The Last Motel (1996) is the third story on the Luscious Lola Red Shoe Diaries DVD. The setup has some potential. A sailor on a carrier in the Persian Gulf send videos to 4 different women inviting them to meet him at a motel in Long Beach, CA. When he gets there, all 4 women have shown up, and one even brought a friend. They could have had a lot of fun with his juggling of all of the women in the same motel, but they didn't. They had him service each of the women serially. Not only that, but they added a totally unrelated thread of a couple staying in the same motel, who are trying to put the heat back in their relationship.

There really is no plot here, and no real tie-in to the Red Shoe Diaries theme of a women betraying her man. This is far from the best in the series.

"Water stops weren't spaced evenly along the course. Chunks of ice hacked into three-foot blocks quickly dwindled on contact with runners' beet-red faces, sunburned arms and overheated chests. Many aid stations were abandoned when they ran out of water or their block of ice melted.

Car exhaust from big-finned 1950's Chevrolets, Plymouths and Dodges also proved a hazard, especially in a country without emissions standards. 'A bus pulled out and I ran into a big, black, thick cloud of exhaust, then it slowly drove ahead of me so I caught a constant stream', said Dennis Aslett, 51, the first American to cross the finish in 3:41:05.

The country's deep poverty was evident at the finish line where organizers ran out of both water and medals."

Note: that time is not a misprint, even though marathons are usually run in about two and a half hours.

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I rented The Man With The Golden Gun, which was the one Bond movie I had never seen. It's not an especially good movie, much too jokey for my taste, actually almost as much of a parody as Casino Royale. There's a dumbass American tourist who keeps falling in the canals in Thailand. There's a scene where Bond watches with detached amusement as two twelve year old girls dispose of an entire class at a karate school. I another scene, Bond gets the crap kicked out of him by Tattoo from Fantasy Island. Luckily, as Tattoo is about to kill Bond, the owner of the estate insists that the murder must not occur on his property, so they take Bond away to be killed (as usual) - by the kids in the karate school - the same ones who couldn't handle the twelve year old girls. There is one funny scene in the school. As Bond squares off to face the school's champion, they face each other for the traditional bow. As the opponent is bowing, Roger Moore skips the bow and kicks the guy in the head, knocking him out like a light.

On the other hand, I stumbled into an actual exposed nipple from an actual known performer (Maud Adams), with no tricks or filters or anything, so I snapped it off. (It's almost impossible to notice it at regular speed. You have to watch the entire scene frame-by-frame even to know it is there.) The Bond page has been updated to include a complete summary of the nudity in the series, and Tuna's capsule summary of each.

Two more episodes of The Hunger, both very dark and with very arty lighting in the nude scenes. The one episode with Blackburn and Thompson is yet another retelling of The Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, so everything in the episode is in a lingering dream-like state. Disappointing.

The Brady Home Movie project doesn't have any real flesh, but it is pretty unnerving to see Florence Henderson in a bathing suit, bending over and spreading her legs as wide as she could go. I enjoyed watching the Brady DVD, although I didn't expect to. These people obviously loved each other a lot, and really became a family during the run of the show. Their tribute to the late Robert Reed - who really became the surrogate dad for all of them - was genuine, spontaneous, and very touching. Reed is gone, and the two older girls have kind of grown apart from the group, but Henderson, Ann B Davis, and the other four kids, still interact like a family unit.

In hearing them discuss each other and their times on the show, it's obvious that the show became their real life, and that they remembered that life very fondly. The "hook" of the DVD is that Robert Reed gave everyone an 8 mm camera for Christmas one year, and the films they made are the original material shown in this DVD, along with "where are they now?" segments on everyone, and various interviews and discussions with the group and individuals.

Susan Olsen (the youngest Brady daughter) produced the show.

Three more European music videos with unidentified starlets, from TomCat. The Rolling Stones, Jaques Dutronc, and Johnny Hallyday. The woman in the Hallyday video is a fox, whoever she is.

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Both Tuna and Scoop have covered and reviewed "...Talk 2" (on 10/12 and 10/15 respectively). Now that I think about it, this movie may be something of a rarity...it seems that in additiona to the three of us liking it, we have almost identical opinions. To quote Paul Shaffer...."nutty".

Here's the breakdown:

The Breakdown: