[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

I can imagine the reaction in the 1950s

Exactly! George RR Martin would be burned at the stake if 1950 America saw "Game of Thrones". Or 'Burning Man', for that matter.

[Strutz]

A comment I read in another forum...

"Thanks for the mammaries"

[BartSimpson]

herbie herbie:

a shitstorm when the BC film censor gave Caligula an R instead of a X rating...

I once saw the uncut version of Caligula and the R version is utterly tame by comparison.

It's on Amazon but a note of warning here...

[herbie]

Here the R was the uncut version... gotta admit, I was shocked by it. Stag movie on a 35 foot screen...

[BartSimpson]

It's pretty rough.

[xerxes]

And a surprising amount of stars in it too. Malcolm Mcdowell, Helen Mirren, and Peter O’Toole.

[raydan]

xerxes xerxes:

...and Peter O’Toole.

That would be a great porn name.

[BartSimpson]

Oh, you just ruined "Lawrence of Arabia" for me for the rest of my life!

[Thanos]

The legend is that Mirren, Gielgud, and O'Toole shot all their scenes first so they wouldn't be around the set for when it turned into a full-blown snuff/porn film. The disgusting parts of the script were hidden from them in order to keep them from walking away if they'd found out what Guccione and his insane Italian partners were intending to put on screen.

[BRAH]

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[Robair]

So this is kind of shitty...

$1:

This is Marilyn Monroe.

Maybe you've heard of her or seen other pictures?

She was born the same year as 91-year-old Hugh Hefner who died this week.

She married at 16 years old to escape the foster care system. A few years later, while trying to break into modeling and acting, she posed for some nude calendar photos to earn some food money. She was paid $50 to take her clothes off and smile.

She used a fake name to try and distance herself from the photos.

"I don't know why, except I may have wanted to protect myself. I was nervous, embarrassed, even ashamed of what I had done, and I didn't want my name to appear on the model release."

A few years later she was given her big break and started playing eye candy in motion pictures. Hugh Hefner was building his brand. When he decided to start his "gentleman's magazine," Marilyn Monroe had become a household name. Hefner bought the rights to her earlier shots from the girlie calendar people for $500.

Without asking the actress, Hugh Hefner put her on the cover of his first issue which read "First time in any magazine, FULL COLOR, the famous Marilyn Monroe NUDE."

When asked about it, Monroe had this to say:
"I never even received a thank-you from all those who made millions off a nude Marilyn photograph. I even had to buy a copy of the magazine to see myself in it."

The system did its work on Marilyn Monroe, and she died at age 36 after being digested by the culture that consumed her. She died with money but not a lot. More money has been made by her brand since her death; even today you can see Monroe products being hawked.

Then in 1992 the grave next to Marilyn came up for sale, and Hefner purchased it for himself, gloating in the status that he would be her eternal bedmate.
Dead Marilyn made no comment.
Fifty-five years dead, and now the Playboy is about to pull up the sheets of her tomb and crawl on in.

Hugh and Marilyn never met.

She never consented to anything, from nude photos in Playboy to eternal bedfellows, because he never asked; he never even said hello.

The woman who looked her whole life for love . . . ends up with Hef. The man who spent his whole life ignoring the humanity of women and having his way ends up lauded a civil rights hero.

I don't know that any story defines this asshole more than this one.

Rest in Power, Norma Jean.

[DrCaleb]