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Just when you think you've seen it all -- and just when you were sick of all these damn lists -- comes Film Threat's four-parter on the fifty best breasts (aka boobs, aka ta-tas) in movie history. Now they don't seem to target specific films and characters within those films; this is more of a fifty best breasts in Hollywood history, as the list centers more on the actresses -- the women -- than the roles they've taken on. My favorite part of this list has to do with the fact that they included YouTube clips featuring all of the actresses in their best, well, attire (my personal favorite has to be the clip for Chesty Morgan). Some of the clips are from films, others are these weird stalker-ish montages -- nevertheless, it's all worth a look.

By now you're probably wondering who made their list. Well, noticeably absent is Angelina Jolie (who I would've thrown on there, if only for that ultra-sexy Tomb Raider outfit). Earlier ladies include Mae West, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Jayne Mansfield and the lovely Sophia Loren. We also have a little of Raquel Welch, Tura Santana and Pam Grier. Some more recent ladies include Jennifer Connelly (and yes, they include video of the scene with her riding the horse in Career Opportunities), Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Tilly, Scarlett Johansson and Rosario Dawson (video from her Clerks II dance -- gotta love it!). And of course, how could they leave off those busty animated characters; Jessica Rabbit rounds out the list of fifty.

I should also note that this list was created to help raise awareness for the American Cancer Society, considering it's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So it's all for fun and a good cause; hopefully no one will be offended. That said, I've included the Chesty Morgan video after the jump because, quite frankly, it's all kinds of awesome. Do you agree with their list, or are there breasts women they left out? (Um, I'd like to be first in asking where Salma Hayek, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Carla Gugino, Eva Mendes and -- heck -- Lindsay Lohan are, just to name a few ...)

[via Hollywood Elsewhere]

If you haven't seen the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, you may believe, mistakenly, that the most memorable scene is the musical number you've probably seen, or seen parodied: Marilyn Monroe in her pink dress singing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." Those of us who have seen this movie are aware that there is a far more bizarrely memorable musical number, one that does not even involve Monroe in any way. The number centers around Monroe's costar in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jane Russell, who turns 85 today.

Russell's character, Dorothy Shaw, is stuck on a cruise ship with the entire Olympic team -- but they're all on strict curfews and regimens, so she can't touch them. She walks into the ship's gymnasium and launches into the song, "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love." The song is full of sports metaphors and slight, tame double-entendres. But the song itself is not what burned itself on my brain when I saw this movie for the first time, but rather the visuals. Russell, wearing what may be the most phallic earrings in cinematical history, is surrounded by a gym full of identically dressed athletic men, all clad in nothing but flesh-colored shorts. In a rare gender-role switch for Hollywood, she treats them all like objects, running her hands over muscles here and there. Meanwhile, the men practically ignore her, and continue working out with one another and exercising around her in synchronization. By the end of the number, Russell is dripping wet (from the swimming pool) and surrounded by the athletes, who are all embracing one another while they glorify her. You don't need Vito Russo to tell you that this scene is dripping with homoeroticism.

Truly, the "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love" musical number must be seen to be believed. Rent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and you'll understand. Perhaps this scene is a premonition of that Anita Loos interview in the 1970s when she said that if she were writing her famous novella at that time, it might have been called Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen.