Site Update: Paparazzi Classics

The Paparazzi Classics section of the main site has long been neglected having remained un-updated since February 2009.

But now it has at last been brought up to date with fresh entries and has had a design overhaul to boot.  This includes the addition of a side index. When last updated the page had 201 names and 332 entries.  The new version launches with 425 names and 849 entries.

In addition to the main list of detailed entries, the foot of the page contains a supplementary list of the names for whom paparazzi pictures have also been noted but who are not currently judged to be high-profile enough to be detailed on the list  - those entries are not included in the stated count.

The intention is that it will now be updated on a more regular basis.  When new entries start to appear the names involved will be listed at the top of the page and the entries themselves will be shown in red.

The direct URL is the same as before:-
http://www.toplessreview.altervista.org/TopRevClassics.htm

Example Screenshot of new layout

ABOUT: The Paparazzi Classics page contains a list of tabloid newspaper type paparazzi pictures for UK celebrities, or those who are well known in the UK

Film Report: Anarchy Parlor (2014)

Anarchy Parlor (2014) 
aka: Parlor
Country: USA
Writers/Directors: Devon Downs and Kenny Gage
Stars: Robert LaSardo, Jordan James Smith, Tiffany DeMarco, Sara Fabel, Ben Whalen, Claire Garvey, Anthony Del Negro, Beth Humphreys, Joey Fisher


Anarchy Parlor (spelt the American way) is a 2014 horror film made in Lithuania with a cast of American, British and local actors.  The story involves a group of six twenty something friends who are on holiday in Lithuania out to have a good time.  At a party they meet a heavily tattooed woman called Uta (Sara Fabel) who works as an apprentice at a local tattoo parlour.  Amy (Tiffany DeMarco) decides she would like a tattoo and Brock (Ben Whalen) fancies his chances with Uta so they both head off to the parlour.  There they meet the tattooist (Robert LaSardo) who is an artisan of his profession and has a reassuring way that puts Amy at her ease unaware that he is hiding a dark purpose behind his serenity.  Meanwhile Uta takes Brock downstairs to the basement for what he thinks will be some kinky fun.  But Uta was a lure and soon Brock and Amy are prisoners in the basement in which the tattooist efficiently carries out a grisly sideline in skinning people alive to procure highly-prized human leather for which the rich trophy-hunting elite will pay handsomely.  The rest of the group eventually set about trying to find/rescue their missing friends and when they too visit the parlour seeking information their own lives are placed in similar peril ...

The scenes of skinning are gruesome and graphically portrayed so will probably only appeal to fans of "torture" type films .  But since this isn't a blog about horror films what really concerns us here is the nudity content (which fortunately doesn't coincide with any of the "surgical" scenes).  This pleasanter side is provided by two of the British actresses involved:- Beth Humphreys and Joey Fisher, both of whom also work as topless glamour models who appeared in magazines like Zoo.  Here, however, they are doing acting jobs and are not simply bit part players.  Beth Humphreys has the larger of the two parts and is one of the main group of friends, whilst Joey Fisher is a lap dancer who goes on a date with one of the lads and unwittingly falls victim when he takes her to the tattoo parlour looking for his friends.  There is one other British actress in the group of friends called Claire Garvey who has a "topless" sex scene but carefully doesn't show any nudity.  Uta is played by a Finnish actress called Sara Fabel who has a sex scene and may be seen topless briefly although her body is heavily covered in tattoos so it was a bit hard to tell.  The lead actress playing Amy (Tiffany DeMarco) is American and doesn't have any nudity in the film.  All the boyfriends in the group are also American actors.  Local actress Gabija Urnieziute is very briefly seen topless in a bedroom scene and there are three uncredited pole dancers.

Here are collages of the scenes involving the two British actresses:-

Beth Humphreys' topless scene is on a hotel room bed having sex with her boyfriend Jesse;

Beth Humphreys

Joey Fisher is seen topless during a lengthy scene in her strip club doing a private lap dance for (again) Jesse.

Joey Fisher

School For Sex (1969) (overseas version)

School for Sex is a sex comedy film from the late 1960s about a man whose fortune has been whittled away by a series of inadvisable marriages and costly divorces to mercenary women out to fleece him.  Poorer but wiser he subsequently considers himself to be an expert on all the ways women can swindle unsuspecting men of their money.  He decides to cash in by setting up a school to pass on his knowledge to young women teaching them all the tricks they can use to profit from men's weaknesses.  In return for his free tutelage his pupils will pay him a third of everything they make once they graduate.

Like many films of that era some scenes had two versions filmed for different international markets.  The UK version did have some nudity in it from minor characters but had none from the main four students who remained clothed throughout.  Indications that an alternative stronger version was made for an overseas market has been limited to publicity photos from contemporary film magazines in which the four main students are seen fully naked.  Unfortunately however the overseas version has never been commercially released and up to now all that has ever been available has been the tamer UK version.

But now School For Sex has had a mainstream UK release on the Best of British label.  The main feature is the UK version once again, but the DVD extras include the alternative scenes from the overseas version.

Five such scenes are included in a section titled "X-Rated Scenes".

The running length of each clip in bracket (mm:ss)

New Found Fortune (1:17)

Oddly enough the first alternative scene is tamer than in the UK version.  

Newly rich Wingate's maid Polly (Maria Frost) brings in his breakfast tray and gets into bed with him letting him take off her uniform.  In the UK version she is seen topless (with a slight bit of full frontal nudity), however in the overseas version she keeps her underwear on and has no nudity.  The UK version nudity tallies with previous versions seen so is not a mistake on this DVD.  Perhaps a mix-up occurred when the two versions were originally prepared.

Swedish Massage (0:22)

Ingeberg (Jacky Berdet) gives Wingate a very vigorous massage.  

In the UK version she wears underwear, whereas in the overseas version she is topless.

Girls in a Van (2:49)

Four lawbreaking girls (Amber Dean Smith, Françoise Pascal, Cathy Howard and Sylvia Barlow) are being transported in a camper van to a correctional institution by a probation officer.  They form a plan to escape by accusing the officer of trying it on with them:- they undress and leap from the van when a policeman is passing and loudly complain about how they have been mistreated by the probation office who they say made them undress.  But they are not believed and their ploy fails.

In the UK version they wear underwear (or swimwear as they call it in the dialogue) whereas in the overseas version they take everything off.

Girls Arrive (4:00)

Following on shortly after the previous scene.  Here the four girls arrive at the school, getting out of the van and waiting to be taken in.  Cathy Howard heads off alone to make out with her boyfriend, whilst the other three girls go inside the mansion and are introduced to school principal Wingate.

In the UK version the girls are still wearing their underwear, whereas in the overseas version they are still naked.  For Cathy Howard's scene with her boyfriend she is naked lying on the lawn with him in both versions, but in the UK version she keeps her arms covering her breasts whereas she doesn't cover herself in the overseas version.

One oddity in the overseas version is that when the three girls are being introduced to Wingate the camera pans from feet to face in close-up for each in both versions showing Francoise Pascal and Sylvia Barlow fully nude in the overseas version - whereas for Amber Dean Smith's turn she is suddenly wearing underwear for the close-up moment, although not in the wide shots.  Despite this it is a different take from the UK version because her hair is arranged differently.

An Education (3:52)

This part has two consecutive scenes

Amber Dean Smith: She takes off her clothes in the lounge while rehearsing a test situation of seducing a rich old man.

In the UK version she keeps on her bra and pants; in the overseas version she takes everything off.

Sylvia Barlow: She is being taught by Wingate how to give a man an irresistible massage.

In the UK version she is wearing a negligee; in the overseas version she has nothing on.

One expected difference not included is where Françoise Pascal is being taught seduction techniques on a bed; in the UK version she has her bra on although in contemporary magazine publicity photos she is shown topless in this scene.  It is unclear if this scene was overlooked for the DVD extras or if there was no difference between the two versions.

If there were any other differences between the two versions those scenes were not included on the DVD.