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From my mailbox:
"The older topless woman with Jessica
Chastain in Jolene (2008) is Frances Fisher, Clint Eastwood's ex. For a moment, I thought it was Suzy Amis,
AKA Mrs. James Cameron, but I checked IMDb and saw it was actually Fisher."
Scoop's note:
I thought she looked familiar, but I
never made the connection. Right you are.
Here is the scene the reader is referring to.
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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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Lovin' Molly
1974
Low-res Blythe
Danner film clips
Scoop's notes:
Lovin' Molly has never been issued on a Region
1 DVD. It was available on Region 2 for a while, but is now out of
print, and the used copies are selling for more than $100. This is quite
a shame because the film features nude scenes from two lovely and
beautiful actresses in their prime: Blythe Danner (Paltrow's mom) and
Susan Sarandon. Aesthete made clips of the Danner scenes from VHS, and
the quality is not bad for such a tiny image.
- The raw output of VHS images was 320x240.
Since the number of vertical lines is limited to 240, and the number
of horizontal lines can be no higher than 320, widescreen VHS tapes
would have useful output of something like 320x170.
- NTSC DVD images are a rather awkward
720x480, which doesn't fit any standard screen resolution, so most
Region 1 DVDs are calibrated to modify the images anamorphically to
640x480 (full screen), or approximately 852x480 (wide screen). Films
with ultra-wide 2.35 aspect ratios also include 480 lines of info on
the raw DVD output, but that includes about 59 lines of blank space on
the top and bottom, so they adjust anamorphically to about 852x362.
- Raw Blu-Ray images are 1920x1080. That is
just about the right aspect ratio for must standard widescreen films.
I have never seen a Blu-Ray film in a full screen aspect ratio, so I
don't know how they adjust for that. Blu-Ray films with a 2.35 aspect
ratio are still 1920x1080, but they include something like 130 lines
of blank space on the top and bottom, making the useful output about
1920x820.
Lovin' Molly is not a good example, because it
was presented in a full screen aspect ratio, but you can see that the
capturable images of standard widescreen films have gone from 320x170
(VHS) to 852x362 (NTSC DVD) to 1920x1080 (Blu-Ray). The resolution of
Blu-Ray is thus approximately 38 times greater than VHS, based on the
number of individual pixels which comprise the equivalent images in each
format.
Forrest Gump
1994
Robin
Wright film clips Collages below.
Scoop's notes.
Better is not always better! While the quality of this
clip is spectacularly good, it destroys the illusion. You can see that Robin is
obviously wearing a flesh-colored thong. Sigh!
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Notes and collages
Death to the Supermodels
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Jaime Pressly
2007
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Scorpion continues a multi-part tribute to a B-movie favorite,
Maria Ford
Today's epic:
The Turn-On (Part 1
of Three. See below)
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Pics
Model Frankie Rayder
 
Steven Seagal feels up Katherine Heigl
(some years ago)
Tamara Bourbon loses a breast from her top
Tamara is a princess of some kind, a member of several phony-baloney royal
families, ranging from those of France and Poland, where they are mere pretenders,
to those of Spain and England, where they still have royalty which is only
semi-phony-baloney. She is something like #2166 in line for the British throne,
which places her, I believe, right behind Carrot Top. And even if the Topper turns it down, Tamara would not
really be able to grab the brass ring, because she is Catholic.
 
Film Clips
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