Uma Gosh!

We have turned away lots of paparazzi photos, but we weren't about to turn down these photos of the exceptional Uma Thurman, taken in exceptional circumstances. Frankly, we are not usually fans of long-range-lens photography and we scrupulously respect privacy when it's private. We just don't think it's fair when someone as gorgeous as Uma frolics nude for a bunch of tourists without sharing with everyone else. With Uma, the conditions were just right--we simply used two hands to steady our shaky loupes. What you see here came about when Uma marched onto a public beach in St. Barts, stripped off her swimsuit and revealed the PG-13 body barely hinted at in our now-favorite movies Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction and The Truth About Cats and Dogs. In the crowd of sunbathers, two equally lucky photographers recorded the glorious event--as Uma must have guessed they would.

In Cats and Dogs (above, with Ben Chaplin), Uma plays the friend of a veterinarian and finds herself forced to put her finger up a tortoise's butt (to get it out of its shell). Bottom right, she shows us all about turning turtle.