Julius LeBlanc Stewart, American
Demonstration Sport at the 2016 Olympics: Synchronized Nude Rabbit Hunting, 1898
Oil on canvas
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/// Her dog’s curious, so I suppose
he’s called “Snoopy” ‘cause he sticks his nose
where it doesn’t belong—
in her business. That’s wrong!
To avoid it— just put on some clothes.
/// Doing nude scenes for Lil was no trouble,
but for fights she insists on a double.
The stunt woman and hound
both get knocked to the ground
in a rock quarry littered with rubble.
/// After close-ups were shot with the star,
the stunt doubles were filmed from afar.
With her arms raised in place,
(nicely hiding her face),
she began, with the villain, to spar.
/// In all close-ups, the hound was a bitch,
so a male dog for stunts caused a hitch.
They would choose certain angles,
to be sure nothing dangles.
In reviews critics said, “This film’s kitsch.”
/// Much more buxom and curvy than slender,
This stunt-woman’s a perfect pretender.
She looks so much like Lil,
who was happy until
she discovered her double’s transgender.
/// Lillie Langtry, some viewers supposed,
was the model who nakedly posed
for this painting erotic.
It’s risqué, yet hypnotic.
(If it’s Lillie, she’s overexposed.)
/// Lillie’s Dad was indeed, Dean of Jersey.
(Not the Toms River one— nearer Mersey.)
But the Dean was no saint,
his life had its own taint.
Who had scandals as lurid as hers? He!