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"Enemies: A Love Story"
Enemies: A Love Story (1989) is either a character driven drama about Holocaust survivors in post WW II New York, or a character driven comedy about a guy wit three wives. Herman (Ron Silver) is a Polish Jew, who survived the war because their Catholic servant, Yadwige (Margaret Sophie Stein) hid him in a barn. His wife, Tamara (Anjelica Huston) was not as lucky, and was captured. When Herman heard of her execution, he married Tamara and brought her to live in Coney Island out of a sense of obligation. She is a peasant, dotes on him, and reminds him of things he would rather forget, so the passion in his life is from Masha (Lena Olin), another survivor. About the Time Masha starts making noises about a wedding, his first wife appears. Seems the bullets didn't actually kill her, and she sneaked out of the pile of corpses and escaped to Russia. So here is spineless Herman with three wives. Not surprisingly, he is not a happy man. In order to find happiness with any of them, he would have to make a commitment, and he is not capable of that.
Lena Olin provides the nudity in a sex scene that writer/director Paul Mazursky considers the best scene he has ever filmed, because he did the whole thing in one shot, going from fully dressed at one end of the room, to mostly naked in the bed at the other. We get numerous views of Olin's breasts during this scene.
Ebert loved this film at 3 1/2 stars, and it received three Oscar nominations. IMDB readers have it at 6.4 of 10. While performances from all four leads were outstanding, and this would generally be my kind of film, I couldn't really care for any of the characters. Tamara was hardened and didn't really need anyone, Masha was conniving and self-serving, Yadwige was a doting, wining non-entity, and Herman was a spineless wimp. At least Alan King, as a sleazy Rabbi, played a strong person. C.
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"Erótica"
Erótica (1979) was not the soft core I was expecting, but rather a tale about a love triangle from noted Mexican director Emilio Fernández. According to IMDB, he died August 6, 1983, and made or appeared in 116 films, including 5 after his death. His numerous awards include the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1947. This film stars Jorge Rivero, Jaime Moreno, and Rebeca Silva as the woman they both love. At the beginning, the two of them are cracking a safe. When they decide to dynamite it, it attracts security guards, and one of them is shot. The other escapes to a waiting boat, manned by Erotica (Silva). Cut to a year in the future, and the two are living in a remote town on the coast where people don't ask a lot of questions in a small hut outside of town. They earn enough for rum and cigarettes diving for sponges.
On a trip into town to sell sponges, Erotica discovers that their friend didn't die after all, but was in prison, and has escaped. He follows her home, and her husband insists that he live wit them. Bad idea. Where the husband is lazy, drunk, and abusive to Erotica, his pal is good looking, respectful, and defends Erotica. It is only a matter of time until the sparks fly.
As the film opens, we see a topless Erotica walking down the beach, and putting on a transparent peasant top. For the rest of the film, she is either topless, or wearing this see-through top. You have to see this to belive the breast jiggle when she is carrying baskets of sponges over her shoulders into town. The transfer could have been better, it is a 4/3 aspect ration, and the English subtitles are not optional. The good news is that dialogue is kept to a minimum. It is still awaiting 5 votes at IMDB, there are no linked reviews, and the only comment is really about a TV series of the same name. Rebeca Silva's 62 credits include Enemy of the State, Mars Attacks! and El Año de la peste. Even though the film had a moral (read unhappy) ending, I found it more than watchable, mostly due to good performances from the three leads. C+
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Movies
The Cat's Meow is Peter
Bogdanovich's most recent comeback attempt. It is a pretty good flick. I liked
it, but you may not, because it is a recreation of one version of the 1924
scandal involving a dead man on William Randolph Hearst's yacht. It does not
attempt to present a balanced historical overview, or to explore alternatives,
but rather simply to lay out the most common rumor as if it were true. It does
not deny this, in fact goes out if its way to remind you that it's a mere bagatelle. I'm
OK with that, as long as it is entertaining and doesn't pretend to be more that
it is. The reason I said you may not like it is that you may have no interest
in the recreation of a Hollywood scandal that happened 77 years ago, in which
the names are unfamiliar or barely familiar to you. (I'm old enough to remember
Charlie Chaplin and Louella Parsons, who lived to be 88 and 91 respectively, and I know just enough about the era to be familiar with most of the other characters, so it meant more to me than it
might to you.)
- Claudia Harrison - sorta topless, but almost no exposure.
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- Kirsten Dunst - it's a face shot. I just thought it was a really cool
picture of "Kiki".
Here's a bonus! I found one more picture of Debra Winger's naughty bits in The Sheltering Sky
Other crap
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 Lawdog or
Junior or C2000 or Realist or ICMS or Mick Locke, or somebody else besides me)
- If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.
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- Kate Winslet, showing breasts, bum and bush in scenes from "Iris" (2001)
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, full frontal nudity in the Paul Verhoeven movie, "Flesh & Blood" (1985).
Be sure to pay Graphic Response a visit at his website. www.graphic-barry.com.
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A few non-nudes scans...
- Emma Bunton (the Spice girl formerly known as Baby)
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- Julia Maria, breast peak in #1, thong view in #2, exposed breast in #3.
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- Kylie Bax, the Kiwi model/actress looking great in bikini poses.
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- Laura Prepon, the busty, young star of "That 70's Show".
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'Caps and comments by The Rawhide Kid:
Scoop
I did some creative altering with a Jennifer Anniston shot. The original B&W shot is one we see a lot of female celebs do... the ol 'knees up naked but not showing anything' pose.
I've often wondered, being the little pervert I am, if by altering the photo, you could see if there was anything there to see. These were reasonably successful.
You can see in the reverse image that there appears to be something there between her legs. In the really light positive shot, it begins to be more noticeable and in the medium positive, there it is! No one could doubt, seeing that, that Jennifer was indeed sitting there naked.
What do you and the rest of the cappers think?
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| Britney Spears |
Another high quality paparazzi pic of her barely covering her breasts while wondering around Venice Beach.
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Playing the mega-evil, and super cleavage showing villian in "Saving Silverman", by C2000.
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| The Funnies
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30 THINGS A WOMAN PROBABLY WON'T SAY:
1. You know, I've been complaining a lot lately. I don't blame you for ignoring me.
2. The new girl in my office is a real beauty, and a stripper too, I invited her over for dinner on Friday.
3. While you were in the bathroom, they went for it on fourth down and missed. If they can hold them to a field goal they'll still cover.
4. Bar food again! Kick ass.
5. I liked that wedding even more than ours. Your ex-girlfriend has class.
6. That girl is wearing the same outfit as I am. Cool, I'm gonna go over and talk to her.
7. Let's just leave the toilet seat "up" at all times, then you don't have to mess with it anymore.
8. I've decided to buy myself a boob job. How big do you want 'em?
9. It's only the third quarter, you should order a couple more pitchers.
10. Honey, come here! Watch me do a Tequila Shot off of Stephanie's bare a*s.
11. My mother is going to take care of the tab, so order another round for you and your friends.
12. I'm so happy with my new hairstyle, I don't think I'll ever change it again.
13. Man! I love when my pillow smells like your cigars and beer.
14. You are so much smarter than my father.
15. If we're not going to have sex, then you have to let me watch football.
16. Are you sure you've had enough to drink?
17. I've decided to stop wearing clothes around the house.
18. You're so sexy when you're hung over.
19. I'd rather watch football and drink beer with you than go shopping.
20. Let's subscribe to Hustler.
21. I'll be out painting the house.
22. I love it when you ride your Harley, I just wish you had more time to ride.
23. Honey, our new neighbor's daughter is sunbathing again, come see!
24. No, No, I'll take the car to have the oil changed.
25. Your mother is way better than mine.
26. Do me a favor, forget the stupid Valentine's Day thing and buy yourself something.
27. Listen, I make enough money for the both of us, why don't you retire.
28. You need your sleep ya big silly, now stop getting up for the night feedings.
29. Look! My Butt is fatter than yours!
30. Let's get rid of my friends and keep all of yours
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