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85 years old actor married from 25 years old girl.
Most of us at this age will probably go to health clinics, but Andrzej Łapicki. 85-year-old is already a great actor married. His wife is 60 years younger than him, Kamila. Young country met at the interview.
“Yes, I certify that I took the vow” - the actor says newspapers. It was not a sudden decision, but it may surprise, because Andrzej Łapicki wife and married during a small ceremony, and invited only the closest to it.
Age difference, that between the spouses is 60 years old, was not an obstacle for them. Newspapers describes that Łapicki and Kamila know is if this young knowledge of the theater student carried an interview with a well-known actor for the “Theater” (polish: “Teatr”). The actor was already on for several years be a widower.
Love aged a few months - describes the media. Andrzej Łapicki and his young partner began to show up together, often go time for theatrical premieres at the Polish National Theater (Teatr Narodowy). Finally decided to download. He publicly came to light June 7 when the premiere art “Marat/Sade” Kamila appeared in the company of Łapicki the ring on a finger.
Daughter of actor and best wishes Łapicki. “If Dad is happy, then I am!” - Says for newspaper Zuzanna Łapicka-Olbrychska.

Muara Johnston describes figure drawing as Pilates for painters. Any painter, regardless of skill and experience level, can benefit from the presence of a live model from which to draw. Which is why the assistant director for the SLO Art Center selected two documentaries featuring nude models to screen in conjunction with the Art Center’s exhibit, Corpora in Extremis (Bodies to the Limits). The public is invited to view The Nude Model and Art is an Attitude: The Art of Drawing the Nude as part of the Art Center’s movie night June 15 at 7 p.m., a program that began last October with the purpose of enhancing the exhibits.
“The centerpiece of art has always been human beings,” said Bill Buchman, director and featured artist of Art is an Attitude. “And, particularly, the nude, throughout the entire history of art. I think that the human figure is the basis for our concept of beauty.”
Buchman, of Florida, created the 93-minute instructional video in the summer of 2007 (it is now available for sale on Amazon.com for $34.95). He hired a co-director, who assumed responsibility for the technical aspects of the shoot. They filmed for two days in Buchman’s studio. For the sake of simplicity, he worked primarily with a single female model, an actress and dancer he had used before and selected because he knew that she would be comfortable in front of the camera. All told, the project was finished within three months.
Using a style that he describes as expressive and gestural—the middle ground between representational and abstract—Buchman’s purpose for the film was “to take [his] teaching technique out of the studio and to the larger public and to take people inside a first-hand experience of what drawing the human figure was about.” He sketches quickly, sticking to the fundamentals, as an hourglass figure most closely resembling a fertility goddess emerges from his brush. Heads rarely follow, and faces almost never. Working to maintain a spontaneous flow—Buchman doesn’t like art to be overworked or laborious—he strives for a universality that might be undermined by the addition of a face, and the expression and personality that a face conveys.
“I love the human face,” he said. “I started out doing street portraits in Denver, Colorado. But with everything else, you have to specialize. Even Picasso said, ‘I’ve ruined a lot of drawings by putting the head on them.’ People think it’s about something called realism or reality whereas it’s really about making magic.”
In his film Buchman draws the human figure in a variety of styles, from cubist to abstract, using tools that include Conté crayon, gel pen, ink wash, Sumi brush, soft pastels, watercolor crayons, and reed pen. He works in conjunction with European companies that import water-based drawing tools and media. His models in the film are exclusively female, although he does work with male models when he can find them (a task he says is not altogether simple in Florida). For painters who are interested in figure drawing but embarrassed about the prospect of working with a nude model, Buchman, who has been drawing from live models since he was 16, recommends participating in a class with a group of artists to minimize both cost and awkwardness.
“Anyone who wants to draw the figure would quickly realize what a normal thing it is and how comfortable everyone is,” he insisted. “The whole experience is on another level than purely voyeuristic. There is something naturally clinical that arises in a setting like that.”
But Rob Thompson, one of four producers of The Nude Model, approaches the subject from a different perspective. His film crew recruited artists and models to participate in a staged figure drawing class in a rented theater space, filming in a single afternoon. They researched the history of nude modeling, discovering that many of the models who now grace the walls of the world’s most prestigious museums were considered morally inferior to prostitutes. In the film, models discuss the physical and emotional discomfort that attends their profession.
“Unless you do a life drawing class, people have no idea what it’s like for the models,” said Thompson. “Some people felt very awkward about telling people they were nude models. There’s still a lot of prudery.”
Their models were both male and female, and sometimes their stories about nude modeling differed accordingly. One woman talked about modeling through her seventh month of pregnancy; a male model recounts an unfortunate incident in which he became aroused while posing. But the discomfort was balanced against the benefits of collaboration and the inspiration of the human form.
“It’s a different energy from drawing a bowl of fruit,” said Thompson, who has participated in an art class with a nude model.

Woah! Wait just a minute. This can’t possibly be Geek Beat, can it? Where are the nerds? The thick glasses and pocket protector-wearing, techie lingo speaking, socially inept dweebs who got shoved into lockers and pantsed in gym class? Well, dear readers, this nerdolicious babe is here to tell you what you’re missing in non-geek land. In this case, hot retro honeys who take their clothes off and do strange acts in the vein of the original “geek.”
As any self-respecting geek knows, the word “geek” was originally circus lingo for a performer with an unusual act. Though today’s circus has gone to the dogs (well, more like the kids…friggin’ creepy clowns), acts like the Pretty Things Peep Show have revived the earlier traditions of stage magic, “freak” acts like fire eating and walking on glass and, of course, Gypsy Rose Lee style burlesque. That’s exactly what we saw this past Friday at The Trunk Space, where the current three Pretty Things parked their asses — and their RV — for the evening.
Circus freaks and geeks (with photo slideshow!) after the jump…
Clearly it pays to make your living as a sideshow freak, as local performer Dr. Reverend Stephen Strange got to play around with three gorgeous half-naked ladies all night — at their request. No glass-walking or scorpion eating for him this time, but we did get to see his signature tennis racket act and the corny trick above, whereby he bound two unsuspecting guests (one of which was local pop culture princess Nicki Escudero) together and “took” their unmentionables.
The two burlesque beauties, Go-Go Amy and Bettie May, performed a couple of striptease acts climaxing in a pastie reveal (see our photo slideshow!), but Amy went one step further when the tattooed Insectavora put her in a pink magician’s box. As huge blades sliced into the box, Amy’s clothing came off. The >b>stockings. The bodysuit. The panties. Everything but a pair of star pasties and a glittering pastie thong. The whole audience was invited to come up on stage and see Amy’s Pretty Pink Box — for just a buck or two donation.
Burlesque shows tend to “stoke the fires” for couples, if you know what we mean — wink, wink. Some more than others. This dude bought a pair of pasties for his ladyfriend. Although, judging by the fact he posed for us playing with his nipples, we’re not totally sure who the pasties are for.
If you missed the Pretty Things this time around, you can get vintage-y hair tips, makeup and a pin-up photo session for about $200 at their pin-up class in Tempe on July 13 or check out their other tour dates. No rush, though. Bettie May says she and the girls hope to be on the road “for at least five more years.”
Want to see more hot circus geek action? Check out our photo slideshow of the Pretty Things Peep Show.

Sara Ziff began modeling at the age of 14 in New York. At her third casting, in the East Village, models went in to see the photographer one by one. When it was her turn, the photographer said he needed to see her without her shirt. Then he said it was still hard for him to imagine her for the story, so he asked her to take her pants off, too. Nervous, just 14 years old, and eager to succeed in her new profession, she obliged.
Stories like this are all too common in the modeling industry, though unlike anorexia or body-image issues, they’re hardly publicized. Ziff aims to expose them in the documentary she made called Picture Me. Over five years, she took cameras backstage at shows, to parties, and on photo shoots. Her now-ex-boyfriend, a filmmaker, came with her and shot, too. She gave cameras to fellow models and asked them to share their stories. Model Sena Cech described a disturbing casting with one of the industry’s top photographers:

Halfway through the meeting Cech is asked to strip. She does as instructed and takes off her clothes. Then the photographer starts undressing as well. “Baby — can you do something a little sexy,” he tells her. The photographer’s assistant, who is watching, eggs her on. What’s supposed to be the casting for a high-end fashion shoot turns into something more like an audition for a top-shelf magazine. The famous photographer demands to be touched sexually. “Sena — can you grab his cock and twist it real hard,” his assistant tells her. “He likes it when you squeeze it real hard and twist it.”

Cech did it, but turned down the job because she feared the audition was only a taste of what the shoot would be like. The photographer never wanted to work with her again. Ziff explains, “Pretty much every girl I have talked to has a story like it, but no one talks about it. It’s all under the radar because people are embarrassed and because the people in the industry who are doing these things are much more powerful, and the model is totally disposable. She could be gone in two years.” Young models don’t always have anyone to turn to. Just think of the enormous pressures placed on a poor 15-year-old from Latvia who is supporting her family and barely speaks English. Ziff continues:

“I’ve done shoots naked, totally naked. They sell it to you as: ‘Here’s this great artist and he wants to take your portrait.’ I had to switch off the voice in my head that said: ‘Do you really want to do this?’ When you’re being paid a lot of money and you want to appear cool you really don’t want to show any resistance to going with it.
“But at the end of the day I used to wonder: what’s the difference between doing a shoot in your underwear for Calvin Klein and being a stripper? Obviously you are compromising yourself. How far am I willing to go? How much am I willing to show for a big fat cheque?”

A model union could protect models from situations like these. A year and a half ago, two models based in Britain set one up that campaigns for better working conditions, holiday and sickness pay, and protection in case of injury. But they still have a lot of work to do.