Booby Trap (1970) is a Harry Novak film intended for the drive-in market. To be more exact, it was requested by the head buyer for Pacific Drive-Ins, who wanted something to appeal to the action crowd with only minor T & A, and he liked the name Booby Trap. Harry recognizes dollar signs when he sees them, ask what date he wanted to start the release, and put it into production. He also realized that it would sell well in foreign markets that had to strict censorship laws fort his usual explicit material. The tile is a pun, but doesn't refer to breasts. It is the story of a Vietnam Marine veteran who taught ordinance, was fragged by a young hippy recruit, and went off the deep end. He has decided that the solution is to acquire 40 Claymore mines, and blow up an LA rock concert. In other words, he should be in the booby hatch.

Just in case anyone feels sorry for him after he kills the grunt who steals the mines for him, he has sex with, then blows up a hippy chick he finds hitchhiking. His ex wife (Canadian Angela Carnon) works as a cocktail waitress at a Sunset Strip strip joint, and is engaged to the guitar player in the band. The Marines send investigators, and the hippy girl's sister comes looking for her.

Angela Carnon has no exposure in the released version of the film, but shows breasts in the trailer. Sharon Masters, as the sister of the hippy chick, shows breasts and buns in a lovely, but totally gratuitous outdoor sex scene. Three unknowns show breasts -- a large chested stripper, the hippy chick, and a strip club customer.

There is almost no information on this at IMDB. It is a typical two film loads of extras DVD from Something Weird Video, and includes a commentary featuring Harry Novak. All in all, the commentary was not terribly informative, and the film did nothing for me. The villain was too over-the-top, the exposure was too obviously gratuitous, and the plot was predictable. D+

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Blind Date is another B film from Nicos Mastorakis. His films never really appeal to me, but I think he may be the most technically proficient director in the B business. He could make Hollywood pictures if he were willing to work with scripts written by others. (In fact, he did make at least one - The Greek Tycoon.) One thing ya gotta love about this guy. He likes to hire beautiful women and get them naked. I did Valeria Golino and the Kirstie Alley love scene the other day. Here is the other material:

• Marina Sirtis (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

• Antigone Amanitis (1, 2, 3)

• Lana Clarkson (1, 2). If you have been living in a bubble, she was killed last week, and the police have arrested Phil Spector for the murder.

• Kirstie Alley's down-blouses (1, 2)

• Kathy Hill

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Hey. Just a heads up… You may want to check out the 2-10 tape of Third Watch on NBC.  I don’t know how this got past the censors, but toward the end of the episode when Officer Yokas (Molly Price) is lying in bed talking to her husband, her right breast is exposed (pretty well I might add) for a good 10-15 seconds… Check it out.

Oscar crap

• Reuter's recap

• Salon recap

• Oscar's home page

BEST PICTURE
CHICAGO
GANGS OF NEW YORK
THE HOURS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
THE PIANIST

Speilberg got completely screwed. He had two films better than The Hours. In fact, Minority Report is better than at least four of those five nominees. Adaptation, About Schmidt, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Catch Me If You Can, and Minority Report are all far better than The Hours. (I have not seen Talk to Her, Almodovar's latest, but that probably is as well ).

DIRECTING
CHICAGO
GANGS OF NEW YORK
THE HOURS
THE PIANIST
TALK TO HER

Peter Jackson got screwed along with Spielberg in this category. I have no problem putting Almodovar on the list, but not in place of Jackson. He should have gone in for Daldry (The Hours). Spielberg probably should be in there over Scorsese or Polanski, but they had to make a tough call there, since  Scorsese is a respected genius who has never won an Oscar, and The Pianist is a Holocaust movie partially drawn from Polanski's own experiences in Poland.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Adrien Brody
Nicolas Cage
Michael Caine
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jack Nicholson

No surprises. I'm OK on the four I've seen. (I haven't seen Caine, but most people expected Gere on the list over Cage. Gere beat out Cage in the musical and comedy section of the Golden Globes)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Salma Hayek
Nicole Kidman
Diane Lane
Julianne Moore
Renée Zellweger

No surprises. Zellweger and Kidman won the Golden Globes. The remaining three were Golden Globe nominees in the drama category.

CINEMATOGRAPHY
CHICAGO
FAR FROM HEAVEN
GANGS OF NEW YORK
THE PIANIST
ROAD TO PERDITION

These are all good. They had to choose five out of about ten worthies. It's a case of where they should change the system to allow more than five nominees.
 

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
ABOUT A BOY
ADAPTATION
CHICAGO
THE HOURS
THE PIANIST

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
FAR FROM HEAVEN
GANGS OF NEW YORK
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
TALK TO HER
Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN
 

Actually, my only comment here is that Adaptation and Gangs of New York should be flip-flopped. To the extent that it bears any resemblance to reality at all, Gangs of New York is based on a book. Adaptation is not really based on a book, but on the process of trying to adapt that book.

Other crap

• Renee Zellweger says there are shots of her (then chubby) bare butt which were taken by onlookers while she filmed Bridget Jones

• More of Jennifer Garner at the Daredevil premiere

• Madonna to become Jewish? Now all she needs is some talent, and she can be Barbra Streisand.

• Weekly World News suggests freeing the Beltway Sniper to kill Saddam

• Nudity from the cast of Big Brother 3

• Celebrities respond to "who could you take in a fight?"

• Is Catherine Zeta-Jones the queen of the snobby celebs, or what?

• Spacey goes ballistic on reporter asking the gay thing. Y'know, I kind of agree with him. Who the hell cares if he's gay? That's his business. I don't know if he is gay, and I don't really think that has any bearing on his work. I know Charles Laughton was gay, but I still like his work. I think Spacey is pretty fuckin' good, no matter what he likes to do after work.

Here 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 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 Lawdog or Junior or C2000 or Realist or ICMS or Mick Locke, or somebody else besides me)
• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

• Asia Argento, the "xXx" star topless and giving us a brief glimpse of the goodies down below in scenes from "B. Monkey"

Be sure to pay Graphic Response a visit at his website. www.graphic-barry.com.

• Jessica Miller, side breast exposure.
• Carla Boscono, topless.
• Nadja Auermann, single breast exposure.
• Natalia Vodianova and Karolina Kurkova , partial expsosure
• Yamila Diaz-Rahi, topless.
• Natalia Vodianova, patial exposure and a great see-thru. (1, 2)
• Shania Twain from Rolling Stone magazine. (1, 2)
• Tetyana Brazhnyk, topless on a bad hair day.

I don't normally do "B" movie babes (Tuna and Brainscan rule the throne there), but I bought "Amazons and Gladiators" because of Jennifer Rubin (she's always been a secret favorite of mine)... little did I know that there would nothing revealing from Ms Rubin what-so-ever. In fact, in this movie, she is even looking a little strung-out. But I did happen to cap the busty Wendi Winburn, some uncredited actresses, and the incredibly cute Nichole Hiltz. Hope to see more of her in the future.

• Wendi Winburn (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Nichole Hiltz, great cleavage. (1, 2, 3)
• Unknowns, very busty unknowns. (1, 2, 3)

CELEBRITY MOMS KEEPING FIGURES WITH C-SECTIONS
Scary! - Obstetricians are condemning a trend among celebrity moms: getting a C-section after eight months to avoid the final month of stomach stretching, so they can get their toned bodies back in shape in a hurry. Doctors say it's not only unhealthy, it sets an impossible standard for regular women who can't possibly have a flat stomach less than a month after giving birth. Some recent celebrity C-sections include Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Catherine Zeta Jones and Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, who inspired British tabloids to name the trend "Too Posh To Push."