the director of "Steel."
And this is the reason I cheer the movie Magic Mike which is about a man being treated like an object.
And don’t blame me. I was a top model in New York and had filmed "Stepford Wives" with nary a button unbuttoned.
And don’t say I didn’t have to do the nudity. Being sexy was business to me. The parts required nudity, and I was an actress.
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Read More'Brave' and My Audition to be Madame Picasso
June, 27, 2012 2:12 pm | Comments On #Brave, Movies, pablo picasso, paloma picasso“Brave” brought back my feelings of being engaged to Pablo Picasso’s son Claude, whom I wanted to marry. My father, my mother and my sister had wanted me to marry him as well. Of course money, property and prestige and their desire for my well-being were their motivations, just as Queen and King Magus’s in "Brave" were for their daughter Merida.
When Picasso died in 1973, under the moonlight in the graveyard of the Chateau des Vauvenauges, Claude asked me to be his wife. At this time, Claude’s mother began a massive lawsuit for Picasso’s estate, all of his paintings and seven castles.
When I met Claude in 1971, he was penniless, while I was a top model photographed...
Read More'Rock of Ages' Recalls My Rod Stewart Connection
June, 17, 2012 10:08 am | Comments On #Movies, Rock of Ages
"Rock of Ages" nails it!
Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx is high octane sex on guitar. Malin Akerman (Constance Sack) as a reporter from Rolling Stone matches Cruise with the passion that only can come from connecting with a rock 'n' roll superstar.
I know because that’s how it was when I met Rod Stewart.
We were at a party in the Hollywood Hills when Rod sent DJ J.J. Jackson over to invite me to meet his entourage on the other side of the room. Moments later we were at the private club On the Rox, above the Roxy. When I say we, there were five other women waiting for "the word" from the rock idol. I sat in the corner of the banquet telling myself not to look eager -- and to my delight Rod came to me.
"Would ya like ta come by m...
Read More'Peace, Love & Misunderstanding' with Norman Mailer
June, 12, 2012 10:10 am | Comments On #Jane Fonda, Movies, Norman Mailer, Peace Love and MisunderstandingI wanted to see this film because my mother had never wanted me to have an affair with Norman Mailer.
“What do you see in that old geezer?” my mother would say as she rolled her eyes. One day she gave Norman an apple as a gesture of friendship, but she tolerated my headstrong choice to have an eight-year love affair with a married man.
In 1991, when Norman wanted to control my interview with Gore Vidal for Esquire, I said, “No.” Months later he abruptly ended our relationship claiming his sixth wife had found out about us (though she had known all along), and I reached out to mother to help me heal my pain. At the age of 91, she moved from Valley Forge, Pa., to my apartment in New York, which I had shared with Norman. I cared for her until her death at age 100. These became the most precious moments of my life.
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Read MoreSnow White, Paloma Picasso and The Quest for Eternal Youth
June, 04, 2012 9:45 pm | Comments On #charlize theron, Kristen Stewart, Movies, paloma picasso, Snow White and the HuntsmanThis theme of sustaining youth through taking young women’s lives is not new, as Charlize Theron portrays in her role as the Evil Queen in “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
In 1974, Paloma Picasso played the Countess Elizabeth Barthory, who murders young girls to capture eternal youth by bathing in their blood. A naked Paloma took a bath in pig's blood in director Walerian Borowczyk’s “Immoral Tales,” which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
As I was staying in Cannes while waiting for my fiancé, Claude Picasso, to settle the Picasso estate and to inventory his art in nearby Notre Dames Des Villes, I had the opportunity to see this film. Paloma was radiant in her...
Read MorePablo Picasso Would Have Loved 'Dark Shadows'
May, 11, 2012 9:58 am | Comments On #Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp, Movies, Tim Burton
Pablo Picasso would have loved "Dark Shadows." The fantasy make-up of Depp and Co. is straight out of Picasso's Harlequin Period. Cubism and its mates would have cheered the art direction. Braque and Matisse would have enjoyed this film, simply just to look at it.
How do I know? I was engaged to Pablo Picasso's son, Claude, and lived in Paris with his family -- including Paloma, who dressed as though she had just stepped out of "Dark Shadows." Her body was an art form that she delighted in camping up with old clothing.
Mind you, the old was Givenchy or Dior, but she never threw anything out, One Christmas, Francoise Gilot, Picasso's mistress, wore a purple wig to the family dinner and never once cracked a smile. Claude wore a floor-length pastel-patterned bunny fur coat -- and though it was in varying shades of...
Read More'First Position' Will Keep You on Your Toes
May, 05, 2012 11:41 pm | Comments On #ballet, documentary, first position, MoviesThis award-winning documentary about talented young dancers ages 9-19 vying for ballet’s elite Youth America Grand Prix begins with the resounding thud of the toes of ballet slippers crashing onto the wooden stage. Pink slippers with thick pink ribbons attached to the dancers’ ankles, piercing like the shattering sounds of horses' hooves. Tiny people with mega-power on their tippy-toes dancing their hearts out to win this contest and have their lives transformed.
Beth Kargman’s documentary, grand prize winner at the Toronto, New York, Vancouver, Portland and San Francisco film festivals, follows six young contestants from five continents. Many are poverty-stricken, but they all train like athletes to compete in the most prestigious ballet competition in the world. Yes, ballet dancers are athletes and sustain injuries like football, baseball and basketball...
Read MoreJane Goodall: 'Chimpanzee Politics Are Nicer than Ours'
April, 29, 2012 3:10 pm | Comments On #Chimpanzee, Disneynature, jane goodall, Jon Stewart, MoviesWatching a giant chimpanzee named Freddie groom his tiny son, Oscar, is one of the highlights of the Disney nature film "Chimpanzee." By unfolding each section of hair, Freddie thoroughly looks for fleas and ticks on Oscar. Grooming holds this family of primates together.
"Chimpanzee politics are nicer than ours," primatologist Jane Goodall, 78, said to Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" after she forced Stewart to give her a formal chimpanzee greeting. He touched the top of his head as she made a certain movement. They exchanged squeaks, grunts, oooohs and ahhs and only then would Goodall sit for her interview.
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Read MoreJulia Roberts Should Have Looked Closer at 'Mirror Mirror'
April, 11, 2012 9:46 am | Comments On #Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, mirror mirror, Movies, Tarsem SinghBravo to Julia Roberts for showing that she is a good sport by playing the role of the Evil Queen in "Mirror Mirror."
At one point in the film, a stunning Roberts talks to her reflection in the mirror which replies, "I'm a mere reflection of you, but I have no wrinkles.
This film is fun, but it should have been funny. "Mirror Mirror" misses in spots, then resumes its wit, which makes laughter a rocky road. A better script was sorely needed. The director, Tarsem Singh, is Indian and is known for his music videos such as REM's "'Losing my Religion" and the visually striking film "The Cell."...
Read More'The Hunger Games' Is Fiction ... Or At Least We Hope So
April, 02, 2012 12:11 pm | Comments On #MoviesRich, poor, Republican, Democrat. What could happen to our world if we don't address poverty? "The Hunger Games" is fiction. Or maybe not.
Do we have blinders on to the acute need for wealth to be redistributed? Are we choking our families and leaving our children to have to face up to a bleak future? Will Capitalism triumph over poverty or destroy us all?
"The Hunger Games" is about children left to fight for their lives in a post-apocalyptic dystopian world -- as ghetto children do today. We just don't talk much about them, much less make movies about them.
The writer of this trilogy, Suzanne Collins, is the true star of this film. She wrote the novel, co-produced it and co-wrote the screenplay that is directed by Gary Ross. Ross also co-wrote the screenplay along with Billy Ray.
Collins' idea came from watching...
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Carole Mallory is an actress, journalist, professor, film critic. Her film credits include “Stepford Wives” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” As a supermodel she graced the covers of Cosmopolitan, New York, Newsweek. Her new novel, "Flash," hit #22 on Kindle's bestseller list of erotica in its first day of release. She also has written a memoir of her time with Norman Mailer, “Loving Mailer.” After the writer's death, she sold her archive of his papers to Harvard. Her journalistic pieces on Vonnegut, Jong, Vidal, Baryshinikov, Heller have been published in Parade, Esquire, Playboy, Los Angeles Magazine, the Huffington Post. Her review of Charles Shields' biography of Kurt Vonnegut, "And So It Goes," was published in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. She is teaching creative writing at Temple University and Rosemont College and blogs at malloryhollywoodeast@blogspot.com.
