Passion of the Priest (1998) is the UK film Monk Dawson, now available in the US under the new title. It is a strange mix of coming of age/buddy film and soap opera. As the film opens, Benedict Taylor arrives at a remote abbey to visit John Michie, who has become sequestered and taken a vow of silence. The film is told in flashback, starting with their arrival at a Catholic prep school. Michie was devout and fatherless, and ended up a priest. Taylor was far more worldly. Michie wanted nothing more in life than to make peoples lives better. When he discovered that the church was more about politics and money then serving the needy, he lost is faith and fell in love with Paula Hamilton. When she and Taylor run off together, he marries Kate Steavenson-Payne. After her suicide, he again finds his faith.

Along the way, he falls out of favor with the head of his order for such things as baptizing the child of an unwed mother, and writing newspaper articles that dared question church doctrine. The entire story plays out like a soap or an episode of Dallas. Steavenson-Payne shows breasts and buns, Hamilton shows everything, and Rhona Mitra shows a breast as the unwed mother. IMDb readers have this at 6.5 of 10. With only 32 votes, this really isn't a very good indicator. I doubt that many will find it worth the watch. It is long, often tedious, and they manage to make even the sex boring. D.

When Will I Be Loved?

This is Neve Campbell's first real nude scene. She takes a shower and shows her bum, but there are a few glances at her small bosom here and there.

• Campbell  - long clip, the full scene, but no sound (zipped .wmv)
• Campbell  - short clip, with sound (zipped .wmv)
• Campbell - .jpg samples (1, 2)

Other Crap:

• Sit and Spin Zone: Bill O'Reilly to publish erotica book based on his phone conversations..
• Another reason to love the Red Sox - a fan shows her breast on TV (Watch the clip and look right behind the catcher).
• The rumor mill says that former United States President Bill Clinton has set his sights on becoming secretary-general of the United Nations.
• Here's one of those "nekkid breasts on the amusement park ride with a camera" pics.
• Useful bookmark: Hyperlinks for just about every US newspaper and TV station with a web page.
• Some nekkid "Splash Mountain" breasts that I have not seen before
• Here is the ad for the hottest product on the planet, TV-B-Gone From Cornfield Electronics. (Sorry, they are sold out, but you can get on their mailing list.)
• John Kerry, Football Player. "Welcome to the internet's first picture-documentary of John Kerry's tragic love affair with America's greatest game."
• Two people in Waxahachie, Texas have turned their home into a duplicate of TV's Munster Mansion.
• TIME Poll: Bush Opens 5 Point Lead Against Kerry
• "Al Pieda" Targets Ann Coulter, and The Smoking Gun has the goods.
• Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of San Antonio: What if your vagina has "that 'flippy-floppy' feeling"? Want a designer vagina? Dr. Hailparn can completely resculpt and rejuvenate the vagina with a one-hour laser procedure.
• The lonely life of a Barry Manilow groupie.  
• Free Playmate Gallery - Anka Romensky, February 2002 - Courtesy of PlayboyPlus.com!
• Four free short videos from Playboy's Beach Babes!
• The trailer for Guess Who. This is a remake/reversal of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Ashton Kutcher plays a man marrying a black woman whose father (Bernie Mac) is having difficulty coming to terms with the marriage. Kutcher and Bernie Mac? I guess it could have been worse. How? Think Carrot Top and Sinbad.
• Demonstration of the new Florida voting machines.
• The Onion's 2004 Election Guide
• Now THIS is "fashion" I approve.
• Book of Mormon to Come Out in Comic Book Form.
  • My favorite issue of this comic pits The Angel Moroni against The Red Skull.
  • This is sure to replace my former favorite comic series with Pope John Paul II, although nothing will ever equal the epic battle between JP2 and Sub-Mariner when, with both of their powers weakening, they raced to the Holy Water for replenishment.
• Dear Yahoo!:
  What's the most popular password?
• Oscar Wilde musical closes after opening night. Critics call it the all-time worst failure of any form of entertainment not involving Ben Affleck.
• Bush the Elder discussing Bush the Younger: "He wrote a paper when he was in fifth grade in which he said in 1519 Ferdinand Magellan circumcised the world"
• Two Men Arrested for Hurling Pies at Ann Coulter
• Proctor & Gamble Releases Testosterone Patch, AKA "Spanish Fly": "The testosterone patch, which is applied directly to exposed skin, increases female libido four-fold, making sex almost a sure thing, even for members of the chess club."
• A woman returns from vacation to find a stranger living in and redecorating her house.
• A long new trailer for House of the Flying Dagger. (Pretty impressive.)
• CNN: 'Surviving Christmas' is hard to endure: "The fact that DreamWorks is dumping 'Surviving Christmas' -- a holiday movie -- on the market in October should say it all. Perhaps the studio is being compassionate and releasing it early in an effort not to spoil our holidays."
• The Daily Show's Ed Helms reviews the presidential debates, looking for reasoned analysis and insight.
• The Daily Show discusses the flu shot crisis and the Red Sox.
• The Daily Show interviews Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria, who discusses exit strategies in Iraq.
• Electoral Vote Summary - various changes in the predictions, all in Bush's favor. Most surprising: (1) the Minnesota-based system is showing its home state of Minnesota leaning towards Bush! (Previously, Minnesota had been in the "Kerry or tied" column.)(2) RCP is now showing Michigan even. Other polls show Kerry leading Michigan by several points
• Follow-up on a link below. To show you how crazy the election has gotten in Michigan - recent Michigan Polls show Kerry with anything from 43% to 59%!!
• Electoral Vote Summary - various changes in the predictions, all in Bush's favor. Most surprising: (1) the Minnesota-based system is showing its home state of Minnesota leaning towards Bush! (Previously, Minnesota had been in the "Kerry or tied" column.)(2) RCP is now showing Michigan even. Other polls show Kerry leading Michigan by several points
• Norwegian Prisoner Hires Exotic Dancer: "Hoping to boost morale among his fellow inmates, a Norwegian prisoner secretly hired an exotic dancer to spice up the prison's monthly culture night."
  • This is one of the things we used to chat about in Norway. The country has a large underground agricultural economy. It is not possible to pick Norwegian crops at Norwegian wages and sell them on the international market. The cost would be so high that it would drive the retail price out of the market. Therefore, in the late 80s and early 90s, the Norwegian growers would hire lots of Polish migrant workers at discounted wages. The system worked for everyone. The Polish people were thrilled with the discounted wages. They would live outdoors in Norway, spending almost nothing, then take all the money back to Poland, where it had tremendous buying power. The Norwegian growers could sell their crops competitively, and the consumers got a great product at a great price. Everybody happy. Only one problem (besides the fact that it was illegal, which everyone ignored). Why should Polish people live non-criminal lives while they are in Norway? For most of us, we don't commit crimes because of the fear of getting caught. For the Poles in Norway, so what if they got caught? In fact, they were happy to be caught, because life in Norwegian prisons was better than life in Poland!!
  • This info is dated, of course. I left Norway in 1992, and everything is different now. Life in Poland now is probably better than life in Norwegian prisons.
  • Except on "culture night", of course.
• Gallup: Switches Possible in Red States and Blue States
• Sinclair to Broadcast John Kerry Sex Tape: "This week after announcing that it had scrapped its plans to air a film that attacks the 1970s-era anti-war activities of Presidential hopeful John Kerry, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. announced that in place of the documentary it would air a special produced by its news division incorporating a recently discovered video tape of Senator Kerry having sex with his wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry."
• The Proverb Generator. I typed in "paint thinner" and then "Cal Ripken Jr", and it gave me some pretty funny proverbs (unfortunately, not always in proper English grammar and spelling).
• Can you "Find Hitler"? Sort of like "Where's Waldo" for 'tards, but pretty funny once you get in tune with his humor.
• An entire site dedicated to George Bush Bulges, and generally not the manly kind.
• The trailer for The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
• Here's a first look at the trailer for Hitch, Will Smith's newest, a romantic comedy about a dating consultant.
• Don't know anything about the movie, but this is a good trailer for Hide and Seek, De Niro's latest. A widowed father desperately tries to break through to his nine year old daughter when she creates a creepy, maniacal imaginary friend with a terrifying vendetta. Imaginary friends can seem so real...
• Having regular sex boosts your grades.
• Steinbrenner trades A-Rod to Kim Jong-Il for a nuclear weapon. Apparently the two have been friends since they played golf together at an evil convention.
• Tipsy Liza sings with Fishbone
• Ann Coulter on Bill O'Reilly: "Last week I received an obscene phone call that began, 'Ann from New York, you're in the Zone. What say you, and what are you wearing?' and ended, 'I'll give you the last word.' "
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 2004. Hunter Thompson rails on and on about his usual stuff. He thinks Nixon now seems like a cool guy compared to today's candidates.

Other Crap archives. May also include newer material than the links above, since it's sorta in real time.

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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.

A very special thanks to LC today for these advanced preview 'caps of Neve Campbell's nudity in "When Will I Be Loved" (2004). We see some brief breast views and plenty of rear nudity as she showers up.

• Neve Campbell

"Wild Roomies"
Should a comedy have a happy ending? Well, it's not a requirement, I suppose, but should a comedy have a gut-wrenching, totally surprising, kill-the-bunny-and-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater ending? Ehhhhh, maybe not.

2004's Wild Roomies starts off as a pleasant enough if mostly brainless little comedy. After inheriting a large house in L.A., a Texas guy and his girlfriend move into the house. In order to pay the remainder of the mortgage, they take roommates.

It's all predictable light-weight fun, as things turn expectedly chaotic. Five minutes from the end, a turn of events leads to a heartbreaking, totally downer, everyone-in-tears ending. So much for leaving the movie in a happy frame of mind.

• Miranda Bailey
• The Women of "Wild Roomies"

Check out this cast! This must be one of the greatest collections of B-movie legends ever! Including: Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, Eric Roberts, Ice-T, William Forsythe and the original Riddler...Frank Gorshin!

LOSERS USE SOX-YANKEES TICKETS TO MEET WOMEN
And Buy Your Own Hot Dog! - The New York Post reports that the Yankees weren't the only losers at Wednesday night's Red Sox game. An online dating message board was filled with ads from guys hoping their tickets would entice women to be their dates. Most said they wanted someone to share the game with who was "hot," "young," "attractive," and "a Yankees fan," and one guy demanded, "You must send your picture, no exceptions." But he promised, "We meet at the stadium and go our separate ways after the game."