SAVE ME! MICHELLE'S BRILLIANT DISGUISES PART 1: FANGS for the MAMMARIES

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"Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer

cover by Zespół S.O.S. (Feb. 2020)

Kicking off my first show, the Polish band Zespół S.O.S. with their cover

of "Hot Stuff," the 1979 rock - R&B - disco hit by Donna Summer.

 As you are about to see, the song applies to little old me.

 

Good grief Good day!

I'm Michelle Ramsey

from the 1994 film

A Brilliant Disguise.

 In the erotic thriller,

I am a woman with

multiple personality

disorder under the

care of a shrink who

wants to dominate

and control me.

The title of my movie

is the inspiration of my

new Shady's Place series

  Save Me: 

 Michelle's 

 Brilliant 

 Disguises 

 I call it that because I am

a gorgeous chameleon who

plays a variety of characters,

all of them memorable, in

films and television series.

As I launch my show today,

I'll introduce some of my

characters and play songs

that help tell their stories.

In the 1995 Mel Brooks

gothic comedy horror film

 Dracula: Dead and Loving It

starring Leslie Nielsen, I play

Lucy Westenra, daughter of

a wealthy English family.

To make a long story short,

Drac's strapped for cash,

so he puts the bite on me.

  I go down for the count and turn into a creature of the night, one of

the undead. I might be cold as a coffin but... as that song suggests...

 this chili pepper is still "Hot Stuff!" Watch me come on to Brian from Wings!

(above) scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

In the 1983 science fantasy swashbuckler film Krull,

I play the fair Princess Lyssa who plans to marry

a handsome prince from a rival kingdom.

It is hoped our alliance will help save planet Krull

from an invasion by an alien entity known as

the Beast and his army of Slayers.

Alas...  before the wedding can take place, Princess Lyssa

is kidnapped by the aliens and the prince and his forces

set out to find and rescue her. Hint: it won't be easy. 

Can you say "Someday my prince will come?"

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I won't be a spoiler. Let's just say that I was lost and lonely,

losing hope I'd ever see my prince again. But then- "You Came!"

Here with more on the story is English pop idol Kim Wilde!

"You Came" - Kim Wilde (Sept./Oct. 1988,

highest chart pos. #41 Hot 100 & Cash Box/#10 U.S. Dance,

#1 Canada Dance/#1 Denmark/#2 Finland/#3 UK, July, 1990,

1988 live performance on ZDF.kultur, Mainz, Germany)

1992

A Brit beauty, I suppose you could call me a "woman of 1000 faces."

 

Indeed, I became one of the best known faces (and figures) of the 80s.

My fame spread across the pond to North America

as a result of my recurring appearances as "Natalie"...

the "it girl" in a series of MTV videos produced for

Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist Bryan Adams.

 I'm playing the first of those videos, the one that was nominated

for the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards in 5 different categories.

That's more noms than any other Bryan Adams song/video.    

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Watch for me to appear at the 2-0-5 mark of this vid for Brian's top 5 charting

U.S. hit and his first #1 song on the Top Rock Tracks chart, a position it held

four weeks. Here now is Bryan Adams shouting, I'm gonna-- "Run To You!"

"Run To You" - Bryan Adams (Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985,

 highest chart position #4 Cash Box/#6 Hot 100,

#1 Top Rock Tracks/#4 Canada)

If you're just tuning in, I'm Michelle Ramsey, your

Hostess With the Mostest... your beauty in disguise

(with or without glasses) and we're doing 10-in-a-row

on this first edition of my new Shady's Place series

 

 Save Me: 

 Michelle's 

 Brilliant 

 Disguises 

I already briefly mentioned my 1994 erotic thriller A Brilliant Disguise

in which I play a beautiful but deeply disturbed woman hiding dark

secrets, one who has a shrink hovering over her, analyzing

her every word and move and trying to control her. 

His name is Dr. Martin, but he looks a heck of a lot like

Arnie Becker from LA Law and Henry Spencer from Psych.

 The man who falls for me hard is Andy, a guy who looks

a heck of a lot like Ray Luca from Crime Story and

Andy Flynn from The Closer and Major Crimes.

 

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When Michelle catches Andy's eye, his life is turned upside down

and their relationship becomes a formula for passion, pleasure, and pain.

As rockin' Rod Stewart explains, it's a case of industrial strength- "Infatuation!"

"Infatuation" - Rod Stewart

(July/Aug. 1984, highest chart pos. #6 Hot 100/#8 Cash Box/#27 UK)

In Save Me, another erotic thriller released that

same year, 1994, it's a strikingly similar scenario.

 I play Ellie, another beautiful but deeply troubled woman...

... another femme fatale with a controlling shrink...

 and an insatiable hunger for male attention. 

This time, the man I roll around with, the poor sap who succumbs to my

seductive charm, the sucker that I bewitch, bother and bewilder, is Jim...

... a guy who looks a heck of a lot like Michael Kuzak from LA Law.

I've got Jim (and Jim's) in the palm of my hand, tangled

in my web, thinking with a body part other than his brain.

So smitten is Michael, so blinded by my beauty and feminine

allure, that he forgets all about his wife and kid...

(and Susan Dey back at the law office). 

 From the moment Jim lays eyes on me, he's spellbound, hooked, obsessed. 

He risks losing everything... including his job... to take

extended lunch breaks and have steamy "nooners" with me. 

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"Chain Of Fools" - Aretha Franklin cover by Josephine

@ Andrei Cerbu's Romanian Band Camp "The Ramp"

(September 2025)

My sex appeal gets me in

trouble again when I star

in the 1997 drama thriller

Man Of Her Dreams aka

The Fiancé. I play the lead 

role of Faith (No) Moore...

a cute working woman,

wife and mother who

makes the deadly

mistake of cheating

on her husband and

being dumb enough

to confess her crime

of passion to him.

(Folks, don't try

this at home.

at home.)

At first, the handsome stranger I bedded down with

appears to be kind and sensitive... a true Renaissance man.

I'm not a very good judge of character, though, because the dude

turns out to be a Stone Age clod, a bad hombre, an obsessive,

homicidal psychopath... and those are his good qualities!

 Yep, it's the story of my life.  I make a very bad

mistake and get mixed-up with a madman.

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When I try to break it off and focus on saving my marriage, he refuses

to let go.  He stalks me and terrorizes my family and friends.

One taste of my forbidden fruit and he's gotta have Faith

and wants Moore Moore Moore. I can hear him now

crying-- "Never Gonna Give You Up!"

"Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley Pop-Punk cover by

German band Kontrollverlust {translation: "loss of control"}

(January 2023)

To top it off, in my next film, the psycho

thriller The Seed Of Evil: Misbegotten...

...released in the U.S. in 1998 and reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby,

I play Caitlan Bourke... a beautiful, married preggo woman

stalked by (you guessed it) a psychopathic killer. 

Here's the kicker. My

husband and I wanted

children, but couldn't

have any, due to his

faulty plumbing.

We opted for

artificial insem-

ination by an

"anonymous"

sperm donor. As

fate (the writers)

would have it,

the killer is the

man who puts a

tiger in my tank

and, like it or nuts,

is the biological

baby daddy.

The ruthless brute finds out who I am and where I live, goes ape

and kidnaps me, believing he can start a new life playing house

with me and raising our baby. I should have known better. With

a name like Billy Crapshoot... the guy's a sketchy character...

bad news... not exactly what you would call "daddy material."

Awww..... so romantic!

 I reminded him for the hundredth time that I am married, and begged him

to forget the fact that I am carrying his child. I told him he could have a

woman like me and a family if he would put down the gun, walk away

from his life as a career criminal and get a real job. "Work? I can't go

for that, no can do," was his cynical reply, "I'm too busy thinking

about my baby... and I ain't got time for nothin' else!"  

"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" - Marvin Gaye

cover by Steps (Live Dec. 2000 perf. in Motown Mania)

So, do you notice common threads running through my movies?

 

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I specialize in playing damsels in distress, irresistible heartbreakers,

femme fatales and a maidenly English rose who hides dark secrets.

"Truly Madly Deeply" - Savage Garden (Aussie pop duo's

1997 int'l hit single) cover by Nashville trio IMY2

(September 2025)

Such a teasing temptress am I, such a desirable dish, that

"just one look is all it took," for me to get under

a man's skin and get my hooks in him. 

From that moment on, I'm all he can think about. He's daydreaming,

tossing and turning all night, fantasizing, wringing his hands,

gnashing his teeth, pulling out his hair, walking into walls

and getting sacked from his job for going

A.W.O.L. to spend time with me. 

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Inevitably, the unfortunate men who allow themselves to fall under my spell

are spoiled forever and they end up dumping their wives and girlfriends.

"Apt." - Rosé (NZ/So. Korean singer) & Bruno Mars (US singer/songwriter)

 late 2024 int'l hit single - cover by Spanish rock band Broken Peach

(March 2025)

I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of my new series. 

I'll be back soon to introduce more of the characters I play and

to spin songs that help tell their stories on the next edition of

 

 Save Me: 

 Michelle's 

 Brilliant 

 Disguises 

... another Shady's place exclusive!

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To play us off, here's the beautiful, zesty and talented lead singer

Carla Tsimopoulos backed by another gifted thrush, Akasha Starr

and the rest of the vocalists and musicians that make up Australia's

premier cover band, Sing It Live, performing their brand new,

sizzling hot version of the Donna Summer biggie "Hot Stuff."

Now this is your Hostess With the Mostest... your beauty

in disguise... Michelle Ramsey... reminding you to

be good, or at least be careful. See you next time!

"Hot Stuff - Donna Summer cover by Sing It Live

feat. Carla Tsimopoulos   (Sept. 2025)

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