Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book) 100 million readers. In 1972 it was parodied by Woody Allen in the comedy film of the same name and received a favorable response from movie critics. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a book (1969, updated 1999) by U.S. physician David Reuben. It was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s, and had a profound effect on sex education and in liberalizing attitudes towards sex. It was the most popular non-fiction
Irène Bordoni pictures including "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" (1972), "Pennies from Heaven" (1981) and "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994). Porter later included Bordoni's name in the lyrics of his song "You're the Top" ("you're the eyes of Irène Bordoni") from the musical "Anything Goes" (1934). Throughout her Broadway career, Bordoni was renowned for wearing only the most stylish of clothes, including costumes by Erté. During this time, Bordoni appeared in Lucky Strike cigarette advertisements with the quip, "I smoke a Lucky to keep petite," which was said to have contributed to the tremendous increase