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The Grifters
1991
The director of The Grifters, Stephen Frears, has a new film coming out
in May or June. Cheri stars Michelle Pfeiffer and is based on a novel by
Colette. It is set in Paris during the interbellum. Frears is no stranger to elegant period pieces. He has
also directed Dangerous Liaisons and Mrs Henderson Presents.
Colette's story has been made into at least four previous movies and/or TV
mini-series, starting in 1950. The only one in the English language is a
BBC mini-series. The others are in French or Italian. Michelle Pfeiffer
will be the first American and the first major star to play the role of
Lea.
At
least one blog lists Pfeiffer as a possible Oscar nominee, albeit a
long shot.
K2 is a film about mountain climbing. I'm not going to discuss it
because it is a work of no special distinction, but
it earns a place in our hearts by virtue of some bare flesh from a young
Julia Nickson, Tricky Dick's older daughter.
OK, I'm fuckin' witcha. Maybe she was never the First Daughter, but she
was married to either Starsky or Hutch, whichever was the blond, laid-back
one. Her name back then was Julia Nickson-Soul, and they had a little
mini-Starsky or mini-Hutch named China Soul. (Julia's
mother is Chinese, and she has a distinctly Asian look.)
Apart from being Mrs. Starsky or Hutch, she is kinda sorta
famous for a film that was never finished and released: Genghis Khan. In late 1992, Charlton Heston traveled
to Russia and Central Asia to play a Mongol warlord named "Togrul" in
this multi-million dollar, independently financed historical epic.
Ken Annakin ("The Longest Day") was the director of this ill-fated
production in which the money source simply dried up in mid-shoot. Heston claimed that he and
his make-up man were probably the only ones who got paid.
Just in the past few months, the director, now 93, has cobbled
all of the existing footage into a new film called: "Genghis Khan - The
Story of a Lifetime." Richard Horowitz ("Any Given Sunday" & "Three
Seasons") composed an original score which incorporates
Mongolian folk music elements. The new project is scheduled to be released
"sometime" in 2009, according to a variety of recent news sources. Madison
Motion Pictures says that it is "about ready" and will be released "at the
end of the year" in two different formats: a 6-hour mini-series or a
2-hour feature film.
How weird would that be if Charlton Heston got an Oscar nomination this
year? Unfortunately, one supposes that his work in Mongolian make-up might
possibly be just a hair less than Oscar-worthy, and the rest of the cast
sounds nothing short of hilarious.
Genghis is played by an American actor from Alabama, Richard Tyson. You
know him. Even if the name doesn't ring a bell, you would recognize him
instantly. You probably remember him as the out-of-control cop who thinks
Ben Stiller is a serial killer in There's Something About Mary, or as the
hunky shirtless carnival guy in Two-Moon Junction, or from fifty other
projects in which he either played a minor character or appeared in a
minor movie. An example of his recent work is the lead in Stripper
Academy, a 2007 film which is rated 2.3 at IMDb. (I watched that film. It
seems to have been filmed on a home camcorder, and ... er ... let's just
say they couldn't fit re-takes into the shooting schedule. Well,
technically, I guess nobody could have flubbed a line, since they didn't
seem to have a script to begin with.)
Yeah, that guy. He plays Genghis Khan, Khan the Terrible, Scourge of
Eurasia, Alabama, and parts of Mississippi.
Now that I think about it, he couldn't be any worse than John Wayne in
The Conqueror.
But wait. I'm not finished. Khan's mortal enemy the Emperor is played
by ... (wait for it) ... Mister Myagi!
Ya gots ta love it.
Julia Nickson was the principal female star. Unlike Heston and Tyson,
she actually has the appropriate ethnic appearance, more or less. She
played the love interest for The G-man. At the time of filming, she was about the
same age as seen below in the clip from K2.
The trailer for the Khan movie is below, if you are as intrigued as I
am.
Edwina will be playing a 'bikini girl" in
the Battlestar Galactica prequel ("Caprica") pilot being released to
DVD next month.
Earthstorm
(2006)
Another dumb movie from the Sci-Fi network.
Anna Silk: very sexy
Desperate Souls
(2005)
Hoser straight-to-video horror. No (female)
nudity.
Karen Boshart: sexy
Familia
(2005)
French-Canadian movie.
Sylvie Moreau: pokies and cameltoe.
La vie secrete des gens heureux
(2006)
Another French-Canadian movie.
Catherine de Lea: topless
Julie Beauchemin: sexy
"Howie Do It"
(TV series)
Variety series which casts a lot of local
Toronto area actresses. However, unlike John Byner's Bizarre from thirty
years ago, none of them have to take off their tops.
April Mullen
Ashley Wolstat
Erica Cox
Melissa Jane Shaw
"Murdoch Mysteries"
season 2, episode: "Houdini Whodunit"
A slightly more risque episode.
Helene Joy: bare back
Sarah Gadon: down to her bloomers
Mary Higgins Clark's "Loves Music, Loves to
Dance"
(2001)
Tamsen McDonough: boob almost falling out of her
dress
"War of the Worlds"
(1988 TV series)
First season was released to DVD in 2005 to
latch on to the publicity from the Tom Cruise movie of the same name. However
the second season DVD set never followed.
Cindy Fidler: cameltoe
Sharolyn Sparrow: bra and panties
Deborah Wakeham: wearing very clingy blouse
Kim Cayer: very sexy as hooker
Guylaine St-Onge: tight sweater
"Fast Track"
(TV series, 1997-1998)
Monica Talma has been ID'ed as one of the
topless euro-babes in episode "Deconstructing Eagle Ridge." She first had
a small credited part as a waitress in the pilot episode.
Face Down
(1997)
Cindy Fidler was the stuntbutt for Kelli Maroney
for the rough rape scene.
"Rock 'n Roll Nightmare"
(1987)
Lara Daans in a very early bit role as a
groupie, although not nude.