Tuesday

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Histoire d'O (1975) day two. The reason for so much exposure in this film is partly due to the rules for the women at the chateau. They must:

• Never wear underwear.
• Always have their breasts exposed
• Never cross their legs
• Submit to any man

God needed 10 commandments, but they get the job done with only 4. Of course, all whipping is done nude. Here is a rough breakdown of the nudity.

• Albane Navizet - Breasts
• Christianne Minazzoli - Breasts and buns
• Ewa Carson - Breasts
• Jehanne Blaise - Breasts, bush and buns
• Li Sellgrin - Breasts
• Nadine Perles - Breasts, bush and buns
• Sylvie Olivier - Closeup of her clit rings.

This region two includes a dubbed and an original French language version, optional subtitles, and two interesting shorts about the Paris Museum of Erotic Art, which appears to be well worth seeing. If you have the ability to play Region 2, this is well worth renting.

I worked on updates today.

• There is a brand spankin' new encyclopedia page for Sharon Stone (and she has been naked on occasion)
• There is a new encyclopedia page for Madeleine Stowe. Between Stone and Stowe, about 130 pictures, about 18 different movies, plus public and posed shots.
• The Diane Lane page is updated

The following are the latest movie reviews available at scoopy.com.

• The yellow asterisks indicate that I wrote the review, and am deluded into thinking it includes humor.
• If there is a white asterisk, it means that I inexplicably determined it might contain something of interest.
• A blue asterisk indicates the review is written by Tuna (or Lawdog or Junior or C2000 or Realist or ICMS or somebody else besides me)
• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

A few highlights...

Not much news today, but a couple of interesting things from Fox News showbiz columnist Roger Friedman. Thought you might like the first one, since it supports your suspicion that Mariah Carey might be able to act if she didn't have the "Glitter" script to contend with.

Mariah Makes Good in Mob Movie

Mariah Carey may have found her calling at last in films. Instead of carrying a movie as a heroine, she actually excels at being a tough-talking barroom girl, sort of a Thelma Ritter for the new millennium. Let's put it this way: If Cheers were ever made into a feature film, Carey would be hands-down the best choice to play Carla. In David Anspaugh's extremely misguided mob movie Wise Girls, Carey is third to Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters. She doesn't have responsibility for the whole movie, and this time - as opposed to the god-awful Glitter - it works.

Carey looks relaxed and comfortable as she plays a savvy waitress in an upscale Staten Island mob joint. Even though she tends to wear skimpy outfits as usual, her line delivery is sharp and she manages to get the right laughs. She shows good comedic timing in places where you wouldn't expect her to get it right. Unfortunately, Wise Girls is really awful, a terrible mob stereotype movie that pales considerably next to The Sopranos. And The Godfather? Fuggeddaboutit.

I don't understand what's happened to Mira Sorvino, or how she picks these turkeys. One after another, her choices of films are atrocious. All this after a much-deserved Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite back in 1995. Sorvino's dad spoke out about Italian-American stereotyping in films, and certainly this movie - which raises just about every crude Mafia reference it can think of - is guilty of just that. Nearly every word out of Carey's mouth is the f-word.

Still, Mariah may have found her forte with Wise Girls, and now it's her handlers' turn to find more roles like this - wisecracking, world-weary, street-savvy people. And no, Carey doesn't sing in the film, although there's quite a big soundtrack. That's just as well - there are no distractions for her here.

Bert and Ernie Outed at Sundance

Sesame Street's beloved characters Bert and Ernie were outed yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival. Those lovable Muppets, who are always together, were featured in the world premiere of a short satirical film directed by Peter Spears called Ernest & Bertram. In the eight-minute presentation, the two male puppets are 'outed' by tabloids because they live together. It's then revealed that they are gay - and they discuss their true feelings for each other. Of course, the movie doesn't use Muppets, but actors wearing Bert and Ernie costumes and huge Muppet heads. There's a reference to Miss Piggy as a 'fag hag.' No word yet on whether Children's Television Network, which owns Sesame Street, will sue Spears for copyright infringement or defamation of characters.

>From the NY Post Page Six. Maybe it's a "sick joke," or maybe we've finally discovered what Alicia is doing for a living these days...

A HOOKER in London is using pictures of perky actress Alicia Silverstone to ply her trade. The call girl who goes by the name of Cindy has plastered photos of the "Clueless" star advertising her services in phone booths around the city. "This is a sick joke," Silverstone's rep, Elizabeth Much, told the Daily Mail. "We have no idea who this person is. There is nothing we can say except that we hope this goes away."