Heartthrob helps lacy launch of Calgary lingerie store

Rex Smith is hoping to make it a lingerie store grand opening to take your breath away.

And the Calgarian he unknowingly fathered while singing at the Stampede 33 years ago is thrilled to have his one-time teen hearthrob dad’s support in selling bras and other undergarments.

Fifteen years after his dying mother revealed the identity of his famous biological father, Brandon Smith said his dad’s serenading customers at his SHE store in Bankers Hall is a natural evolution in their relationship.

“I’m just speechless and overwhelmed with pride,” said Brandon, 33.

The older Smith agreed, saying his past as a teen idol makes his appearance at SHE a fitting one.

“I know a few things about lingerie,” he said.

While singing at the 1979 Grandstand Show at the height of his popularity, Smith had a fling with Karen Lakey, a record company representative.

The singer and Broadway star said he wanted to continue the relationship with Lakey but it never happened and he only met his son for the first time in 1997 while performing in the Andrew Loyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard in Vancouver.

A 16-year-old Brandon had travelled from Calgary to Vancouver to meet his dad and did just that at an autograph session.

“I ran across the street and stood in line with everyone else,” said Brandon.

“I’m proud to say we’ve come a long way.”

Rex recalls first glimpsing Brandon from the stage that day, describing the teen’s eyes burning into him.

It was only later that he would come to understand the significance of the likeness his son shares with him.

“It’s a wonderful thing to witness — the acorn doesn’t fall very far from the branch,” he said.

“When he’s sitting across the room from me, for a nano-second, I’m wondering ‘what am I doing over there?’”

Long before their Vancouver rendezvous, Brandon was a child admirer of his dad’s work in the short-lived 1980s TV show Street Hawk.

Now the father, who’s preparing for a role in the reality TV show Senior Prom, is a fan of his son’s business acumen helping the three-store lingerie chain begun by Brandon’s wife, Lailina.

“If he’s not going to be a rock star teen idol, there’s no better way to be around beautiful women,” he said.

The older Smith is sure to reprise his late 1970s hit You Take My Breath Away at the Bankers Hall store starting at noon on Wednesday.

He’s also appearing Wednesday evening for Girls Night Out at Aussie Rules, 1002 37 St. S.W.

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Online language class ‘Sexy Mandarin’ with lingerie-clad models …

Report By: Nina Rai

London, 18 June, 2012

Most men would just love to participate in this class teaching Mandarin, the official Chinese dialect – Reason it is being taught by scantily clad glamorous female teachers.

However, feminists and anti-porn groups in China are said to be up in arms against this unconventional and titillating mode of teaching a foreign language

SexyMandarin.com is an online language school which utilizes the services of lingerie-clad glamour models to aid foreigners interested in learning Mandarin Chinese.

The online language portal’s motto is, “Learning Mandarin in an unconventional way.” Due to its unique manner of promotion and teaching technique, it has now become a runaway hit ever since it’s launch in December 2011.

The course’s first lesson called ‘What time is it?’ – is carried out by two lingerie-clad models who make pillow talk while wrestling with each other on a bed. So far the viewer-ship for the lesson online has had more than 300,000 hits.

Apparently the huge success of the online lessons posted on SexyMandarin.com is mainly due to Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley (home to California’s porn industry) rather than Oxbridge.

The course’s latest lesson entitled Mirror is conducted by two lingerie-clad models who discuss their body shapes and diets. Wannabe teachers are required to produce a full-body photo and any relevant modeling or teaching experience.

This unique method of teaching a language has its takers. One guy named Guo Shibo beamed: “The Americans are so happy learning Chinese …. We would not go through so much pain if we learnt English the same way.” A happy user on Ku6 video website eulogized: “So eye-catching and heart-throbbing. No wonder they can learn it well!”

However, not all were impressed with the blatant display of flesh for a noble profession. Annie Chan, Chairwoman of Hong Kong’s Association for the Advancement of Feminism, slamming SexyMandarin.com told one newspaper, the website “eroticized” Chinese women.

Even the Executive Director of Hongkong’s Women’s foundation Sue-Mei Thompson, told the China Daily newspaper that her group was “vehemently opposed to gender stereotyping, especially anything that objectifies women as sex objects”.

In Thompson’s opinion: “Sexy Mandarin looks oddly dated”. Check Video and decide for yourself: Sexy Mandarin

Source: The Telegraph/Today Online

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