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TV Round-Up
The August 3rd edition of Naked
News had some
unusual segments:
Four
of the anchors did a
"Versus" segment on a
mechanical bull.
Whitney
St John ran along a
beach naked.
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* Yellow
asterisk:
funny (maybe).
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White
asterisk:
expanded
format.
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* Blue
asterisk: not
mine.
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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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Ocho
Apellidos Vascos
(2014)
Ocho
Apellidos Vascos is a
comedy where Rafa (Dani
Rovira) meets Amaia (Clara
Lago) during a flamenco
dance night where they
argue, then later begin a
one night stand before she
falls asleep. The morning
after, she disappears but
leaves behind her bag.
Rafa wants to give her bag
back but she lives in
Basque territory and he
has never been out of
Seville. And Andalusian
and Basque people hate
each other. But, Rafa is
determined to give back
her bag and takes the bus
to her town, but she
barely remembers him from
the night before.
Meanwhile, Amaia
frequently absent father
Koldo (Karra Elejalde)
arrives back from his
latest fishing trip and
Amaia is desperate to
impress him, saying that
she is engaged to a man
who just happens to be now
an ex-boyfriend and her
father wants to meet him.
Amaia desperately
convinces Rafa to be her
ex-boyfriend, a Basque
man, to which he agrees
reluctantly, but of course
he doesn't live in the
town and in an attempt to
convince her father that
he lives in the town, he
breaks into a house, which
turns out to be the home
of Merche (Carmen Machi),
a woman he met on the bus
into the town and who more
than willingly agrees to
go along with the ruse.
Over time Rafa and Amaia
get closer to one another
and so do Koldo and
Merche, but how long can
they carry on this ruse
before Koldo discovers the
truth.
Ah, the old mistaken
identity meets fish out of
water plot, never gets
old. Personally, I have no
idea about the tensions
between the Andalusian and
Basque people, so that
tension in the story I
just didn't understand at
all, but the rest is all
pretty universal. The film
is OK, but really is just
going over old ground and
is probably best watched
if you are Spanish, just
as The Castle is best
watched if you are
Australian.
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