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Thanks to the experts who filled me in on Emilie DeRaven and the alleged Marilyn Monroe stag tape. The MM answer has been consolidated from several responses.

re: Emilie: A pic from this set first appeared in FHM a few years back and then in a Girls of FHM special. Subsequently other shots from the shoot (like the one from yesterday's Fun House) have turned up.

re: Marilyn: A film in the 1950s called The Apple Knockers and the Coke was purported to feature Marilyn Monroe, but is now recognized to star Playboy model (08/54 POM) Arline Hunter"  (Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_sex_tape.)   The movie short can be found, among other places, on the DVD called "The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield," which is widely available for less than 15 bucks. 

Some more great film clips:

Three clips from Basic Instinct 2. In the first clip, Morrissey peeks in on an orgy and watches Sharon Stone get it on. In the second, they have sex, spiced by asphyxiation. In the third, they get violent and nasty in the hot tub. There will be many more clips from this film when the DVD streets on July 11th.

Breaking the Waves can never be accused of mediocrity. Everything about it is either exceedingly good or pathetically bad. (Movie House Review). The best thing about it was a very brilliant and very naked performance by Emily Watson, who was nominated for both an Oscar and a BAFTA. She lost both, although I would have voted for her. Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies) won the BAFTA and Frances McDormand (Fargo) won the Oscar. I wondered if she would become one of the great actresses, but I was off-target. Although she's gone on to a quietly competent career in general, Watson has never again given a performance of comparable depth. This zipped .avi shows her full-frontal nudity.

Lea Thompson and Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves.  (Movie House Review). The early 80s were the Golden Age of coming-of-age movies. Cruise, Cusack, and Broderick established their careers by excelling in that genre in that time. Cruise had four such films in 1983 alone! All the Right Moves, Risky Business, Losin' It and The Outsiders. 1983 was his year. In 1982 he had been an unknown. Lea Thompson didn't become a superstar, but she won our hearts and showed off a magnificent body in this zipped .avi

Evil Breed: the Legend of Samhain includes about an hour of boring set-up followed by some crazy nudity and gore. This is one where you have to read the review, because the movie has a fascinating back-story. (Movie House Review) This zipped .avi shows porn star Jenna Jameson being torn apart by a homicidal monster. Important note: the British and American DVDs include only the tame R-Rated version, which the director hates. The unrated version, with the uncut scenes and deleted scenes, is only available in Canada! (Link here)

 

Day of Wrath (2005)

Very minor spoilers:

Day of Wrath is very much targeted at those who enjoyed The Name of the Rose. Like its more famous predecessor, Day of Wrath is a story about a rational man trying to solve some murders in an unenlightened pre-modern world controlled by religious superstition, and filled with corruption within the ranks of both church and state officials. Like The Name of the Rose, Day of Wrath also deals with a legendary missing historical artifact. This time it is not "Aristotle's Comedics," but a mysterious list of noble Spanish families. A 16th century sheriff investigates the lineage of the great Spanish families and finds that there are two versions of history. Some of the official books of genealogy include family names which are not in other versions. The sheriff then comes into possession of a mysterious list which includes the same exact families which comprise the difference between the two versions of history. What does all that have to do with his murder case? Well, the mysterious list is also a perfect match for the roster of murder victims.

Most movies with complex historical backdrops are more interesting if you know the background in advance, so I usually summarize the pertinent historical context in my comments, but I am not going to do that in this case because anything I tell you would be at least a partial spoiler. The story works best if you don't know very much about the details of the Spanish Inquisition and the historical circumstances which caused the Inquisition to be created in the first place. Furthermore, the film eventually gives you all the details which I might describe here, but presents them in a sequence designed to allow you to maximize your enjoyment of the mystery.

The sheriff is played by Christopher Lambert, who has not had such a meaty role in about two decades. If you are familiar with his work, I don't have to tell you that Lambert has a very limited number of facial expressions, that his voice is not sonorous, or that he delivers most of his lines in an uninflected monotone with some kind of indefinable accent. Moreover, he is nearly 50 years old, and that's not a great age to be engaging in rollicking swordsmanship and strenuous horseback riding - including some fights between men on horseback. In spite of all those things, he handles the role with satisfactory professionalism. He doesn't have the swaggering macho charisma of Sean Connery or the creative and sophisticated line readings of Kenneth Branagh, and his age prevents him from being Doug Fairbanks in the action scenes, but Lambert realized that this was a good project for him, and he gave his all to this movie. Nobody can accuse him of phoning it in. He has the right "period look," and I believe he gives about as good a performance as he is capable of giving, and he seems to have done almost all of his own stunts. Lambert does look somewhat clumsy in the physical scenes from time to time, but the sheriff is supposed to be a heavy drinker, so his lack of grace fits right into the character.

You won't find that this film has the sophistication of The Name of the Rose, which was directed by the highly accomplished Jean-Jacques Annaud from an exceedingly complex novel by the brilliant Umberto Eco. In comparison to that minor masterpiece, Day of Wrath has some clumsy continuity problems, does not delve into the historical nuances, does not give off much of the feel of Spanish culture, and seems to reveal some of its secrets too early, but it's still well worth a watch, because it has some real positives:

• It has several interesting characters, including a fascinating Hungarian mercenary.
• It has some impressive-looking Gothic locations, and I especially liked the look and feel of the interiors. The libraries, churches, and houses were obviously created from period paintings. (The entire film, including the studio shots, was filmed in Budapest, and it was made with a substantial budget, reportedly $12 million.)
• There is some nice nudity.
• Above all, the mystery is both interesting and educational.

I can't believe I'm writing this about a Lambert movie, but this is one of the best non-theatrical movies I have seen recently.

 

Blanca Marsillach   (I'm pretty sure that the butt shot is a body double.)

Hajnalka Pandi (maybe)

Other Crap:

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Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe). White asterisk: expanded format. Blue asterisk: not mine. No asterisk: it probably sucks.

Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at Palm Beach, Florida, International Airport because he had a bottle of Viagra without a prescription.  He was finally released without being charged, but the sheriff plans to refer it to state authorities, who say it could be a second-degree misdemeanor.  Limbaugh's attorney said he has a prescription for the Viagra, which is for his personal use, but the doctor didn't put his name on the label for the sake of privacy.

*  They confiscated his Viagra and let him go. That's two reasons why he won't have to do hard time. 


As part of a public toilet cleanup campaign, Singapore wants to improve their toilet cleaners' "low morale and low skills."  To turn them into proud professionals, they are importing Japanese experts in toilet technology to teach a three-day course. Graduates will earn the title of "restroom specialist."

*  It's hard earning a degree in bathroom studies.  You have to do a lot of
reading.  Mostly magazines.

*  If I wanted to go to school just so I could end up cleaning toilets, I'd
get a liberal arts degree.



Many Catholics questioned how divorcee Nicole Kidman was able to marry Keith Urban in a Catholic Church.  The BBC reports that Kidman was advised by church officials that she didn't need an annulment because her first marriage was in the Church of Scientology.  Since the Vatican doesn't
recognize that as a religion, in their eyes, her 10-year marriage to Tom
Cruise was a sham.


*  Proof that the Catholic Church is definitely right about at least one
thing.
 
 
Moose, the Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie on "Frasier," has died at 16-1/2, or 115 in dog years.  Like many stars, he had a shady past: his trainer Mathilde Halberg was called as a last resort after he kept running away and chewing up things, and he was sent to the pound's death row for killing a neighbor's cat. . 

*  Pretty much the same backstory as Alec Baldwin.