Logan's Run (1976) was nominated for two Oscars for Art Direction and Cinematography. It received other nominations and awards, but none for acting or directing or script. It earned $25M against a $9M budget, but has fallen to 6.5 at IMDB. It enjoys a 73% positive at Rotten Tomatoes. The big news is an amazing amount of nudity for a PG rated film. Jenny Agutter, as the female lead, shows breasts and buns, and a hint of bush getting out of wet clothes, and several unknowns show everything in an orgy scene, and frozen in ice tombs.

In the post apocalyptic future, everyone lives in the city with nothing to do but play all day. No disease, no work, all sex and games. The only rub is that when one is born, one must die. Hence, everyone dies on their 30th birthday. The few who can't get behind the death part and try to escape are called runners. They are shot by "Sandmen," and the male lead, Michael York, is one of the Sandmen. He is sent to uncover the sanctuary cult, rumored to be people that have escaped, and his life clock is advanced to make him look like a runner.

It is not a comfortable feeling for him, so he elects to escape for real, and to take Jenny Agutter with him for obvious reasons, which she shows in the undressing scene. When he learns the truth, he decides they have to return to the city and save everyone. This was not my first time through the film, and being familiar with the story line let me watch a little more critically, and the script is not very tight. They encounter an "old man" outside, but no data is given as to why he, and only he, was alive. Washington DC is overgrown with ivy, but there is no damage to monuments, thus we wonder what catastrophe caused most of civilization to vanish. In the happily ever after ending, the people of the city learn the truth and repopulate the Earth. But remember, they used to spend all of their time having sex, but babies were created in test tubes, and no birth control devices or medications were ever mentioned. At any rate, Sci Fi fans will enjoy it. The transfer is a little grainy, I suspect because it was shot that way. It is a little long at 120 minutes. The film works best as an actioner inside the city, and goes downhill when they escape. C.

OTHER CRAP:

• Here are four more free videos from Playboy's Cheerleaders & College Girls!
• You knew these two classy dames had to get together sooner or later: Courtney Love and Paris Hilton.
• Worldwide box office: Return of the King is now sitting at just about a billion dollars in worldwide gross - and it hasn't opened in Japan yet! That makes it #5 of all time so far. The Two Towers is #3.
• Weekly World News: Woman suddenly able to speak Chinese after eating Chinese food. Similar thing happened to me. Ate some Canadian food, then suddenly started to act polite.
• 'Tupperware!' the Movie I have only one word for you, Benjamin - Plastics!
• Now Terror's at Sea. Open Water created a lot of buzz at Sundance '04 Here's an article and a film clip.
• Tittygate fallout: MTV consigns racy videos exclusively to late-night rotation.
• Here are five new clips from Welcome to Mooseport
• Great cigar commercial from some country that still allows them.
• Want to be a spy? Uncover top secret classified documents? Put away the trenchcoat, the luger, and the night vision glasses and just use Google.
• Dean now says he will stay in the race even if he loses in Wisconsin, as he originally promised in the "I have a scream" speech. Or maybe he won't. 'Tis a mystery.
• The extra scenes you'll see on the Return of the King DVD.
• Mens Journal picks The 25 Toughest Guys in America. #1, interestingly enough, is Justin "Oh, boo-hoo, I'm so sorry" Timberlake. No, just kidding. It's Ethan Hawke. OK, maybe not. You just better see for yourself. Be sure to see who is #25.
• Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Because nothing conveys "intelligence" more powerfully than the words "George Bush". I'll bet you think it's a satire site, or that I made that up, but it is all completely legit.
• New Hellboy poster offered to the public.
• The Photoshop wizards at FreakingNews.com weigh in on more RIAA ads directed at illegal music downloaders.
• Here's the trailer for The Green Butchers, a Danish film about ... well, about butchers. I swear this is a real quote from the publicity package: "After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat." Jeez, I can't wait. I wish that was already playing. I wonder if I can get them to send me my own advance print. Maybe if I make a really big order of sausages.
• The Confessions of Chairman Pooh, in which all reactionaries are shown to be paper Tiggers.
• Over the past two years. Many people have sent me pictures purporting to be Elin Nordegren, the beautiful woman who is to marry Tiger Woods. For the record, Miss Nordegren and Tiger both say that she has never posed naked. To the best of my knowledge, this is true. The pictures circulating around the internet (see the link) are of the similarly beautiful Kim Hiott. As far as I know, Kim is not planning to marry any famous golfers, although she probably has helped many to straighten out their one iron.
• New York flips over gay penguins in Central Park. Penguins are gay? No wonder they always look so well dressed.
• Joan Collins says fifth time's a charm for marriage. Her husband is 37, and she is ... um ... 70 ... yeah, 70, that's the ticket.
• Diana Ross is going to jail.
• This site went through 514 year end film summaries and concluded that Lost in Translation appeared on the most Top 10 lists. Very handy reference site. Other facts:
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  • 92 critics picked ROTK as number one, far more than any other film (second was 53 for Lost in Translation)
  • The top three were nominated for Oscars, but numbers four and five were not (American Splendor and Finding Nemo).
  • Seabiscuit, which was nominated, placed 16th.
• An attorney has launched a campaign to stop c-stores from selling small glass tubes containing plastic roses. He claims the tubes are crack pipes in disguise. He also wants to prevent them from selling Slurpees and their dreaded oriental throwing straws.
• White House for KIDS!!! Totally kewl stuff for patriotic youth. "Are Your Mommy & Daddy Liberal America Haters? President Bush needs your help to find out! So be an Eagle Eyes snitch - and get rich!"
• The stuff Guinness rarely mentions. World Sexual Records.
• British teenagers using potato chip bags as condoms, often after removing the crisps. "Jimmy, what is that crunching noise in there? Are you eating in your room again?""
• Arrow in the Head reviews Ginger Snaps 2. "Should’ve called this one Ginger Snoozes!"
• Some Official "Batman" Details - and a 150 million dollar budget.
• The Farrelly Brothers want Russell Crowe to play Moe in their Three Stooges film.
• Li'l G n'R. First ever Guns 'n' Roses Kids Tribute Band. "Really...I'm not a stage Dad, pushing my little kid's band".
• STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION. An excerpt from a Mormon missionary guide, circa 1970.
• "In the most conclusive evidence of a Supreme Being ever discovered, a Google search of God has proved once and for all that He exists, theologians agreed today." Google returns 60 million hits for "god". Satan gets only three million, compared to three and a half for Paris Hilton.
• The private residences of the presidential candidates. I found this fascinating. Some of the guys, like Dean, Edwards, Sharpton, and Clark live in typical middle class suburbia, albeit more comfortably than most of us, in homes ranging from $200,000-$900,000. Kerry lives in an urban 10000 square foot townhouse with an elevator, worth seven million dollars. And ol' Dennis Kucinich? If he claims to be a man of the people, he's not kidding. He lives in an old working class area of Cleveland. His house is assessed at $26,000.
• Weird Movie Trivia: Warped Tales from the Bottom of the Barrel
• Mozilla Firebird is renamed Firefox, upgraded and released today in version 0.8.
• Prisoner escapes using toilet-paper gun: " ... escaped from a hospital after using toilet paper to make a fake gun."
• The Tampa Bay Storm Cheerleaders. Some of their insightful bio info:
  • Yvonne Payton lists her future goal as: nothing.
  • Jill Pruden lists her special talents as: tumbling.
  • Alison Dobbs hopes to gain by being a cheerleader: nothing.
• PROJECT GREENLIGHT 3 is looking for a horror or thriller screenplay and director Get your script out of that drawer.
• Original Star Wars Trilogy to DVD?: "We've received information from a reliable source that an official announcement regarding the much rumored Trilogy DVD is expected soon"
• EA and Marvel to partner on superheroes. Marvel characters to appear in EA games, and newly created EA super heroes to appear in comic books.
• RealityShows.com -everything there is to know about reality shows.
• Return with me to those days of yesteryear. It was August 2002, a simpler, more innocent time, and the Star Tabloid ran this story:Timberlake says Janet Jackson used me for sex
• Which toys will your children demand next Christmas?
• The Celestine Prophecy has financing and is now looking to cast its lead actors.
• GALLUP: Bush Deficit in Horse Race Unusual for Incumbents. President Bush trails John Kerry 53-46 head to head. No standing president has ever trailed a challenger by more than two points at this stage. Only one president ever trailed at all. (Gerald Ford by two points in 1976)
• The Pro Bowl ends up being a tight defensive struggle, 55-52.

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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• 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 there isn't any significant humor, but I inexplicably determined there might be something else of interest.
• A blue asterisk indicates the review is written by Tuna (or Junior or Brainscan, or somebody else besides me)
• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

1. What more is there to say about Jennifer Connelly? She's gorgeous, she has an Oscar, she's ever so vulnerable, she's the most popular woman in the history of internet nudity, she's our own officially anointed queen, and she has just about the greatest breasts in the history of mammals. Here she is in The Hot Spot.. (.avi version, .wmv version)

2. Speaking of Oscars, did you know that Marsha Mason never won one. At one point she was nominated four times in a nine year span, but she never came home with the hardware. She did only sporadic nudity in her career, although she looked most excellent with her shirt off. Here in The Image, she was 48 years old and she still had the breasts of a teenager. In fact, the rest of her also aged well, nd she looked great for 48, just as good as two decades earlier. (.avi version, .wmv version)

3. I made a capture from the Marsha Mason video, because the quality was excellent for a TV capture, and this was underrepresented in our archives.

4. Kate Beckinsale, now a huge star with no recent nudity, had a different attitude in her salad days. Here she is, age 20 and topless,  in 1994's Uncovered. This clip came from a German TV broadcast. This film is finally coming to DVD in about a month or so, so stay tuned for more. (.avi version, .wmv version)

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Shiloh says:

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec:  DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec:  Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3.  A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

 

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

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Scoop says:

I made the .wmv versions of each video. The codecs for these: Windows Video V8, Windows Audio 9. The upside of these is that you know the codecs, and they'll play in the Windows Media Player. The downside is that they are slightly larger, and slightly lower quality.

• Beyoncé Knowles, winner of 5 Grammys on Sunday, showing some legs, cleavage and some "booty". (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

• The not-so-bright Jessica Simpson showing off a bunch of cleavage. (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts make a comeback. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

• Paris Hilton

• Alicia Keys

• Marg Helgenberger, the "C.S.I." star looking fantastic and showing some cleavage.

• Madonna cleavage

• A very curious pair of presenters, Gwen Stefani and Quentin Tarantino

• Hilary Duff...looks like her actual dress wasn't ready, so she just wrapped herself in a pink terrycloth towel instead. (1, 2)

"Flesh + Blood"
In 1985, Jennifer Jason Leigh had the classic body you see in old world paintings and sculptures. Maybe not great by today's standards, but classic nevertheless. She was perfectly cast as the intended bride of a noble lord in 1501 Western Europe. I personally don't like her as a blond, but the filmmakers were thorough: her eyebrows and even her pubic hair were dyed in order to make her look like a natural blond because let's face it, they didn't have hair dye back then.

The film tells of mercenaries who, after winning a battle for their lord, are betrayed and cast out without being paid. Needless to say, they want revenge.

Lots of good fight scenes and a very good job by the actors and director Paul Verhoeven who also co-wrote the movie. Plenty of nudity and sexuality, but still a very well done action/adventure, which I recommend.

• Jennifer Jason Leigh, full frontal.
• Blanca Marsillach, also showing frontal views.
• Assorted toplessness.

"Framed"
There's the briefest of nipple peek by Kristin Scott Thomas in Framed.

• Kristin Scott Thomas (1, 2)

"Waiting to Exhale"
Plenty of sexy caps of Angela Bassett and Lela Rochon in Waiting to Exhale. No nudity but it sure looks like Lela is showing a bit more.

• Angela Bassett
• Lela Rochon (1, 2, 3)

"Tempest"
Susan Sarandon doesn't wear a bra in Tempest and spends a substantial amount of time in her underwear. There are plenty of pokies and a nice view down her shirt. Pokies by Molly Ringwald and Lucianne Buchanan.

• Susan Sarandon (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Molly Ringwald (1, 2, 3)
• Lucianne Buchanan

"Hamlet"
Some sexy caps of Julia Stiles in the thoroughly boring, Ethan Hawke version of Hamlet.

• Julia Stiles

"Casino"
Millicent Sheridan bares her behind in Casino and there's an upskirt by Sharon Stone, but she's wearing knickers.

• Millicent Sheridan
• Sharon Stone (1, 2, 3, 4)

"Focus"
Some very sexy caps of Laura Dern in Focus.

• Laura Dern (1, 2)

"Point Break"
Toplessness plus some brief bush by Julie Michaels in Point Break, and a rear shot of Lori Petty. Some actress, whose name I couldn't fathom, looks good in a thong.

• Julie Michaels (1, 2, 3)
• Lori Petty (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Unknowns (1, 2)

GRAMMY AWARDS SUB-DUDE
Not Your Grammy's Nipples - The five-minute tape delay at the Grammy Awards seemed to inhibit the behavior. The only unusual moments were Coldplay's Chris Martin urging America to elect Kerry, Christina Aguilera clutching her wide-open dress to avoid a Janet Jackson moment, and Justin Timberlake apologizing before accepting a Grammy, saying, "What occurred was unintentional, completely regrettable, and I apologize if you guys are offended."