As Young As You Feel (1951) is a departure from the battle of the sexes romantic comedy, and has two themes. The first is the issue of mandatory retirement, and the second is the relative importance of career vs love life. Monty Wooley is given a mandatory retirement notice as he is 65. He notices that the policy quoted in the notice is from some corporation he has never heard of. After much research, he discovers first, that they are, indeed, the parent company, and second, that nobody in his printing company knows who the corporate president is. He sends a letter to his company head as the corporate president, announcing that he will arrive for a plant tour. He reverses the mandatory retirement policy, and thinks he has pulled everything off, when he discovers that they have scheduled him to speak to the chamber of commerce. He delivers a rousing speech, which gets nationwide press coverage. The parent company is in a real bind, as their stock goes sharply up, the unions get more cooperative, etc.

Meanwhile. Wooley lives with his son, daughter, and grand daughter. His would-be son-in-law works for the same company, and is holding off on marriage until he gets a promotion and can support them properly. Marilyn plays the printing company presidents secretary. We see her showing a hint of cleavage in three different dresses. It is interesting to watch the sexist way her boss treats her, but this is still not a major role for her.

As is always the case in films of this era, there is a happy ending for all. IMDb readers have this at 6.2, possibly because the themes are still relevant, and also the iconoclasts among us enjoy grandpa beating the corporate machine. Your enjoyment of this film will have a lot to do with wether or not you enjoy Monty Wooley's acting style. Frankly, however, I didn't enjoy this one as much as the romantic comedies. C.

Follow-up:

That is actually Theresa Russell's body in the Wild Things caps. No body doubles were used for that scene. Both Russell and McNaughton have discussed the filming of the scene and the subsequent controversy over whether to cut it. (It is a classic example of a totally gratuitous sex scene. It really serves no purpose in the plot, and if cut would have affected nothing at all.)

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• Fairly rare footage of Helena Bonham Carter in Margaret's Museum. I don't know why, but this film has never made it to DVD in either Region 1 or 2. I have never seen the movie.

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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.

La Belle Noiseuse:

• Emmanuelle Beart in La Belle Noiseuse. (.avi, .wmv)

• Emmanuelle Beart in La Belle Noiseuse. (.avi, .wmv) Don't be alarmed because nothing seems to move. Your computer is not broken. That's what this movie is about. Seinfeld was just kidding himself by thinking HIS show was about nothing. If nothing else, it was about people moving about. If you want to see absolutely nothing - here is the movie for you. There is more movement in Ken Burns's Civil War, because at least he panned or zoomed the camera in and out of still photographs. In this movie there is no movement by the camera or the model. You see, that's the point. She's a model. She has to stay still. Did I mention that this movie is fours hours long? That's the bad news. The good news is that there must be two hours of footage which consist Beart sitting around naked! Of course, it all seems pretty similar after the first five minutes. You see, that's also the point. Ongoing, unremitting nudity ceases to be erotic. Or something. Who knows?

• Emmanuelle Beart in La Belle Noiseuse. (.avi, .wmv) Same as the one above. Don't worry when nothing moves. It will eventually.

• One more of Emmanuelle Beart in La Belle Noiseuse. (.avi, .wmv)

More:

• We have run the bathing scene from The Secretary, with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Here are some other scenes. Not much nudity, but very hot stuff well worth looking at.  (.avi, .wmv)

• Virginia Madsen's shower scene in Creator. It's a Peter O'Toole movie. As Tuna has pointed out, that sentence is a complete review, because O'Toole is pretty much his own self-contained genre.  (.avi, .wmv)

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.

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• Lauring Harring, former Miss America, first Latina Miss America, formerly Laura Herring until she got tired of the "smells like fish" jokes... or so I assume... dressed in a crepe paper dress, cut down to her umbilicus. Let this be the fashion standard for the next four or five years. (1, 2, 3)

• Nicole Ritchie in two outfits. Does there seem to be something peaking out of #1? Probably my imagination. (1, 2)

DUKE U. ABOLISHES EARLY CLASSES
Caffeine And Hard Drugs - Duke University is abolishing 8 a.m. classes and trying to find ways to help freshmen understand the importance of sleep. Officials say the average college student gets only six to seven hours a night, and survives on caffeine and adrenaline. Many departments say nobody was signing up for 8 a.m. classes anyway, and they were jamming the classes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. But they say students will still be grumbling when reality sets in, and they discover classes will now start at 8:30.