Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, people from Slavic countries have become a reliable presence in Hollywood. Suddenly we’re a long way from Boris and Natasha’s “Must get Moose and Squirrel.”

Filmmakers have turned to Eastern European settings and themes in movies like “We Own the Night,” about the Russian Mafia in New York, David Cronenberg’s  “Eastern Promises,” set in Eastern Europe, and the late Anthony Minghella’s mixing of the Brits and the Serbs in “Breaking and Entering.”

But most striking is the way Eastern European actors and directors have been flourishing lately in Hollywood.

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Can you work tomorrow morning on the movie Iron Man?"

The e-mail from the casting director caught me off guard to say the least; not because I'm a journalist and not an actress and not because this had all started with a casual conversation with Avi Arad the movie's producer. It caught me off guard because I had just unplugged myself from a breast pump and if you have no idea what that's like then picture being hooked up to one of those electric pumps they hook onto cows to drain them of their milk so the world can have their Sugar Smacks. It's impossible to think of yourself in front of a movie camera when you don't feel worthy of the photo booth at Target. So of course I wrote back, "Yes!"

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Up until recently, Hollywood wasn't doing Dick. But now they are. I'm talking about going balls out, literally, on full-frontal male nudity in films.

 

This month, two new releases boast "the man-gina" as co-star: Universal Pictures' Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and New Line Cinema's Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

 

And it's about time. Women have been prancing nude on-screen for decades but only recently has equality reared its penis-shaped head.

 

 

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