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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
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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Eyes of a Stranger
(1981)
As
the film opens, a nature photographer finds a topless woman's corpse
in the water in a mangrove swamp. News reporter Lauren Tewes seems
more upset when reporting the death than you would expect. We soon
learn why. Her baby sister was once abducted, beaten and molested, and
she blamed herself. The sister, Jennifer Jason Leigh, has grown into
a lovely young woman who lives with her, but is blind, deaf and dumb
as a result of her trauma. Lauren has sworn that nothing will ever
happen to her again.
As the killing spree continues, Lauren becomes convinced that the
killer is a man who lives in the same high-rise complex she does,
but in a tower opposite her. She takes it upon herself to
investigate, breaking into his apartment, gathering evidence, and
then harassing him by phone the same way he has harassed his
victims. Her relationship with her sister has kept her and her
boyfriend from moving in together, and he also proves
reluctant to help her prove her neighbor is guilty. You are probably
way ahead of me, and realize that the big finale will involve the
guy, Lauren Tewes and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
IMDb readers have this at 4.7, but there are positives.
Eyes of a Stranger meets all genre requirement for strangler
thrillers, offers the first screen nudity from Jennifer Jason Leigh
(her only exposure before Fast Times), and gives us a chance to see
Julie from The Love Boat in a meatier role. Even deducting for the
film's predictability, that still adds up to a C- on our scale.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, in her first credited role, shows her right
breast in two scenes. Gwen Lewis, as an early victim, shows
breasts, as does Stella Rivera and two unknowns.
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Notes and collages
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Nowhere to Run
Nowhere to run
Sam (Jean-Claude Van Damme), is an escaped convict who takes refuge on the land of a pretty, debt-stricken widow named Clydie (Rosanna Arquette). Clydie's son, Mookie (Kieran Culkin), discovers Sam, and the two begin a tentative friendship. Meanwhile, a land developer (Joss Ackland) and his henchman (Ted Levine) plot to drive Clydie off her land so they can use it as part of their new project. When their magnanimous offers to buy are met with icy resistance, they resort to terror, but Sam's presence creates some unexpected complications.
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Here's some very brief exposure from
Virginia Madsen in Slam
Dance.
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Before she got a role on Babylon-5, Mira Furlan did some excellent full
frontal nudity in Yugoslavian films. Here she is in
Kiklop and
Pismo Glava, which is not
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Here are the women of
Confessions of a Driving Instructor. (Eight vids zipped together.) If
you are not familiar with this series, Tuna wrote extensively about the
Confessions films in his review of
Confessions
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Weeds, Season 3, Episode 7
I've said in the past that I'm not all that nuts about most comedy
shows, but Showtime's series Weeds, which began in 2005, is flat
brilliant, and also hilarious.
Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) is a suburban mother of two sons, who
must deal with her husband's unexpected death, and the financial distress
that follows.
Nancy decides she has only one choice: to become the neighborhood pot
dealer. With the help of her shiftless brother Andy, she becomes very
successful, but of course, success breeds problems, and they come fast and
furiously, and every problem is a blessing for us, because this thing is
very, very funny.
Only a few episodes contain nudity, but this one, Season 3, Episode 7,
which first aired on 9/24/2007, has some nice full frontal from two
real-life porn actresses, plus a nice flash of pubic fuzz from
Mary-Louise.
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Jessica Jaymes and
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The Comedy Wire
Two teenagers in Des Moines, Iowa, were arrested for attempting to burglarize a
liquor store very incompetently. First, a woman saw them on the roof and
ordered them to get off or she'd call the police. They jumped down, and one
looked right into the security camera. Then, they allegedly came back and tried
to cut a hole through the roof. But they forgot to take into account the
overhang and spent a lot of time and effort drilling a hole that came out above
the sidewalk outside the liquor store.
* When dumb teenagers try to loot a liquor store, they
never consider the hangover.
Two Kingsport, Tennessee, men were arrested after they allegedly broke a window
at a Walgreen's pharmacy, attached a logging chain to an ATM and tried to drag
it away. One problem: their old Honda Accord didn't have enough power, and the
ATM didn't budge.
* Ironically, they were trying to steal enough money to
make a down payment on a Hummer.
The Art Newspaper reports on growing concerns about the integrity of some modern
art pieces. Damien Hirst's Turner Prize-winning "Mother and Child Divided" - a
cow and calf sliced in half and preserved - was found to be leaking dangerous
formaldehyde onto the floor of the Oslo gallery that houses it. All four glass
cases that hold cow parts will have to be checked and repaired at great expense.
Experts say the use of unconventional materials by modern artists has prompted
galleries around the world to launch studies of how they can preserve these
works for future generations.
* If only future generations could speak to us, so they
could say, "Seriously, dude, don't bother."
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