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30. JASON SEGEL in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
It's once, twice, three times a wiener in the first scenes for Jason Segel's pitiful but lovable Peter Bretter in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (produced by Judd Apatow; see also Walk Hard). Prop comedy indeed, these initial glimpses of Peter's flaccid friend — paired nicely with his undefined abs and pecs in the early stages of man boob — succeeded in making his character immediately relatable. In that ''Oh, man, I've dated/been that dude'' kinda way.
29. UMA THURMAN in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
Uma Thurman became a star with her first nude scene — jaws dropped when the 18-year-old ingenue took her top off for a sex scene with John Malkovich in 1988's Dangerous Liaisons — but this scene was a lot more artful. Literally, as she plays the goddess Venus, emerging naked from the surf via clamshell, her hair strategically draped, in an homage to Botticelli's famous painting.
28. JULIANNE MOORE in Short Cuts (1993)
Moore has recounted that Robert Altman warned her that the role of Marian Wyman had a lengthy monologue where she confesses her infidelity to her husband (Matthew Modine) while naked from the waist down. The redheaded actress says she not only agreed to take the role on the spot but also told Altman that, as a bonus, viewers would see that the carpet matches the drapes. We did, and it does.
27. DONALD SUTHERLAND in Animal House (1978)
26. JOHN CLEESE in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
His character is named Archie Leach (which was Cary Grant's real name), and though John Cleese is not nearly as suave as his namesake — especially when showing off his middle-aged bod to Jamie Lee Curtis as he tries to strip seductively for her — he's certainly a lot more hilarious.
25. BART SIMPSON in The Simpsons Movie (2007)
When you're eternally 10 years old, you can appreciate the finer things in life — like it being somewhat socially acceptable for you to be sans clothing in public. Bart Simpson is known for sporting his mischief sometimes in place of his blue shorts. His little saffron-hued rump is permanently etched in the minds of every fan of the TV show, but his totally naked full frontal skateboard ride in The Simpsons Movie caused the Motion Picture Association of America to spank the flick with a PG-13 rating.
24. DANIEL CRAIG in Casino Royale (2006)
Nudity, for many of us, can be a painful ordeal (the reason How to Look Good Naked is necessary). But usually we aren't being stripped by a scurrilous Eurotrash banker and forced to endure a ball beating like the one James Bond suffered at the hands of Le Chiffre in Casino Royale. (Those hoping to see his bits and bobs were sorely disappointed.)
23. BRIGITTE BARDOT in Le Mépris (1963)
22. KATE WINSLET in almost anything — Titanic (1997), Iris (2001), Little Children (2006)...
This lovely leading lady is no stranger to dropping trou (and blou) — in the name of art, of course. There were the sensual shots in Iris, all the sex in Little Children, and how could we forget the infamous naked drawing scene in Titanic? But, you really can't blame her for the latter — in 1997, just about any girl would have disrobed for Leonardo DiCaprio.
21. PETER SELLERS in A Shot in the Dark (1964)
20. VIGGO MORTENSEN in Eastern Promises (2007)
In a near-perfect example of can't-look-away-can't-NOT-look-away filmmaking, Russian mobster Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen) engages in a brutal steam-room knife fight with nothing but mist to cloak his nethers.
19. SACHA BARON COHEN in Borat (2006)
18. KIRK DOUGLAS in Saturn 3 (1980)
Long before Viggo Mortensen's naked knife fight in Eastern Promises, Kirk Douglas found himself naked and wrestling frequently-nude star Harvey Keitel in this sci-fi opus. Douglas was 64 at the time and still built like a boxer.
17. MARK WAHLBERG in Boogie Nights (1997)
There's packing it in, and then there's just plain packing it. Eddie Adams, a.k.a. Dirk Diggler (Wahlberg), might be the central character in this story of a '70s porn star's rise and subsequent drug-fueled fall, but anyone who has seen the film knows who — or rather, what — is the real star of the show.
16. MIKE MYERS and ELIZABETH HURLEY in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
The Austin Powers series is full of shagadelic jokes that almost go there but stop short, leaving audiences laughing at the nearly naughty scenes. In International Man of Mystery's concluding honeymoon scene, the visual double entendres could have erred on the side of stupid, but the perfect comedic timing of Austin (Mike Myers), opening a phone at his groin, and Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley) holding melons to her chest, keep the sight gags sophisticated.
15. RUSSELL CROWE in Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
The very first scene of this Aussie drama features the 29-year-old Russell Crowe naked, wet, riding a horse, splashing about in a river. What more do you need?
14. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER in The Terminator (1984)
Of course, a Terminator from the future would be built like a bodybuilder and feature an Austrian accent. Oh, and of course, his clothes couldn't be sent back in time with him, offering us a prime glimpse of the cybernetic muscleman. Arnold is at his beefy peak in the first Terminator. He's not quite at Mr. Universe level when he time-travels in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. His return to buffness for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, however, made the hearts of many fiftysomething women — including my own mom — flutter.
13. DARYL HANNAH in Splash (1984)
If a woman who looked like Daryl Hannah circa 1984 was spotted wandering wet and naked around the base of the Statue of Liberty, you bet it would become a media circus, even if she wasn't a mermaid.
12. GRAHAM CHAPMAN in Life of Brian (1979)
11. THE OLD GALS in Calendar Girl (2003)
If a year's subscription to Cosmopolitan can't inspire you to love your body at any age, then add Calendar Girls to your Netflix queue. Based on a true story, the movie stars a gaggle of mature gals — including the ever GILF-y Helen Mirren — putting together a nudie fund-raiser calendar.
10. THE MEN in The Full Monty (1997)
Mix together a group of English lads, a money-making scheme, a good ol' fashioned striptease, and a big dollop of Brit slang and humor, and you have the makings of the ideal comedy: The Full Monty in all of its doughy glory. We'll keep our fingers crossed for a 50th-anniversary DVD that features a special tribute by the aging members of Take That.
9. WILL FERRELL in Old School (2003)
8. TYLER NILSON in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
7. JULIAN SANDS, RUPERT GRAVES, and SIMON CALLOW in A Room With a View (1986)
6. CHARLTON HESTON in Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. DIANE KEATON in Something's Gotta Give (2003)
It's only a fleeting glimpse, and it's played for PG-13 laughs, but when Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) takes a naked nighttime stroll through her house, and is surprised by recuperating houseguest Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson), it's enough to shake the aging lothario's interest in gals under 30 — and to prove that the 57-year-old Keaton has still got it.
4. KATHY BATES in About Schmidt (2002)
3. SYLVESTER STALLONE in Demolition Man (1993)
Sylvester Stallone is a human ice sculpture, chiseled as ever, when he's defrosted from a cryogenic sleep in order to fight crime in the future.
2. BEVERLY D'ANGELO in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
1. DAVID KELLY in Waking Ned Devine (1998)
30. JASON SEGEL in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
It's once, twice, three times a wiener in the first scenes for Jason Segel's pitiful but lovable Peter Bretter in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (produced by Judd Apatow; see also Walk Hard). Prop comedy indeed, these initial glimpses of Peter's flaccid friend — paired nicely with his undefined abs and pecs in the early stages of man boob — succeeded in making his character immediately relatable. In that ''Oh, man, I've dated/been that dude'' kinda way.
29. UMA THURMAN in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
Uma Thurman became a star with her first nude scene — jaws dropped when the 18-year-old ingenue took her top off for a sex scene with John Malkovich in 1988's Dangerous Liaisons — but this scene was a lot more artful. Literally, as she plays the goddess Venus, emerging naked from the surf via clamshell, her hair strategically draped, in an homage to Botticelli's famous painting.
28. JULIANNE MOORE in Short Cuts (1993)
Moore has recounted that Robert Altman warned her that the role of Marian Wyman had a lengthy monologue where she confesses her infidelity to her husband (Matthew Modine) while naked from the waist down. The redheaded actress says she not only agreed to take the role on the spot but also told Altman that, as a bonus, viewers would see that the carpet matches the drapes. We did, and it does.
27. DONALD SUTHERLAND in Animal House (1978)
26. JOHN CLEESE in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
His character is named Archie Leach (which was Cary Grant's real name), and though John Cleese is not nearly as suave as his namesake — especially when showing off his middle-aged bod to Jamie Lee Curtis as he tries to strip seductively for her — he's certainly a lot more hilarious.
25. BART SIMPSON in The Simpsons Movie (2007)
When you're eternally 10 years old, you can appreciate the finer things in life — like it being somewhat socially acceptable for you to be sans clothing in public. Bart Simpson is known for sporting his mischief sometimes in place of his blue shorts. His little saffron-hued rump is permanently etched in the minds of every fan of the TV show, but his totally naked full frontal skateboard ride in The Simpsons Movie caused the Motion Picture Association of America to spank the flick with a PG-13 rating.
24. DANIEL CRAIG in Casino Royale (2006)
Nudity, for many of us, can be a painful ordeal (the reason How to Look Good Naked is necessary). But usually we aren't being stripped by a scurrilous Eurotrash banker and forced to endure a ball beating like the one James Bond suffered at the hands of Le Chiffre in Casino Royale. (Those hoping to see his bits and bobs were sorely disappointed.)
23. BRIGITTE BARDOT in Le Mépris (1963)
22. KATE WINSLET in almost anything — Titanic (1997), Iris (2001), Little Children (2006)...
This lovely leading lady is no stranger to dropping trou (and blou) — in the name of art, of course. There were the sensual shots in Iris, all the sex in Little Children, and how could we forget the infamous naked drawing scene in Titanic? But, you really can't blame her for the latter — in 1997, just about any girl would have disrobed for Leonardo DiCaprio.
21. PETER SELLERS in A Shot in the Dark (1964)
20. VIGGO MORTENSEN in Eastern Promises (2007)
In a near-perfect example of can't-look-away-can't-NOT-look-away filmmaking, Russian mobster Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen) engages in a brutal steam-room knife fight with nothing but mist to cloak his nethers.
19. SACHA BARON COHEN in Borat (2006)
18. KIRK DOUGLAS in Saturn 3 (1980)
Long before Viggo Mortensen's naked knife fight in Eastern Promises, Kirk Douglas found himself naked and wrestling frequently-nude star Harvey Keitel in this sci-fi opus. Douglas was 64 at the time and still built like a boxer.
17. MARK WAHLBERG in Boogie Nights (1997)
There's packing it in, and then there's just plain packing it. Eddie Adams, a.k.a. Dirk Diggler (Wahlberg), might be the central character in this story of a '70s porn star's rise and subsequent drug-fueled fall, but anyone who has seen the film knows who — or rather, what — is the real star of the show.
16. MIKE MYERS and ELIZABETH HURLEY in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
The Austin Powers series is full of shagadelic jokes that almost go there but stop short, leaving audiences laughing at the nearly naughty scenes. In International Man of Mystery's concluding honeymoon scene, the visual double entendres could have erred on the side of stupid, but the perfect comedic timing of Austin (Mike Myers), opening a phone at his groin, and Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley) holding melons to her chest, keep the sight gags sophisticated.
15. RUSSELL CROWE in Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
The very first scene of this Aussie drama features the 29-year-old Russell Crowe naked, wet, riding a horse, splashing about in a river. What more do you need?
14. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER in The Terminator (1984)
Of course, a Terminator from the future would be built like a bodybuilder and feature an Austrian accent. Oh, and of course, his clothes couldn't be sent back in time with him, offering us a prime glimpse of the cybernetic muscleman. Arnold is at his beefy peak in the first Terminator. He's not quite at Mr. Universe level when he time-travels in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. His return to buffness for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, however, made the hearts of many fiftysomething women — including my own mom — flutter.
13. DARYL HANNAH in Splash (1984)
If a woman who looked like Daryl Hannah circa 1984 was spotted wandering wet and naked around the base of the Statue of Liberty, you bet it would become a media circus, even if she wasn't a mermaid.
12. GRAHAM CHAPMAN in Life of Brian (1979)
11. THE OLD GALS in Calendar Girl (2003)
If a year's subscription to Cosmopolitan can't inspire you to love your body at any age, then add Calendar Girls to your Netflix queue. Based on a true story, the movie stars a gaggle of mature gals — including the ever GILF-y Helen Mirren — putting together a nudie fund-raiser calendar.
10. THE MEN in The Full Monty (1997)
Mix together a group of English lads, a money-making scheme, a good ol' fashioned striptease, and a big dollop of Brit slang and humor, and you have the makings of the ideal comedy: The Full Monty in all of its doughy glory. We'll keep our fingers crossed for a 50th-anniversary DVD that features a special tribute by the aging members of Take That.
9. WILL FERRELL in Old School (2003)
8. TYLER NILSON in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
7. JULIAN SANDS, RUPERT GRAVES, and SIMON CALLOW in A Room With a View (1986)
6. CHARLTON HESTON in Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. DIANE KEATON in Something's Gotta Give (2003)
It's only a fleeting glimpse, and it's played for PG-13 laughs, but when Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) takes a naked nighttime stroll through her house, and is surprised by recuperating houseguest Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson), it's enough to shake the aging lothario's interest in gals under 30 — and to prove that the 57-year-old Keaton has still got it.
4. KATHY BATES in About Schmidt (2002)
3. SYLVESTER STALLONE in Demolition Man (1993)
Sylvester Stallone is a human ice sculpture, chiseled as ever, when he's defrosted from a cryogenic sleep in order to fight crime in the future.
2. BEVERLY D'ANGELO in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
1. DAVID KELLY in Waking Ned Devine (1998)
