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Movie Blogger Jeffrey Wells Begs Director for Topless Photos of a ‘3:10 to Yuma’ Actress

Dirty-minded WellsCourtesy of HE


Over on Deadline Hollywood Daily, Nikki Finke publishes an e-mail from Hollywood Elsewhere blogger Jeffrey Wells to 3:10 to Yuma director James Mangold, thanking Mangold for the movie’s topless scene with actress Vinessa Shaw and begging Mangold to slip him some on-set stills of the scene. Finke takes Wells to task, saying the e-mail “truly sickened†her. She also posts Wells’s spirited response:

I’m going to pass along a major shocker to you, but you’d better sit down first. Ready? Guys like naked women — actresses, amateurs, Helmut Newton models, French politicians … anywhere and under almost any circumstance. They dream about naked women, compare notes about naked women, ogle pictures of naked women. I think it’s icky to loudly proclaim such interests, [which] is why I confine my enthusiasms along these lines to guys I know and (ahem) trust…

We have a few questions.

1. Who would ever have thought that Wells would sort of outplay Nikki Finke in this debate, though sheer force of sleaziness?

2. Who is Vinessa Shaw?

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