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OPEN POST: Today In Slap A Bitch!

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If you could slap a bitch - I mean really good and hard, and with no ill consequences for you - who would it be? You can choose anyone. Perhaps there's someone you know in your personal life whom you'd like to crack upside the head, or maybe a public figure. Who is most deserving?  Fun fact: while making the 1993 sex thriller, "Body of Evidence," Julianne Moore was afraid to slap the movie's star, none other than a very young Madonna. For those who don't know, "Body of Evidence" is the one where Madonna's hairstyle looks, as the inimitable NYTs movie critic, Vincent Canby, put it, "like she would be all too at home with Ilsa and the other she-wolves of the SS." This was not meant as praise.  Those hoping for a camp classic might want to look elsewhere. Even Madonna's hotsy-totsy sex scenes failed to ignite, since (again from Canby) "she just seems busy, like someone trying to follow directions on how to microwave a 25-pound tur...