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Sassy Sue (1972) is a near hard-core produced by the legendary Harry Novak, the "King of Slease." He produced 18 of these films in several genres, this being the naive dumb hillbilly genre. While he was a contemporary of the great exploitation film makers, he took the nudity, and simulated sex further. There was never any need for a "square reel" of nudist footage after one of his films, as he had plenty of full frontal nudity, both male and female. Sassy Sue takes place on a farm The father sells moonshine and gasoline, added by his rather backward son. Ma is a corncob smoking fat woman who is only there for comic relief. Pa wants junior to develop an interest in girls, and marry him off, but Pa samples all of the prospects, and junior is in love with their cow, Sassy Sue, anyway.

There are 4 women who show breasts and buns in this film, and three of the four show bush and near gyno shots as well. Three of them have virtually no credits at IMDB, although they probably saw a lot of work in loops and underground films. They are:

• Sandy Carey - all three B's
• Karen Cooknell - breasts and buns
• Talie Cockrane - all three B's.

Were it not for the fact that the hard core market was launched the same year with Deep Throat, Novak would probably not have been able to go as far as he did. Not only are his films explicit, but they manage quite a bit of sexual energy, despite the corn-ball plots. The market for this type of film was adult night at the drive-in, and it was intended for couples. As this is soft core, I am unable to award more than a C+, but it is a must own for real fans of this vintage material. As a matter of fact, it is worht seeing for Sharon Kelly alone.

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IN THE NEWS

Celebrity divorces

When Tom Green filed for a divorce from Drew Barrymore (We think it was for real, but who knows with Green?), he cited the fact that she was "too immature".

Now I ask you, where can Drew go from here? If you are too immature for Tom Green, what other safe harbor is there? Is there someone in the world that you would not be too immature for? Scoopy Jr. and I discussed this, and we concluded that her only remaining choice is to have a relationship with Gallagher.

MOVIES

Shakes the Clown is a very odd black comedy. Think of Tim Burton's Gotham City with a few more laughs. The Boston Globe called it "the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies".

• Florence Henderson, as a white trash clown-bar floozy, No nudity, but kinda fun. (1, 2)

Tombstone is one of the better Westerns in the post-Western era. Hollywood made two Wyatt Earp movies in 1993-94. This is the one with Kilmer and Russell.

• Unknown hooker (1, 2)

Gale Force is a movie in which Treat Williams plays one of those survivor games, and manages to survive treacherous opponents, ruthless network execs who want some deaths to increase ratings, eight fully-armed Navy Seals, a hurricane, and the greatest tidal wave in the history of the Pacific Ocean. And he was just getting warmed up.

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.

Karin Schubert

Marilu Tolo
(1, 2)

Sheila Kelly
(1, 2, 3, 4)

Jennifer Tilly

Samantha Scott
(1, 2)

Unknown
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Little tit queen Irina Björklund strips again! These captures come from trailers, teasers and sound track commercials. The film, "Minä ja Morrison", was just released in early January and there definitely will be much more to cap when it will be out on video/DVD. Minä ja Morrison is produced by the same guy who brought us "Levottomat" (for those who don't remember, 5-6 full frontals and a number of steamy sex scenes in a mainstream film). I don't know if anyone else but Irina Björklund will get naked in this, but she alone is quite adequate for me!

• Irina Björklund (1, 2, 3, 4)

• An additional promotional image with near frontal views.

Britney Spears says chocolate is 'just like an orgasm'

Britney Spears says chocolate is as good as sex. She says "chocolate for me is just like an orgasm." Britney made her claim during a visit to a German chocolate museum. The singer was presented with a huge heart-shaped white chocolate by staff at the museum in Cologne. Britney was in Germany to promote her forthcoming film Crossroads. Later on the Viva TV show she told viewers: "I don't feel sexy as a woman, although my new songs are sexy." On Tuesday night she appeared as a guest on the Alfred Biolek talk show which had the theme "nobody is perfect." Afterwards Biolek said: "She is pretty perfect." Britney told Biolek how close she is to her family and talked about her plans for the future, saying: "I want very much to make a career in the movies."