Scoopy suggested last night that I might do this project from DVD, and I can take a hint. Scoopy had all of the exposure from VHS, but he obviously wasn't working from a very good tape. He wrote a detailed review, and called it a better than average genre picture, but with limited cross-over appeal. I could have liked this picture except for two problems. First, some of the dialogue really turned me off. It was as if the writer tried too hard to be clever. Near the beginning, the police lieutenant says, "That's a fucking fact that doesn't help the dangling dead guy, does it?" Reminds me of something that a junior High School student would write to prove to the teacher that he knew what alliteration meant. Later, he says, "Are we understood?" I guess he is either a queen or an editor to use we when it should have been "am I." Later, he says to Amick, "To protect and serve ... I'm serving Italian." I guess this proves that the author knows the LAPD motto, but it seemed out of place in Toronto.

The second problem was the ending, or rather, the lack of one. The killer believes she got away with it, and the Lieutenant is equally sure she did it and that, given time, he can prove it. This, of course, leaves room for a sequel, or a series. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be shocked to learn that this was actually a pilot they couldn't sell. My ending would have been far different. Suppose the police rescue the step-father in the nick of time, and arrive at her house as she dies from her fake hanging. It is final, it is ironic, and it is dramatic. The plot turns were clever, and the performances were ok. Had the dialogue been just a little better, I would agree with Scoops C+. The way it is, I say C-.

There's no nudity in Cabin by the Lake, even though there should be.

I'll get a review up tomorrow for Backtrack. (Tuna already did one, if you search the back issues), but here's the closest thing America has to royalty. Image three would have been virtually impossible pre-DVD, but doesn't look too bad despite being in a red filter and almost complete darkness. (You can't see much of anything while you watch the scene, but a little de-filtering helps out a lot)

• Jodie Foster (1, 2, 3)

In "Sunset Strip" (1992) she plays the role of a stripper and does a very nice pole dance. (link #1)
In "Jason Goes to Hell" (1993), she plays an anonymous camper who gets murdered after a lovemaking session. The sex scene is from the unrated version and is more graphic than what is shown in the theatrical R-rated version (her murder scene is even more graphic) (link #2).

Here's the breakdown:

Here's the breakdown...

I'm not sure of the source of these 'caps, but Michelle can be seen in all of her full frontal glory. Thanks to Jedilein.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Our lips are sealed, but Belinda Carlisle's aren't. She's happy to talk about posing nude for Playboy.

The lead singer of the Go-Go's did a photo shoot in December, which will appear in the magazine's August issue.

"It's sort of an homage to the sort of Vargas style, '50s pinup,'' Carlisle said Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America,'' where she performed with the four other members of the pioneering '80s girl group, whose hits include "Our Lips Are Sealed.''

"You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be ... sexually viable or viable as a woman,'' said Carlisle, 42. "And that's part of the point that I would like or we all like to prove, anyway.''

The Go-Go's released their first album of all new material in 17 years, "God Bless the Go-Go's,'' on Tuesday. They've all had solo careers and gotten together off and on to tour and record since 1990.

The rumour...Euro photographers allegedly have "personal" photos of Leeza Gibbons taken while she was on vacation in Europe back in the '80's. Apparently the photographers are also holding out for the big bucks.