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"Penises: species specific."

By Alison Willmore on 04/08/2009
Filed under: Watchy

Isabella Rossellini takes "Green Porno" beneath the waves in its second season -- the six new episodes explore the mating habits of whales, starfish, limpets, anglerfish and barnacles, with an added intro containing Rossellini's musings on phalluses. They're not as splendidly, surprisingly weird as the first set, but are still plenty charming, with Rossellini lustily proclaiming her place as the strongest male in a pod of whales. My favorite is the somewhat existential limpet one. + Green Porno (Sundance Channel) MORE »

"But that doesn't scare me... my sexual drive is the strongest!"

By Alison Willmore on 05/05/2008
Filed under: Watchy

Isabella Rossellini's "Green Porno" shorts, in which she enacts the mating rituals of various insects, are now all up online here. [Photo: "Green Porno," Sundance Channel, 2008] + Green Porno (Sundance Channel) MORE »

"I played the male, when I am not playing a hermaphrodite."

By Alison Willmore on 04/21/2008
Filed under: In quotes

A tour round the interview circuit: "I am a ham. It makes people laugh when I play the male. So I played the male, when I am not playing a hermaphrodite."        —Isabella Rossellini on depicting insect mating habits in "Green Porno," at the New York Times Magazine [Rossellini also discusses the "gigantic genitals" of insects at AMC's Shootout blog.] "My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die."        — David Mamet at Vanity Fair "[S]ecretly that I am very unhappy to not have two towers being built, because I could offer to... MORE »

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