Favorite Pic of the Day for July 19th

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Sibling Saturdays

This pair of sexy siblings appeared on FH many years ago and I thought it was time to check in on the sexy brothers to see what they were up to.  Check out more on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

TCM Tune-In: The Little Drummer Gir

An American actress with a penchant for lying is forcibly recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

I think one sign you're getting older is when TCM starts airing movies that were originally released after you you were born.   Although it's certainly happened before, it seems I'm seeing more films from the 80's and 90's on the network.  I used to watch TCM quite a bit, but my viewing time has decreased over the last few years.  The main reason, thanks to the network, I've  now seen most of the classics on my 'to watch' list.

The second reason, and more FH related, there seems to be less and less scenes of male skin.  Male nudity on TCM you may ask, well yes.  There was a time when you could count on seeing a penis or two weekly.   That was when TCM used have programming like TCM Underground, featuring cult classics, independent films and campy b-movies.

They also used to have TCM Imports, dedicated to showing foreign, international and arthouse films.  Both TCM Underground and Imports used to regularly have films which included nudity.  For awhile, they seemed to vanish from the channels schedule, but recently, it seems they're making a return.

Last month, on June 30th, there was a night dedicated to director George Roy Hill.  Included in the line-up was A Little Romance, Slaughterhouse Five and Slap Shot.  Also included was the 1984 Diane Keaton led drama The Little Drummer Girl.  I'd heard of the film before, but never seen it, but given I always enjoy Keaton, and heard there was a nude scene, recorded it on my PVR.

For those who have seen the film, this wasn't your usual Keaton fair.  There were no rom-com staples, or hints of Nany Meyers, this was a gritty spy drama based on the novel by John le Carré.  Set primarily in the Middle East, the plot follows the Israel’s National Intelligence Agency attempt to flush out a PLO bomber named Khalil. 

To neutralize him, they first kidnap (and later execute) his brother, Michel.  Keaton plays Charlie, an anti-Zionist American actress working in England.  Charlie is lured to Greece where she thinks she's filming a wine commercial.  There, she meets and is seduced by Joseph, who deceives her into believing he is Michel.

Actor Moti Shirin plays Michel who is kidnapped early in the film, and later held captive.  In one scene, Keaton is brought in to see him to prove his identity.  The scene is certainly not erotic in anyway, as Michael is stripped to show his body and scares to Charlie.  This was Shrin's only nude scene in a short career that included 7 films over the course of the 1980's.

Just Because: Tim Reid

I wish WKRP in Cincinnati would make it to digital, or even a DVD release.  I read that because of all the music they featured, getting rights and permissions for all the songs was not only impossible, but also far too costly.  I was just a baby when it originally aired and would love to see the entire series.  I have found a few episodes to download, including Filthy Pictures, (HERE:) which featured Gary Sandy in a speedo.

When putting together my piece on Battle of the Network Stars,  I looked everywhere to find a shot of actor Tim Reid in a speedo from the show.  Although I didn't see much of Reid in WKRP, I did love him in the 1990's adaptation version of Stephen King's IT.   Sadly finding a speedo shot from Battle proved impossible. 

I'm not sure it was because Reid did not compete in the 'water' events, or there just weren't any images published.  I did remember an old shoot with some hot shots of Reid, including a speedo shot.  The images were taken by photographer Gene Trindl.  Trindl was known for his photographs of celebrities, especially TV stars.  Trindl's work appeared in TV Guide over 800 times, including more than 200 of the magazine's covers.

The Eleventh Battle: November, 1981

Battle of the Network Stars XI
November. 20, 1981

Hosts: Howard Cosell 

& Lee Majors 

Willard

NBC (winner) 

Gabe Kaplan, (captain) Maud Adams, Melissa Gilbert, Mark Harmon, Randi Oakes, Cristina Raines, James B. Sikking and Fred Willard

ABC

Scott Baio, (captain) Douglas Barr, Cathy Lee Crosby, Donna Dixon, Telma Hopkins, Ann Jillian, Sam J. Jones and Andrew Stevens 

Roberts

CBS

Pernell Roberts, (captain) Mimi Kennedy, Lorenzo Lamas, Jared Martin, Donna Mills. Tim Reid, Charlene Tilton and Berlinda Tolbert 

The Teams 

It's always surprising to me to see which actors who you didn't expect, look hot out of the clothes they usually wear on TV.  Most actors from the 80's were wearing suits as lawyers, uniforms as cops or rescue workers or scrubs as doctors.  I was surprised how hot and beefy Purnell Roberts looked out his scrubs.  It was also nice to see Fred Willard shirtless.  Willard has made most of us laugh for years, but I don't think I recall two many shirtless scenes. (Although I did find one HERE:) 

NBC won this battle, and sadly, like some of the other recent editions, they didn't televise the swimsuit introductions.  Early editions had a 'speedo show' with the swimmers jumping on the swim platform to show wave before it begun.  Most of the skin from the eleventh edition occurred during the kayak event.  Check out the video below.  Jared Martin (From Dallas) looks especially hot patddling along.

Martin

Barr

Lamas

Harmon & Kaplan