"Breast Friends" by Mr. Banana Hammock (not Omari)

Omari posts Saturday with thoughts on jumping off cliffs? Mine mentions cliffs. And Daryl Hannah's prescience. Eerie, no?

Watching "Summer Lovers" the other day, it struck me that it has been a long time since I have been to a nude beach. The film, released in 1982 stars a young Daryl Hannah and Peter Gallagher (who plays Sandy Cohen in "The O.C."). Daryl and Peter go to what I am pretty sure is Santorini for the summer and are dazzled by the beauty and the uninhibited people surrounding them. Peter meets and begins an affair with a French woman, played by Valérie Quennessen. Valérie played the princess in Conan the Barbarian which was released the same year. Anyway, Daryl discovers this and goes to confront the other woman. At some point they begin a three-way love affair. Before all this happens, they spend a lot of time in various states of undress, frolicking on a beach. Lot's of boobs. Somewhere I'd be happy to be frolicking right now. With or without two naked women who are also sleeping with me.

While I am indeed what some might call a "breast man," I'm a big fan of nude beaches not for the nudity of others, but rather my own. What I am not a big fan of is bathing suits. Letting it all hang out appeals to me. My favorite nude beach is at the bottom of the Gay Head Cliffs on Martha's Vineyard. Above it is a big tourist spot. Little do they know that below is probably one of the finest nude beaches on the East Coast. A long time ago pools of liquified clay formed at the base of the multi-colored clay cliffs and people would soak in the clay and walk around naked wearing kind of dried clay "clothes." This practice was stopped a bit ago when the government gave the cliffs back to the local native american population and because the clay was sacred, people were asked to not wear it any longer.

The beach is also famous, or maybe infamous,because it is the beach where the detritus from JFK Jr.'s crashed Piper Saratoga washed ashore. John-John and his wife were heading from Manhattan to the family compound on the Vineyard when it crashed. The family had lived in Manhattan since the assassination of JFK, when Jacqueline Kennedy became "Jackie O," marrying Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Before Kennedy married Carolyn Bessette, there was much speculation that he might settle down with Daryl Hannah, whom he dated for five years, and coincidentally had been to Greece years before to film "Summer Lovers."

I began to think about what the world would've lost had it been Daryl in the Piper Saratoga instead of Carolyn. I don't think "Kill Bill," Vols. I or II would've been the same. And neither would have a string of straight to video films like "Dancing at the Blue Iguana." And then a chill went down my back when I recalled a remark that Daryl Hannah's character makes in the film "Summer Lovers." She tells Peter while they are frolicking on a nude beach that when she was little she wanted to be a mermaid. Two years later she starred as a mermaid in Splash.

Kind of makes you think, doesn't it?