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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Pervert!
Pervert! (2005) came about the way a lot of micro-budget indy films do.
Director-producer Jonathon Yudis made a decision that he was going to make a
feature film and not let anything get in his way. He knew the limitations of
his resources so he his college chum Mike Davis to write a script using a
small cast and one location. The are both Russ Meyer fans so they created an
homage to Meyer, full of large breasts. They took Russ to his next logical
progression, throwing in a horror element, but the entire thing is an
outrageous comedy.
A college student is to spend the summer with his dad in the desert. When
he arrives, he sees dad's new playmate, Mary Carey. Something does her in, as
well as dad's next hooker/companion, and junior suspects that dad is doing
them in. Dad suspects junior. Dad's hobby of making meat sculpture art is
certainly suspicious. Just how silly the film is becomes obvious by the
identity and appearance of the actual monster.

Finally, junior decides dad needs to be locked up, and sends for nurse
Juliette Clarke to evaluate his condition. She, it turns out, becomes half of
the requisite girl/girls scene, and has the gumption to survive The Pervert.
The film makers wanted to telegraph what kind of film this was early, hence
the bogus rating screen.

The film goes out of its way to insult as many groups as possible, and does
a good enough job that nobody is insulted. The DVD is given the whole
treatment, with two commentaries, deleted scenes, bloopers, and trailers. This
is low budget lowbrow humor, but has cult classic written all over it. Oddly,
women seem to like it as much as men.
This is a C in the cult classic genre.
IMDb readers say 5.4.
Scoop's note: I'm glad that some guys are still making grade-B tittie
movies which are fun to watch. There were a lot of them back in the 70s and
80s, like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Return of the Living Dead, but it's
hard to find an entertaining one these days. The indie producers all seem to
be making either making serious dramas or horror films.
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Recently I watched some early German films on DVD. These are the images I
produced.
Titanic
(1943) imdb. Surprisingly good
drama that kept my interest throughout, (much better than James Cameron's later
soap-opera-style film). Has some nice see-throughs too.
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Charlotte Thiele |
Jolly Bohnert |
Sybille Schmitz |
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Munchhausen
(1943) imdb. Colorful
recreation of the Munchhausen tales (and an obvious influence for Terry
Gilliam's film) with some nudity too.
 
Der Kongress tanzt and
Drei von der Tankstelle
(1931)
imdb and (1930) imdb,
respectively. Early musicals starring Lilian Harvey
Spur der Steine
(1966)
imdb.

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Transformations
Wolfgang Shadduck (Rex Smith) is traveling in outer space when a
monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman (Pamela Prati), appears in
his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land
on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda (Lisa
Langlois) who falls in love with him. A group of prisoners uses him and
his spaceship to fly away from the planet. But the monster which is by
now inside Wolfang arouses and only Miranda can save him.
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Notes and collages
"Farscape" - Part 16
Season 3, Ep 8 and 9
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Christine Ricci in Black Snake Moan (film
clips), The first two .jpgs are just samples from the two film clips. The
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The Italian film La Bestia Nel Cuore (known in English as Don't Tell) was
nominated for the Oscar for best foreign film, although that came as a surprise
to a lot of people, not the least of which were the Italians, who didn't even
nominate it for best picture at their own academy awards! Sergio Rubini's Our
Land is widely considered the best Italian film of that year, although the
Donatello for Best Picture actually went to Il Caimano, about which I know
nothing. Anyway, here are the women of Don't Tell:
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A film clip of Niamh Cusack in
Fallen Angel, a brand spankin' new TV movie from the UK. Niamh is a
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Here's Catherine Bell early in her career when she was working as a body double
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These pics have been around forever and are supposed to be a very young Brigitte
Bardot. I'm skeptical, but I have never seen a convincing case for or against
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What would a week in the Funhouse be like without pictures of Lindsay Lohan in
public in scanty clothing? Some may be repeats because Lohan and Paris are here
so often that I lose track of which ones I've already seen. |
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Karin Konoval
in Black Christmas |
Chrystal Lowe
in Black Christmas |
Laura Prepon
in Karla (not nude) |
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Pat's comments in yellow...
Britain's Court of Appeals ruled Monday that drunken women can still
consent to sex, freeing a young man with an otherwise spotless record who
had been jailed for raping a university co-ed. They'd been out
together and the woman drank two pints of cider and up to six vodkas. She
claims she woke up to find him having sex with her and pressed charges. He
said he was shocked because she'd wanted to do it and consented. The
three judges, two of them women, ruled that it's not rape if a woman has
had enough booze to loosen her inhibitions so she consents to sex, but
she's not drunk enough to make her incapable of making decisions.
* This is the rule they abide by in the judge's
chambers.
Cynthia Figueroa-Haas, an assistant professor at the University of
Florida's College of Nursing, studied 84 women aged 21 to 57 and found
that in the vast majority of cases, getting breast enhancement surgery
significantly boosts their self-esteem. She said that despite negative
attitudes about the surgery and the fact that it's not a cure-all for low
self-esteem, the average woman experienced a 20 percent rise in self-worth
scores and a 15 percent boost in sexual function (a mix of arousal,
satisfaction and experience) after getting a boob job. She said more
study is needed.
* I'll get right on it!
Turns out supermodel Naomi Campbell made a fortune off her week of mopping
up a New York garage as community service for assaulting
her maid. Each day, she would be mobbed by paparazzi as she walked up in
some stunning outfit, from lynx jackets to spike-heeled boots. Now, it's
been revealed that the designers were in on it, W magazine will run a
20-page spread of the photos, and Campbell's base pay rate is $60,000 a
day. Angry New York attorney Raoul Felder said the deal wasn't illegal,
but Campbell thumbed her nose at the system and sent the message that
celebrities can get away with anything.
* Well, children have to learn that sometime.
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