Happy Birthday, Cheryl Ladd

Across four seasons of Charlie’s Angels, Cheryl Ladd played the plucky and smoking hot Kris Munroe. Kris was smart, intrepid, and often went undercover in skimpy outfits, including but not limited to bikinis. Cheryl’s first episode at the start of season two, when she replaced fan favorite Farrah Fawcett, is as hot a debut as … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Cheryl Ladd →

Red, White, and Rhonda

It’s your leggy Lady of Liberty, your red hot American Dream, your pulchritudinous patriot in pumps, your sexy Stars and Stripes bustier babe, your foxy Fourth of July firework, your voluptuous vixen of valor—that’s right, it’s Rhonda Shear, and she’s decked out in her red, white, and blue for America’s Independence Day. Fittingly, Rhonda kept … Continue reading Red, White, and Rhonda →

Bombshells: Mara Corday

Born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 30, 1930 in Santa Monica, California, Mara Corday was an American showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and, as Wikipedia says, a “1950s cult figure.” That’s probably thanks to Playboy and the various westerns, horror, and science fiction B-movies she made during the fifties. The raven-haired Corday, who turned 94 … Continue reading Bombshells: Mara Corday →

Bad Girls We Love: Catwoman from The Dark Knight Rises

“It’s an ‘Ooops’ dripping in sexiness and insincerity, coming as it does after Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne interrupts her in the middle of a heist and before she dons her leather or rubber catsuit. The ‘Ooops’ and its Jean Harlow naughty-girl reading come early in the film and the rest of Hathaway’s performance seems to … Continue reading Bad Girls We Love: Catwoman from The Dark Knight Rises →

Late Night Memories: Special Delivery

When it came to bubbly, buxom blondes in the early nineties, Rhonda Shear obviously reigned supreme. A goddess among women, Rhonda single-handedly taught me what it meant to lust after a startlingly sexy, two-dimensional form on my television screen. Yet, when it came to late night movie hosting, Rhonda’s pal Joe Bob Briggs brought along … Continue reading Late Night Memories: Special Delivery →

The Art of the Ad: Sex, Lies, and Video Games, Part V

It’s back, the series that just won’t die! These posts on old school video game and arcade advertisements could potentially keep pumping out new installments for a long time. For now, here’s the latest, vintage-fresh batch of sexy/sexist ads. If you grew up from the 1970s–1990s, many of these will continue to be familiar to … Continue reading The Art of the Ad: Sex, Lies, and Video Games, Part V →