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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