On Sep 15, 10:20 pm, Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <1189884524.489437.192...@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> Garondo Marondo wrote:
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> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070915/en_nm/leisure_skin_dc
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> > By Michelle Nichols
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> > NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jim McBride has made it his life's work to know
> > how much naked female flesh appears in movies -- an obsession
> > apparently shared by millions of people.
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> > So far McBride, a.k.a. Mr. Skin, and a staff that includes his mother,
> > who works as a "skintern," have chronicled . women in more than
> > 25,000 movies and television shows.
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> > It is all recorded on his Web site,www.mrskin.com, which has been
> > running for eight years, and on Saturday McBride launched into print,
> > publishing "Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide" to "the 501 greatest
> > movies for . and nudity on DVD."
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> > "It's the greatest job in the world," said McBride. "As a kid I used
> > to tape as many movies as I could with nudity and then I'd save the
> > . scenes on separate tapes. I really amazed my friends with my
> > nudity knowledge growing up."
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> > Some experts say the Internet and more explicit television are
> > fostering a more relaxed response by Americans to bare flesh, even if
> > many people profess to be conservative.
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> > Last week's opening episode of the HBO drama "Tell Me You Love Me,"
> > contained at least half-a-dozen . acts featuring both women and men
> > in the ., an unprecedented level of .ual frankness for a U.S.
> > cable television show.
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> > But those looking for naked men on McBride's site will be
> > disappointed.
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> > "We have eight to 10 people who just go through movies and television
> > shows ... for nudity, female nudity only," he said. "We don't do male
> > nudity. I think it's mainly because this job is so fun I didn't want
> > to make it work."
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> > He said his Web site, which had a 35 percent boost to nearly 7 million
> > hits a month after it featured in this year's hit movie "Knocked Up,"
> > was a celebration of female nudity that only chronicles mainstream
> > movies, not .ography.
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> > "There's plenty of . sites on the Internet. I never wanted to
> > compete with them. We're celebrating nudity in mainstream film,"
> > McBride said.
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> > "The most prolific U.S. mainstream actress is Angelina Jolie," he
> > said. "For an A-list actress, it's pretty incredible to be naked in 10
> > movies and still be in your early 30s."
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> > The "Skintastic Video Guide" records how much female nudity there
> > appears in a movie and names the . stars and what body parts they
> > showed. McBride has dedicated the book to his wife and thanks her for
> > "never being naked in a movie."
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> So he's doing a new version of THE BARE FACTS GUIDE. Whatever happened
> to that, anyway?
Became less sensational as actresses like Watts and Jolie came on
scene.
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