So, I was watching “Nude Golf,” an episode of “Chromium Blue,” a softcore porn premium channel TV series. And I was just fascinated with one of the female leads, a very buxom brunette with a waifish haircut that gave her face all sorts of character. She really made an otherwise totally uninteresting piece of fluff interesting.
I got curious about her and checked out Vanesa Taylor, the lead’s name, on the IMDB. Turns out I’d seen her before all right … she played Kara, the Femalien in the softcore movie Femalien, and was a participant in what many porn fans consider the very best softcore lesbian scene EVAH! with Jacqueline Lovell.
The waifish hairdo COMPLETELY changed the lines of Taylor’s face, impoving them greatly IMHO but also making her look older, which is undoubtedly why Taylor has remained longhaired in other appearances.
But that’s only part of the weirdness. In “Nude Golf” Taylor sings a song called “Who Do I have to Blow?” I’d figured she was lip-synching it, but no, turns out she’s a talented singer and pianist and had a minor club hit with a song called “Who Do I Have To Blow?”
Weird. Taylor was also, for a time, Jerry Springer’s main squeeze. So she’s not perfect, but still …
There were some people I saw on Star Trek TNG as a kid, then I saw in other roles, but I only recognized when I saw the TNG reruns in recent years. For instance, Andreas Katsulis, who played G’Kar on Babylon 5, played a Romulan captain. I think Armin Shimmerman also played one of the first Ferengi we ever saw, who may or may not have been Quark.
The other day watching Buffy S3 reruns I noticed the insane vampire in “Helpless” was the same guy as the magical-acid-dealer in season 6. I think there are several cases of recurring actors in the Buffyverse first appearing as villains.
Oh, speaking of Buffy, is anybody a Prince fan? Robia LaMorte, who played Jenny Calendar, was a dancer for Prince. She was either “Diamond” or “Pearl” but I don’t know which. I’m sure I saw that at some point when I was a kid, but I would never have guessed she did that.
In 1996 I went to see “Trainspotting” in a double bill with “Shallow Grave”. At that point I had never heard of Ewan McGregor. I watched the films in the one sitting but did not realise he was in both until several weeks later when I read it in a magazine :smack:
Watching a Night Court rerun gave me one of these moments. While Bob Weeler from West Virginia was on the screen it finally hit me: Hey! That’s Commander Data!
She was also Dottie in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, the hooker in Dogfight, another hooker in Devil’s Rejects, and the singer at the New Year’s Eve dance in Better Off Dead.
Cool, there was an outtake scene with her & Bill (Otis) Mosely discussing the various positions offered in the bordello catalog & there were some… interesting views of her.
General McGrath was played by the versatile Ted Levine, already mentioned here as Captain Stottlemeyer in Monk and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs .