This is another spectacular contribution from Tuna. "Kama Sutra" is a lushly photographed movie, colorful locales, good enough story, lots of sex and nudity. Two young Indian girls are friends. When they grow up, the social barriers between them rend the fabric of their friendship and cast them into very different lives. The movie examines which of them is really happier, the princess or the courtesan. Beautiful, colorful vidcaps. Plenty of flesh from the exotically beautiful Indira Varma, albeit not much from Choudhury.

Indira Varma (#1 , #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 , #6 , #7 , #8) Sarita Choudhury (#1 , #2 , #3 , #4)

Canonization is a burden. Jimmy the Saint is engaged in some saintly-type activities today: miracle cures, blessings, appearances to children at Fatima, pleading with Warren Beatty to be chaste (that might take more than a day), and such-like, so the onus of U.K. reportage falls upon Pitters today.

"Three favourite British actresses today. I re-worked Lia Willaims after finding that the earlier collage I sent you had been compressed too much by Digital Darkroom (there is a bug in the PC version). The others are Juliet Aubrey, who is quite a 'serious' actresses and has appeared in many Shakespeare productions, and a portrait of Helen Baxendale who is fairly well known due to her appearance in 'Friends'. That 'cap is taken from the fireside scene in 'Truth or Dare'. "

Another flurry of non-nude activity today from the talented Chumba. Baby Spice from Esquire UK, the first six months of Caprice's Year 2000 Calendar, and Kelly Brook holding her breasts.

Baby Spice more of Emma Bunton Caprice Caprice Caprice Caprice Caprice Caprice Kelly Brook.

The movie "The Crossing Guard" was written and directed by Sean Penn. I believe he is already a first rate director, and has the potential to be one of the best ever, since he is still young and inexperienced in director's years. He really has a natural gift for knowing how to compose a shot, when to do a long shot, when to zoom in and catch the reactions of the actors. I've always thought he was a fine actor, and he uses his knowledge of the craft to let others do what they can do best. Several actors in this movie (John Savage and David Morse, in addition to Nicholson and Huston) deliver performances that really cut close to the bone. The only thing that kept director Sean Penn from the very summit in "The Crossing Guard" is Sean Penn the writer. He has no concept of what is or isn't believable, the dialogue sounds like speeches rather than real people talking, and he has no concept of what is or isn't essential to the story. To give the most obvious example, in a great expanse of city where one man chases down another, where the father of a little girl killed by a drunk driver tries to kill the driver five years after the incident, guess where the chase takes them? After starting in a trailer, running through the streets, taking a random ride on the first bus that appears, running through some more streets, and some grassy areas, the pursued runs out of breath and falls. When he moves his shoulder away slowly and dramatically, we see that he has fallen on the grave of the little girl he killed. You believe that plot device? I sure didn't. That's just one example. I could cite more, but you get the idea.

Penn's next project, "Autumn of the Patriarch", is a novel by the Colombian magical realist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is a pretty damned good writer (Nobel Prize, in fact), and they seem very well suited to each other in style and tone. I haven't read that book, but I've read others by Marquez and I think Penn is a good fit. Penn will do the script again, but let's hope he stays close to the source material, so it won't matter that much.

Brando will star. Brando, as you all know, was one of the world's greatest actors before directors started giving him completely free rein, and then the eccentricity of his interpretations started to outweigh his brilliant talent. (Perhaps outweigh is not a good word to use in Brando's case.) Sean Penn is an arrogant and ballsy hard-case, and he has a good relationship with Brando, so I can picture him saying to Brando, "Hey, Marlon, I know you don't want to copy Clark Gable, but Fletcher Christian isn't supposed to be Judy Fucking Garland.". The director of Mutiny was Lewis Milestone. Milestone was a fine director back in the B&W era, but he was ancient by then, and was specifically known by that time as a weak-willed guy. Two years earlier, he directed "Ocean's 11", and showbiz stories abound concerning his relationship with Sinatra. "OK, one more take, everyone". "Hey, we did it, you filmed it. End of story. Let's get some ring-a-ding". Anyway, Brando needs a strong director to kick his ass once in a while, and Penn might just be the one guy in Hollywood with the balls to do it.

By the way, I wonder if it is a coincidence that Penn only hired actresses with six letters in their last name for this movie.(The four leads: Wuhrer, Barnes, Huston, Wright.) With anyone else, I'd say coincidence. With Penn, you never know.

On a related topic, I saw another writer-director in action today. Kevin Smith's "Dogma". It seems to me that he has the opposite problem from Penn. He is a truly interesting and gifted comic writer - his long thoughtful comic monologues and philosophical repartee remind me of the great Irish playwrights like Shaw and Wilde. But this guy ain't got a clue on the visual side. His movies still look like they were shot in someone's basement, even though Dogma is his fifth movie. "Clerks" was charmingly inept, but the charm is starting to dissipate. He should step up to producer, and hire Sean Penn to direct. Actually, their styles don't mesh at all, but I wonder if Penn, Mr Intensity, Mr Wound-too-fucking-tight, could still do comedy. T'was a time when he was one of the best.

Anyway, here's "The Crossing Guard" Kari Wuhrer

Priscilla Barnes

Robin Wright (not nude)