Since when is a Playboy layout the kiss of death? When is any nudity the kiss of death for that matter? I’m sure there are people who could sketch Angelina Jolie’s breasts from memory for all the nudity she’s done and I don’t think it’s hurt her credibility one bit.
Well I don’t. I find hers freckles bit alarming, as if we’ll soon be seeing a tabloid headline about her getting skin cancer. I have light freckles on my arms all the time, but even going about in shorts without any sunscreen on my legs, I never get freckles like the ones on her legs. Someone should have kept her out of the sun a lot more growing up - and out of tanning booths!
Au contraire. These pictures are bad, but I don’t think Maxim does any better with Lindsay. cite
Marilyn had an innocence and vulnerabilty that Lohan cannot match.
The ONLY thing bad about those photos is the look on her face- there are essentially one of two looks a woman has when posing nude- she’s either acting like she’s enjoying it or she seems to be doing it out of desperation (for her next meal, her next fix, or so her keepers don’t hit her with the cattle prod)- Lohan has the latter look.
She may have nice knockers but Lohan doesn’t even have a fraction of Marilyn’s glow and presence. She looks stoned out of her head in those photos. Maybe Scarlett Johansson would make a better imitation of Monroe, if it needs to be done. But I don’t see the need for it.
Ah, but, you see, that’s the new deal with nude pictorials: first, you don’t appear in an actual skin mag, but in a publication with some sort of lit/fashion/lifestyle hipster pretensions, e.g. New York, Vanity Fair, Esquire. Second, you don’t really do a typical nude “glamour” pictorial per se, but rather try to pass it as some sort of concept-art piece, e.g. a study in bodypainting, pregnancy, bodypainted pregancy, MM homage, etc… Third, you minimize any projection of erotism or entertainment in your demeanor.
That way you can, in a manner of speaking, show up nude w/o being seen naked, and still be “serious”.
That said, frankly some of those pics seem to be a case of the photog trying a bit too hard to be artsy-fartsy about it. But some others do look good. I believe that if maybe they’d gone for inspired-by reinterpretations (side-by-siding the original with a new take on the idea) as opposed to attempted recreations, they could have done better.
Oh, and of course, I MUST enter here the obligatory comment as to how I wouldn’t kick Ms. Lohan and her cans/guns/tatas/bazongas/great tracts of land out of the bed for eating crackers… 
That makes sense, I know Jennifer Aniston has done a couple of these “topless but covered by sheer cloth” pictorials while still saying she doesn’t do nudity.
I’m partial to snack trays.
If he jubblies like that, I would.
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You… don’t see the need for
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for Scarlett
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Johansson to appear naked?
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OK, the freckles bother me. And she could stand to gain about 10 pounds.
She’s still hot though.
If we’d seen her naked in 2004 we’d all be freaking out because she was 17. 
FTR, Ms. Lohan’s cans are so much better than Ms. Monroe’s, it’s not even funny. Ms. Monroe’s Playboy centerfold did nothing for me. (Of course, Playboy centerfolds tend to be unspeakably boring, but still…)
Cite?
Not exactly what the quoted post describes, but the first time I ever heard of Jennifer Aniston was when I saw her bare bum on the cover of Rolling Stone.
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/3/7/0/0/8890073-10466974-slarge.jpg
The one I remember best was in an issue of Vanity Fair years ago. Like back when Friends was still on the air.
I know she did a more recent one in Esquire after her breakup with Vince Vaughn, but I don’t think that one was as… revealing.