and what better way to celebrate than to soak up cinema’s Top 10 hottest hot tub scenes from days of olde… (Don’t worry gang, we’re going to spare you any Kathy Bates/About Schmidt love here!) ...

Todd McCarthy (May 22) What they said: “Kathy Bates is a nonstop pleasure as Randall’s full-bodied mom, a force of nature who drops her clothes to jump in a hot tub with Schmidt, the one scene ...

Kathy Bates would shudder at ... scene is alone worth recognition. To Schmidt's surprise, this woman, whom he barely knows, disrobes and hops into a hot tub with him. Before agreeing to the ...

That’s what people were saying this time last year when Kathy Bates appeared nude in “About Schmidt ... that the woman climbing into the hot tub with her breasts knocking on her knees ...

If you didn’t see About Schmidt ... and Kathy Bates does drop her bathrobe. Yet Nicholson’s admirably modest performance and Bates’ admirably immodest hot-tub scene are far from the only ...

Here are some of Kathy ... Bates earned her third Oscar nomination (as Best Supporting Actress) for her performance, but it was undoubtedly her comical-yet-tender performance in a hot tub ...

In a career full of critical raves, Kathy Bates received ... her character bares it all in a hot tub with Nicholson and he can barely stand to be there, Bates said she had a drink before filming ...

About Schmidt is about ... au natural hot-tub dunk. While the latter scene is undoubtedly the film's most discussed -- especially by people who've forgotten Bates's track record of boffo buff ...

In "About Schmidt" she gets mad and maternal once again ... an award for daring to do - the nude scene with Jack in the hot tub. How difficult was that? We hear you had a little help ...

Two BAFTA nominations; four Emmy nominations; two Golden Globe wins, six nominations overall, including just received supporting nom for “About Schmidt ... hot tub scene that required Bates ...