Tonight, we have the first full-frontal from Carnival from Amanda Aday as a Hoochie Coochie dancer. Carla Gallo again shows breasts, and Judith Hoag also shows breasts as a hooker.

Spoilers Ahead

The series is ultimately about a struggle between good in the person of Ben Hawkins (Nick Stahl), the kid rescued by the carny, and Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown). Neither knows at the beginning that they are destined for anything special, but Ben is haunted by dreams he doesn't understand, and is obviously an escaped prisoner. Justin, and his sister Iris, clearly have a strange history, and an even stranger relationship. We slowly learn that Ben's father was a carny, and knew most of the old timers in the show. By the end of season one, we know much more about the backgrounds of the characters, and the final showdown is evident, but has not taken place. There are a lot of characters to get to know on the Carny side, but many less on the Justin side of the plot. To prepare for next season, it is probably only important to know that Ben has begun to realize and accept his powers, and that Justin considers himself the left hand of God, the necessary evil that makes good possible, and is starting a radio ministry.

Other characters on the Carny side include Samson, the midget who is boss of the carny, Jonesy, a crippled ex baseball pitcher and leader of the roustabouts, Appolonia, a comatose psychic and Sophie, her tarot reading daughter whom she speaks through, Ruthie, a snake charmer and love interest for Ben and her son Gabriel the strong man, Felix "Stumpy" Dreifuss, head of the Coochy, husband to Rita Sue, and father to Dora Mae and Libby, Lodz, a blind seer, his significant other, Lila, the Siamese twins, Gecko the snake man, and a mysterious character we never see called "the management."

End Spopilers

Tomorrow, the other six episodes, and summaries of each episode.

A Very Long Engagement  (2004):

This film re-teams director Jeunet with the star who helped him create his greatest success, Amelie. That star is, of course, the incredibly cute Audrey Tautou, who is the Audrey Hepburn of her own time, except with a way better body.

Jeunet actually hired Tautou for this film, not for Amelie. He wanted Emily Watson to play Amelie, and wrote the script with Watson in mind, even named it for her (the first draft was "Emily", not "Amelie"). But Watson backed out, Tautou filled in, the story moved from England to France, and the rest is in the books.

I haven't seen this film, but I've loved everything else Jeunet has done, so I have been surprised to see some negative reviews for this one.

• capture. Cute bum!

• film clip of same

The Aviator  (2004):

No nudity (except DiCaprio) and zillions of words, so check out my thoughts at the Movie House

Other Crap:

• How record companies contract to seed P2P networks with bogus material. The fake files open up ads and an offer to buy the songs legally.
• British government sought to avoid Nixon. A classic case of "dog bites man" journalism. Is there anyone who did not avoid Nixon? Now if they really loved Nixon and wanted to party him down - THAT would be news.
• Asia Tsunami Disaster: President Bush Magnanimously Sacrifices Ten Minutes From Christmas Vacation to Pledge Aid Totaling 3% of His Campaign Commercial Budget. (WHITEHOUSE.ORG)
• MovieJuice takes a jaded look at Meet the Fockers - Meetiocrity Incarnate
• Bush brother's divorce reveals juicy sex romps
• The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations
• The Year in Culture - Neil LaBute, Lemony Snicket, Kenneth Pollack, and others on 2004's most notable cultural happenings. Slate asked them, "Which cultural happening most amazed or disappointed you this year?" It is an extraordinary experience to read what some intellectuals perceive as having been important. This article does synthesize some important trends or events, but also includes some personal interests in genuinely unimportant stuff that will be forgotten by ... hell, it's already forgotten.
• Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke (bottom of page). Suh-weet!
• Flatulent Fish and Beyond: "the top ten quirkiest stories of 2004, as chosen by the editors of National Geographic News"
• Dave Barry and his readers offer advice on what NOT to do on New Year's Eve.
• Paris Hilton misses the opening of her first club.
  • "At least she had an heiress-appropriate excuse handy. 'I was in the Swiss Alps skiing and I got caught at the airport with all the holiday travel.'"
  • Life can be harsh. When it comes to suffering, there was Anne Frank, then Paris Hilton.
• When goes geology mix with sexology? In the Earth Erotica Photography by Heather Firth
• Weird Hungarian artists paints naked women to look like their backgrounds, creating an illusion of "ghosts"
• URL says it all: WeirdPictureArchive.com
• Odd pics of the strange, weird, and bizarre
• Taiwan celebrated the official opening of the world's tallest skyscraper Friday
• Weekly World News claims: "ONE IN 10 DRIVERS YOU PASS ON THE ROAD ARE NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN!"
• "Dynasty" stars disinherit the "making of" film
• The Democrat Is Declared Washington's Governor-Elect: "After three vote tallies and nearly two nerve-racking months of waiting, Democrat Christine Gregoire was declared Washington's governor-elect on Thursday. But her Republican rival did not concede and wants a new election. "
• Arrow In The Head's Top 10 favorite horror/fantasy/scifi films of 2004
• ESPN's Bill Simmons empties out the holiday mailbag.
  • "The movie ad should have come with this tag: "WARNING: CLINT EASTWOOD CRIES." I know actors have to make that leap at some point, but this was 50 times worse than Stallone breaking down in "Rocky 3" and 200 times worse than finding out about Mike Ditka's erectile dysfunction. Some lines just shouldn't be crossed. Could they at least leak a story that Clint couldn't make himself cry, so they had to use onions and salt water? I'm not sure I will ever get over this one."
• Rock stars reveal their resolutions for '05.
  • "To spend every day getting closer and closer to God. And buy a Ferrari."
• Martha Stewart loses a prison decorating contest.
• I did not make this up. This is not a satirical article. Donald Trump really is launching a new line of hair-care products, for the man who wants to look like he has a dead animal on his head.
• "Indonesia is facing the possibility that as many as 400,000 people there died from the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami on Boxing Day. "
• Eva Longoria - "'The best sex I've had this year was probably with my vibrator."
• Dave Barry's "2004 in Review" ... the politics, the passion, and ... we'll always have Paris
• The GATE -||- 2004 In Films: A Year In Review
• Reader's Digress - Dick Cheney's New Year's resolutions
• The weekend warrior chooses the worst 20 movies of 2004.
• Lots of excerpts from Clerks. By far, the most bizarre is this one, which is not from the film, but shows a very different way to end the movie!
• NOVA has placed the entire mini-series The Elegant Universe online in eight streaming segments.
• Satellite before/after images of tsunami sites

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Today from the Ghost...A couple of video clips (zipped .wmvs) from the direct-to-vid Michael Madsen movie "Sacrifice" (2000). A little trivia, according to the IMDb, this was one of 13 movies Madsen pumped out in 2000. Click here for the Scoopy.com review

• Jamie Luner, the former "Melrose Place" star bares breasts and bum while gettin' it on with Madsen. Amazingly enough, Madsen actually took off his Ray-bans for this scene.

• Leslie Harter aka Leslie Harter Zemeckis (as in Mrs. Robert Zemeckis). Here we see a very brief breast view just before the mysterious serial killer slices and dices her.

• Michelle White, topless as she gets out of the lake after a swim.

Today's 'caps feature two former Heffers gettin' topless.

• Nicole Marie Lenz (March 2000) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

• Shanna Moakler (December '01) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

For the new year I have three women who have made their names in triple X films but have also done softcore work. They are the following:

Holly Hollywood... she used to call herself Stacey Leigh Mobley in stripper movies and Krista Allen/Emmanuelle movies .Here she is Holly in Duchess, a porn movie with a plot. Holly/Sacey is 30 but has a perfectly toned body.

• Stacey Leigh Mobley (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

April Summers...Diana Espen...in Wild Honey. April/Diana leads a dual life, with about 150 adult movies and at least a dozen late night cable features.

• April Summers aka Diana Espen (1, 2, 3)

Sunset Thomas in Wild Honey. Sunset used to show up on the Man Show and as a randomly naked, uncredited babe in semi-legit movies. I hear she's from Texas.

• Sunset Thomas (1, 2, 3)

"King Arthur"
Not widely heralded as very good, this 2004 version of the life of King Arthur is an excellent movie; it simply doesn't continue the fairy tale. Instead of prolonging the myth of Camelot, producer Jerry Bruckheimer's version attempts to imagine how it happened, based on actual history.

What you wind up with is an excellent movie about knights and battles, but it isn't your father's King Arthur, to be sure. In this version, Arthur's knights are conscripted by the Romans because they are fierce warriors, and Arthur himself is a Briton who is also a loyal Roman citizen, until he realizes that Rome's intentions are less than honorable.

Since many of the events portrayed are historical fact, you'll learn some interesting history. Just ignore the King Arthur thing, and enjoy a very good action adventure.

Keira Knightley wouldn't have been my choice for Guinevere, but with black hair, she did a very good job as did all the actors.

• Keira Knightley

Tereza Brettschweiderova
and Kristyna Simova
(1, 2, 3, 4)

Simova (on the right) and Brettschweiderova, play the "Hapi Djús" girls.