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"Roma" (1972)
Roma (1972), Fellini's autobiographical tribute to Rome, was released on region 1 DVD this week. It has no plot, but is rather a non-linear impressionist portrait of the eternal city, focusing on pre WW11, and early 1970. Considered a masterpiece, I can't help but wonder if part of that reputation is due to the fact that Fellini wrote and directed it. Maltin awards 3 stars, and IMDB readers have it at near classic status at 7.7/10.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate it. Some scenes were very enjoyable, my personal favorite being an Ecclesiastical fashion show featuring nuns habits, traveling suits for the well-dressed priest, and even Papal vestments. There was also a lengthy tribute to Roman bordellos, in which several anonymous women were topless. The non-linear approach to time, with present, past and fantasy all strung together, makes it a little hard to follow, but, since there is no plot, it probably doesn't matter. For Fellini fans, of course, this is a must own. For the general art house crowd, it is a must see. Others probably won't find much to enjoy about it. The DVD is dark and very grainy, and devoid of special features. Letterboxed.
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"A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon" (1992)
A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon (1992) features Jennifer Rubin's breasts, which she has dangling in the wind through what seems like half of the 90 minute running time. Were this a soft-core or made for cable, that much exposure would not be unusual, but Jennifer has 38 credits at IMDB, and is
not your typical B bimbo. Maltin awards this 2 1/2 stars, saying that it is always interesting, even though the plot falls apart frequently. IMDB readers, who owe nothing to any studio, have it closer to where it belongs at 4.5/10.
Jennifer's character is a recent divorcee and film school graduate. Her goals are to write a successful screenplay, sleep with anyone who might be able to help her, and sleep with anyone she finds wildly exciting. In a major sub-plot, she has a male friend from film school who is also working on a screenplay, and would love to bed her. She teases, but wont have sex with him. His screenplay is actually biographical. There are enough ideas here to make a film, but the script sort of meanders hither and yon without really grabbing you. The worst part, however, is the dialogue. Hint for screenwriters: If you are writing a script with nudity, it is going to get at least an R rating. That means all of the viewers will be at least 18, and should be able to handle dialogue well above first grade level. The story plays more like a soap opera than anything.
The sex scenes are dark, but lighten effortlessly. I suspect that they reduced brightness when they made the prints, rather than applying colored filters. This resulted in very nice images. Images 1 through 5 are clothed pokies, and the other 20 all have breast exposure from different angles and
with different men. If we declare the genre "naked soap opera" than this is a solid C, and possibly the only film in it's genre.
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I took a look at The Passion of Ayn Rand. Lord knows why. The review is old. Both Tuna and I have done it before, but this is the first time I've had a DVD.
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Tribute to Maria Probosz, Polish TV and movie actress.
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Bernadetta Krzeminska in Tabu. Whew! because of her latinate first name, she barely made the Polish legal minimum of one Z and two K's in her name. These images are quite nice, and TomCat's reception was better than usual that day.
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Grazyna Szapolowska. (They let her slide on the second k because she had an extra z)
Honte's site is updated
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Topless in both, partial bum exposure in #2. Scenes from "Les Vacances de l'amour".
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In #1, Nut51 does a nice job catching a very subtle bit of nipple exposure in a love scene from "L'Homme que j'aime".
#2 is has full dorsal nudity from "Vacances bougeoises".
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Bare breasts in a love scene from "Quand un ange passe" (1998).
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Side breast view, plus a bare bum in these vidcaps from the French TV show "Sous le soleil".
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Taking off her shirt in a scene from 1986's "Cours privé".
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My favorite "Survivor". Here she is lying on the beach from last night's episode. Vidcaps by Akira.
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XXX 'caps by Scanman from the home video of her and Motley Crue singer Vince Neil.
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Very nice topless images from the Aussie movie "Hotel de Love" (1996).
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Topless lesbo fun in scenes from 1973's "Sugar Cookies". Vidcaps by RDO.
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From Dragon...I've never heard of her before today, but she's not too shabby. #1 has some decent see-thru exposure. #2 features very nice cleavage.
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From Tomorrow Magazine. Each image is the same but fair warning, the "Big" image is practically life sized for both ladies.
Jordan grabs hold of her huge robo-hooters and gives us a partial peek at her bum.
Traci lets a nipple pose for the camera, and almost lets us have a look downstairs.
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Frontal and topless exposure in scenes from "Nora". Vidcaps by C2000.
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Another absolutely fantastic collage by ZonononZor saluting Melanie's nude scenes in "Fear City".
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Wet shirt with pretty good nipple visibility.
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Brief bottomless frontal nudity in "The Rat Pack", by DeVo.
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Dumb people
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets", said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half-dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
I was checking out at the local Foodland with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the divider, looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code, she said to me "Do you know how much this is?" I said, "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today". She said "OK" and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue what had just happened.
A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When asked what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the internet and they asked for a credit card number, so she was using the "ATM thingy".
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenient store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I said, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries? It's a long walk."
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of typing paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five copies.
I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister". I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.
Sign in a gas station: Coke -- 49 cents. Two for a dollar.
My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
I was sitting in my science class when the teacher commented that the next day would be the shortest day of the year. My lab partner became visibly excited, cheering and clapping. I explained to her that the amount of daylight changes, not the actual amount of time. Needless to say, she was very disappointed.
Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.
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