Varsity Blues (1999)

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The Least Scandalous Nude Photo ...
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"Naked pictures of a stripper? Not news. Naked pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning- screenwriter? Eh. Pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning- screenwriter emulating the naked-but-for-whipped-cream scene from the classic James Van Der Beek vehicle Varsity Blues? News enough! Meanwhile, proving that no good-intentioned attempt to bridge the cultural-political divide goes unpunished, some people are mad that soldiers presented Oscars. Interestingly, most of the complaints conflate the two documentary awards into the claim that the Academy implicitly mocked the soldiers by forcing them to give an award to the anti-Iraq war film Taxi to the Darkside. In fact, the soldiers presented the Best Documentary Short award, which went to Freeheld. Debbie Schlussel, probably the most hateful of the Hollywood haters, gets that part right, but she also repeatedly insists that Diablo Cody is fat, " [More]

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"As a former fat guy, I have to salute actor Ron Lester, who went on the Today Show yesterday showing off his slim figure (see the segment here). You may remember Lester as the really, really fat high school football player “Billy Bob” from Varsity Blues, or his identical character from Not Another Teen Movie. Back in 2001, he lost 315lbs. — 43lbs. of it extra skin that had to be removed — and even lost 2 inches worth of height (thanks to the weight lost from his head). He did this by gastric bypass surgery and it was primarily for heath reasons, but damn if he doesn’t look much better, too. The problem is, according to the person submitting this story to Fark.com, he may now be handsomer but he may also have cost himself his acting career. Obviously he had been employed in the past for his physique more than his acting talent, and now he’s missing that thing that guaranteed his being hired (h " [More]

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by JakeStevens in JakeStevens Blog

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"Even though it's predictable as hell and a bit cheesy, I can't say I hated Varsity Blues. The characters are likeable, the "action" scenes well photographed, and it's got Ali Larter on a whipped cream bathing suit. Yum. " [More]

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