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Five adorable things about...Denise RichardsWhen she first acheived widespread notoriety for her scheming-murderess role in Wild Things, Denise Richards seemed keen to maintain a certain distance from such bad-girl roles.More recently, however, her domestic controversies — against such bores as Charlie Sheen and the snooty residents of her gated community in Calabasas — raise the possibility that Ms. Richards has bound her inner dominant streak, and is poised to emerge as a true Hollywood Vamp. We certainly hope so, and think so... and so offer this tribute Ms. Richards: Five things we like. The legs, the lips — yes, admittedly. We like to be a little more cerebral, so yes, there's more to it than that. To wit: 1. She's a vamp. We've always had a crush on Heather Locklear too. But a girl who could seduce Ms. Locklear's beaux away from her, steal him — and then dismiss him from the affair? Now that's a femme fatale. 2. She's a lover. It's hard to date the most important lesbian kiss scene exactly, but Ms. Richards is certainly a key leader of the trend. Madonna-cum-Britney's tete-e-tete was hot as hell and passed the Popinatrix torch; Sarah Michelle Gellar's Cruel Intentions is one of the big screen's great kisses of any kind; and Sharon Stone's woman-to-woman scene in Basic Instinct probably sparked the trend. But Richards's Wild Things tongue-lock with Neve Campbell in 1998 — to catch the clip, click here — certainly ranks in our top ten girl-on-girl encounters. And it predated Madonna, Britney Gellar, et al by several years... all but Ms. Stone. 3. Charley Sheen. One need hardly elaborate — it's like 1989, when all one had to say was "Dan Quayle." Okay, we'll embellish a little. First Denise domesticated the original "Wild Thing," and now, she's humiliated him, reducing him to a profanity-racialism spewing telephone message guy. (C'mon, Charlie, real hunks don't leave voice mails.)
4. She's got legs. We just had to mention these. In the shot nearby, we see at once a lovely composition, combined with excellent wardrobing and placement — look at that pullover creeping up, if you can stand it for more than a few seconds — and, well, simple physical loveliness. This shot exhibits perhaps the smoothest, shinest legs ever photographed, in a genre that strives for those attributes. — L. d'A, Contributing Editor
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Hollywood Vamps   
Pantyhose please. Say "please" like you mean it. 
Only tease. Because that's all you're goinig to get. 
Cherry Jul. 
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