DANISH beauty Helena Christensen is showing no sign of hanging up her bikini.
The retired model, a former Victoria's Secret angel,
is now 42 years old and is still, as photos taken on the sunny Italian
coast this week have shown, in fine form, or as previously reported, as hot as ever.
The photos were taken as Christensen - who hit the catwalk in March this year
- played with her 11-year-old son Mingus Reedus on the island Ischia
off the coast of Naples during the annual Ischia Global Festival
yesterday.
Christensen has previously said she feels no pressure to cover up in middle-age.
"I have no problems with showing my body. I'm Danish. Everyone's naked on the beaches. We don't really give a shit."
Monday, March 7, 2016
Chris Isaak and one of the biggest pop hits of the early ’90s continues to titillate.
The way Chris Isaak explains it, “Wicked Game” happened quickly and unexpectedly.
“A girl called me and said, ‘I want to come over and talk to you,’ and ‘talk’ was a euphemism,” Isaak told longtime music journalist Dan MacIntosh. “And she said, ‘I want to come over and talk to you until you’re no longer able to stand up.’ I said, OK.’”
As soon as the singer-songwriter hung up the phone, he froze. “I thought, ‘I know she’s going to be trouble. She’s always been trouble. She’s a wildcat. And here I am, I’m going to get killed, but I’m doing this.’” The first line of the mega-hit materialized: “World’s on fire and no one can save me but you/ It’s strange what desire will make foolish people do.”
By the time the sexy beast arrived, Isaak had the song written. “I think she was upset because I was more excited by the song,” he said.
“Wicked Game” reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, which was – and still is – the biggest hit of Isaak’s career. The combination of his haunting Roy Orbison-quality yodels, cool reverberated guitar and story of dangerous romance yields some steamy imagery.
But “Wicked Game” didn’t initially turn heads. In fact, the song wasn’t even originally released the year it charted so high; it appeared on Isaak’s third record, Heart Shaped World, nearly two years earlier. The song began gaining notoriety after filmmaker David Lynch used it in his 1990 masterpiece Wild at Heart starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. More attention followed with Herb Ritts’ black-and-white music video, featuring Isaak and model Helena Christensen rolling around near-nude on a beach like a Calvin Klein commercial on steroids.
In the 25 years since, “Wicked Game” has taken on a life of its own, growing into a global pop-culture phenomenon.
Overwhelming evidence to that end begins with the more-than-two-dozen documented variations of the tune recorded by a variety of different artists. The strangest of the bunch includes a Gregorian chant-inspired knock-off by the the group Gregorian, and a 2004 dancey reimagining by the German techno collective Novaspace. Isaak champions all the various interpretations of his song, as long as one guideline is followed.
“They have fun and put themselves into the song,” he told
The song has surfaced in a slew of soaps – Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital – and in the 2014 revival of Streetcar Named Desire, starring Gillian Anderson. Saturday in Carmel, listeners will hear it live and in its original glory.
“A girl called me and said, ‘I want to come over and talk to you,’ and ‘talk’ was a euphemism,” Isaak told longtime music journalist Dan MacIntosh. “And she said, ‘I want to come over and talk to you until you’re no longer able to stand up.’ I said, OK.’”
As soon as the singer-songwriter hung up the phone, he froze. “I thought, ‘I know she’s going to be trouble. She’s always been trouble. She’s a wildcat. And here I am, I’m going to get killed, but I’m doing this.’” The first line of the mega-hit materialized: “World’s on fire and no one can save me but you/ It’s strange what desire will make foolish people do.”
By the time the sexy beast arrived, Isaak had the song written. “I think she was upset because I was more excited by the song,” he said.
“Wicked Game” reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, which was – and still is – the biggest hit of Isaak’s career. The combination of his haunting Roy Orbison-quality yodels, cool reverberated guitar and story of dangerous romance yields some steamy imagery.
But “Wicked Game” didn’t initially turn heads. In fact, the song wasn’t even originally released the year it charted so high; it appeared on Isaak’s third record, Heart Shaped World, nearly two years earlier. The song began gaining notoriety after filmmaker David Lynch used it in his 1990 masterpiece Wild at Heart starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. More attention followed with Herb Ritts’ black-and-white music video, featuring Isaak and model Helena Christensen rolling around near-nude on a beach like a Calvin Klein commercial on steroids.
In the 25 years since, “Wicked Game” has taken on a life of its own, growing into a global pop-culture phenomenon.
Overwhelming evidence to that end begins with the more-than-two-dozen documented variations of the tune recorded by a variety of different artists. The strangest of the bunch includes a Gregorian chant-inspired knock-off by the the group Gregorian, and a 2004 dancey reimagining by the German techno collective Novaspace. Isaak champions all the various interpretations of his song, as long as one guideline is followed.
“They have fun and put themselves into the song,” he told
The song has surfaced in a slew of soaps – Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital – and in the 2014 revival of Streetcar Named Desire, starring Gillian Anderson. Saturday in Carmel, listeners will hear it live and in its original glory.
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