Washington DC Venus: Jennifer Lewis

Representing Washington DC, the penultimate stop on my trans-North America tour, we present Miss Jennifer Lewis. Her very naked presence here is largely because one of our regular "readers" sent us an e-mail suggesting that our current crop of Venuses from the cities we are travelling through are, how shall we put it, somehat over-dressed?

Given this is a sight devoted to the "erotic depiction of women" she thought that "pictures of second tier Canadian actresses in tanks (North American for vest, apparently) don't quite cut it". Well, we think that that might depend on the actress and, indeed, the vest.






To represent "the Nation's Capital", as they call it here, we were pondering on a couple of actresses for this post. One was Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame. Now we thing Miss Hannigan is an excellent actress and, much to our surprise, she has posed for some rather provocative pictures but perhaps she was still a little over-dressed.





The second actress to turn up who was born in Washington DC was, none other than that favourite of Agent DVD, Katherine Heigl. However we have featured Miss Heigl a number of times before and so we kept looking and behold we turned up Jennifer who was also born in Washington on May 4th ( a date that resonates with Agent DVD) 1985.

We do appreciate a girl who loves her ironing board

Native Washingtonian model Jennifer Lewis was the Playboy Cyber Girl of the week for October 20th 2008. A Cyber Girl does not mean that she walks around painted silver with two handles sticking out of her head and a radiator on her chest, although I am sure she would look lovely in anything.

Look closely; she is as furry as a peach!

No, Cyber Girls were first put onto the Playboy website in 2000, presumably to increase the number of girlie pictorials to populate the site given the limitations only having one Playmate every month.

They are sort of lesser models in a Playmate hierarchy which goes something like this: Playmate of the Year, Anniversary Playmate (20th, 25th anniversary of the magazine and so on), Playmate, Cyber girl of the Year, Cyber Girl of the month and the lowly weekly Cyber Girl.

It wasn't long before a Cyber Girl graduated to becoming a Playmate (Stephanie Heinrich in October 2001) but on the whole they hardly featured in the more prestigious magazine at all. Cyber Girls of the week get voted on and Jennifer went on to be Cyber Girl of the Month for February 2009.

Somehow we think she is not blonde nor busty enought to make Cyber Girl of the Year but we rather like her slim, brunette look; much more so than some of the silicone blondes that Playboy has taken to displaying.

Jennifer demonstrates the currently en Vogue smooth look

Jennifer was discovered byfellow Cyber Girl, and former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, Holly Madison at a Playboy Golf party where she was working as an event co-ordinator. Holly encouraged 5'5", 34B-24-34 Jennifer to send her pictures to Playboy. It worked, obviously.

Nice apartment

As Cyber Girl of the Month the models pose for a different set of pictorials and/or videos every week. Jennifer's final shoot was for these rather striking fishnet ones.

These final two are a bit stronger than would be typically seen in the magazine and are pretty strong even for Cyber Girls; Playboy models don't usually flash so much pink.

Venus in stockings: Woman in White Stockings by Gustave Courbet

Agent Triple P was lucky enough to visit the Barnes Foundation today; a truly remarkable gallery in Merion, a leafy suburb of Philadelphia which is only viewable by prior appointment. Fortunately one of Agent Triple P's contacts enabled him to jump the considerable (six weeks) waiting list.

Albert C Barnes (1872-1951) developed the antiseptic drug Argyrol and with the fortune that created started to collect art. In 1910 he commissioned a friend of his to travel to Paris and buy some modern French paintings. His friend, William Glackens, returned with 20 paintings that formed the basis of his collection. In 1912 Barnes visited Paris and through Gertrude and Leo Stein met many of the great artists of the day such as Matisse and Picasso. His first Picasso cost him $100. Over the years his collection increased enormously and now includes 2,500 objects including 800 paintings with an estimated worth of $6 billion.

Triple P really went to look at the 181 (yes that is not a typo!) Renoirs in the collection but there are also 69 paintings by Paul Cézanne, 59 by Henri Matisse, as well as numerous others by Paul Gauguin, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Utrillo, and Vincent Van Gogh. Several of the Renoirs are very famous indeed and we will look at these another time.

Today we were particularly struck by Woman in White Stockings (1861) (32" x 25")by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877); one of the earlier erotic works he produced during the 1860s which were usually commissioned by collectors for their private appreciation.

It's a striking, anatomically forthright picture and the viewer is left in no doubt that the young lady removing her stockings is doing it for the benefit of an unseen observer.

Phoenix Venus: Amber Valetta

You're supposed to cover your breasts not your eyes!

Here is a truly Venus-like Venus. Phoenix born supermodel Amber Valetta started modelling at fifteen and has now moved into acting. In fact she has made 16 films in the last ten years so presumably she is quite good at acting or she wouldn't keep getting more jobs (see, by contrast, Cindy Crawford and Fair Game (1995).

Every supermodel has to have a cause, to prove that she is not a brain dead clothes horse, and Amber's is warning people about the dangers of mercury contamination in seafood. Original, anyway.

Much better than banging on about seals, whales, rhinos, global warming or all the other things supermodels usually bang on about when not being paid ludicrous amounts of money just for standing around whilst being severely underweight.

Amber and the even skinnier Shalom Harlow. They both need a good sausage splat or ten

San Francisco Venus: Alicia Silverstone

Passes the vest test

33 year old actress Alicia Silverstone is more well known than my previous on tour Venuses. Born in San Francisco. Her father is Scottish and her mother was born in England. She began modelling at the age of six before moving on to commercials and TV.

Agent Triple P has only seen her in two films; Batman and Robin (1997) and Stormbreaker (2006) surprisingly her last theatrical feature. In fact generally she has appeared in less well know films than you might imagine. Her biggest hit, Clueless, being nearly fifteen years ago.

Dress her up, dress her down...

She is a well know animal and enviromental activist and a vegetarian. But we won't hold that against her.

Undress her completely...

Most popular searches March-September 2009

Since we started recording the most popular reasons to visit this site six months have passed and the number of visitors a day is in the 300-400 mark with a peak of over 700. We have just done a quick look to see who is online now and we had, simultaneously, people in Moralzarzal, Spain; San Antonio de Padua, Argentina; Budapest, Hungary; Potsdam, Hamburg and Cottbus, Germany; Whitmann, Shallotte, Springfield and Salt Lake City, USA and Auckland, New Zealand. So Venus Observations spans the world and shows that, whereever you are, everyone loves a naked girlie! We can now present the top 20, based on the average number of key words searched, over the months of March to August 2009. We record our figures using four categories: Playboy Playmates, Penthouse Pets, Other women, other (non women).

1 Pubic Wars (other)

2 Elizabeth Ann Roberts (Playboy)

3 Veronika Zemanova (other women)

4 Melodye Prentiss (Playboy)
5 Gloria Root (Playboy)
6 Venus Observations (other)
7 Marie Louise O'Murphy (other)
8 Hyapatia Lee (other women)
9 Giselle Bundchen (other women)
10 Liv Lindeland (Playboy)
11 Louann Fernald (Playboy)

12 Sue and Louise Elvin (Penthouse)

13 Stephanie McLean (Penthouse)
14 Maureen O'Hara (other women)
15 Flaming June (other)
16 Lady Godiva (other)
17 Liz Stewart (Playboy)
18 Lady Godiva John Collier (other)
19 Arthur Hacker Syrinx (other)
20 Claire Rambeau (Playboy)

Most popular Playboy Playmate by far is Elizabeth Ann Roberts. Penthouse Pet is Stephanie McLean although Sue and Louise Elvin, who weren't Pets but did appear in Penthouse, got marginally more searches. The top "other woman", so to speak, (and that's a question Agent DVD is fond of asking!) is undoubtedly Veronika Zemanova with the Pubic Wars coming top of the "other" category and top overall

Centrefold Venus of the Month 5 : October - Marilu Tolo

Marilu without the staples

From forty years ago we present Italian centrefold Marilu Tolo. Originally a fashion model (she is 5'9") she then went into acting, initially in TV as a teenager.

Many centrefold models have used their appearance in a magazine to try to launch a film career (usually unsuccessfully) but Marilu had already made 20 films in Italy when she appeared in the October 1969 Penthouse.

Marilu was pushed off the cover by the Pet of the Year, Evelyn Treacher

But she made up for it with many other covers

She only appeared as Pet of the Month in the UK edition, not the US edition, as at this stage the American magazine's Pets had not been synchronised with the UK edition, as they were later.

Marilu was born in Rome on 16th January 1944 which would have made her 25 when she posed for Penthouse and, therefore, one of the older Pets to date.

She made her first film when she was sixteen and continued to have a busy career appearing in around 70 films. She was discovered and signed by Carlo Ponti but later cancelled her contract with him as she wanted more challenging roles.

Fortunately for us many of these involved having to take her clothes off. These were mainly Italian and French productions but she did appear in a number of English language films.

Flashing her lovely Latin bush in one of her many artistic films

She appeared in a tiny part as a "nightclub wrestler" in Terence (Thunderball) Young's little known Poppies are Also Flowers (1965) which had an amazingly diverse cast which included: Trevor Howard, Rita Hayworth, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, Harold (Oddjob) Sakata, Marcello Mastroianni, Omar Sharif, Jack Hawkins and Princess Grace of Monaco playing herself! This bizarre anti-drugs film was financed by the United Nations!

Her next part in an American production was in the even more bizarre film Candy (1969). In fact Candy is one of the most bizarre films of the sixties. It is an update of Voltaire’s Candide in which Marilu plays the Mexican, biker sister of Ringo Starr (also playing a Mexican with possibly the worst foreign accent ever heard in the history of the cinema!). The film also stars Charles Aznavour as a juggling, humpback art thief, Marlon Brando as an Indian Guru, Richard Burton as a beat poet, Sugar Ray Robinson as a chauffeur, James Coburn as a Spanish brain surgeon and Walter Matthau as a paratrooper!


Her next English language film was Romance of a Horse Thief 1971) also with Yul Brynner.

With Richard Burton in Bluebeard

The following year she appeared in Bluebeard (1972), starring Richard Burton, where she had a much bigger role and co-starred with Raquel Welch and Virna Lisi (of How to Murder your Wife fame).

Her next film would be Themroc (1973); famous for having no intelligible dialogue and also being the first of Channel 4's notorious "Red Triangle" films. The theory being that the red triangle on display would be a warning to those of a sensitive nature and not, of course, a conveniently badged way to build ratings for obscure but naughty foreign films.

Marilu's next major role in a US film was for the "it's not really about Aristotle Onassis" film The Greek Tycoon (1978).

In 1979 she even appeared in an episode of Charlie's Angels. She did a screen test for the part of Ursa, one of the three villains in Superman 2 (1980) which was eventually won by Sara Douglas who delivered a memorable performance in the role.

Over the next few years she made another half dozen or so films and appeared in the TV mini-series The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) which Agent Triple P remembers watching and enjoying even though it was dreadful!



She hasn't appeared in anything since 1985 but we are happy to present her in all her 35-22-36 glory here.

An older Marilu shows she can still do naughty