![SPLASH GORDON](/images/headline/7271.png) Dirty mind, clean body. ![](/images/postimg/splash_gordon_01.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/splash_gordon_02.jpg)
Above: a poster for the 1972 sexploitation flick I pornogiochi delle femmine svedesi, painted by Italian illustrator Renato Casaro, along with a photo of star Claire Gordon going a rub-a-dub-dub with both hands in a tub, used by Casaro to inspire his creative process. The movie was originally made in England as Suburban Wives. While Gordon is lovely, and the poster is too, the movie is pretty dumb. Many years back we discussed it in a bit more detail and shared another Casaro promo, so if you're inclined to check that out, you can do so here.
![TEEN SPIRIT](/images/headline/2028.png) Record company borrows a collection of fabulous fifties models. ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_01.jpg)
We ran across these CDs and thought they’d be an interesting share. The covers are sloppily Photoshopped, but we certainly can’t fault the choice of models. Some are semi-famous actresses, such as Dani Crayne, above, and Claire Gordon, just below, while others are pin-ups. Most of the photos were borrowed from the British cinema magazine Picturegoer, which was published from 1921 to 1960. We haven’t featured that magazine yet, but we’ve a mind to buy a few because they’re widely available online. As far as the music here goes, each CD is a compilation of twenty-five or thirty 1950s pop songs, but we haven’t heard them, so we can’t comment on the quality. Sloppy cover work often hints at hastily compiled music, and perhaps substandard sonic quality, but you never know. Anyway, we have fifteen scans total, with Julie Glenville, Sheree Winton, Barbara Joyce and more. ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_02_claire_gordon.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/teen_spirit_15.jpg)
![EASY PIECES](/images/headline/439.png) Women are a constant puzzle. ![](/images/postimg/easy_pieces_02.jpg)
I pornogiochi delle femmine svedesi is a British film originally titled Suburban Wives, starring Eva Whishaw, Maggie Wright, Gabrielle Drake, and Claire Gordon—in a metal bikini below, and indeed wears it in the film. It’s about a reporter writing an exposé on “9 to 5 widows,” i.e., women who are left alone each day by their working husbands. These women decide to deal with the alone time by fucking strange men. Rather an extreme solution, in our view, but before you get your hopes up for a total retro orgy, we should tell you this isn’t really porn. True, it was x-rated when released, but it’s officially r-rated now, which puts it on about the same level as Cinemax, only with much furrier actresses and a folksy score. But the beautiful promo art by Renato Casaro is on a level all its own. I pornogiochi delle femmine svedesi premiered in Italy during the summer of ’72.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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