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Helen Mirren Says Her "Pleasure Pillows" Are For Her Husband’s Eyes Only

Despite having gone nude on film 17 times between 1969 and 2010, Mr. Skin Hall of Famer Helen Mirren says that she is now done doing nude scenes and that her “pleasure pillows” are only allowed to be seen by her husband, Devil’s Advocate director Taylor Hackford , from here on out. Hit the jump for more info…

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Movie Nudity Report: Skindependence Day Weekend in Movie Nudity History

With male nudity dominating the box office this Fourth of July weekend, let’s take a look back at some great flesh-filled flicks released on Skindependence weekend in years past! Hit the jump for more pics and info…

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Jason Bateman’s iPhoneGate Just Won’t Die

Yesterday, Jason Bateman tried to blame his iPhone line-jumping on paparazzi who were terrorizing the crowd gathered outside of the Apple Store. Now, several eyewitnesses are coming forward to refute the actor’s claims: “There was, at most, one photographer who kept a respectful distance,” one bystander told Us , while another added that the crowd was (understandably) very angry: “There was a chorus of boos and then people shouting, ‘What?’ and ‘We’ve been here for hours!’ They escorted him like he was a pretty big deal.” Apple, you might want to rethink that Arrested Development app. [ Us ]

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Helen Mirren on Love Ranch, Red and Protecting Her Castmates From Horny Extras

Of all the reasons to love Dame Helen Mirren — her taste, class, grace, skill, discipline, fearlessness and ageless eroticism among them — 2010 might be the year we get the best look at her versatility. Having already given us the outsized wife of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station , the Oscar-winner arrives in theaters this week as the flat-accented, fur-clutching, no-nonsense brothel madam Grace Bontempo of Love Ranch . October will bring the action-packed intrigue Red , featuring Mirren’s turn as a former CIA spook eluding an assassination rap alongside Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich. The jury’s out on the latter film, but the long-delayed Love Ranch (directed by Mirren’s husband Taylor Hackford) indeed provides a worthwhile study of grande dame by way of Nevada desert.

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REVIEW: Despite Pedigree, Love Ranch Succumbs to Tired, Hookerific Cliches

Playing the madam at the center of Love Ranch , Helen Mirren seems acutely aware of the novelty of a freshly minted grande dame picking up her skirts and heading straight for the sex worker’s equivalent of Disneyland. As Grace Bontempo (a pan-lingual take on Mrs. Goodtime) she runs the Love Ranch, one of Reno’s legal prostitution outposts, with a self-consciousness unbecoming of one who could convincingly pull off royal blood. The spectacle of Mirren tricked out in mid-70’s pimp wear — ahead of her time, she even brandishes a cane — has a certain charm, but novelty alone can’t keep Love Ranch ‘s tiresome tropes and plodding storyline from dragging the film down through the Nevada dust.

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Taylor Hackford on Love Ranch — and Directing Wife Helen Mirren’s Sex Scene

It only took 25 years after their first, small collaboration, but director Taylor Hackford finally found the right film to make with his wife Helen Mirren. And to think: Love Ranch , which opens next week, almost didn’t open at all. The fictionalized story of the first legal brothel in the U.S. — and the crimes of passion (and otherwise) that helped sink it in 1977 — was in distribution limbo for most of 2009, ultimately breaking out earlier this year. Along with it come Mirren as a no-nonsense Nevada madam and Joe Pesci (in his first starring role in more than a decade) as her bare-knuckled pimpresario husband.

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The Love Ranch Trailer: Helen Mirren, Get Some

As Liz Lemon said recently about those famous Helen Mirren-in-a-bikini photos : “How is it possible? Is she a wizard?” Judging from the new trailer for Love Ranch , a based on true events tale about a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada, the answer is yes. To wit: Mirren’s character is married to Joe Pesci, but ends up rolling around in bed with a hunky and decades-younger Argentine boxer, played by actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta. Hey, it’s Peris .

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Love Ranch Unshelved?

Good news for Helen Mirren completists and anyone wanting to see Joe Pesci back onscreen in, like, anything: Love Ranch , about the founding of Nevada’s first legal brothel, will finally make its theatrical debut in June. Directed by Taylor Hackford, the film was held up for several years in the collapse of Capitol Pictures; Canadian distributor E1 is said to plan a seven-to-10 city U.S. release, expanding based on reviews and box office. Right. In other words, look for it on DVD by September. [ THR ]

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