David Thomson

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  • Eve was quite a lady

    When Barbara Stanwyck's leg pushes up against Henry Fonda's white jacket it is one of the most erotic moments in American film.
  • What's a turn-on?

    I usually dream about women, but today I'm thinking about the sexiest living guys.
  • Inner life

    Production director Richard Sylbert created the erotic spaces in "Chinatown," "The Graduate" and "Carnal Knowledge."
  • The cool one

    Jodie Foster is like Cary Grant -- smart, observant and curious about human nature. Those things together lend a fascinating distance to her charm.
  • Tender moments

    I've been thinking of the opening shot of "Bay of Angels" for the last 40 years.
  • Wondering about Nina

    Is anyone else besides me watching the sexiest thing on television?
  • If looks could kill

    The glance Sherron Watkins gives her ex-boss tells us all we need to know about Enron's sexual politics.
  • Sassy Maggie

    Princess Margaret was the only royal of her day with any sex appeal at all.
  • Mail-order bride

    In "Birthday Girl," Nicole Kidman is confidently sexy playing a Russian femme fatale with trashy clothes, exposed midriff and a lanky insouciance.
  • Hail Halle

    We are looking at one of the more beautiful women on Earth: We know it -- and she knows it.
  • Is that all there is?

    When we lost Miss Peggy Lee we lost a voice that could tunnel right into a listener's heart.
  • Be still my heart

    The old movie stills were often sexier than the movies they were meant to publicize.
  • "Iris"

    This film about old people, genius, love and light just might be a masterpiece.
  • Tanya's chili

    In "Touch of Evil" Welles made the aging Dietrich into the quintessential femme fatale.
  • Hold your fire

    I come not to bury Julia Roberts -- she's doing a good job of that herself in "Ocean's 11."
  • Introducing ... Julia Roberts?

    There is a new Julia, and she's less sexy than lean, tight and anxious.
  • Harry Potter doesn't get "Blue Velvet"

    The boy has no profound psychosexual life, which keeps the film from being dangerous -- and important.
  • Shaving Mrs. Coen

    In "The Man Who Wasn't There" it's mostly the great Frances McDormand who isn't there.
  • Come in, Kiefer

    The new series "24" brings back the kind of sexuality Bogart and Mitchum had, back when.
  • Joan dearest

    Crawford and Jackie Cooper did more than play badminton.
  • Ripping yarns

    If you are intrigued by the Jack the Ripper tale, go ahead and see the film "From Hell." But the book "The Women of Whitechapel" is better.
  • Two blonds

    "Mulholland Drive" will probably never be understood, but it can be experienced for the haunting, sexy dream that it is.
  • "Late Night Shopping"

    Sometimes life is just keeping death at bay.
  • The numbers

    We are wise enough to believe in our unstoppable horniness.
  • She lost it at the movies

    As it happens, I did sit next to Pauline once in that dark.
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