Friday

Tuna
"Unfaithful"

Unfaithful (2002) is a love triangle story, this time with the suburban housewife taking a younger, and Richard Gere playing the over the hill stodgy cuckolded husband. Nice to see that someone recognized that Gere is too old for romantic leads. Diane Lane is tired of housewife and mother, where her exciting life has her making bunny costumes for the school play, and soliciting donations for a school benefit auction. Gere owns some sort of business, and Lane comes after work and their son in his mind.

Lane is in New York on a very blustery day, and literally runs into handsome young book dealer Olivier Martinez, actually knocking him over and landing on top of him. The spark is there from their first look at each other, but it takes two more visits before she has the nerve to do it with him. He quickly becomes her lunchtime habit, and the sex scenes between them, while not very explicit, absolutely sizzle. When Gere finds out, he confronts Martinez, with disastrous results. Without writing a spoiler, the ending is ambiguous. The special features include deleted scenes, all of which were wisely deleted, and an alternate, non-ambiguous ending.

Lane shows breasts in three different scenes, in bed with Gere, in the bath, and in a sex scene with Martinez. IMDB readers have it at 6.7 of 10. Made for $50M, it mad expenses with a $52M box office. Ebert was enthusiastic at three stars, glad that it avoided many common cliches. Berardinelli like the first two acts, but was disappointed in act three, and hated the ending. He guessed in awarding 2 1/2 stars that there was a less ambiguous ending on the cutting room floor. It scored 46% overall, and 52% with the top critics at Rotten Tomatoes. DIrected by Adrian Lyne, it shares a common theme in his films, that adultery is always a bad idea. Like Berardinelli, I enjoyed the first two acts, but the film lost its way, and turned into a pseudo crime thriller. Yet, it looks good, and Lane and Martinez both shine in their roles. C.

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  • Diane Lane (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

  • Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy)

    I forgot to mention:

    In the past two weeks we celebrated some landmarks:

    • The site has now been changed daily, without fail, for more than 2000 consecutive days. There have been about 2200 editions altogether. The first 600 or so are lost forever, but the last 1600 are still online in the archives.
    • For the Fun House alone, I have written slightly more than a million words.
    • The last week in November marked the 8th time we have had a Thanksgiving Day edition. Christmas will mark the eighth Christmas Day edition.
    • When I first started surfing the net, there was celeb site (now long gone) with 200 pics. Highly impressed, I signed up for one month by phoning a 900 number, if I remember right. I thought 200 pics represented quite a vast site. Now our tiny wrestling site is bigger than that. We have more than 70,000 just in Tuna's site and the Encyclopedia, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to what's in the back issues. Tuna alone has created more than 30,000 composite jpg files, and I have created somewhere in the 20,000 range. (I have lost count.)
    • Four different people have written the Fun House at one time or another. I have no idea how many people have contributed pictures or columns or jokes, but it is surely many hundred.
    • The site is now more than seven years old. Kids who used to sneak on our site when their parents weren't looking are now paying with their own credit cards. Lawdog is now actually a lawyer! At least two of our former contributors have shuffled off the mortal coil, one of whom (The Insider, aka Dale Davis) was a guy I used to talk to almost every day on the phone, and a guy who had actually slept with many of the women whose pictures grace the site (and had photographed many of them naked around his own house). Among his friends were Richard Hatch, Sammy Davis Jr., the Beach Boys, Richard Boone (Paladin), famous photographer Ken Marcus, Jan and Dean, and Leonard Nimoy. He was actually present at many of the events detailed by John Milius in his surfing film, Big Wednesday, and was gracious enough to reminisce for us about the real people who became the fictional characters in the movie -check the Big Wednesday page for details. I sure miss the guy. Memento mori.

     

    Jeez, I'm starting to sound like an old fart. 


    Movies:

    I have done an Unfaithful DVD before, as recently as last week, so I didn't cap the new retail DVD release. I'm writing about it here to tell you that there is no additional nudity in the deleted scenes. Just more sadness. If filmmakers could be compared to literary figures, Adrian Lyne would be the Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) of the cinema - with sadness and regret at the heart of his work, although Gray was more obsessed with the fleeting nature of wealth and power, while Lyne is more into the fleeting nature of passion.

    Who else? I guess Spielberg would be our Lord Byron - not a deep thinker or a groundbreaker, but eternally optimistic, with a gift for communicating to average people. If Byron made films, "Raiders" would be his kind of adventure. Kubrick would be our Keats - aloof, contemplative, technically flawless. Coppola is perhaps our Dickens - his films populated with characters destined for archetypal status. Who would be our Shakespeare, unquestioned master of every human variation from lowbrow humor to soaring rhetoric, from farce to tragedy, from honor to venality, from romance to bawdiness, encompassing all of human experience honestly? The real Shakespeare could make the uneducated groundlings laugh and weep while touching the souls of the most educated people.  I think we are still awaiting his or her coming in cinema. Woody Allen might have been, but never quite made it. Peter Jackson has a shot at it. He has all the tools, but what will he do after LOTR?


    UPDATES:

    • Charlie's French Cinema Nudity site is updated

    • The Honte's site of Swedish and International celebs is updated

    • Many, many new volumes today. Amy Lynn Baxter, Annie Belle, Kathleen Beller, Sandahl Bergman, Karen Black, Jane Blalock, Jessica Biel, Carole Bouquet, Sandra Bullock, Genevieve Bujold, Kelly Burns, Avalon Anders, Manuela Arcuri, Gillian Anderson, Juliet Anderson

     


    OTHER CRAP:

    • One hot princess. The youngest member of the Swedish royal family is Madeleine. When you get there, you can click on her picture to get a larger one- plenty of cleavage. I don't think you need to speak Swedish to understand this: "Prinsessan är en riktig babe"

    • Today's bad taste Kristmas Kitsch - The Ten Commandments Throw Blanket. Imagine fornication under the "thou shalt not's", or just use it to cover your legs at the big game. As you see or hear the commandments broken in the stands, simply hold up the blanket and show the tablets to the sinners. Share the fun with your kids. See if they can count how many commandments are broken by the Packers fans. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

    • What could be a better Christmas gift than the Michael Jackson prosthetic nose. ("Makes a great nose for your snowman, too")

      • By the way, I'm not actually going to give any of these presents to people. I'm giving myrrh to everyone this year. About two years ago, I cornered the world myrrh market, so I need to cut back on my surplus. But if you want myrrh, well, you have to go through me. Either that or deal with the so-called Myrrh Mafia. They might smell April-fresh, but they can be kinda rough.

    • I'm Dreaming of a White Trash Christmas. It takes a while to load (a couple minutes on a dial-up connection), but it is an elaborate animated song.

    • Turns out Iraq DOES have weapons of mass destruction - cars, cigarettes, fast food ...

    • The Smoking Gun is a cool site - Trent Lott seems to have stirred up quite a controversy when he said that we should have elected Strom in 1948 right? - The question is - when did Lott say it? Oh, yeah, about a week ago, but also in 1980 - in almost the exact same words.

    • Here is Thurmond's actual platform from 1948, also thanks to The Smoking Gun. "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race". In those days there were also many laws against mixing the races sexually or matrimonially, and the ol' Stromburger opposed the forced repeal of those laws.

    • Dubya find's Lott's remarks offensive. The President reserved the right to change his mind based upon several possibilities (1) he  might actually find out what Lott really said,  (2) Condoleeza might explain what it actually meant, (3) the polls might indicate the remarks are more acceptable or less acceptable than he now believes.

    • Stallone to lace up for Rocky VI. Yo, Adrienne, my cane.

    • Sports prospects - who were the ten biggest flops? Actor-athlete The Boz makes the list.

    • Hollywood to make Starsky and Hutch, the movie. To star Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, with Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear

     


    Here are the latest movie reviews available at scoopy.com.

    • The yellow asterisks indicate that I wrote the review, and am deluded into thinking it includes humor.
    • If there is a white asterisk, it means that there isn't any significant humor, but I inexplicably determined there might be something else of interest.
    • A blue asterisk indicates the review is written by Tuna (or Lawdog or Junior or C2000 or Realist or ICMS or Mick Locke, or somebody else besides me)
    • If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

    Arthur Figgis
    Lucy Liu
    (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

    An awesome find by AF from from the German version of GQ. The "Charlie's Angels" babe posing topless! Here's what we have:

    Link #1...subtle nipple sighting
    Link #3...a bare breast and not much covering up down south
    Link #4...single exposed breast
    Link #5...again, not much covering the goodies down below
    Link #6...single breast exposure
    Links 7 and 8...both the same image with a little editing to try to bring out more of the goodies. Why? Well, because she's wearing see-thru undies while sitting in the tub. Nipples are clearly seen, and while lighting has obscured any clear views down under, there is still something to see!

    Rachel Grant
    (1, 2, 3)

    Not a huge name, but she currently can be seen in "Die Another Day", and on video as Angelina Jolie's body double in "Tomb Raider". These scans of her in lingerie are from a recent issue of FHM.

    ICMS
    'Caps and comments by ICMS:

    Let me start with some images of Lucy Lawless from the 1996 episode "Here she comes...Miss Amphipolis" from "Xena, Warrior Princess". We have a partial side view of her left breast and a good look at her bum. Of course she isn't showing as much as we would want but I think this is a nice addition to the Fun House.

    In this episode Xena takes part in a beauty pageant as a blonde to prevent a war. Yes, I know this sounds silly, but I had more fun watching this than I had watching "Miss Congeniality". The Xena series is simply uncomplicated fun to watch. After all, everything doesn't have to be serious and mind twisting all the time, does it? And Lucy Lawless simply excelled in the role of Xena. I think she is a much better actress than some give her credit for because in the series she easily slips from character into an other and becoming someone completely different. Would "Xena, Warrior Princess" have lasted six seasons without Lucy in the title role?


    Now let's move on to a Japanese horror flick from 1999 called "Junk". It is Re-Animator meets Zombie Flesh Eaters with 4 first time jewelry store robbers and a Yakusa boss with his gang added to it. One of the reasons that makes it watchable is in fact the music score. For the rest it lacks about everything: a decent story line, good actors, inventivity, bloody and gory scenes that don't look fake, an actress who shows skin with a last name.

    The story is this: a Japanese doctor, whose English is so bad that I had to switch on the German subtitles, conducts some secret DNX (!) experiments with the American army in an abandoned factory in Okinawa. The general idea is to bring the dead back to live. But the experiments aren't much of a success since all deads turn into dumb zombies after being injected with the same green liquid from Re-Animator. Except one, beautiful Kyoko (Miha), the Japanese doctor's wife who died some months earlier and who was the reason the doctor started these experiments. Kyoko is intelligent and even deprogrammed the computer that was set to blow the factory and every one in it into smithereens. I guess pulling the plug was to easy. We have a lot of deads, blood and something like a happy ending for two robbers, but are the zombies really neutralized? Miha is unknown to the IMDb where this film's score is 5.3 with 48 votes. I'll give it D-. That's enough about this flick, now admire Japanese actress Miha's rather large and apparently real breasts.

    Calendar Babes
    From the French version of Vogue, excellent B&W, nude scans of the ladies featured in their 2003 calendar.

    Variety
    Laetitia Casta
    (1, 2)

    The French supermodel and actress looking great in a couple of bikini scans. I'm fond of #2.

    Sorority Babes
    (1, 2, 3)

    Pokies and soaking wet shirts with great see-thru/pokies from the movie "Sorority Boys". The blonde (on the left in #1, in the middle of 2 and 3) is Bree Turner. Probably best known as the pet shop girl who from "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo"

    Nina Brosh
    (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

    The model posing topless (links 3 and 6), with arms over boobs (links 2,4 and 5), and some other partial breast exposure in links 1 and 7.

    Pat Reeder www.comedy-wire.com
    Pat's comments in yellow...

    KYLIE'S BUTT TOO ENTICING FOR TEENS
    You Pinch It, You Bought It - London's Daily Express reports that Woolworth stores are having a hard time keeping their Kylie Minogue advent calendars intact. They have a picture of Kylie with 31 small doors cut into it, and buyers are supposed to open one door each day to get the piece of chocolate from behind it. But teenage boys keep ripping off the shrink wrap and opening the door for December 27, which is on Kylie's bottom. A spokeswoman said they've now been sealed in plastic bags because "we couldn't have Kylie's bottom pinched, could we?"

  • They're so disappointed to find nothing under that door but chocolate.
  • What better symbolizes the bountiful gifts God has given to mankind than Kylie Minogue's ass?
  • You can't blame them: they're just looking for a luscious treat.
  • Look at this calendar, and you wonder what it's the advent of.


    COURTNEY LOVE DRAGGED INTO WINONA RYDER CASE
    Hi, Doctor Nick! - A doctor who helped Winona Ryder obtain her prescriptions had his license suspended and may face prosecution. Courtney Love, who has defended her friend Winona, threatened to sue TheSmokingGun.com for reporting allegations that Love also went to that doctor and was the one who sent Ryder to him. But a California Medical Board report said that a patient identified as "C.L." complained of a bee sting, and the doctor gave her Vicodin. He then made numerous home visits, dispensing "injectable Demerol, syringes and sedative hypnotics" with little examination.

  • How much examination does it take to know that Courtney Love need hypnotic drugs?
  • Hey, it was a BEE STING! I'm surprised he didn't give her a morphine drip!
  • Letting Courtney Love choose your pharmacologist is like letting Michael Jackson pick your plastic surgeon.
  • He gave Winona every drug there is, except the one that controls kleptomania.