12 Days: Only You, New Year's Movie?

'As a teen, Faith was told that her destiny is a man named Damon Bradley. Years later, when she's about to marry someone else, a Damon Bradley calls to wish them well, and Faith blows off her wedding to follow Damon to Italy.'

So, is 1994's  Only You a New Year's movie, I'll let you decide.  I'd never seen the 90's comedy before, but after seeing that TCM has scheduled for airing on New Year's Eve, I decided to check it out.  When I read the description,   In one review, it described the film as a romantic scavenger hunt, that culminates in their finally meeting and connect. The New Year's Eve part, being the grand finale where they realize they are meant to be.

I'm not sure there was really a New Year's Eve party, not one with glitter and balloons that we usually see.  I watched, and really enjoyed the rom-com, but don't remember hearing anything about a New Year's bash.  Still, it was fun to watch a 90's comedy that I some how over looked.

Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei were both gorgeous, and there were several other hotties met along the way.  In addition to Downey Jr and Joaquim de Almeida, we also meet a hot Billy Zane, (below) one of several 'Damon Bradley's' Tomei's character meets along the way.  Bonnie Hunt is always a scene stealer. I also loved the few scenes with Siobhan Fallon and wish director Norman Jewison had brought her character to Italy.

Then, there was the beautiful face of actor John Benjamin Hickey who played Dwayne, Tomei's finance in the film.  Sadly we didn't see much of Dwayne as Hickey sort of played the same role that Bill Pulman did in Sleepless in Seattle.  Not 'the one' and destined to be left at the alter.  Still, it had me thinking about Hickey, and looking back on the many nude scenes over his career.   Check out my Actors & Skin post, featuring his great frontal in  Love! Valour! Compassion! (HERE:) and the other nude scene on his skin resume. (HERE:)

Hickey in Only You

Mapplethorpe (2018)

Saturday Night Live: Actors & Skin

In the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's, Saturday Night Live was a springboard to the movies.  So many of the cast members, mostly male cast members, used the show as a spring board to work in films.  Some did movies based on their SNL characters, many, created new characters for viewers to love.  

It seems the road to the movies isn't as easy for SNL cast members these days, and again, especially for women.  Some, like Wiig, Rudolph and Poehler have had success, but like working on the show itself, the road seems much tougher for female writers, actors and comedians.   Below is a list of SNL male cast members who not only moved to the movies, but had nude scenes on screen.  I linked to those I've featured previously on the site.

Fred Armisen (Portlandia)

Dan Aykroyd (Caddyshack)

Beck Bennett (Beside Still Waters)

George Coe (Cousins)

Armisen

Bennett

Coe

Pete Davidson (Dumb Money)

Robert Downey Jr. (Fur, Friends & Lovers, Restoration, Less Than Zero)

Will Ferrell (Night at the Roxbury, Old School, Get Hard)

Will Forte (MacGruber, That's My Boy, Strays)

Forte

Christopher Guest (Girlfriends, Lipstick)

Chris Kattan (A Night at the Roxbury)

Taran Killam (Casual Encounters)

Norm MacDonald (Screwed)

Killam

MacDonald

Mark McKinney (Kids in the Hall)

Tim Meadows (Ladies Man)

Finesse Mitchell (Who's Your Caddy)

Jay Mohr (Speaking of Sex, Seeing Other People, Nothing's Ever Wrong, The Grooms)

McKinney

Meadows

Eddie Murphy (Dolemite is my Name)

Mike Myers (So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Pentaverate)

Randy Quaid (The Last Picture Show, Kingpin)

Chris Redd (Deep Murder)

Quaid

Redd

Chris Rock (Dogma, Top Five)

Andy Samberg (Palm Springs)

Adam Sandler (Don't Mess with the Zohan)

Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo, The Animal, The Hot Chick)

David Spade (The Do-Over, Father of the Year)

Ben Stiller (Along Came Polly, Greenberg)

Rock

Stiller

Happy Birthday today April 4th

 Happy 59th to actor Robert Downey Jr.!

See more of Robert on FH HERE:

& Check out more of today's BIRTHDAYS HERE:

Actor in a Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown in

American Fiction

Nudity Resume: N/A

Most years, when I do my Oscar posts, I feature images of nude scenes from the nominated actors.  Given so many of them are already on the site, this year I decided to do something a little different.  I attempted when I could, to find early photoshoots from the featured actors.  I also again, included a nudity resume.  If the actors nude site is on FH, I linked to that post.

Robert De Niro in

Killers of the Flower Moon

Nudity Resume: Bloody Mama (1970) 1990 (1976)

The Last Tycoon (1976) The Deer Hunter (1978)

Frankenstein (1994)

See caps & a clip from 1990 HERE:

For some actors, and some nude scenes, I put together new posts featuring the nude scene with new caps of the actor and film.  Those posts, and those scenes, have (new) next to the film title.  Click to see the post, images and clips. 

Robert Downey Jr. in 

Oppenheimer

Nudity Resume: Fur, Friends and Lovers,

 Less Than Zero, Restoration (new)

Ryan Gosling

in Barbie

Nudity Resume: Blue Valentine

Mark Ruffalo in

Poor Things

Nudity Resume: Poor Things, In the Cut, XX/XY

The Normal Heart, The Kids Are Alright, (new) 

12 Days: William Zabka in Back to School

Thornton Melon: What's your favorite subject?

Bubbles: Poetry

Thornton Melon: Really? Well, then maybe you can help me straighten out my Longfellow.

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself. 

There are thousands of movies set in high school, comedies, dramas, coming of age films.  High School is such a crucial time in our development, not to mention that many of us experience our first sexual experiences during our junior and senior high school years.  I've featured many of them on the site, but I think the most appropriate back to school film to feature this week is the aptly titled Back To School.

I was never really a huge fan of Rodney Dangerfield, yet I remember laughing at his antics the first time I saw the 1986 comedy.  I think I first watched it on VHS with my family, one of our weekend video rentals.  Dangerfield appeared alongside Robert Downey Jr, Adrienne Barbeau, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young and Keith Gordon.

For so many of us however, the film is most remember for those scenes with actor William (Billy) Zabka in his red speedo.   I wasn't really a huge fan of Zabka either, never got into the Karate Kid craze, but I did ejjoy a hot blond budging in a speedo.   Zabka filled out his speedo rather well, and also did a good job playing the mean high school jock.

I was surprised on a recent re-watch how few scenes of Zabka in his red speedo there were.  When I think back on the film, that's all I usually think of, but there were really on a couple.  Regardless, even though most of you have seen it before, always time for another quick peak!