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TEXT BY SHIV KOTECHA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ABI BENITEZ
Give or take a decade before TV’s Bart Simpson made “eat my shorts” his fashion, and a few years before The Breakfast Club’s Judd Nelson uses it to shut Mr. Vernon up, the cheeky phrase appears in a pivotal, and oddly cruisy scene toward the start of Lawrence Kasdan’s erotic thriller Body Heat (1981).
After Matty (Kathleen Turner) spills some cherry-flavored liquid on her blouse, her obedient paramour Ned (William Hurt) heads to the bathroom to
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