Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Geek Pin-Up #3: Tanya Roberts
Let there be no doubt that Tanya Roberts is one of the most beautiful AND sexy women to ever stand in front of a movie camera. Beautiful because of striking blue eyes like slivers of topaz and lips that look like two heavenly curves of crushed velvet. Sexy because of the way those eyes burn through the camera lens, then through you, and a voice that resonates like the purring of a contented cat. Then there is the rest of her, which I won't be able to describe with ordinary words.
Tanya first entered my consciousness through an evil little horror film called Tourist Trap. Her part in that film was as one of a few expendable babes, but she was definitely the one I wanted to survive Chuck Connor's maniacal wrath. Then Ms. Roberts spent a couple of years as a second stringer on the TV show Charlie's Angels before catapulting into a million geek hearts as the spunky slave girl Kiri in The Beastmaster. Of course, most of you probably know Tanya best as that golden goddess of the jungle, Sheena. I have to say, even though she made a good impression in that movie (and elicited more than a few joyous "expressions" from male viewers), the movie was not that great. Ted Wass co-starred, after all. But it probably stands as one of the last PG movies to show full-frontal nudity (in the infamous "pond scene"), so that's a positive.
Tanya continued her "clothing optional" crusade in the early 90's with starring roles in a string of erotic thrillers, including Night Eyes (with the vertically-smashed face of Andrew Stevens), Inner Sanctum and Sins of Desire. From there her filmography became a bit foggy until she popped up in the late 90's as Midge Pinciotti (Donna's mom) on That 70's Show.
What an amazing woman. Tanya, my puberty thanks you.
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My crotch thanks you.
Full frontal in a PG? I won't believe you until you post screencaps.
Please.
The DVD will be mine soon, so that's a possibility.
I can't stop staring at this picture.
Your forgetting her most memorable appearacne in Body Slam. Please slap me for remembering that.
-Rob