Posts tagged with Pam Grier

Lifetime Skinchievement Award May Have Backfired

After ten rod-stiffening nude appearances, from 1994’s Heavenly Creatures all the way up to this year’s Oscar-nominated The Reader, Kate Winslet has delivered a devastating blow to skin-ficionados everywhere.

When Time magazine asked the Golden Globe winner when she planned to bare her own golden globes again, the Titanic-tittied Winslet replied, "I think I won't. I can't keep getting away with it, and I don't want to become 'that actress who always gets her kit off'."

Apparently, “kit” is British slang for “fans.”

Read more after the jump.

It is overripe, it is perverse, it is in bad taste, and it is the kind of classic no one makes anymore because, really, who would dare?

And, oh yes, it is awesome.

The movie we celebrate is Mandingo, which erupted into neighborhood theaters nationwide on this day in 1975.

Mandingo deals with sexual relations between slaves and masters on a brutal plantation in the pre-Civil War American south as only a maniacally over-the-top masterpiece of hard-boiled movie-making can.

Get the complete skinny on Mandingo -- including loads of skinterracial sex -- after the cut.

Since February is Black History Month, I've been reflecting on some of the many multicultural mammaries I have enjoyed in the past 25 years. Two of my all time favorites are the incomparable Pam Grier's bountiful black bosoms and milk chocolate mudflaps in 1973 blaxploitation classic Coffy. Also high on my list are the Hershey kiss nipples that topped Cynda Williams's gigantoid gazongas in the 1998 drama Caught Up. Next week, MrSkin.com will unveil a new feature all about the best Nubian nudes of all timedon't miss it! Though we've come a long way with racial equality in this country, I'm still hoping that the breast is yet to come!