A group of the original Calendar Girls recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of their decision to strip — and launched a series of new images of themselves in the buff.
Six of the original 11 women from Rylstone Women’s Institute, in the Yorkshire Dales of northern England, have stripped again to mark the anniversary and are preparing to release a 2010 calendar next month.
A television documentary about their story was to be screened in Britain, showing how they made their original saucy calendar in 1999 in the modest hope of raising enough money to buy a sofa for a hospital waiting room.
Instead, they unwittingly launched a thousand copycat calendars featuring subjects ranging from firefighters to women hockey players.
Over the past decade, the original Calendar Girls have found themselves traveling the world and portrayed in a 2003 Hollywood movie starring Helen Mirren.
The original 11 Calendar Girls split in 2003 after a dispute over the filming of their story, which was inspired by the death of Angela Baker’s husband, John, in 1998.
She said: “It wasn’t 11 women having a good time, taking their clothes off, we did it in memory of John and to raise money for Leukemia Research — and that’s what we have not got to forget.”(AFP)
一群《辣嬤寫真》的原始辣嬤最近重拍了一系列裸體寫真照，慶祝她們十年前寬衣解帶的決定。
為了紀念十週年，這十一位來自英格蘭北部約克郡山谷「萊斯東婦女協會」的女郎中，有六位決定再度寬衣解帶，而這本二Ｏ一Ｏ年年曆將於下個月上市。
英國將播出一部有關她們的故事的電視紀錄片，呈現她們一九九九年時，是如何為了籌募足夠的經費替某醫院候診室添購沙發，而拍攝了當初那本清涼寫真月曆。
結果她們卻無意間吸引了許多月曆效法，主題從消防隊員到女冰上曲棍球員都有。
過去十年來，這些月曆女郎遊歷世界各地，她們的故事還被改編為一部二ＯＯ三年的好萊塢電影，由海倫．米蘭擔綱女主角。
原先的十一位月曆女郎二ＯＯ三年因對這部片的拍攝意見不合而拆夥；一九九八年安琪拉．貝克的先生約翰過世，才促成了該片的拍攝。
她說：「我們這十一個女人不是為了好玩才寬衣解帶，而是為了紀念約翰，並為白血病研究募款──那是我們必須謹記在心的。」（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
2,000 prints were made of the original calendar, but it quickly sold out. After several reprints, a total of 202,000 copies were sold in 1999.
最初的月曆印製了兩千份，但很快就被搶購一空。後來又數度重印，一九九九年總共賣出了二十萬兩千份。
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