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Kissing to be clever (aka "Liv Tyler's Lesbian Regret")

CelebritySpotlight.co.uk recently ran a hilarious quote by Liv Tyler about playing a lesbian (the original source was her interview with Allure Magazine). Actually, the hilarious part was the headline, "Liv Tyler's Lesbian Regret." There is so much you can do with the concept of "lesbian regret," isn't there?

Anyway, Tyler bemoaned the tameness of the kiss scene she did with Kate Hudson a few years ago in Dr. T and the Women.

She said, "Kate plays a woman who is about to get married and she's completely in love with me. We were always so shy about the kissing but in retrospect we were like, 'We so should have just totally made out and tongued each other'. But we never did, we were just too scared to do it."

Eh, it was okay. Nothing to be ashamed of there, Liv. At least you weren't just brushing each other's hair.

Harpy's picture

Hmm...

Hm, that last one is a Russian ad?  Interesting -- I definitely do not see what it has to do with beer, but I want one now! 
            
I'm confused on how such an ad could run in Russia when they can't even hold a gay pride parade in Moscow.  For the second year the parade has been banned in Moscow -- The city has never seen a gay pride parade even.  Recently, many homosexuals in Russia have been subject to violence and discrimination from not only members of the general population, but also the police deployed there for their protection.  The Moscow mayor has called Homosexuality "Satantic".
      
Are there more tolerant parts of the country (for the Russians reading)?  :)
Kim's picture

Russian ad

I hear ya...I don't even drink, but even I wanted a beer after watching that.
Malini's picture

Hypocritical is what

It seems like it's ok to do "gay" stuff if you aren't actually homosexual, or something like that. t.A.T.u comes to mind. I have a friend who knows a fair amount about Russian media, and you've always got to have a ploy to get noticed, like this other band that said they were a brother and sister in love, but they weren't actually related, and might not have even been in a relationship. Besides, the girls in the add were drunk. I'm sure they "didn't know what they were doing."

 All that said, nice collection of kissing scenes ^_^

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"I don't care if they like me or not. Everybody's stupid, that's what I think. I care if I like me, that's what I truly care about.[...] I can't like anybody if I don't like myslef. Period." ~Rubyfruit Jungle

smithie's picture

tinkoff

ah, another straight-male fantasy, as evidenced by the *ahem* overflowing bottle at the end... *eyeroll*
LadyElla's picture

I'm curios about Russian

I'm curios about Russian tolerance too. I can hardly take the intolerance in America, I don't know how I could handle it elsewhere. Maybe Russia's so big they didn't notice, lol...

But omg, I love Liv! That kiiinda makes me giddy! Lol at "lesbian regret." Maybe she'll try to find someone to help her out with that! ;)

I'm def gonna have to check out What's Cooking!

Tigerlily's picture

"Do guys think that

"Do guys think that everytime two women kiss each other they just want to get their attention?"

Sadly that often seems to be the case. Guys seem to like the idea of two women in love, but they don't like the obvious conclusion -that if I'm with her, I'm not interested in being with you. Then the whole "you just need to try a real man" BS starts. Honestly, get over yourselves already. It's unbelievably condescending and unattractive in equal measure. There are times you just want to turn to one of your straight friends and say "You know you could do a lot better!"  (not that I would, cause there really is such a thing as too much honesty)

Now as for the Russian beer ad, it seems that in the new capitalist Russia gay people holding a parade is verboten, but using gay people to sell products is just smart marketing. This was the country that gave us t.A.T.u. after all.

Lesploitation indeed  :(

And they call it progress.

Edit:  This post should appear beneath Betty's "Blue Light ad" one below - because AE doesn't seem to like Opera I had to to post it through IE and put it in the wrong place...

Alicia's picture

The Russian beer ad kiss did

The Russian beer ad kiss did seem very insincere--it looked like straight girls doing lesbian porn.  Not to mention the ad had nothing to do with the product until the end.
Nathiest's picture

and me

I got a casting call for that movie at the same time as for Sandra Bullock's miss congeniality. Sandra called me herself((friend of a friend of a friend)), So naturally I decided to skipped Dr.T for Miss Congeniality which would hade been great. But I....blew it off for a job at GNC $7+ an hour.

What could hade been right?......... Oh yeah speaking of what could hade been, my lesbian regret came at birth. ;)

-Nathiest

jfiz18's picture

clip

here's a clip of Salma and Jeanne

http://celebrity.rightpundits.com/?p=578

Lucy's picture

Mulholland Drive...

There used to be a clip of the Mulholland Drive scene with Naomi Watts and Laura Harring but it appears to have been taken down. However i have found a video in which their scene is used as part of a fanfic between Scully and Reyes from the Xfiles...so if anyone is interested... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7YbVN2qiw
TheWeyrd1's picture

So I was watching your suggested clip

And right there next to it was the Mulholland Drive clip...hmmmmmm I'm not sure if I did this right but here's the link the way it copied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85An7GslBcw&mode=related&search=

Otherwise the title is: Mulholland Drive - Diane & Camilla's Theme posted by 2007Psychogenic.

jetgirl7's picture

fucking amal kiss

I always thought this kiss was quite good. A real kiss, instead of a movie kiss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jG62zG26JI

wickedgrrl's picture

*sigh*

Liv.  I love Liv.  Ever since the Aerosmith vids with Alicia she has been in my heart. 

That kiss was sweet and sincere.  The characters were in an unsure place so the kiss was totally befitting the moment.  *spoiler*  Now the kiss at the end of the movie when she chose her maybe could have been a deeper kiss but they were in front of a crowd of people. 

The kiss in Amal was great.  I love some of the kissing compilations on YT.

Betty's picture

Blue Light ad

Speaking of lesploitation in alcohol advertising:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDxZUsilEsM

Do guys think that everytime two women kiss each other they just want to get their attention? My take is that everything happens after that kiss (meaning the girls go after them) is just the guys' imagination 'cause they are drunk.

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""My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty."

GrrrlRomeo's picture

Amber Benson and Alyson Hannigan

I like the Willow and Tara kiss in the Entropy episode of BtVS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrzg51O0h8g

Megan's picture

I found a lot

on youtube there is a video called "62 TV/Movie lesbian kisses in less than 10 minutes" check it out. plenty of choices there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDhqsEyAPc

personally i like any kiss with leisha hailey in it... i know i know shes not straight so it doesn't count. i don't care. :P

browne's picture

personally i like any kiss

personally i like any kiss with leisha hailey in it... i know i know shes not straight so it doesn't count.

Of course it counts! :)

ice cream's picture

After the last two clips, I

After the last two clips, I totally forgot about what the article was about. haha.
coco chanel's picture

liv tyler...she is great.

liv tyler...she is great. and the kiss of once and again is nice isnt? and the one in fucking amal is so cute love that movie.
gonzy's picture

oh my...

watching all those was really depressing when i look over and all that's there is my teddy bear....

i guess i'm still single because i drink corona and not russian beer :o)~

bumberry's picture

well, if they'd show beer

well, if they'd show beer ads like THAT here in germany, i think i'd definitly drink more beer.

the clip from once and again suuuper cute.. i want to watch that series *lol*
the scene is so .. "naturel" not like most scenes you see on tv these days. i think most lesbian relationships are totally over the top, just so the broad audience will like it ..

ice cream's picture

"62 kisses" vid is flagged - FYI

If you want to see it get on over to youtube before they pull it. I opened the link provided above (which was very cool) and it was flagged.

I'll keep my youtube anger to a low roar...grrrr.

Malini's picture

flagged?

Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place, but I don't see that it's flagged...

It did, however, require me to confirm I'm over 18 to see it (I'm not, but YouTube doesn't know that).

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"I don't care if they like me or not. Everybody's stupid, that's what I think. I care if I like me, that's what I truly care about.[...] I can't like anybody if I don't like myslef. Period." ~Rubyfruit Jungle

TheWeyrd1's picture

I hate that confirming my age thing

and I'm WAY past 18. I totally understand WHY they do it, but as you pointed out...doesn't really help... And I don't want to sign up for yet ANOTHER thing that will land more spam in my mailbox...
fee's picture

Julianna

Wow. Julianna Margulies has been one of my most serious crushes ever. Seeing this was great =)
nyte's picture

Nice.

Now see this is why I love AE so much. If it wasn't for this site I would be completely clueless to the existence of such movies. That scene from Once and Again was so sweet.

But that ad, oh my goodness! I think I saw one of the ladies slip some tongue in. :) Hot but don't see the connection between two women making out and beer. What really bothers me is the growing use of girl/girl action to sell or promote just about anything. Yeah, gay, lesbian, bi and transgender imagery is acceptable as long as it's a form of entertainment.

Anyway, nice clips though.

solesister's picture

Russian Beer Ad

It maybe Russian beer but i bet it wasn't shown in Russia, but it definitely was shown in the UK. I saw this ad and watched it to the end cos i loved the music, but when the two women kissed it made it even better. I bet you the beer is lovely too !

 

Soles x

ravennaromance's picture

woo hoo!

all i can say is god bless those russian beer ads... ^_^