![SYSTEMATIC APPROACH](/images/headline/4181.png) Sex Stars System uncovers erotic cinema around the world. ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_01.jpg)
Here's a little treat for Monday, because Mondays are universally acknowledged to suck. Above is the cover and below are a ton of scans from the cutting edge cinema magazine Sex Stars System, which billed itself as “Le Magazine du Cinema Erotique.” It was published out of 55 Passage Jouffroy, in Paris, France, and for a while it was the top magazine with reviews and features on the new, sexually liberated mainstream cinema of the early 1970s, and the new pornography of the same era. Because porn was taken seriously as an art form back then (hard to imagine, we know) certain magazines discussed and critiqued the films and regarded the performers as equal with those in mainstream cinema. We talked about this phenomenon with Cine-Revue a few years ago. Sex Stars System was similar, but much edgier, as you'll see.
On the cover and in the centerfold you see Croatian born star Sylva Koscina (a mainstream actress), and elsewhere you get Emmanuelle Parèze (porn), Dany Carrel (mainstream), Valérie Bosigel (mainstream), Karin Schubert (both), Catherine Spaak (mainstream), Ornella Muti (mainstream), Chesty Morgan (porn, obviously), Marilyn Monroe (mainstream, though some scam artists claim she was the other too), et al. They don't make magazines like this anymore, because they don't make cinema like this anymore. Sex in U.S. movies is strictly taboo, unless, generally speaking, the actors keep their clothes on. You do see it on cable television, however, though such shows generate reams of online criticism about how terribly wrong it is (we agree, however, that more sex and nude scenes need to be filmed from the vantage point of the female gaze). In Europe, as always, things are a bit more liberated.
We aren't sure how long Sex Stars System published. It debuted in 1975. Also in 1975, or possibly 1976, a magazine called simply Stars System appeared. Stars System had a softer editorial approach and featured solidly mainstream cover celebs such as Jane Fonda and Romy Schneider. At some point it changed its name slightly to Star System and, thus rebranded, published at least as late as 1982, which seems to be longer than Sex Stars System was on the scene. The information online about these magazines is, as you can probably guess, a jumble, but we'll keep looking into it and maybe have something more concrete to report later. There's also a Star System celeb magazine around today, but it's Canadian and presumably unrelated. Many scans below, and we have a few more issues we'll post later. ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_30.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_31.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_32.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_34.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_35.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_36.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_37.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_38.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_39.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_40.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_41.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_42.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/systematic_approach_43.jpg)
![YES WE CANCANS](/images/headline/3344.png) Something about Paris just makes you want to dance. ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_01.jpg)
This issue of Cancans de Paris, which is number 10, hit newsstands this month in 1966 featuring cover star Virginia Litz, someone we saw a while back in Folies de Paris et de Hollywood, but modeling under the pseudonym Arabelle. Turns out Litz may be a pseudonym too, as we've determined she's also known—and better known—as Christine Aarons. She pops up inside Cancans along with Gloria Paul, Dany Carrel, Sylvia Sorrente, and Uta Levka, as well as Sean Connery and Claudine Auger, who were starring together in Thunderball. We have Virginia Litz/Christine Aarons on at least one other mid-century magazine, which we'll post a bit later. In the meantime below are assorted scans from today's issue. ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/yes_we_cancans_24.jpg)
![IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE](/images/headline/2614.png) La Vie Parisenne offers readers an enticing mix of cinema, illustration and photography. ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_01.jpg)
Above, La Vie Parisienne #202 of October 1967—more than one hundred years into its existence by this point—with an uncredited cover star, and interior photos of Gina Lollobrigida, Dany Carrel, Terry Martine, Jane Fonda, Slovenian actress Sceila Rozin, aka Spela Rozin, and other celebs. There’s also a shot of Talitha Pol from Barbarella, and some of you may remember she married the fast living John Paul Getty, Jr. (he of the kidnapped son, though not Pol’s) and later died of a heroin overdose. You also get some truly excellent ink illustrations by the diverse James Hodges, not to be mistaken for contemporary artist Jim Hodges. James Hodges was a French pin-up artist of the 1960s who also became a magician and illustrated magic books, painted playing cards, and designed stage sets. See more from La Vie Parisienne here. ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/it's_a_wonderful_life_20.jpg)
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945. 1915—Ship Capsizes on Lake Michigan
During an outing arranged by Western Electric Co. for its employees and their families, the passenger ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan due to unequal weight distribution. 844 people die, including all the members of 22 different families. 1980—Peter Sellers Dies
British movie star Peter Sellers, whose roles in Dr. Strangelove, Being There and the Pink Panther films established him as the greatest comedic actor of his generation, dies of a heart attack at age fifty-four.
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