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The “Alternative Oscars”
By Lisa | February 17, 2008
Esquire has posted their 9th annual Alternative Oscars and Marisa has won for best gratuitous nudity.
Actresses tend to be more willing to get naked onscreen when they’re young, unknown, and hungry. Lately, though, there’s been an influx of long-established celebs who suddenly become allergic to clothes as they hit middle age and the ingenue roles start drying up: Meg Ryan (In the Cut), Jennifer Aniston (as close as she’s ever come in The Break-Up), and now Tomei, who spends much of Sidney Lumet’s heist-gone-wrong picture parading around topless for no particular reason. Not only does she look delectable at 43, but her casual exposure gives this contrived and glibly cynical film a disarming frankness that it desperately needs.
To read the rest of the winners, click here.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
That was some scene, in a great film!
I hope Marisa can top her performance in My Cousin Vinny someday, she is fabulous, and underated