Death Wish (1974) stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, New York architect and bleeding heart liberal. When his wife is murdered and his daughter raped by thugs in his own apartment, he takes justice into his own hands. The police have a dilemma, however. With Kersey playing vigilante, the crime rate drops suddenly and dramatically. This film spawned 4 sequels, none nearly as good as the first. Watch for Jeff Goldblum in his film debut as one of the perpetrators. Kathleen Tolan of Ryan's Hope fame provided the exposure during an especially violent and graphic rape scene. In my opinion, the rape had to be portrayed this way to gain audience sympathy for Kersey's actions. Music was by Herbie Hancock.

Maltin awards three stars, which seems to be the consensus among critics. IMDB readers have it at 6.1, which is a little low in my opinion. This is decidedly not a good date film. In many ways, it is like a classic Western -- real bad bad guys, and real good good guys, and most people root for the good guy in this film.

I did Friday Foster, a Pamploitation film from 1975. They finally figured out that if they put Pam in nice clothes and stylish hairstyles, and then removed those clothes once in a while, they could make a passable entertainment with a minimum of effort. Features about every black actor of the time, from Godfrey Cambridge to Scatman Crothers to pre-Apollo Carl Weathers, and everyone in between. Even Eartha Kitt, doing her exact same purring from Batman!

• Pam Grier (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Graphic Response did The King of Marvin Gardens. To see my collages, check out the May 13, 2000 edition. they are some of the best I've ever done. (No thanks to me, really. It just happened to be an exquisitely filmed movie)

• Ellen Burstyn

Three others:

• Brainscan pointed out a while ago that Hillary Swank is not really a major babe, but I'm starting to think he's wrong. She's increasing majorly in babiosoity each time I see her. Check out this public see-through.

• You read about it, here it is. Dubya messing up his daughter's dress as they dance. Nothing much to see.

• A collage from the Golden Globes. Not mine. Don't know who did it. Nothing much to see.

PICKING OUR OWN OSCARS:

Forget those friggin' performances. Here's the key issue - what were the best nude scenes in the Year 2000?

Cast your vote here.

No hanging chads or dimpled chads will be allowed. If an important choice is missing, write me at unclescoopy@msn.com.

Golden Globe OTHER FACTS:

• The Oscars and Globes agree on Best Picture about 60% of the time.
• HOWEVER - every Golden Globe Best Drama has been nominated for an Oscar in the past 30 years, even Bugsy and The Turning Point, which were probably the worst choices the Globes ever made. Gladiator, therefore, looks like a shoo-in for an Oscar nod.
• Of the 12 times they have disagreed since 1972, the Oscars have made a better choice 4 times, the Globes only once, the other seven debatable.
• If those 12 instances, there were three cases where they were both obviously wrong. They both missed Star Wars, Raiders, and Henry V. (Of course, they were both wrong some years when they agreed as well.)
• among the top 2000 titles, the highest-ranking at IMDb are now (in order) Crouching Tiger, Requiem for a Dream, Traffic, Almost Famous, Gladiator, Dancer in the Dark, Billy Elliott.

I am still assuming that Crouching Tiger will get best foreign-language film, so the four sure nominees seem likely to be: Traffic, Almost Famous, Gladiator, Billy Elliott. I don't know about the fifth. The most deserving would probably be Chicken Run, but I just don't know if the academy will go that way. There are some good choices: High Fidelity, Wonder Boys, Cast Away, O Brother, and Erin Brockovich, to name a few. The historical trend would favor Cast Away, but maybe the academy will surprise us.

Globes vs Oscars in the Godfather Era

Then there is Blackshine. Thought of offering him a bribe, say 100 Hershey bars in unmarked wrappers, to give Kate Moss a rest. But I like Kate and really like the scans. Onliest problem? A couple dozen Kates threatens to lower the booby average under the dreaded Mendoza Line. I have the cure. Four new ones of the most impressive chest I have seen: Roberta Pedon. (1, 2, 3, 4) Now we're back up to a Hall of Fame average.

Lastly, there is the movie Meatballs 4. They made four Aliens movies and the fourth one sucked. They made four Star Wars and the fourth one sucked. But when they made four Meatballs movies they got it right with the last one. I know Meatballs, the original has Bill Murray and the best young camper humor ever filmed. Two and Three? Never saw em. Don't know anyone who did. With Meatballs 4 they hit the perfect formula: Kristi Ducati (1, 2), two shower scenes (one with Kristi Ducati), a strip charades scene (with Kristi Ducati), two naked former bunnymag mates (one of them the delicious Christy Thom), perennial nekkid person Lauren Hays and a little surprise with a topless Paige French. The Kristi and Paige scenes require no further explanation, but a few of collages do.

The Lauren Hays scene ain't much, as she and two other babes (including Kristi Ducati) strip down to their BVD's. Lauren gets outta hers. Fine, this is the first part of what should be a seamless sequence.

Next we see Kristi for sure (blue towel) and four others, including bunnymag person Neriah Davis in a nekkid scene only by the strictest definition. I figure the group should also include Lauren Hays and Miche Straub 'cuz they were undressing with Kristi in the scene before. Follow me so far? (By the way the names in the movie are a hoot. Lauren plays a character name Lauren, Miche a character named Miche and Neriah and a character named Neriah. Where do they come up with these names?).

Next two collages are from the shower. Should be the same girls that walked TO the shower, right? Which means you should find Kristi, and you do (those are the shower pics of her). And you should find Lauren, Miche and Neriah. Now, I wouldn't know Miche from paper mache but I sorta, kinda know what Neriah and Lauren look like. And are they in the shower? I don't think so. (1, 2)

We get four babes, two with seriously nice bods and one with a righteously cute bod, but I haven't a clue who any of em is. Spent way too much time trying to figure it out and so now I'm pissed.

By now you're asking, "Where's Cristy Thom?" Patience, gentlemen.

I capped a small collage of Nell Campbell (Little Nell) when I first started out at this, back when all I had was a 2 head VCR and a parallel port Snappy box. Now that the DVD is here, I decided to do give Rocky Horror another try. I have never seen a really good and complete set of caps from the movie, and I figured there must be more than myself who wants to see it. I have been waiting patiently for Tuna to do it for long enough lol.

After 6 hours and 20 coffee's, here is what I came up with.

-Snowblind