Sex & the Other Woman (1980) is a British sex farce in four vignettes. Tonight, we have the second half. For continuity sake, here are the first two. Not the name change from Peggyann Clifford to Gillian Brown. I goofed the ID last night, and the corrected images are in the Tuna archive.

The subject is cheating husbands. In the first, a new husband of eight months starts a new accounting job, and immediately becomes an object of attention to the office femme fatale, who has a thing for young married men. She almost has it off with him in the lift, and finally tricks him into an office after hours. They dress hurriedly when the cleaning woman arrives. Things get dicey when his wife discovers her knickers in his jacket pocket. Gillian Brown as the wife shows breasts. Jane Cardu as the other woman shows everything, including a rather nice pair of natural breasts.

In the second installment, Maggie Wright is searching for a rich sugar daddy. She finally finds the man of her dreams, but with one small problem. He is married. The two are ultimately discovered by the wife, who divorces him. They don't live happily ever after though, as the money all belonged to the wife. Wright shows everything.

In the third segment, a school girl brings her best friend home for mid-term break. The friend is stunning Felicity Devonshire, who immediately gets the hots for daddy. Like any other woman, she gets what she wants. She has him paint a nude of her, and seduces him. She comes back for summer holiday, and they take off where they left off. Things get tense when the daughter catches on. Devonshire shows everything, including a bit of pink in a rear shot.

Installment four has a husband seeing a widow in the neighborhood, Louise Pajo. A neighborhood gossip finks to his wife, Barbara Meale. The two women end up sharing him, and the three live together. Pajo shows everything, and Meale shows breasts in a half cup bra, panties and garters.

Sex farce doesn't get much better than this. Lots of nudity and simulated sex, four short episodes so none get boring or tedious, and everything is somewhat tongue in cheek. This is a C+.

• Charlie's French Cinema Nudity Site is updated

Naked in New York (1993)

Here's your cultural aptitude quiz for the day.

"Life is Beautiful" is to Robin Williams

as "Naked in New York" is to .....?

The answer is Woody Allen. Just as "Life is Beautiful" is a Robin Williams movie that doesn't actually star or have anything to do with Robin Williams, "Naked in New York" is a Woody Allen movie that actually has nothing at all to do with Woody Allen.

Check out this summary:

A neurotic, sexually clumsy, easily embarrassed, red-headed, Jewish New York writer (Eric Stoltz) has some raw writing talent, but not the social skills or appearance to market himself. He also tries to work out a relationship with a cute protestant girl (Mary-Louise Parker) whose lecherous boss, competing for her favors, is as suave and unbearably handsome as James Bond. (It is, in fact, Timothy Dalton).

The narrator tells the story in flashback while looking directly at the camera and talking to the audience. Throughout the movie, he has conversations with imaginary characters in his past or elsewhere.

Woody Allen once quipped that he failed a college philosophy exam when he looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to him. I presume that boy was the author of this script, who returned the favor by looking into Woody's soul to write this film.

Martin Scorsese produced this film, which is fundamentally a pleasant and sometimes insightful story about likeable people. The secondary cast is outstanding. Kathleen Turner, Roscoe Lee Jones, Tony Curtis, Ralph Macchio, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jill Clayburgh fill out the dramatis personae, and various New York celebrities (Arthur Penn, William Styron, e.g) make cameo appearances to provide authentic Big Apple flavor.

As Woody Allen movies go, it is a pretty good one, but certainly not a great one, and I was having reservations about typing "pretty good" in the previous sentence because, although I liked most of the film, I was frustrated when it limped off into an indecisive ending.

• Mary-Louise Parker (1, 2). She's not a beautiful woman, and sometimes photographs poorly, and yet there is something singular about her - something closed, and distrustful, and vulnerable, that makes her very human and sexy in her unique way.

The Last Great Wilderness (2002)

This low budget, independent Brit-flick is a genuinely odd film.

Two men meet at a highway rest stop. One man has a car, the other needs a ride. The garrulous, persuasive would-be hitchhiker is unable to persuade the dour driver to give him a life, but fate intervenes. The driver is assaulted in the parking lot by a stranger, and the hitchhiker saves him, thrashing the stranger thoroughly in the process. Feeling obligated, but still guarded and suspicious, the driver invites his rescuer along as a passenger, finally dropping him off at an airport. Things go badly for the passenger at the airport, he has to flee some armed thugs on foot, and the driver ends up saving his life. The two men, having now saved each other's lives, begin to bond. It turns out that each of them is the thing the other despises most.

The driver finally reveals that he is on his way to the Isle of Skye to burn down the house of his wife and her new lover. The passenger is a man who specializes in providing sexual satisfaction to unsatisfied married women. The two men realize that under slightly different circumstances they would be trying to kill one another instead of saving each other's lives.

That was a fairly promising start for a movie. Unfortunately, that movie never appeared. The Last Great Wilderness is a completely different movie. The two men ride along together until their car breaks down in some desolate section of Scotland, where they are forced to take refuge at a tint countryside inn. Not long after they arrive, it becomes apparent that the people who live and work in the inn are harboring great secrets that they must shelter from the outside world. Our two protagonists spot the locals engaged in behavior which they can only interpret as cult rituals of some kind. What have they gotten themselves into?

That also was a fairly promising premise for a movie. Are the locals engaged in some creepy pagan rites, ala The Wicker Man? Are the harboring some awful, murderous secret, ala The Lottery? Unfortunately, that movie never appeared either.

The Last Great Wilderness is not the forgotten Scottish countryside, but the human heart, and this movie finally emerged not as either of the films it promised to be, but as a completely different movie about unorthodox psychological therapy. There was one scene in which it delivered upon the horror/slasher movie promise it seemed to be making about halfway into the film, but in general it emerged as ... well ... just a very eccentric and personal film far from the mainstream. In the end of the film, the focus of the script returned to the very first idea it introduced - the driver intent on killing his wife and her lover  - and brought that back full circle until the driver found a measure of peace.

As I said, it's an odd movie, and you'll probably never figure out where it is going at any time ...

 ... which is good in a way.

That's what independent film is all about, I suppose - airing new concepts and indulging in personal experiments.

Exceptionally quirky films always produce mixed responses, and this case was no exception. The British reviewers called it anything from a mini-masterpiece to a woeful waste of time. The Daily Telegraph liked it, but The Mail savaged it, and the Observer called it ... "[a] risible Scottish fiasco, an addled cross between two cult movies, also set in the wilder parts of Britain - The Wicker Man and Polanski's Cul-de-Sac"

The Observer's comments were fairly accurate, although I believe their evaluation was too harsh. At first, the film seemed to be a cross between The Blair Witch Project (digital hand-held look, sense of undefined mystery in the remote countryside) and The Wicker Man (strange, possibly murderous pagan behavior from seemingly benign sources), but when all was said and done, The Last Great Wilderness just meandered off in its own quirky directions, again and again. I didn't much enjoy the film, and I can't even figure out why these guys made such a movie, but I look forward to much better movies from the two brothers who wrote, directed and starred. They have talent, and they did a lot here with a micro budget.

• Victoria Smurfit (1, 2, 3). Perhaps you remember her famous father, Papa Smurfit. Vicki doesn't do that much nudity, but she should. She's a great looker with a very sexy figure. And, lor' almighty has she got a great rack (check out collage #1)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

NOTE: because of a unique combination of circumstances with the Windows media player and some substantial bandwidth theft, we will have to do all of our movie files in zip format. Left click on the files as you normally would to view a picture. When you get a choice, click on "save", and put it on your hard drive in the directory of your choice. UnZIP and play from there.

I know this is not especially convenient, but it allows the film clips to continue. I can protect .zip files from hot-linking in the same way I can protect still images. For some reason, if I protect .avis and .wmvs from hot-linking, they will not play in the Windows media player, and I can't get a satisfactory work-around. Perhaps I will find a better solution, but for now this new policy allows you to continue getting the movie clips you want to see, which is much preferable to my abandoning the clips altogether.

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:

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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.

Today the Ghost takes a look at "The Haunting of Morella". A 1990 low budget movie adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe short story by Legendary B-movie director Jim Wynorski....so you know that T&A are much more important to the film than anything Poe ever put on paper.

• Deborah Dutch aka Debra Dare. A babe of the "scream queen" varitey showing breasts and bum in a preparing to, then bathing scene. (1, 2)
• Deborah Dutch zipped .wmvs (1, 2)

• Gail Harris, the former Page 3 girl turned actress/producer/publisher shows breasts n' bum while getting out of bed. (1, 2)
• Gail Harris zipped .wmv

• Lana Clarkson...the tall, blonde B-beauty who was 'found dead' at Phil Spector's home back in February 2003. Here she is baring her big'uns in a couple of scenes. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Lana Clarkson zipped .wmvs. Both of these feature her topless in the tub scene. (1, 2)

• Maria Ford, the former Vegas showgirl and long time B-movie veteran going topless. (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Lana Clarkson and Maria Ford in a mild lesbo scene.
• Lana Clarkson and Maria Ford zipped .wmvs (1, 2, 3)

• Heather Graham making a cleavage-filled guest appearance on the NBC comedy "Scrubs".

• Kristy Swanson and a seriously robo-hootered unknown guest star on "CSI Miami" (episode: "Complications"). Swanson shows a little cleavage while the unknown babe bounces around wearing undies only.

• Megan Fox, the 18 year old brunette looking fantastic while washing windows (#1) and wearing a bikini in scenes from an episode of Charlie Sheen's sit-com, "Two and a Half Men". (1, 2, 3, 4)

• "Legally Blonde" star Reese Witherspoon, showing up on Tuesday night's Leno without being blonde or wearing pink clothes.

• Tyra Banks doing her best to sell Victoria's Secret bras. (1, 2)

Kari Lizer

Julie Payne

Betsy Russell
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Brinke Stevens
(1, 2)

Lynda Wiesmeier
(1, 2)

Phoebe Cates, partial bum views.

Kari Lizer and Julie Payne...each has a breast pop out of their cheerleader uniform.

Busty 80's favorite Betsy Russell shows all 3 B's (pubes visible in #4).

Brinke Stevens...A B-movie babe who has had a heck of a career. Almost 90 movies so far and she's been working non-stop for over 20 years!

Lynda Wiesmeier...the former Heffer (July 1982) baring all.

POSSIBLE SPACE ALIEN SIGNAL DETECTED
Mars Has Howard Stern! - Astronomers at the huge radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, think there's a chance they might have picked up the first radio signal from extra-terrestrials. It's just a faint, oscillating frequency, from a point in the sky where there's no known planetary system, and they've only been able to pick it up for about a minute total. It could be a telescope problem or a natural phenomenon, like a spinning star; but in decades of searching for ET radio signals, this is the best possibility they've found.