ABSTRACT

Sometimes it is literally nakedness that provides the vulnerability through which one person can fall in love with another. In Something's Gotta Give, Jack Nicholson's Harry Sanborn happens to see Diane Keaton's Erica naked, getting out of the shower in her home where he is a guest, and it almost gives him a second heart attack. He tells his doctor that he had never seen a woman in her fifties naked before. But even Harry, a playboy and experienced seducer of 23 year olds, finds himself falling for this mature, adult, naked woman. He cannot help himself. He fell into the crack. In Witness, displaced Philadelphia police detective John Book, hiding out in Amish country, happens to see Rachel naked from the waist up, washing herself. She looks up at that moment and sees him through the window but she does not cover herself. It is a crack in her chaste Amish widow exterior and he falls into it.