• Holly Sampson ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 )
• Sasha Rochelle ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 )
• Angela Davies ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 )
• unknown ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 )

The Tall Guy (1989) is proof that comedy can be a very subjective genre. Scoop, who I nearly always agree with, loved it, getting many belly-laughs. It didn't elicit as much as a broad smile from me. I understood that lines like "I hope all of your kids have small dicks -- even the girls," and "sodomy is very big in Morocco" were meant to be funny, but I was not tickled by them. I think part of the reason was that I didn't really like Goldblum's character. I did enjoy the performance by Emma Thompson as the nurse Kate Lemmon and Goldblum's love interest. See Scoop's review for an in-depth thumbs up, but make my score C.
 

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• Emma Thompson ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 )
• Joanna Kanska ( 1, 2)

Scoop's note: I don't know what the article writer is talking about. How could they possibly have any more in common? They were made for one another. It's a sad world when you can't even build a lasting relationship with the superglue of undeserved fame, tin ears, fashion impairment, and moving one's lips when reading.

Not to mention bowling.

I'd like to see one of their dinner conversations made into a movie, ala My Dinner With Andre.  My M&M's with Eminem?

Would you like to see the wine list, sir?

Nah, just bring us two cans of your best. And make it fresh! None of that old stuff.

 

A couple more celebrity items, both from the NY Post.  The first one concerns Madonna and some items you might want to bid on.  Wonder if that underwear has ever been washed.  Probably not.  I'm betting this guy's own underwear has never been washed.  Boy, Madonna sure can pick 'em, can't she?...


EX-BEAU BODYGUARD SELLS MADONNA UNDIES

By BILL HOFFMANN
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March 18, 2002 -- The intimate materials of the Material Girl are being put up for sale by one of her former lovers. Bodyguard Jim Albright is trying to sell his collection of bras and panties worn by Madonna, along with explicit Polaroid self-portraits and racy
letters the pop queen sent to him. Albright, who says he bedded Madonna in the early '90s, said he doesn't care that she is now a married mom of two.

"I'm gonna make a fortune, and I have a perfect right to do what I'm doing," he told London's News of the World. She may be acting like a goody-two-shoes wife and mom now, but this is the reality about her horny past. I'm not concerned about what she thinks or feels. If it upsets her, it's too bad. She's put her naked [body] in pictures for profit, so she can't complain if someone else does the same thing."



Next is just a fashion article, maybe not for the Funhouse, but I just thought you'd like to see confirmation of how hot Jennifer Connally has
become.  She's now Queen of the Runway, which your readers probably will think isn't as good as being Queen of the Funhouse, unless it's the runway at a strip club.  After all, these people want to look at Jennifer Connally just to see what kind of clothes she's wearing!  How sick is that?...


QUEEN OF THE CARPET

By LAURA BROWN
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March 18, 2002 -- MOVE over, Gwyneth: Hollywood has a new fashion It Girl. After years spent fawning over Paltrow, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett, fashionistas and designers are turning their attention to the dark charms of Jennifer Connelly. Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Alicia Nash in "A Beautiful Mind," Connelly wins kudos for her clothes, too.

The knockout black Narciso Rodriguez she wore to the Golden Globes made headlines. "The demure Connelly is an all-out winner in the style stakes," gushed People Magazine. The sharp, sexy black Alexander McQueen pantsuit she donned for the Screen Actors Guild Awards also got raves. U.S. Weekly declared Connelly a "super edgy" style winner, standing out from Hollywood's other glamour girls and their more conservative, monochromatic looks.

"She is a clean palette," says stylist and CNN's Oscar red-carpet correspondent Phillip Bloch. "And she has that sleek, minimalist style that
all the designers just love to get their hands on and corrupt."

They shouldn't count on it. In a few short months, Connelly has established herself as a very sophisticated dresser. She wears black almost exclusively and, like Kidman and Blanchett, isn't afraid to dip her toe in edgier fashion waters. For instance, Connelly wore a killer-cool (and killer-short) black Balenciaga mini-dress to the Berlin Film Festival. To the L.A. premiere of "A Beautiful Mind," it was a slouchy Chanel halter and skirt in - you guessed it - black. What she'll will wear on the Oscars' red carpet is the fashion world's million-dollar question - literally.

Witness the demand for Uma-esque Prada looks after she wafted past the paparazzi in 1995, and the ever-increasing profit margins at Christian Dior, a company that's seen sales surge since Kidman wore their chartreuse goddess dress to the Oscars four years ago.  Likewise, Connelly making the scene at SAG in McQueen opens up an entire new American market for the Brit bad boy.

"He was absolutely thrilled," says a McQueen representative. "His new collection has just come out, and her wearing an outfit has just catapulted coverage of it to the front pages."

But for the Oscars, the gossip in the Hollywood style set is that Connelly has an exclusive with Chanel. (Chanel, who is also rumored to be dressing Kidman, had no comment). But with these actress types, you never know what they'll be wearing until the last minute - most of the time even they don't know until then either. And Connelly's choice will be even more of a mystery because she doesn't use a stylist, who sometimes leak stars' choices. Instead, she trusts her own taste (just like Gwyneth), and works with her publicist to coordinate her red-carpet looks. Though she's established that she has a keen eye for young fashion talent, Connelly might cast the dozens of frocks that will no doubt end up on her doorstep aside and choose an antique dress. Vintage looks suit Connelly, says costumer Rita Ryack, who dressed the star in an original '50s cocktail dress for the ball scene in "A Beautiful Mind."

"The minute she put that dress on, we just knew," says Ryack, who says Connelly's hair color is part of her fashion appeal, "One of the wonderful things about Jennifer is that she is dark [haired]," she says. "I think that's really refreshing."

Read that and weep, Gwynnie.

Scoop's comments: The only thing that surprises me is how long it took Hollywood and the mainstream media to "discover" her. You'd think she was some kind of ingénue instead of a woman who has been in the business for more than a decade. She was the most popular woman in the Fun House as long ago as 1996 - yet my daughter did not know who she was when I mentioned her in a conversation about six months ago!

I think I've mentioned it before, but Danni Ashe claims to be the most downloaded woman on the internet. Connelly has been downloaded more from my site alone - my one little tiny corner of the internet - than Ashe's claimed total! (In all fairness, most of that was when we were a free site, and had 225,000 unique visitors per day.). I suppose Connelly's total must be thousands of times as many as Ashe!

From the NY Post.  Thought it might be up your alley.


STATUE OF LIMITATIONS By LOU LUMENICK
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WHETHER you're rooting for "A Beautiful Mind," "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" or one of the other Best Picture nominees Sunday night, don't despair if your favorite loses. The truth is, more often than not, Oscar makes mistakes.

The Academy's 75-year history is filled with bloopers - some quite spectacular - that seem incomprehensible to even the most casual movie fan. Would you rather see "Chariots of Fire," the dreary, mercifully forgotten winner of the 1981 race - or "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?

More to the point, does anyone still not believe that "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" is a more lasting achievement than the lumbering
historical epic than won the following year, "Gandhi"?  At least "E.T." - a victim of the Academy's bias against effects-laden
movies (until 1997's "Titanic," that is) - was nominated. The honor roll of classics not nominated for Best Picture includes "Singin'
in the Rain," "The Searchers," "North by Northwest" and countless seminal comedies.

Consider the great "King Kong," which didn't even make it into the 1933 Best Picture race. That one was won by "Cavalcade," a stiff historical pageant based on a Noel Coward play that many experts consider Oscar's absolute nadir. It's rivaled as Oscar's all-time worst only by the insipid travelogue "Around the World in 80 Days," which beat out "Giant" and "The Ten Commandments" for the 1956 award.

Forty years later, fans were scratching their heads when the widely detested "The English Patient," a historical soap opera that goes on
forever, somehow beat out "Fargo" and "Jerry Maguire." Given a choice between a dull but worthy costume picture - say, "Out of
Africa," the 1985 winner - and something more cutting-edge ("Prizzi's Honor" and "The Curse of the Spider Woman" were also contenders in '85), the Academy almost always goes for the less interesting choice.

In other cases, we can blame aggressive Oscar campaigns waged by studios. That was certainly true of "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), a charming piece of Elizabethan fluff that shot down the more substantive "Saving Private Ryan."  And politics often plays a role. The most notorious case came in the 1952 awards, when the classic "High Noon" was victimized by blacklist-era sentiments in favor of the surprise
winner, Cecil B. DeMille's mediocre circus adventure, "The Greatest Show on Earth."

Three of the biggest embarrassments in recent years - both involving pictures directed by Martin Scorsese - came when the Academy handed out Best Picture statues to films now gathering dust on video-rental shelves.  Robert Redford's unbearably earnest "Ordinary People" triumphed over the exhilarating "Raging Bull" at the 1980 awards. Even more egregiously, "Goodfellas" lost to Kevin Costner's "Dances With Wolves" a decade later. Not that Marty should have been surprised. Another of his acclaimed works, "Taxi Driver," had its clock cleaned by "Rocky" at the 1976 Oscars.

Scoop's note: there is a quite detailed essay on this very topic on the scoopy.com site (click here).