So the Internet is abuzz — and old media, too, as I already heard this on two drive-time morning shows on my recent coffee, post office and tire-slashing jaunt — with news that Jessica Biel has apparently agreed to bare breasts and ass for her role as a single-mom stripper in the now-instantly-more-popular indie flick Powder Blue. Egotastic and other sites have up production photos of Biel wandering around the streets of Los Angeles looking like some sort of Flashdance street urchin (let’s hope that’s not her stage costume), but hornballs should note the potential flaccidity factor of the fact that Biel’s character is working the pole to provide care for a terminally ill son.

The pleasantly jiggly bra-and-panties shots from I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry were certainly the best thing about that strikingly unfunny hunk of crap, and while I don’t know that Powder Blue is the right vehicle for this apparent newfound courage regarding screen nudity (his Oscar win notwithstanding, co-star Forest Whitaker has also not exactly made the most discerning choices lately), this is what I’ve been saying for months now needs to happen, as there have been movies and moments with Biel (particularly in the excremental London) where nudity would or should have flowed naturally from the scenes, only to be awkwardly shot around. Not to mention the possibilities of an erotic thriller that this opens up…