Blowin' Smoke (1999), which IMDB calls Freak Talks About Sex, is a curious comedy centered around David Keenan, played by Josh Hamilton. He is a college graduate and wannabe writer, who spends his time working in a clothing store in a mall, hanging out with his stoner friend Freak (Steve Zahn), and avoiding his college girlfriend. His life is on hold, and we are not sure why. He probably isn't either. Action fans should avoid this film, as nothing much happens, and the best jokes are verbal between Freak and David. Freak's wisdom is decidedly offbeat, for instance, he launches into a proof that tit-f***ing is the most degrading thing you can do to a woman, and is the ultimate control trip.

The exposure comes from Kim O'Mara in her second role. She is a High School friend of David who is now married to the manager of a strip club, and is the clubs headliner. She invites David to catch her performance, and gives him a real show when he visits the club. When the film ended, I asked myself what it was really about. As near as I can figure out, it is saying that the millennium generation can be just as lost as the gen-xers. I have to say that I enjoyed the film, even with no action and not much of a story. When you make a character portrait into a film, the characters must be interesting, and the performances must be good. Blowin' Smoke got both right. Josh Hamilton gave the required low key performance, and Steve Zahn did an excellent job as the stoner. IMDB readers have it at 7.5/10, but with only 23 votes. Apollo readers say 73%. As near as I can tell, it had no theatrical release, although it did air at the Seattle Film Festival. Comments at IMDB praise the intelligent humor. I doubt that it will give you many belly laughs, but it should keep you entertained.

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So I capped a few images of Susan Napoli from New York Nights but PETScan did the real work by scanning the pics of her from the Feb '86 issue of Penthouse. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). Nice portfolio. Real nice. He made me choose the ones to send along to youse guys, which make up about half published in the magazine. Susan is no ugly duckling, and I see from IMDB that she has as many credits in movies for her voice as for her acting. Anyway, tomorrow there is be more of her and of four other Pet-type persons from a nekkid workout video. Patience, gentlemen.

Seeing the Susan Napoli vidcaps today jogged my memory. At Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL there was (and might still be) a weekly newspaper called "The DeKalb Night Weekly." It was free, and it had really only two redeeming features: 1) TV listings, and 2) a picture spread of an NIU coed or a local girl. Probably the most famous girl to be photographed was a very young Cindy Crawford (she was born in DeKalb and I believe her parents still live there.) I have Cindy's pics around here somewhere, but the reason for this note is Susan Napoli. Right around the time of her Penthouse spread in February 1986, either just before or just after, she did the "DeKalb Night Weekly" pictures. Here are the only two I could find. (1, 2) Sorry for the lousy quality, but remember it's a newspaper and it's almost 15 years old now! Could be worse.

Mr. T

P.S. I don't know the name of the girl in the pics with Susan. I seem to remember they were sorority sisters, but I no longer have the accompanying article so I just can't say for sure.

One of those "Bigfoot kills a bunch of campers out in the woods" movies. I like the Bigfoot movies but this one's a little weak. See...this bigfoot type creature has been killing folk out in Demon Woods. He even burst into a cabin during broad daylight and killed George Kennedy's daughter right in front of him! A group of young people form an expedition into the woods to find the creature and, I guess, kill it. Pamela Gilbert's one of the young people and in these pics she's screwing her boyfriend. (1, 2)

Colleen McDermott is the other chick in the group. Here she is taking a shower. (A nip peek)

Her boyfriend scares the crap out of her by peeping on her while wearing a gorilla mask. Of course she doesn't cover the window and of course there's no steam on the window. And of course her boyfriend is immediately killed by the monster.

Here's the best reason to watch this movie...to see Michelle Bauer's tits. Gorgeous tits. Michelle's always been of my favorite B movie bimbos. Michelle and her friend are out in the woods looking for a marijuana crop. The plants are gone but the gals decide to get a little sun anyway. Here's Michelle topless.

These are just a bunch of caps of tits . The monster walks up on them and grabs Michelle's friend's head, twists it and yanks it off tossing it at Michelle! Classic!

More of Michelle's tits as she runs from the monster.

From being a barely decent hairy monster in the woods flick this movie degenerates into a carnival of demons, aliens, zombies and other crap. The ending really blows. The only good thing about it is another peek at Pamela Gilbert's tits

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Jeez, yeah, that's how I missed out on that lead in American Pie. Spacey ran over my foot, the rest is history.

In a VH1 poll of music experts, "Revolver" was named the best rock album ever, and the Beatles landed five in the top 11. Plus, their greatest hits CD is #1 on the charts, making them the first artists to top the charts in two different millennia. I wonder how Shatner's "The Transformed Man" placed in the balloting.