Betty Blue (1986) is a classic French bit of erotic drama. At over three hours, it is rather short on plot, but long on nudity, both male and female. Jean-Hugues Anglade has pretty much withdrawn from life, and works as a handyman for the landlord in a beach shack when he meets Béatrice Dalle. She is sexy, passionate and beautiful, but not quite sane. Of course, he is too busy getting laid to notice at first. When she sets fire to their beach shack, he starts to get an inkling, but loves her, and the good times make her strangeness worth it.

He has written a novel, but never even attempted to submit it to publishers. She types it from his hand-written notebooks, and sends it off. Things get serious when she assaults a publisher who sent a particularly rude rejection, and things get steadily worse from then on. Both Anglade and Dalle are nude through a great deal of the film, beginning with a very hot sex scene at the start of the film. They both have lengthy full frontal in good light. As a matter of fact, the light is not only good, it is beautiful.

The film did very well in France, but not nearly as well here, but then the US version was heavily cut, and, frankly, the sex and nudity are a large part of the appeal of this film. It is now available on a Region 1 DVD in the Uncut version, both dubbed, and in the original French with optional subtitles. This is a C+. It is very well done, but will be a very long watch for people who need a lot of plot and pace.

• Some new stills from Revenge of the Sith
• Four free short sample videos from Playboy Plus!  
• Playmate Gallery - Natalia Sokolova - Miss April 1999 - Courtesy of PlayboyPlus.com!
• MARTHA SERVING - Martha's blog from inside the slammer.
• The Stripper-FAQ, How to become an Exotic Dancer
• The ghost of Mr Rogers is terrorizing children. While alive, Mr. Rogers, the amiable, mildmannered children's TV show host, educated and entertained kids for decades, and called them all "neighbor." But now that he's dead, his ghost is scaring the bejeezus out of them!
• Borowitz: ELECTION CANCELLED; FOCUS GROUP IN OHIO TO PICK PRESIDENT. Bush, Kerry Tailor Messages to Nine Voters"
• The trailer for an indie thriller called Black: "Jessie McNiel is a young man, who is at a crossroads in his life. The life he has, is one of backstabs, broken hearts, and unhappiness. The life he wants, will light a flame inside him that has been burning deep inside his entire life. It will take the wits, words, and body of a girl named Alicia. She will bring him into a new world that compliments Jessie's dark heart. With the evil mastermind, Eli, pulling the strings to the whole process, Jessie McNiel will slip deeper into a world of death, hatred, and despair."
• The trailer for the documentary, Fade to Black: "'Fade to Black' chronicles the rapper Jay-Z's farewell performance as a solo artist at Madison Square Garden in November of 2003. Jay-Z narrates the film, which takes viewers backstage during the concert and offers fans a chance to look at how the rapper's last album was creatively conceived. The film features Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, R. Kelly, Foxy Brown, ?uestlove, and Pharrell Williams."
• The rise of 'Two and a Half Men'.  Sitcoms may be suffering, but this CBS show is riding high.
• Bill O'Reilly on The Daily Show
• I have to admit that Japan is WAY too hip for me. Their latest tongue in cheek presentation: The Fighting Perverts
• Paris Hilton in a THIRD sex tape. (Second story) "The first sequence focuses on Paris pleasuring herself on a hotel chair. She hitches her skirt up around her waist to reveal to the camera that she is not wearing panties before the action begins. The second scene switches to a girl-on-girl romp—naked Paris captured in a steamy clinch with the daughter of a world-famous pop star. The two women are enthusiastically fondling each other, using sex toys to turn themselves on. In the final part Paris romps naked with two men. As one is making love to her she performs a sex act on the other."
• The current Rasmussen Poll shows President Bush leading by three and a half points.
• "In the annals of movies featuring SNL alum, Taxi makes One Night at the Roxbury look like Casablanca."
• Vagiseal - stop your urges!  
• Man proves he can fly with a jet-pack system.
• No nude scenes for me, screams Paris Hilton! : "Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, famous for her amateur porn videos, has ruled out doing nude scenes in the movies even though film directors are expecting her to do so. "No way, I would never strip for a movie. I would never do anything like that. I have studied acting for years"
• Kerry Opens Three-Point Lead on Bush (Reuters/Zogby Poll)
• John Gotti 1965 "Rookie Card" Discovered - the first-ever mug shot for the future Teflon Don. Ya gotta see the hair!
• JAMIE FOXX NUDE PHOTOS FOUND!
• A country in serious trouble. In 1991, on the day the Soviet Union was dissolved, Russia's population stood at a hundred and forty-nine million. By 2050, realistic predictions suggest that the number will be closer to seventy-five or eighty million. And none of these figures allow for the impact of AIDS.
  • An old story. Reagan and Gorbachev meet with God, and the Lord decides to reward them for ending the cold war. He agrees to answer any question truthfully. Reagan asks, "Lord, when will America have another Golden Age?". The Lord begins to weep. Reagan says, "tell me Lord, that you do not weep for America, for I believe in my country." The Lord says, "No, I weep for you, Gipper, for it will not happen in your lifetime." Gorbachev can't resist asking the same question, and The Lord bursts into sobs. Gorby says, "Lord, do not weep for me, for I am old and Russia is troubled, and I do not expect to see it in my lifetime." God answers, "I do not weep for you, Mikhail. I weep for myself, for it will not happen in MY lifetime."
• Sam Raimi shocked press this weekend when he said that Columbia Pictures intends for Spider-Man 3 to be the final film in the series. Apparently, this stems from Columbia's decision to become a not-for-profit entity in the future. Frankly, it sounds to me like either Sam or the Columbia exec are tetched in the haid! Why would they cut short one of the most profitable franchises in history?
• X-Entertainment's Halloween Season: Remembering the Hallmark Halloween ad
• Nicki Hilton struts her own stuff in your own Stuff.
• Carolina Panther returns an interception 101 yards - and does not score.
• Bill Shatner hoaxes an entire town full of rubes. He's not a man. He's a GOD!!
• At the ripe old age of 58, Susan Sarandon is still being pursued to pose for Playboy.
• Former major leaguer Ken Caminiti dies of a heart attack.
  • He was damned young - Caminiti began his major league career the year AFTER Barry Bonds. The article is inaccurate, by the way. Caminiti was MVP in 1996, not 1986. He had not yet made his major league debut in 1986.
  • Caminiti was a good player, a three-time All Star, but his MVP season was something of a career fluke. He slugged .621 that year; his second best was .509. He hit 40 homers that year, but never reached 30 in any other year. He drove in 130 runs that year, but never reached 100 in any other year. He finished first in the MVP balloting that year, but never finished in the top ten in any other year.
• JoBlo.com interviews Melissa George about remaking The Amityville Horror.
• Court TV's Crime Library: crime stories on serial killers, the mafia, terrorists, spies, assassins and gangsters
• In a City Full of Beautiful People, Dangerfield Could Stop Traffic. A surprisingly beautiful eulogy for Rodney - written by (wait for it) ... Rosanne Barr!!!
• Team America: World Police - Do Not Take Your Kids to See Those Cute Puppets! Trivia: this is first movie with an all-wooden cast since Jersey Girl. In fact, the rumor mill says Trey and Matt originally planned to use a Ben Affleck puppet, but replaced him with his buddy Matt Damon, because the Affleck puppet was more lifelike than the REAL Affleck.
• Superman dead. Luthor sought for questioning. US actor Christopher Reeve, who brought comic book hero Superman to the silver screen, then championed the disabled after an equestrian accident in 1995 left him paralyzed, has died of severe Kryptonite poisoning. He was 52.
• High Ill Hitler! Amphetamines were invented in Germany in 1936. Hitler immediately flipped for them. He did more than Elvis. He came down with Opiates (which had been around for much longer). He had his own Dr Nick. Basically, his massive drug addiction was (as much as anything else) the reason for Hitler’s insanity and, by extension, WW2.

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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:

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.

Today the Ghost takes a look at the 1995 direct-to-vid flick "Body Language", starring Tom Berenger, Nancy Travis and Robert Patrick.

Both ladies show breasts and thong views as "brass pole enthusiasts". Schanz also has a love scene or two and gives up some additional toplessness and rear nudity.

• Heidi Schanz (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
• Heidi Schanz zipped .wmvs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

• Mim Parker (1, 2, 3)
• Mim Parker zipped .wmv

"Sex Traffic" (miniseries)
CBC drama miniseries about two Eastern European sisters lured into a white slavery ring where they're subjected to forced baths by a lesbian and stripped naked for white slavery auctions. Nothing new here. Czechploitation director Lloyd Simandl has been making such movies for the last ten years. Despite the nudity and graphic rape scenes this was only rated PG as all the naughty words were bleeped out.

• Wendy Crewson: cleavage only.
• Anamaria Marince (aka Marinca or Marcinca): boobs and butt.
• Maria Popistasu: boobs and bush.
• Dolly Wells: tight t-shirt.
• stripper: obligatory topless.
• auction: more topless but dark.

Paradise Falls season 2, week 4
No female nudity this week but the Admiral did show his dork.

• Raven Dauda: sexy in underwear, fully clothed sex with Admiral.
• Preview: more lesbian action by Danielle Hampton and Michelle Latimer for next week.

-The Gimp

PLAYBOY STILL COURTING SARANDON
Show Us "Thelma And Louise!" Susan Sarandon told "Access Hollywood" that Playboy has been trying to get her to pose nude for years, and still is now that she's 58. But she said her sons are just getting to the age where they look at Playboy, so they'd kill her if she did it.