Sunset Strip (2000) is yet another behind the scenes in the music industry 70s sex, drugs and rock and role film. It takes place in one 24 hour period in Sunset Strip. Characters include a successful band, a new band trying to break in, a song writer, a woman who designs costumes for groups, and a photographer who shoots album covers.

Proponents of the film praise the sound track. Anna Friel, as the costumer, shows her left nipple changing in a car. She also supplies the punch line to one of the few bits I actually laughed at. The photographer gets the clap, and stops by to notify the cocktail waitress that infected him. She is not there, but a musician is, so he tells the musician to pas son the message. Later in the day, in a period of about 4 minutes, Friel screws first the musician who was doing the cocktail waitress, then the major star. She learns of her mistake when the cocktail waitress throws a drink in the photographer's face.

IMDb readers have this at 4.6. Opening weekend gross was $3.93K, and total US gross was $3.93K. Unless you are fascinated by the music business and the music of that era, there is not much here. Save your rental fee and watch Almost Famous again. D+

A couple of .wmv files

• One more of Eva Green in Bertolucci's The Dreamers
• Molly Parker in Suspicious River. I think this was her last nude scene, but I am not positive.

OTHER CRAP:

• The New York Times interviews cult favorite Christopher Walken
• A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner. I didn't make that up.
• SPIDER-MAN 2 (Brand new TV SPOT - all new footage)
• The Day After Tomorrow, as reviewed by that master of subtlety, The Filthy Critic.
• Gassy fruit forces airline alert. That's the last time British Air will let Nathan Lane finish the leftover three-bean salad.
• Presidential hopeful John Kerry becomes King of the Cheeseheads.
  • Wow, he and I have a lot in common. When I lived in Norway, I became Sildekongen - The King of Herring. If he loses the election, Kerry and I can get together and rule Scandinavia - if we can just make an alliance with the King of Crispy Bread and the Duke of Open-Face Sandwiches.
  • Seriously, I liked Kerry better when he was just a Cheesehead Commoner. Since they made him king, he seems to be getting a big head.
  • "No matter what it means to the New England Patriots, ... you are looking at the biggest Cheesehead in America", said Kerry. Ya know, truer words were never spoken by a politician.
• Homepage of The American Cornhole Association. It's probably not what you think.
• Hillbillies love Cornholing. I coulda told you that. I saw Deliverance.
• President Bush keeps Saddam's pistol in the same room where Monica and Clinton had trysts.
  • My army went to Baghdad, and all I got was this crummy handgun.
  • Actually, the President really wants to place Saddam's head on the wall in that study, because based on Monica's former exploits, it's already the trophy head room.
• Battle of the Puck Bunnies!!! (lots of nudity)
• First Cox, now another Watergate figure dead. Sam Dash passes away at 79 -- chief Senate counsel during Watergate hearings. Now waiting for the show horse to see if I won the Watergate trifecta.
• Nostalgia: Looking back at: Wrigley Field, Los Angeles. Many films were lensed there, and it was the site of that oft-rerun TV classic "Home Run Derby"
• Stills gallery from Madonna's new touring show.
• FilmJerk.com's indispensible Early Report for May 30, 2004
• Longest Yard remake - director Peter Segal talks about Adam Sandler and football
• First review I have seen of Baadasssss! and he scored it 10/10. I am really looking forward to this movie
• Shrek takes back the #1 spot in Saturday B.O. race.
• Trailer for The Corporation , a documentary about the rise of corporations in modern capitalism.
• Have your yard landscaped by Elvis - it's Rock and Roll Landscaper. He ain't nothin' but a yard dog.
• What if all the missile launch codes had been set to '00000000', and everyone in the Strategic Air Command knew it? That is unbelievably what happened.
• China has banned a computer game for 'distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity ". Damn the foul capitalistic lies of that Pac-Man!
• Cox, Prosecutor Fired by Nixon, Dies at 92: "Archibald Cox's refusal to curtail his Watergate investigation after being ordered to do so by the White House cost him his job, and opened the way for President Nixon's impeachment." The big bumper sticker at the time was "Impeach the Cox Sacker!"
• Is Anna Kournikova married and pregnant?

Other Crap archives. May also include newer material than the ones above, since it's sorta in real time.

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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.

Stuff

• Barbara Hershey shows off her booty in The Stunt Man (.avi, .wmv)
• Mia Farrow shows off her own rather underfed bum in John and Mary (.avi, .wmv)
• Kay Lenz in another of her great nude roles - The Passage. (.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.

• Alisha Klass showing all 3 B's and of course having some pseudo-sex. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

• Alisha Klass .wmvs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

"Show Me Yours"
Brand new sex comedy tv series which started on Showcase last week about a female psychologist (Rachael Crawford) and a male biologist (Adam Harrington) working together on a sex book. Each episode has guest stars being interviewed about their sexual fantasies.

• Rachael Crawford: tight sweater, brassiere.
• Rachel Wilson: butt crack and bare back.
• Jennie Raymond: major leg.
• Michelle Duquet: breasts and buns having sex in fantasy.
• Victoria Fodor: hiked up skirt in rape fantasy.

"Queer as Folk": season 4
The token lesbian couple are finally shown in the bedroom together but no lesbian action yet.

• Thea Gill: topless.
• Melanie Clunie: panty spread presenting her muff.

"Alienated": season 2
Sarah Jane Redmond is pregnant with an alien baby while the daughter played by Iris Graham comes out with her lesbian girlfriend played by Michaela Mann.

• Michaela Mann and Iris Graham: lesbian makeout.
• Sarah Jane Redmond: tight t-shirt.

"Moccasin Flats"
Only six episodes were made and no female nudity as of the fourth episode.

• Michelle Trush: lesbian makeout.

"My 5 Wives"
Rodney Dangerfield vehicle about polygamy and a Mormon-like church slapped with an R-rating because Dangerfield wore a thong. No nudity but lots of pokies, buns, cleavage, and Dangerfield one-liners.

The 5 wives

• Kate Luyben
• Judy Tylor
• Angelika Baran
• Emmanuelle Vaugier
• Anita Brown
• Groupshot: beware, Dangerfield thong shot.

Others

• Alannah Stewartt
• Brandy Ledford
• Ona Grauer

"Out of Line"
A female parole (Jennifer Beals) officer dating an ex-con is a recipe for disaster.

• Alannah Stewartt: pokies.
• Keegan Connor Tracy: tight sweater.

"Terminal Countdown"
Hopelessly dated action movie centered around a Y2K bug in a missile system.

• Sarah Chalke: tight t-shirt pokies.
• Alannah Stewartt: buns and partial boob having sex on video monitor.

"Jericho Mansions"
James Cann plays a superintendent in an apartment building full of nuts.

• Genevieve Bujold: wet shirt.
• Maribel Verdu: cleavage, leg.
• Jennifer Tilly: see though brassiere.
• Johanne McKay: partial boob.
• Roseanne Maloney: cleavage.
• Susan Glover: cleavage.

"40 Days and 40 Nights"
Some Canadian skin from this sex comedy aka "Can You Keep It Down for 40 Days?".

• Emmanuelle Vaugier: boobs and butt.
• Keegan Connor Tracy: lesbian kiss with Christine Chatelain.
• Natassia Malthe: full dorsal nudity.
• Stefanie von Pfetten: face shot only (she was not naked in this movie)

"The Wind"
The premise of this 2001 billed-as-a-horror film is that an evil wind stirs a group of college friends to turn one against another in a series of gruesome murders by beating. Unfortunately, they forgot to make that movie.

What they wound up with is indeed a pretty fair drama of a group of friends being manipulated by Carolyn Camburn's character Clair into killing one another off. After a brief mention in the beginning, the tie-in to the wind was never really made, except for some wind sound effects heard during the flick.

The result is an OK drama/thriller that shows friends banding together to turn on one another. The horror connection never really got made in my mind, and although the acting and story were decent, I personally found it kind of boring and predictable.

• Carolyn Camburn

more Arquette
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

In the first batch we have scenes from the beautifully filmed, but amazingly boring Luc Besson movie "Le Grand bleu" aka "The Big Blue" (1988).

The second batch are brief topless scenes from a movie I've never heard of called "Floating Away" (1998).

I'm guessing there are two reasons why I've never heard of this one...