Adrienne Barbeau Naked

Adrienne Barbeau is a noted American film, TV and stage actress who used to do some naked scenes in her work. She was known in the late 1970s and 80s as a sex symbol. More recently, she has been in the HBO special “Carnivale”, and has done voicework for the “Batman” animated series as Catwoman. Her work on the big screen was in “The Fog”, “Swamp Thing”, “Creepshow”, and in a cult movie “Babylon X” where she does some scenes naked.

Singer Boards Big Screen “Galactica”

The recently departed Battlestar Galactica. Yesterday HitFix reported that Bryan Singer was supposedly up for the directing task on a feature film adaptation of the TV show “Battlestar Galactica.” Today Variety confirmed HitFix’s info–Singer will direct the project for Universal Pictures. Singer has a long history with Galactica–in 2001 he was interested in reviving the 1970s TV series, but the project failed to materialize, likely as a result of industry qualms about material dealing

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Director: Alfredson Set For Spy Film

Alec Guinness, fighting the Cold War. The Hollywood Reporter says that Tomas Alfredson, the director behind last year’s acclaimed Swedish film “Let the Right One In,” will be directing a big screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s classic Cold War spy novel, ”Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” Peter Morgan, the go to guy for political scripts, is writing the screenplay. The novel was previously adapted as a BBC miniseries in the 1970s, with Alec Guinness starring as retired British intelligence

Political theater *REVAMPED*

One of the hallmarks of a modern totalitarian government is stagecraft. Leni Riefenstahl made a whole movie dedicated to glorifying a totalitarian government’s meticulously staged extravaganza. As a child in the 1960s and 1970s, I vividly remember footage of marches in the Soviet Union, with soldiers in perfect goosestep order . China and North Korea are also much given to elaborate shows and parades, none of which originate with the people, and all of which are aimed at demonstrating

Charlie’s Angel Farrah Fawcett Dies at 62

From the Boston Globe LOS ANGELES—Farrah Fawcett, whose luxurious tresses and blinding smile helped redefine sex appeal in the 1970s as one of TV’s “Charlie’s Angels,” died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62. The pop icon, who in the 1980s set aside the fantasy girl image to tackle serious roles, died Thursday shortly before 9:30 a.m. PDT in a Santa Monica hospital, spokesman Paul Bloch said. She burst on the scene in 1976 as one-third of the crime-fighting trio in TV’s “Char

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