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TURN OF THE CENTURY

Ask any man to name the most sizzling celluloid sex kitten of the 20th century, and the chances are that the nominations will be influenced by each respondent’s age. For those who came of age in the 1950s, it’ll be Monroe. In the 1960s, perhaps Bardot, and so on. Spool to the era of acid wash and purple rain, and she wasn’t even real…

In , the 1988 to detective noir, we were introduced to an uber-vamp the likes of which we had not seen before. Her name was Jessica Rabbit, and she emerged from a limousine in a cascade

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