The Box (2003) is a tragic romance/crime thriller. James Russo has just been released after a three year term for sticking up a jewelry store. After a life of crime, he is finally sick of prison. He is given a room in a fleabag hotel and a job in a junkyard. Then we discover that he stashed the jewels with a fence, and is intent on getting his money. Things are still looking rosy when he becomes chummy with the waitress in the local greasy spoon (Theresa Russell), but he is forced the kill the fence, and she has more than a few skeletons of her own. From that point on, the story gets very mean-spirited. Russo plays a stone face with no emotion, but Russell gave a decent performance.

Russell, who is now well over her fighting weight shows most of a breast. Meadow Williams, as a stripper, shows breasts. IMDb readers have this at 4.4 of 10. It premiered at Cannes, but doesn't seem to have had a US release. They succeeded to the extent that I was rooting for Russo and Russell, which made the ending hard to swallow. The atmosphere is consistently dark, making the film reasonably competent. This is a C-.

• Cat Stevens deportation linked to spelling error. They were actually trying to deport Dan Fogelberg, and they got their wimpy singers confused.
• Artists and activists in Nelson, British Columbia, have announced plans for a monument and festival to honor U.S. draft dodgers who fled to Canada.
• The Top 10 Movie Assholes of all time.
• "Through its unique design the SmartKlamp ® provides for full protection of the penis during the circumcision, and gives a cosmetically predictable result."
• Teledildonics - the future of cybersex.
• The Germans give the world Naked German Bartenders. Damn! They've given us so much.
• Dave Barry's book-signing tour goes to Wisconsin, with predictable results.
• Naked Wookies and broken R2-D2s. Tales from making the 'Star Wars' trilogy.
• Autobiography triggers flood of memories for Bob Dylan.
• The trailer for Eulogy: "When three generations of a deliciously dysfunctional family gather to bury the family patriarch, the beloved granddaughter of the deceased is given the task of delivering the eulogy. In the days leading up to the funeral, family secrets are revealed, old grudges resurface and the household erupts with renewed vigor. A wickedly irreverent comedy, Eulogy is ultimately a heartwarming portrait of a houseful of misfits celebrating the strangest and most enduring bond of all. Kate Collins (Zooey Deschanel), struggling through an awkward first year at college, returns home upon the death of her grandfather. At school, Kate might not fit in, but at home, she is quickly surrounded by a disruptive group of people even weirder than she is: her family. First, there's her father, Daniel (Hank Azaria), once child star, now in 'adult' films. Then there's tightly wound Aunt Lucy (Kelly Preston), who has waited till the last minute to announce her wedding to life partner Judy (Famke Janssen); and wildly inappropriate Uncle Skip (Ray Romano) with his obnoxious twin boys. And last but not least, there's uptight and pushy Aunt Alice (Debra Winger), whose brash approach to marriage, motherhood and casseroles is unsettling to all concerned. When her grandmother (Piper Laurie) entrusts her with the task of delivering the eulogy at the funeral, Kate turns to her relatives for help. She quickly comes to realize that her own fond memories of Grandpa Collins (Rip Torn) are not shared by his children, who can only remember a distant father who, when around, could barely keep their names straight. As Kate struggles to find the right words to commemorate the solemn occasion, the rest of the family prepares for the event with its usual unruliness. In between the raucous infighting and the hilarious backbiting, family secrets are revealed and old wounds are "
• A Romanian man says he has decided to sell his penis.
• "A federal judge Friday struck down a 1994 law banning the sale of bootleg recordings of live music, ruling the law unfairly grants 'seemingly perpetual protection' to the original performances. "
• "German tennis legend Graf could not hide her delight after the centre court for the German Open in Berlin was named after her " The picture shows Steffi's famous "unhid delight" look.
• The Magical World of Penis Unicorns.

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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.

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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.

"Total Recall 2070" tv series (1999-2000)
Another Showtime sci-fi series. Only the two part pilot is available on DVD although all 22 episodes are available on bootleg VCD.

• Cynthia Preston (1, 2) breasts in pilot episode, pokies and cleavage in other episodes.
• Carole Mackereth: full frontal in pilot.
• Judith Krant: breasts in sex scene.
• Johanna Black: Deviants actress shows breasts in shower.
• Monika Schnarre: supermodel shows partial breast in sex scene, face not shown.
• Xenia Seeberg: Lexx actress shows nipple pokies.
• Laura Harris: brassiere.
• Nicole Oliver: brassiere, closeup of bust.
• Kristin Booth: fully clothed tantric sex.
• Sarah Lafleur: slight pokies.

Another batch of assorted video clips from the Ghost today. Zipped wmvs as always.

• Jenilee Harrison, the former beauty queen turned Rams cheerleader turned "Three's Company" star turned B-movie actress turned infomercial spokes person. Here she is topless in love scenes from two of her movies. Link #1 is from "Prime Target" (1991) and #2 is from "Fists of Iron" (1995). (1, 2)

• Jessica Paré, the busty young French Canadian actress topless in a scene from "En vacances" aka "Holiday" (2000).

• Kelly Macdonald, the cute, petite Scottish actress bares all 3 B's and gets it on with Obi-Wan in a scene from her first movie, "Trainspotting" (1996).

"Norma Jean and Marilyn"
Well known and often-capped 1996 made-for-HBO movie shows the disturbing side of the life of Marilyn Monroe. In the process of focusing on the bad (drugs, abuse, mental breakdown, etc.), they may have forgotten about the good. No one can argue that she succeeded more on looks than acting talent, of which I personally think she had none, but Marilyn was still a huge star and icon, and this is still a very interesting movie.

The approach of using several actors for different ages of a part is not new (they used 4 for Marilyn), but using Ashley Judd for pre-plastic surgery Marilyn and Mira Sorvino for post-plastic surgery Marilyn was a little different, although the transition was not as seamless as they probably hoped. The movie holds your attention, but the history is pretty shaky in many places.

Not perfect, but this is still an entertaining, worth watching movie. It's been capped a ton, but with the recent release on DVD, look for a new flood. This is my version.

• Ashley Judd
• Mira Sorvino

If that turns you off from the movie, then how about this...It's beautifully filmed and chock full of gorgeous nudity from Ludivine Sagnier and Charlotte Rampling!

• Ludivine Sagnier (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Charlotte Rampling (1, 2, 3)