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Duos sur canapé
This is the French movie with a very thin, very young, and very naked
Lorraine Bracco. It's just a silly slapstick movie, but Bracco looks great as
a bimbo, and has a really cute butt for such a thin woman. I'll do a few
stills tomorrow.
For now, here's a film clip from the Region 2 DVD
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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
sucks.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Beach Balls
Beach Balls (1988) is a lesser Roger Corman effort. Specifically, it is a
raunchy teen beach comedy. The IMDb summary, which was written by the
releasing company, is not even close to the real plot, indicating to me that
they didn't watch it themselves.
Here's the real deal:
Philip Paley lives in a beach house with his religious mother, his father
and his Young Republican sister (Leslie Danon). He is on probation for
driving a stolen car while he was intoxicated. He had no idea the car was
stolen, but wouldn't rat on his "friends" even though they deserved it. His
best friend is nerdish and horny (aren't they always in these films?)
Philip has been in love with the same girl for three years, but never had
the nerve to put the moves on her. She likes rock musicians. He has learned
guitar using an acoustic, but needs an electric and an amp to join a band.
His mom isn't likely to help for several
reasons, first and foremost being that she is convinced that rock is a tool
of Satan
This is exactly my type of film. The fact that I was unimpressed should
tell you something. There are too few breasts, too few jokes, and the acting
could have been much better. The video quality is also lacking. Beach Balls
was a career-ender for most of the cast.
D+
IMDb readers say 4.5. Reviewers are equally unkind.
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Tres Palabras
The movie starts with the Funeral of María Galván (Maribel Verdú), who was a famous singer in the 50's.
At that funeral, the movie director and formerlover of Mará, Alfredo Puente (Fernando Guillén), meets her daughter Lupe (also Maribel Verdú), who looks just like her. He makes her the protagonist of his next movie,
which recreates the passionate and tragic story he had with her mother 30 years earlier. He uses this to start a relation with Lupe, to recreate the past and
also to take vengeance for what her mother did to him.
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Notes and collages
Ann Margret
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"Giulietta degli spiriti" (Juliet of the Spirits,
IMDb) is a 1965 Italian film written and directed by
Federico Fellini and starring his wife, Giulietta Masina. She plays Giulietta, a
middle aged, rather naive rich housewife who attends seances and gradually
realises that her husband is cheating on her with a young model. Her suspicions
confirmed by evidence from a detective she hired, she suffers a major mental
breakdown, characterized by visions, nightmares and childhood memories until she
finally finds the courage to exorcize her inner demons and emancipate herself by
abandoning her husband.
The film is beautifully photographed with bright lush
colors and luxurious sets, and filled with dream-like scenes, nightmarish
apparitions and eccentric characters. Some of the motifs found reminded me of
similar ones in the subsequent films of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch.
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The Comedy Wire
Comments in yellow...
Paris Hilton is going to jail. Friday, Hilton showed up 15 minutes late for
her probation violation hearing and claimed that she couldn't be expected to
know that her driver's license was suspended because "I just sign what people
tell me to sign...I'm a very busy person." Her lawyer described Hilton as
"someone with unique issues and needs." The judge didn't buy it: he angrily
told her that the time had come to take responsibility for her own actions and
sentenced her to 45 days at a tough, non-"glamour slammer" women's jail in
Lynwood.
* I smell a new, top-rated reality show!
* She does have unique needs...How many other people really need a brain
transplant?
After court, Hilton's mother Kathy railed at the judge and DA, saying the
sentence "bordered on ludicrous" and that Paris was "selectively prosecuted
because of who she is."
* Just because she's Paris Hilton, she's being sent to
the jail that all the regular people go to!
Inmates at the jail say Hilton will have to watch her back and be careful what
she says. She'll get cold cereal for breakfast and a baloney sandwich for lunch;
no cosmetics or hair dye except for a lip liner; a steel cot with a thin
mattress; two blue jumpsuits, one bra and two pairs of panties a week, and
she'll have to wash the panties during her daily five-minute shower. One inmate
said, "If you act like you're all high-class and uppity, you're done."
* These are impossible conditions! Paris Hilton has to
shower with dozens of other women, and there'll be nobody there to tape it?!
The "DC Madam" scandal is fizzling out. Friday, ABC News reported
that they'd researched her book of client phone numbers, and aside from the Bush
appointee who resigned as head of the abstinence program, there's nobody
interesting on it. They said they found a few military officers, but no
Congressional or White House officials, and most men who hired the escorts "just
weren't newsworthy enough" for their sex lives to be worth exposing.
* Translation: They're all reporters for ABC News.
* So guys who have to pay for sex are a bunch of underachieving losers?
Whoever would've guessed?!
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