Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burton wanted custody of an illegitimate child that he admitted siring, Allred got him joint custody. She has also countersued the producers of the movie Hardrock for $1 million on behalf of another actor, Neal Sheldon, who walked off the film because he was asked to appear in the nude...
...Redgrave testified that she was turned down for a role in a Broadway production for fear that her appearance would invite demonstrations. At one point, said the actress, who won a 1978 Oscar for her role in Julia, she was so desperate for money that she agreed to appear nude in an as yet unreleased film called Steaming, for which she earned...
...abandoned for social relevance and downbeat realism in the '60s and '70s. "I think the public has been starved for glamour for a long time," says Joan Collins, 51, who was a well-traveled but undistinguished movie actress before achieving superstardom on Dynasty (and posing in the nude for Playboy last year). "I grew up watching beautiful actresses like Ava Gardner, Hedy Lamarr and Elizabeth Taylor. Getting away from one's mundane existence into a fantasy world of beautiful clothes, jewels and Rolls-Royces is very appealing...
Dubbing her the "Mayflower Madam," the tabloids rushed into killer-competitive frenzies over her story. The New York Post explained her impeccable lineage in breathless detail and bragged to its readers that it had obtained nude photos of Barrows taken during a 1973 European tour. Alas, the editors informed somewhat baffled readers, "they were not suitable for publication in a family newspaper." When the Daily News printed a revealing snapshot, along with an exclusive interview with Barrows after her arrest, the Post promptly splashed across half a page its picture of the young socialite reclining naked upon an Amsterdam hotel...
...questions posed by modern art, none are more intriguing than what it took, and why, from tribal culture. From Matisse structuring his Blue Nude of 1907 along the lines of African carving, to Robert Smithson emulating the vast projects of South American archaeology in his Spiral Jetty in Utah 63 years later, the list of "borrowings" is as long and as old as modernism itself. After 1850, the cultures of Africa and Oceania, dissolving under the acids of colonialism, released their myriad fragments-masks, figures, totems, bark cloths, tools, weapons, canoes, ceremonial furniture-into the absorptive West. After 1900, very...