🎧 ‘Heated Rivalry’ and the Oldest Trick in Showbiz

Making a hit is hard. Showing more skin isn’t

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Heated Rivalry, the horny hockey drama, employs a classic Hollywood formula: Sprinkle in some nudity, and suddenly the odds of your project becoming a phenom improve. Like the perpetually packed “European-style” pool in Las Vegas, audiences are drawn in by the allure of illicit skin. And here’s what has always been true: It’s much easier to show a good-looking naked person than it is to make a hit. But if you do the first part right, maybe the second part happens automatically.

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