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"Lady of the Lake", from
Tuna
Don't know anything
about it. IMDb says it is a fairy story,
presumably about some watery tart. I do think
it's appropriate that the star of a movie called
Lady of the Lake is named Tennyson. And it's
something completely different ... thumbnails. Tennyson Loeh (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
Josee Laviolette (1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
words
and pictures fromStone Cold
Scoop- it ain't time to
do my monthly magazine round-up yet, and I'm
busier than shit this week, so let me just send
you a couple pictures that can't wait, and tell a
good story. This is probably the only time my
column has had any truth in it. I'm at the Barnes
and Noble help desk earlier this week, just
before headin' home, and I get to shittin' with
the infocracka about the internet. I tell him
that I'm not as much into it as I'd like to be,
because of time, but that I sometimes write some
shit and scan a few pictures for a celebrity
site. Cracka says "what's the name of
it"? I tell him, he look me up and down, and
says "you're Stone Cold aren't you?".
She-it. I'm a star! I'm mothafuckin' Michael
Jordan for two minutes. So, I admit it, and he
says "I got a book you have to see. I've
been meaning to write Scoopy about it". So
this cracka show me one mo'fo'n page, and he know
exactly what to show me. It's topless. It's
beautiful. It's Rene Russo at 20 years old,
obviously really the girl, and no shit. It's
labeled Rene Russo, and the photo is taken by
Scavullo. Next page, there's four nudes of Rene
lying down on her stomach, and you can tell it's
Russo, no diggity. He says, "do you want to
see more"?, but at this point I'm already
heading back to the office to use my scanner.
(Ain't got one at home, so do my thing after
hours in the office.). I'll have more, but these
couldn't wait. I had to blow up the four similar
nude Russo's from postage stamp size, so they
ain't so great, but the others are some sweet
shit. Rene Russo large topless. I had to join two pages, and
I'm not that proficient at editing, but I think
it was worth it. This is my Pieta!) Rene Russo - the four small nudes, blown up too much. (Scoop's
note: I showed this to Elya, who likes Russo, and
she had an incisive comment. She said Russo at
that age was approximately as beautiful as
Michelle Pfeiffer - so why wasn't she even more
successful as a model? I don't have any answer to
that.) Anna Levine - great photo, but I don't know
the sugah. (Scoop's note: I don't know for sure
if it is the same woman, becasue she always wears
too much make-up and she's now 25 years older,
but I guess this is actress Anna Thompson. I had
no idea she was old enough to look like this in
1975. I guess she must be 45 or older now. I just
capped her in "Jaded", Charlie got her
in "Sue", and Realist did her in
"Six Ways to Sunday", all recent
movies, and she does look 45, but I never knew
she really was. Can anyone confirm that this is
or isn't the same Anna Levine Thompson?) Amber Smith. I also got some frontal of
Amber, but they need some work, so another day,
cracka. This is just for a guffaw. Carmen
Electra finally admits why she likes Dennis
New
from Graphic Response
Juliette Binoche. In "Rendezvous" Charlotte Valandrey. Looking magnificent in
"Red Kiss"
"Boys
Don't Cry", from Johnny Web
I guess the real quality
issue with real-life stories always lies in the
set-up. I mean the payoff must be fairly
interesting for them to make a movie about it in
the first place, right? So the set-up is what
distinguishes the incredibly soporific
"Silkwood", which plays like a PBS
show, from the taut and tense "The
Insider", which plays like an international
espionage flick. Now "Boys Don't Cry"
has two inherent potentially fatal flaws to
overcome: the premise is basically only
interesting because it all really happened. Make
the same movie, don't tell anyone it's all true,
and it's a ho-hum premise. Like Silkwood, when it
isn't engaged in the main premise, it's just down
home folks doin' some down home stuff. Drinkin'
beer and tippin' cows and actin' like illiterate
assholes. Now, am I trashing the movie? Not at
all. Just setting up the next statement, which is
that it overcomes those problems beautifully,
much like The Insider. Just about every minute is
charged with tension - will the impersonation be
discovered by someone, will the white trash cons
erupt into violence, how the hell will
Teena/Brandon make love to a woman without her
discovering the secret, will the cops catch their
various evil doings, will the cops unearth the
criminal activities in Teena's past ...
Because it is
effectively directed and performed to maintain
the tension, and because the performers carry off
the mood exactly as it should be, this is an
excellent piece of filmmaking.
Did I like it? Not one
bit. I admired its artistry and I was impressed
by the cast, but what is there to like? Teena
didn't overcome the sexual identity crisis to
save the environment or create an inexpensive
eternal light bulb. Nope. She only wanted to
prove that she could be a lyin', stealin',
fightin'-fer-no-reason, drunk drivin', longneck
drinkin' and burpin', work-evadin',
chain-smokin', shopliftin', buying booze for
minors, no-account trailer trash scumbag. Why do
we care? Whether she ended up a dyke, or a
transsexual, or a transvestite, or something
completely unique, bottom line is she wasn't
really a very good person. Even when she was
raped mercilessly or even when she was killed for
no reason by psychos, you have a hard time
opening up your heart to touch her pain, because
she always could have made the choice to
integrate into life as a decent man instead of
hanging out with criminal sociopaths. Dress like
a guy, get an education, make a few bucks, go to
Denmark and get the operation, change your name
legally. Bingo, you're a man, and nobody is the
wiser about your past.
Anyway, I think it was a
tense and powerful and gritty movie, but I'll
never watch it again. Chloe Sevigny (1
2
3
4
5
6
7)
Hilary Swank. I need to
discuss these a bit more. There may be some body
doubling here. First of all, I haven't see this unedited frame captured before,
and it clearly shows that Swank did frontal
nudity (without the breasts). The same is true here, but with an explanation this
time. That second one is a composite of two
frames that I joined together from an upward pan,
(the face and the crotch are originally in
separate frames), but you can see that the pan
matches so closely, that it has to be for real.
Finally, this one clearly showed the side of
Swank's breast, and this showed the side of her hips.
These two scenes are a
different story. The examination scene is NOT a smooth pan. it appears
that the scene was stopped and started again, and
the facial frames include no bosom at all. Unlike
the other scene, there was no reason at all to do
a pan in the first place. The scene would
probably be more effective with the camera pulled
back a bit to show the body and facial scars
together, so this looks mighty suspicious. The shower scene is just a butt. Could be
anyone's butt. Well, maybe not Marlon Brando, but
almost anyone else.
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