The Sudden Curve

Smokin' Babe :: Avril Lavigne

Posted by Wally Conger, who doesn't own a single Avril Lavigne CD...but she shur iz purty!

Smokin' Babe :: Hedy Lamarr

Posted by Wally Conger, who wishes they still made gals like Hedy Lamarr.

Music Video Babe :: Marlene Dietrich

Marlene smoked on film often, so I imagine Wally would rate her as a smokin' babe. However, I focus on music and video here.

She starred in one of my favorite old films. I'm not thinking of The Blue Angel but Golden Earrings (I guess my fascination with gypsies shows up again). I don't remember any singing in that movie, so we'll go with perhaps her most famous song.

Happy Birthday Marlene, where ever you are !

Posted by Tom Ender, who offers a different example of Marlene singing at Memory, Making, Meaning.

Smokin' Babe :: Sean Young

Sean Young is weird as hell and gives me the willies nowadays. But I still remember how smokin' hot she was in Blade Runner 25 years ago (at left). And who can forget her back-seat-of-the-limo love scene with Kevin Costner in 1987's No Way Out? Two cheers for Sean!

Posted by Wally Conger, whose best friends are sometimes Replicants.

Smokin' Babe :: Olga Kurylenko

Posted by Wally Conger, who loves Ukrainian models. And this one even acts!

Smokin' Babe :: Anne Archer

The last time I saw Anne Archer in a movie, oh, two or three years ago, she'd had an absolutely terrible facelift. I believe this photo is pre-lift, and she looks awfully good here, especially with that smoke. You remember Fatal Attraction? Were any of you as puzzled as I was at the time by Michael Douglas cheating on his wife, played by the gorgeous Ms. Archer? Through the whole movie, I kept shouting, "Dump Glenn and get home, you numbskull!' But maybe that's just me.

Posted by Wally Conger, who still loves Anne Archer, even if she is 60 and even if she does have a terrible facelift.

Smokin' Babe :: Melissa George

Melissa George now stars in the horror movie 30 Days of Night, based on the graphic novel series. I think she's smokin' in more ways than one.

Posted by Wally Conger, who loves a good vampire scare.

Smokin' Babe :: Monica Bellucci

I first noticed actress Monica Bellucci in the movie Matrix Revolutions about four years ago and instantly became a big fan. A little research online told me that Monica generally starred in Italian films, but I started to see her in things like Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and, amazingly enough, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, where she played Mary Magdalen. Most recently (like, in the past month), she starred opposite Clive Owen in the wonderful Shoot 'Em Up, which bombed at the box office but which will find a home at Casa Conger as soon as it goes DVD.

Anyway, say hi, everyone, to Monica, our lastest Smokin' Babe here at TSC!

Posted by Wally Conger, he likes Italian women, especially smokin' ones.

Smokin' Babe :: Jaime Pressly

Jaime's the Emmy-winning knock-out ex-wife from NBC's My Name is Earl series. She apparently likes to smoke in the tub.

Posted by Wally Conger, whose favorite Pressly is Jaime, not Elvis. (Yeah, I know, I know -- the names are spelled differently, but I needed a clever tag.)

Smokin' Babe :: Shannon Doherty

I know this isn't going to be a big shock to anyone, but Shannon Doherty, TV's beautiful mix of good girl and bad girl, smokes. This gal has LEFT more television series under negative circumstances than most performers have starred in, and always as the result of her "bad behavior." Oh well... She sure looks good.

Posted by Wally Conger, who likes those bad girls, even if they scare the heck out of him.

Smokin' Babe :: Emily Scott

I don't keep up with fashion, but I understand that Emily Scott is the Number One commercial model from Australia. She's not particularly my type, but quite appealing nonetheless, and I give her a bunch of extra points for the ceegar.

Posted by Wally Conger, who plans to smoke a Puerto Rican torpedo this very afternoon.

Smokin' Babe :: Jennifer Lopez

After a difficult day on the set, even semi-washed-up Hollywood starlet Jennifer Lopez likes to relax with a smoke.

Posted by Wally Conger, who wonders whatever happened to Jennifer's career.

Smokin' Babe :: Lucy Pinder

British model and Internet hottie Lucy Pinder. As Freud used to say, "Sometimes a cigar is, well, just a cigar!"

Posted by Wally Conger, who desperately needs a smoke.

Smokin' Babe :: Pink

She's hot, she rocks, and she SMOKES!

Posted by middle-aged Wally Conger, who admits to owning one Pink CD and lovin' it!

Smokin' Babe :: Michelle Pfeiffer

The only real reason to watch De Palma's Scarface.

Smokin' Babe :: Salma Hayek

Smokin' Babe :: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Last night, I saw Maggie Gyllenhaal, older sister of 2006 Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain), in the new comedy Stranger Than Fiction. I'd seen her before and liked her, but she's cute as a button in this Will Farrell vehicle, and I urge you all to take a look. In the meantime, get a load of Maggie playing a first-rate Smokin' Babe!

Posted by Wally Conger, a NEW Maggie Gyllenhaal fan!

Smokin' Babe :: Angelina Jolie

Maybe it's not Angie at her most appealing, but hey, imagine her sharing a smoke with you back in high school, behind the gym. Yum!

Posted by Wally Conger, who thinks Ms. Jolie will make a dynamite Dagny Taggart in the upcoming Atlas Shrugged movie. And he doesn't care what anybody else thinks about it.

Music Video Babe :: Olivia Newton-John

At the beginning of one of the most famous dance and music sequences in movies, the character who Olivia Newton-John (ONJ) plays in the classic film Grease (Duet with Travolta): Sandy Olsson, has a cigarette dangling from her very attractive lips.

So does that qualify Olivia as a Smokin' Babe? Does Olivia smoke tobacco? No. I really doubt that ! As a cancer survivor and campaigner for cancer awareness, I doubt she would even like the suggestion.

I doubt that she's in film or a photo anywhere with firearms (therefore not an Armed Babe), but I'm not sure. As far as I know she's not been in a SciFi flick with spaceships (therefore not a Space Babe, but maybe some music videos have possibilities in this area (toward the end she has a Barbarella-esque outfit and the sets suggest Space Opera).

However, if Olivia isn't some kind of "babe" then no one ever was.

I agree with Wally about many of his Smokin' Babes, notably Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth, and most especially Hedy Lamarr. However, they aren't of my generation. Olivia, who a few weeks ago had a birthday, was born two years before me. (Since Grease she seems to prefer "younger men," but I'm not available now.)

I've liked Olivia and her music from the time I first heard her sing. That was probably some time in 1973 with Let Me Be There.

I enjoyed her stuff when she was doing Country & Western tunes, though I'm not much of a C&W fan, only liking early Olivia, Willie Nelson and a few other performers. I also really liked her in Grease -- after her "image change," though I thought she was quite sexy even before the "makeover."

However, when I was newly separated from my first wife, paying tons of bills left over from that unsuccessful marriage, living in an apartment with rented furniture and also had a youngster to care for; MTV was relatively new. That's when I really enjoyed Olivia's music videos (from the Totally Hot and Physical albums especially). They kept me company on lonely nights when I had few options but to stay home and watch MTV.  I liked them all, but especially I liked this one --

No smoking of tobacco in that, but . . . . smokin' nonetheless . . .
I think I recall envying that rug.

So how about other Music Video Babes ? I invite the other Curvetributors to post some.

Posted by Tom Ender who promises to post more Music Video Babes, both classic and recent, but Olivia was "my first." She's special.

Olivia Newton-John - Video Gold 1

Smokin' Babe :: Uma Thurman