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Duos sur canapé
Film clip yesterday. Here are the collages:
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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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Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine (1989) is a British romantic comedy based on a one-woman stage play.
Both the play and the movie starred Pauline Collins as Shirley, a woman in her late 40s. Her two children are out of the
house, and she has become cook and maid to her husband. She feels that she
has lost her real self. She relates episodes from her school days, where she
was a rebel and jealous of the teacher's pet, and then sees the same woman
she was so jealous of getting out of a limo. She is green with
envy until she discovers that this woman is now a hooker, and always envied
Shirley.
When her girlfriend invites her to go to Greece for a two week vacation,
Shirley feels she can't get away until her husband forbids it. After several
other missteps, she ends up in a Greek Island where her feminist friend
meets a man Shirley calls "Walking Groin" and abandons her. She loves
Greece, and has an affair with a pub owner. Has she found herself? Will she
return to Liverpool and her drab life with her drab husband? Is the pub
owner, played brilliantly by Tom Conti, her true love?
A brilliant script, great supporting players such as Joanna Lumley, and
the perfect lead (Pauline Collins), made for a very enjoyable watch.
Further, many men could stand this lesson in what a woman means when she
says she has "lost herself."
B-. A good watch even if you are not fond of romantic comedies or stage
play adaptations.
The reviews were 80% positive and IMDb readers say 7.2, with only a slight edge (7.8) from
female voters.
Pauline Collins was nominated for Best Oscar in a very tough year, and the
film also received a best song nomination. To give you an idea of the
competition that year, we have:
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Dead Poets Society
- Henry V
- Glory
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Enemies: A Love Story
- Parenthood
- Steel Magnolias
- Batman
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Harlem Nights
- Valmont
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Back to the Future Part II
- Cinema Paradiso
- The Little Mermaid
- Field of Dreams
- Sex, Lies and Videotape
- When Harry Met Sally
It is no wonder this small film escaped my notice.
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The Cold Room
A British teenager (Amanda Pays), who joins her father (George Segal) for a vacation in East Berlin. Spending time in her tiny room in an old-fashioned hotel, she gradually comes under the spell of another girl who lived in the same house during the war.
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Notes and collages
Alexandra Paul
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A Prayer for the Dying
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Sammi Davis
Although she's not technically topless, in
the first collage she might just as well be.
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The Breastford Wives
A 2007 sexploitation Sci-Fi film, The Breastford Wives can be reviewed
in one word: Boobies! They threw in a plot, too, but you may wonder why
they bothered. Any film with softcore queens Glori-Anne Gilbert and Taylor
Wane is bound to be simply lots of naked bodies wrapped in a thin plot,
and this one is no exception. Chances are, no one who watches will care.
A direct rip-off of The Stepford Wives classic, the little town of
Breastford is run by a doctor who is also the mayor, fire chief, dog
catcher, etc. The doc's a popular man with the other men because he's
developed a mind control gizmo that turns all the women into sex slaves.
When Rob and Laura move to town, Rob can't believe his good fortune
when he starts getting laid by every woman in sight, all of them total
strangers. What he doesn't know is the mayor is using the device so Rob
will join the men's group and help keep the secret of Breastford. Needless
to say, all good things come to an end, but not before Rob gets very
lucky.
Fine for a night of boob-watching, but don't expect any more out of
this one. Don't expect a lot of natural breasts, either - there may be one
set in the whole bunch.
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Dylan Bailey |
Friday |
Glori-Anne Gilbert |
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Monica Rakocyova |
Sarah Maglaughlin |
Taylor Wane |
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The Comedy Wire
Comments in yellow...
In what some pundits called the dumbest election story so far, the Los
Angeles Times wondered if Fred Thompson's presidential hopes could be harmed if
clips appear on YouTube of him playing a white supremacist who made anti-Semitic
remarks while holding a copy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" on the CBS drama "Wiseguy"
19 years ago, in 1988.
* That's like asking if Arnold Schwarzenegger really is a
violent robot from the future, except in Arnold's case, it could be true.
Hilton also claimed she's a target of cops because she's so pretty. She says
they pull her over "all the time" and ask her out. She said, "I have so many
cops' business cards."
* Uh, Paris? Those aren't business cards ... They're
speeding tickets.
John Brandrick, 62, of Cornwall, England, was told by doctors that he had
pancreatic cancer and would die within a year. So he decided to
live life to the fullest: he sold or gave away his possessions, stopped paying
his mortgage and used his savings to travel and dine out. He was left with
nothing but the suit he planned to be buried in. It's now two years later, and
doctors say their diagnosis was wrong: he's healthy. Brandrick thinks the
hospital should have to pay some compensation. They say they sympathize, but a
review of the case showed that if they had to do it again, they would have made
the same diagnosis.
* Of course, they won't do it again, because he can't
afford to pay the bill now.
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