Burt Reynolds, the actor known as "Hollywood's outlaw," died on Thursday, Sept. Throughout his career, Reynolds starred in more than films, won Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for his roles in gritty action movies and romance films, and was known for doing many of his own dangerous stunts. But in addition to his work on camera, Reynolds was also known as a heartthrob, and a now-iconic photoshoot that appeared in a issue of Cosmopolitan will forever be part of his legacy. Shortly before Deliverance, his biggest film up to that point, was released, then-editor Helen Gurley Brown approached Reynolds to be the magazine's first-ever male centerfold. I did. Reynolds stretches across two full pages of the April issue of Cosmopolitan. He's got a smirk on his face, a limp cigarillo dangles from his lips, and a fuzzy bearskin rug is underneath his also-fuzzy body. His arm is strategically placed in front of his "tallywacker," as Reynolds later called it. He chose the photo that appeared in the magazine himself. Gurley Brown had pitched the idea to Reynolds as a "milestone in the sexual revolution.
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A bold statement, perhaps, but it's easy to trust coming from boudoir photographer Lori Sapio. The industry veteran has more than two decades of experience and has shot for publications like Vogue Italia and Playboy , so she clearly knows a thing or 10 about sexy. Of course, Vogue sexy and Playboy sexy are two very different things, and that's kind of the point here. But what is boudoir photography? It's a style of photography that's a little glamorous, a little suggestive, and, well, pretty sexy. At her Chicago studio, Revival Pinups , Lori resists forcing some cookie-cutter definition of sexy onto clients. The idea of a boudoir shoot might seem inherently daunting, but you only have to do what you're comfortable with. We talked to Lori about what happens in your typical photo shoot to collect a handful of tips to walk you through your first time.
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And, armed with all that knowledge, I came up with these 11 secrets and tricks for taking nude or erotic photos almost instantly. Myspace has done a lot of damage to the world. But beyond setting web design back a solid 12 years and occasionally making people commit suicide, one of its true cardinal sins was making people think it was OK to take self-portraits by extending their arm as high and far as they can and taking a photo of themselves. Yes, you look better from a super-high angle.
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