"The English actress Diana Dors once called herself ""the only sex symbol Britain has produced since"" which person? No peeping or you'll go blind."
"I've worked with many people who have said to me, 'oh you have a pop record in you, eventually you'll find it,' and I always laughed at them. I guess I owe them an apology."" Peeping Tom (band) Peeping Tom were an American electronic rock group, led by Mike Patton. To date, they have released one eponymous album and two singles on Ipecac Recordings. The band has featured a wide variety of well-known artists such as Massive Attack, Norah Jones and Kool Keith. Peeping Tom has been called Mike Patton's most mainstream accessible work since his days with Faith No"
"Diana Dors Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English film actress and singer. She first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Marilyn Monroe, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly via sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it turned out that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed a genuine talent for TV, recordings, and cabaret, and gained new"
"Belinda Lee Belinda Lee (15 June 1935 – 12 March 1961) was an English actress. A profile for the British Film Institute said, ""of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious, yet paradoxically anonymous, British actress of the 1950s."" Often cast in demure roles in her early career, she was able to demonstrate her dramatic abilities, but she found more constant employment when she began to play ""sexpot"" roles. Typecast as one of several ""sexy blondes"", she was often compared, unfavourably, to the popular Diana Dors. Typical of these roles was a supporting part"
"Holt from 1954 until her death. Sandra Dorne Sandra Dorne (born Joan Smith; 19 June 1924 – 25 December 1992) was a British actress. Also known as Sandra Holt, she was often known in the 1950s as the B-film Diana Dors. As a platinum blonde, she was a regular female lead in B-films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She trained at the Rank Organisation's ""charm school"". Film roles dried up as she grew older, but she still found work and acted mainly in British television, appearing in such series as ""Z-Cars"", ""The Avengers"" and ""The Third Man"". She"
"Sandra Dorne Sandra Dorne (born Joan Smith; 19 June 1924 – 25 December 1992) was a British actress. Also known as Sandra Holt, she was often known in the 1950s as the B-film Diana Dors. As a platinum blonde, she was a regular female lead in B-films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She trained at the Rank Organisation's ""charm school"". Film roles dried up as she grew older, but she still found work and acted mainly in British television, appearing in such series as ""Z-Cars"", ""The Avengers"" and ""The Third Man"". She was married to the actor Patrick"
"influence from it. After her death, friends and biographers said that Hamilton would lend Dors out as a favour to hiring producers and leading actors, much as in the ""casting couch"" practices of Hollywood. In 1954, Hamilton had the idea of exploiting the newly printed technology of 3D. He engaged photographer Horace Roye to take a number of nude and seminude photographs of Dors which Hamilton subsequently had published in two forms; the seminude pictures were issued as a set called ""Diana Dors 3D: the ultimate British Sex Symbol"", which was sold together with a pair of 3D glasses; the"
"sex industry or anything else – you might conclude Pimp is a film for men who get their kicks watching Dyer strut around leering at topless women who – in the parlance of the film – look like ""the basic pleasure model"". Ellen E. Jones in ""Total Film"" stated : ""You wouldn't think a film could actually be both very boring and very offensive. ""Pimp"" is that paradox made flesh."" British film historian I.Q. Hunter, discussing the question ""What is the worst British film ever made?"", listed ""Pimp"" as one of the candidates for that title. The film only grossed"
"""Playboy"" (sometimes using the pseudonym Nina Downe – an anagram of Donna Ewin), was an extra in the famous orgy scene in Stanley Kubrick's last film, ""Eyes Wide Shut"", and she also appeared regularly on the BBC comedy sketch show ""The Fast Show"" on both television and live stage shows, notably in the ""Mr. and Mrs. Shag"" sketch. Ewin is now a qualified London taxi driver having completed ""The Knowledge"". Donna Ewin Donna Clarissa Ground (born 4 June 1970) known professionally as Donna Ewin, is an English former glamour model and actress. Donna Clarissa Ground was born on 4 June"
"quality. Their producers generally did not claim any artistic merit for their work, but such films were very profitable. The only director in this field to go on to mainstream and critical success is Francis Ford Coppola, who began his career writing and directing a pair of nudie comedies in 1962, ""Tonight for Sure"" and ""The Bellboy and the Playgirls"". In Michael Powell's controversial British film ""Peeping Tom"", released in 1960, a model (Pamela Green) lies back on a bed waiting to be photographed by the killer in a key scene. She undoes her top briefly exposing one of her"
"its October 2004 US issue's article, ""Gaming Grows Up""; and Nina Williams, voted ""Hottest"" Female Fighting Character in ""Guinness World Records, Gamers Edition 2008"". Sex symbol A sex symbol is a famous person or fictional character widely regarded to be very sexually attractive. The term ""sex symbol"" was first used in the mid-1950s in relation to the popularity of certain film stars and pin-up models, including Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Raquel Welch. This concept was a reflection of the post-World War II increase of sexual and economic emancipation of women. In the 20th century, sex symbols could be male"
"said: ""People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. They can’t imagine that people would want to be anything other than that. When they are, it's looked at as almost a political statement. Look at Lena Dunham. She is a gorgeous woman and people can't stop talking about how brave she is to show herself naked, which I find totally condescending and ridiculous. If Angelina Jolie was naked onscreen no one would say she was brave. The implication is that Lena's brave because she doesn't look the way she's supposed to look. I think that's a shame."" Jill"
"video/installation artist (and now film director) Isaac Julien and installation artist Mike Nelson. The media focused on a large display by Fiona Banner whose wall-size text piece, ""Arsewoman in Wonderland,"" described a pornographic film in detail. ""The Guardian"" asked, ""It's art. But is it porn?"" calling in ""Britain's biggest porn star"", Ben Dover, to comment. Culture Minister Kim Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as ""conceptual bullshit"". Prince Charles wrote to him: ""It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dreaded Turner prize. It has contaminated the art establishment for so long."" Graffiti artist Banksy stencilled"
"thought, ""fuck, there's no reason why I'm standing here naked."" Screenwriter Andrew Davies said he was attracted to the story because it featured a girl transitioning into womanhood and it included his interests in Victorian erotica; he compared it to ""Pride and Prejudice""—for which he wrote the BBC screenplay—""with dirty bits"". Both Waters and Davies were concerned about the use of dildos in scenes with Diana, but the BBC allowed it. When news releases told of the BBC featuring swearing and sex toys, the ""Daily Mail"" reported that viewers began to protest. BBC representatives downplayed the gratuitousness of the story,"
"145 possessing ""questionable sequences"", and 44 being ""critically sexual""."" The trade paper summarized that ""over 80% of the world's chief picture output was...flavored with bedroom essence."" Attempts to create films for adults only (dubbed ""pinking"") only served to bring larger audiences of all ages to the cineplex. Posters and publicity photos often were tantalizing. Woman appeared in poses and garb not even glimpsed in the films themselves. In some cases, actresses with small parts in films, or in the case of Dolores Murray in her publicity still for ""The Common Law"" (1931), no part at all, appeared barely clothed. Hays"
"Caroline Cossey Caroline Cossey (born 31 August 1954) is an English model. She has appeared in the James Bond film ""For Your Eyes Only"", and in 1991 was the first trans woman to pose for ""Playboy"". Following her appearance in the Bond film in 1981, she was outed by British tabloid ""News of the World"". Cossey has since then fought for her right to legally marry and be legally recognised as a woman. Cossey was born in Brooke, Norfolk. Through puberty, Cossey was distinctly feminine in appearance due to a variant of Klinefelter's syndrome, where, instead of having the XY"
"Diana Mary Fluck, Dors's real name). With the aid of a bank statement found among Alan Lake's papers, Inforenz was then able to decode the existing material to reveal a list of surnames and towns only - suggesting that there must be a second page that would reveal first names and bank details, to complete the message. As this has never come to light, no money has ever been traced. In 2003, Channel 4 made a television programme about the mystery. Diana Dors Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English film"
"In 1996 it was revealed by ""The People"" newspaper that Daly, who at the time was starring in television ads for First Choice Holidays, was a ""blue movie queen"" who had starred in ""kinky videos featuring in bondage and lesbian sex scenes"" and claimed the revelations would come as a shock to the bosses of the holiday booking company. in 2014, Daly stated that ""When you are a kid, you are a kid. You get led down the wrong path by not very nice people. If I could have my life again I would say: 'OK, but without that part'."""
"as ""the embodiment of beauty"". A study by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons attributed a 10% rise in 2010 of the number of British women receiving breast augmentation surgery in part to Hendricks' influence. Hendricks has moved away from accepting the term ""full-figured"" and once lambasted a reporter who used the term while interviewing her. Hendricks commented in September 2010 that the media is too focused on women's bodies and not their actual talents, ""I was working my butt off on the show [""Mad Men""] and then all anyone was talking about was my body"". Hendricks is a"
"contacted the LAPD, who informed him that all of the information supplied by Stokes had been available to the media at the time. Stokes was unable to provide any new information to the police and the case remains unsolved. Doris Stokes Doris May Fisher Stokes (6 January 1920 – 8 May 1987), born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist and professional medium. Her public performances, television appearances and memoirs made her a household name in Britain. During her lifetime, she was a controversial figure, with some believing her to possess psychic abilities. Investigations published after her death demonstrated that she"
"pillar in the Alma Tunnel rather than colliding with something else"". On 17 August 2013, Scotland Yard revealed that they were examining the credibility of information from a source that alleged that Diana was murdered by a member of the British military. Actor George Clooney publicly lambasted several tabloids and paparazzi agencies following Diana's death. A few of the tabloids boycotted Clooney following the outburst, stating that he ""owed a fair portion of his celebrity"" to the tabloids and photo agencies in question. Diana was ranked third in the 2002 ""Great Britons"" poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for"
"Sex symbol A sex symbol is a famous person or fictional character widely regarded to be very sexually attractive. The term ""sex symbol"" was first used in the mid-1950s in relation to the popularity of certain film stars and pin-up models, including Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Raquel Welch. This concept was a reflection of the post-World War II increase of sexual and economic emancipation of women. In the 20th century, sex symbols could be male as well as female: actors such as the romantic Sessue Hayakawa and the athletic Douglas Fairbanks were popular in the 1910s and 1920s. Archetypal"
"of the World"". In large part, she brought this notoriety upon herself. In desperate need of cash after her separation from Hamilton in 1958, she gave an interview in which she described their lives and the adult group parties in full, frank detail. The interview was serialised in the tabloid for 12 weeks, followed by an extended six-week series of sensational stories, creating negative publicity. Subsequently, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, denounced Dors as a ""wayward hussy"". Television news and film companies with more general interests, partly because of her popularity and partly because of who was attending the"
"include Courtney Trouble, Candida Royalle, Tristan Taormino, Madison Young, Shine Louise Houston, Jincey Lumpkin, Ovidie, and Erika Lust. Some of these directors make pornography specifically for a female or genderqueer audience, while others try for a broad appeal across genders and sexual orientations. Doris Wishman is one of the earliest female pornography film directors. She began producing a series of nudist films without sex scenes, including Hideout in the Sun (1960), Nude on the Moon (1961) and Diary of a Nudist (1961). Years after it she also produced a series of sexploitation films. Directed by Abiola Abrams in 2006, ""Afrodite"
"fashion than any other actress. Marlene Dietrich favoured Dior. In an interview with ""The Observer"" in 1960, she said, ""I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. If I dressed for myself I wouldn't bother at all. Clothes bore me. I'd wear jeans. I adore jeans. I get them in a public store – men's, of course; I can't wear women's trousers. But I dress for the profession."" Her public image included openly defying sexual norms, and she was known for her androgynous film roles and her bisexuality. A significant"
"Adam and the Ants music video ""Prince Charming"", where she played the fairy godmother opposite Adam Ant, who played a male Cinderella figure. Having turned her life story into a cash flow through interviews and leaked tabloid stories, like many celebrities in their later careers, she turned to the autobiography to generate retirement cash. Between 1978 and 1984, she published four autobiographical books under her own name: ""For Adults Only"", ""Behind Closed Dors"", ""Dors by Diana"", and ""A. to Z. of Men"". Having gone through her first round of cancer treatment, by the early 1980s Dors' hour-glass figure had become"
"the public eye – when they become a certain age is a real disadvantage to serious broadcasting. There's a whole segment of the British population that does not see its equivalent in serious broadcasting and that is women over 55. Now, that is not healthy for a broadcasting organisation's relationship with its audience. The public should be represented on the screen in various colours, forms, sexualities, whatever."" In 2010, Bakewell criticised the side effects of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. She said: ""I never thought I would hear myself say as much, but I'm with Mrs Whitehouse on this"
"during a scene with Mark Ashley. Sarah Jane Hamilton became known as one of the first alleged female ejaculators from Britain; though this was later dismissed by porn reviewer Pat Riley as urination in his review of ""The British are Coming"" (1993). However, she has commented that she could not ejaculate on cue even though producers expect her to like a male performer. In the United Kingdom, the British Board of Film Classification has requested cuts to pornographic films alleged to show female ejaculation, claiming that the expert medical advice it received was that there is no such thing as"
"Fiona Richmond Fiona Richmond (born 2 March 1945, Hilborough, Norfolk, England) is a former glamour model and actress. She became a British sex symbol in the 1970s for her appearances in numerous risqué plays, comedy revues, magazines and films. Richmond was born Julia Rosamund Harrison in Hilborough, Norfolk, the daughter of the Reverend John Harrison. She made her film debut (billed under the name Amber Harrison) in ""Not Tonight, Darling"" (1971), which led to larger roles in the X-rated movies ""Exposé"" (1976), ""Hardcore"" (1977) and ""Let's Get Laid"" (1977). Her later film roles included the Queen of France in ""History"
"Princess Donna Princess Donna (aka Donna Dolore; born January 23, 1982) is an American pornographic actress and adult movie director. She was formerly the director of the websites ""Public Disgrace"", ""Bound Gang Bangs"", and ""Ultimate Surrender"", all three produced by Kink.com. Virtually all of her performances and directorial projects have been within the genre of BDSM pornography. She has appeared as a subject in a number of documentaries, including ""Graphic Sexual Horror"" in 2009 and ""Public Sex, Private Lives"" in 2012. Princess Donna was born on January 23, 1982. She became interested in photography and the politics of sex and"
"on ITV and HBO on 24 July 2017. This film focuses on Diana's legacy and humanitarian efforts for causes such as AIDS, landmines, homelessness and cancer. The second documentary, ""Diana, 7 Days"", aired on 27 August on BBC and focused on Diana's death and the subsequent outpouring of grief. Actresses who have portrayed Diana include Serena Scott Thomas (in """"), Julie Cox (in ""Princess in Love""), Amy Seccombe (in """"), Genevieve O'Reilly (in """"), Nathalie Brocker (in ""The Murder of Princess Diana""), and Naomi Watts (in ""Diana""). Posthumously, as in life, she is most popularly referred to as ""Princess Diana"","
"Beth Rogan Jenifer Puckle (19 July 1931 – 25 November 2015), known professionally as Beth Rogan, was a British film actress and Rank Films starlet of the 1950s and 60s. She was married and divorced three times, said by friends to be charming but ""dangerous to know"", and grew her own cannabis. Reputedly, she was the model for Diana Scott, the central character in John Schlesinger's film ""Darling"" (1965). Puckle was born in Walmer, Kent. She was always known as Jeni to friends and family. Her father was Kenneth Puckle, a major in the Royal Marines and a veteran of"
"most disgracefully immoral people I've ever come across in a Western civilisation"". In 1992, the UK Health Education Authority (subsequently the Health Development Agency, now merged into the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) recruited Cleese—an ex-smoker—to star in a series of anti-smoking public service announcements (PSAs) on British television, which took the form of sketches rife with morbid humor about smoking and were designed to encourage adult smokers to quit. In a controlled study of regions of central and northern England, one region received no intervention, the PSAs were broadcast in two regions, and one region received both"
"media"", although she herself has stated the contrary: ""I don't talk about my private life."" In a 2004 BBC poll, Knightley was named among the most influential people in British culture. Knightley has been listed as one of the ""100 Sexiest Women in the World"" by FHM on multiple occasions. She made her first appearance on the list in 2004, and was named ""the sexiest woman in the world"" in 2006. She was included in every subsequent issue up until 2009. She was a part of the American editions of the list from 2004 to 2006, and was also placed"