Body Heat (1981) When I think about great sexy roles in excellent movies, or noire in general, this one is near the top of my list. It started a genre single-handed, is filled with a great steamy atmosphere, clever dialogue, and one of the best sexual tension build-ups in film history. Also, the dramatic tension was carefully constructed such that your attention never wans from the opening post-sex scene through to the end. We have a great story told very skillfully, great performances, and plenty of looks at Kathleen Turner's body. The supporting cast also played fleshed out characters. There was not a single moment of pure exposition in the entire film.

Seems like I am reviewing this plot at least once a month -- the most recent one a Marlee Matlin film -- making it one of the most popular formulas ever, but this was the original, and still the best. This is an easy B.

Something's Gotta Give (2003):

Romantic comedy with Keaton and Nicholson. Good, but too long, and sags considerably in the middle. Have discussed this many times before.  Comments here.

• Diane Keaton (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Amanda Peet (no nudity) (1, 2)

OTHER CRAP:

• It is a crime in Italy to make fun of people with fat asses. In other news, Kate Winslet asked if there's such a thing as "spaghetti weepers"
• A Graphical History of Baseball Stats
• French lawyer to defend Saddam. He is now working with Johnny Cochran to figure out which English words rhyme - "If he ain't zo filt'y, zee vairdict eez no guilty". Seriously, you have to wonder what plan of defense he has. "Oh, sure some people in authority gassed and tortured and killed a few million of Saddam's people, but he didn't do it personally, and the people who did do it were disobeying Saddam's specific orders to treat everyone with gentility and respect."
• You think you have a vicious dog? Just thank God you don't live in Nigeria.
• How bad a weekend is it for movies? Here's a hint. The #1 movie Friday, taking in more than the next two combined, was Scooby-Doo 2
• Passion of the Christ is now the #1 R-rated film of all time at the box office.
• My son and I are having an debate over which movie is the best bet for this year's Razzie. I'm going with The Mask 2, but he also has a strong candidate, with the film trailered here, Garfield
• Two of the Final Four are set: Connecticut and Oklahoma State. Huskies roll over 'Bama. Oklahoma State holds off St Joe's.
• Bill Shatner - the Khalil Ghibran of the new millennium
• Name the highest rated news show on cable. Take a guess before you click. You're gonna like this!
• What is life like of you are 8'4" tall? He is 15 inches taller than Shaq. To put that into perspective, Shaq, in turn, is 15 inches taller than an average sized guy.
• Foreign Signs, written in clumsy English. Very funny stuff.
• Evil Pictograms. Some funny stuff here. (1) "Thank you for urinating on the mimes" (2) "Do not taunt the octopus". And many more.
• The trailer for the teen chick-flick The Prince & Me : "Paige, a pre-med student from Wisconsin, is on the fast track to creating the life she's always wanted. Eddie, the Crown Prince of Denmark, is trying to escape a life he never chose. Now they've fallen in love and he's in line to become king. Paige has to choose between her two dreams -- marrying Eddie and being a doctor."
• Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. If you are like me, you are thinking "internet hoax? Weekly World News? This seems to be a real story. The German original can be found here, and Dr Bischinger is a real physician, a specialist in lung diseases, who can be found here.
• Jan Berry, of Jan & Dean, dies at 62. He lived a remarkable 38 years after his famous near-fatal car crash.
• New Vienna museum opens with 1600 masterpieces saved from the Nazis. The paintings, including 30 by Rubens alone, have been sitting in warehouses for 60 years.
• See videos and read all about the latest yuppie toy - Magnetoids
• 35 consecutive years of Scooby-Doo - the Cal Ripken of cartoons
• A look inside the erratic mind of Citizen Kubrick
• Bill Lumbergh Soundboard - all Lumbergh, all the time
• Lord of the Rings, without the special effects.
• The future for Cruz and Cruise
• Welcome to the Raelian Revolution - the official web site of the Raelians. Find out what the extra-terrestrials told Rael.
• Grand Jury chosen for Michael Jackson case.
• The first clips from Catwoman . Ouch. This has the potential to be seriously awful. We're talkin' off-the-chart Roberto Benigni, Gigli kind of bad.
• The photography of Margot Quan Knight. Exceptionally odd. Inevitably naked.
• Incredible photo - space station Mir floats over New Zealand's South Island
• Jo Blo presents a Spidey 2 clip attack!
• Footballer Beckham to be in the new Pink Panther movie.
• Own Ben Affleck's actual RAZZIE Award, as seen on Larry King's show
• Here's that picture of Courtney Love allowing a fan to suck her breast at Wendy's
• Senate Democrats, turning up the heat in their long-simmering feud with President Bush over judicial nominations, vowed on Friday to block all new federal court appointments unless the White House promises to stop installing judges while Congress is in recess.
• Bush pokes fun at himself at correspondent's dinner
• The United States "came close" on several occasions to finding missing National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice but failed to do so because the Bush White House did not feel that locating Dr. Rice was a top priority, former counterterrorism chief Dick Clarke alleged today.

Other Crap archives. May also include newer material than the ones above, since it's sorta in real time.

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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 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.

Various quick peeks

• Here's Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give. See the big DVD collages above.  (.avi version,  .wmv version).

• Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly. Patrice was a real pentathlete, not an actress, who co-starred in this film about women's athletics and lesbonics. (.avi version,  .wmv version, .jpg collages (1, 2)).

• Kristin Scott-Thomas stark naked, full frontal, in An Unforgettable Summer (.avi version,  .wmv version).

• Courtney Love's wacked-out appearance on the Letterman show (.avi version,  .wmv version).

Perhaps these tips will help if you have trouble with the codecs for these movies:

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.

A reader says:

You mentioned that some users were having trouble with the videos on your site. There is a tool designed to determine what codec is needed for a video. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Hope this is useful to you or your users.

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.

• Abi Titmus (ya gotta love the name) is married to a UK newsreader and seems to be part of a reality tv show across the pond.

• Adriana Lima, the Brazilian model and Victoria's Secret babe barely covering up the goods.

• Alba Parietti, the Italian beauty caught fully frontally nude by the paparazzi.

• Ali Larter

• Alicia Keys

• Alicia Silverstone

• Amanda Holden, a nip slip from the UK actress.

• Angelina Jolie

• Ashlee Simpson, Jessica Simpson's younger sister...here she is showing off some cellulite on the runway.

• Beyoncé Knowles (1, 2)

• Blu Cantrell

• Cameron Diaz

• Cat Deeley, another UK babe...another nip slip.

• Charlize Theron, no nudity from the Oscar winner, but I love the head shots in #2...damn she's a good lookin' woman. (1, 2)

• Drew Barrymore

• Eliza Dushku, showing some cleavage.

• Erika Christensen, also showing some lovely cleavage.

• Eva Mendes

• Francesca Piccinini, a member of the Italian national women's volleyball team, caught topless at the beach. (1, 2)

• Francesca Rettondini, the Italian actress and singer who played an Italian actress and singer in the movie "Ghost Ship" (2002). Here she is topless at the beach.

"Rogue Trader"
Fascinating 1999 look at the true-life story of Nick Leeson, who single-handedly brought down one of Britain's oldest and most successful financial institutions, Barings Bank, by using risky futures trades to appear as a rising young star making tons of money for the bank. In truth, his trades were simply enormous gambles which eventually did not pay off.

While not perfect, and certainly not exciting in a "kick ass and take names" way, the movie keeps your attention as you watch the poor likeable guy dig himself deeper into the hole he'll never crawl out of.

• Anna Friel

"Triumph of Love"
Triumph of Love has Mira Sorvino as a princess dressing as a man for some absurd reason. Rachael Stirling is her lady-in-waiting and does the same. It was PG rated and the only exposure is a brief breast by Rachael as she changes her clothes.

• Mira Sorvino (1, 2, 3)
• Rachael Stirling (1, 2)

"Undercover Blues"
Undercover Blues was another PG rated movie with no nudity. The sexiest caps occur when Kathleen Turner and Fiona Shaw have a mud bath fight.

• Kathleen Turner (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Fiona Shaw (1, 2, 3)

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"
As appeared recently in the FH, Lorraine Bracco's bush was exposed in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. For some reason that I couldn't work out, a group of cowgirls decided to drop their pants. Lorraine's bush was the only visible nudity. Heather Graham was another cowgirl with a minor part, and who needs an excuse to show her. There are some sexy caps of Rain Phoenix and she also dropped her dacks. The main actress in the movie was Uma Thurman and we see most of her breast as Sean Young goes for a grope. Sean may be showing a bit of nipple.

• Lorraine Bracco (1, 2)
• Heather Graham
• Rain Phoenix (1, 2, 3)
• Uma Thurman (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Sean Young

"All the Queen's Men"
No nudity in the WW2 British movie All the Queen's Men but Nicolette Krebitz goes around in her underwear.

• Nicolette Krebitz (1, 2)

"Back in the USSR"
Some brief side nudity by Natalya Negoda in Back in the USSR.

• Natalya Negoda (1, 2)

"Good Advice"
No nudity in Good Advice but there are some sexy caps of Angie Harmon, Lisa Rinna, Denise Richards and Rosanna Arquette, who also shows some remarkably flexibility.

• Angie Harmon (1, 2)
• Lisa Rinna
• Denise Richards
• Rosanna Arquette (1, 2)

"Fudo : The New Generation"
Over to Japan for the blood thirsty Fudo : The New Generation. It had a weird story line and Miho Nomoto is an assassin who uses an unusual technique. Yes, that is a blow pipe coming from her vagina - sexy and effective! Miho is topless as is an unknown woman. By a process of elimination I think she is Rin Sakiyama but my Japanese is non existent and the Internet was no help.

• Miho Nomoto (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Unknown (1, 2)

"Descending Angel"
Some nice nipple exposure by Diane Lane in Descending Angel.

• Diane Lane (1, 2, 3, 4)