Love, etc. (1996) is billed as a comedy/romance, but I failed to see any humor at all. Benoit and Marie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) meet through personal ads. Benoit can hardly wait to show her off to his best friend, Pierre. The three become best of friends, and do everything together,until Benoit and Marie marry. At this point, Pierre realizes that he loves Marie, and wants her for himself. For the rest of the film, he tries to win her away from Benoit. Gainsbourg shows breasts in two separate bathing scenes, and has pokies in two other scenes.

IMDB readers have this at 6.3 of 10. The handful of critics who reviewed it have it in the 1 /1/2 to 2 1/2 star range. I was bored to distraction by this 105 minute wonder, and didn't like any of the three characters, so it was a very long watch. Gainsbourg was nominated for a César for her performance. The DVD transfer is noisy and a little oversaturated. This is a D+.

Movies and TV:

Here're two episodes of Red Shoe Diaries new to DVD

• Jacqueline Lovell (aka Sara St James) in The Teacher (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Jacqueline Lovell in Caged Bird (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)

I'll work on an encyclopedia colume for Lovell. I don't know how I missed her so far. We have hundreds of pictures of her!

World Traveler is - I don't know - sort of a Gen X version of Rabbit Run. Billy Crudup is a successful Manhattan architect with a wife and daughter and an ostensibly perfect life who feels that life should be better. So he just walks away from it one day, hops in his Volvo station wagon and goes forth in search of something or another. The Crudup character is sort of a fuck-up, but I guess he means well or has a conscience or something. I don't know. I didn't like him, and he's on camera approximately the same percentage of time as the percentage of Iraqis that votted teh straight Saddam ticket.  This boring, meandering film with a detestable but regretful main character did about eight bucks at the box office, and that's only because Crudup couldn't get a free pass for his mom. It does feature some people who have virtually disappeared from films: Karen Allen and David Keith.

• Mary McCormack

Updates:

Lots of 'em today. New Encyclopedia volumes for Cate Blanchett, Lorraine Bracco, Cheri Caffaro, Esther Canadas, Deborah Caprioglio, Mariah Carey, Barbara Carrera, Joanna Cassidy, Clotilde Courau, Joanna Pacula, Pandora Peaks, JJ North, Susan Napoli, Emily Mortimer, Marisa Ryan

Other crap

• Jordan and Nell McAndrew pop out of their corsets
• that Christina is a classy gal
• National Geographic swimsuit issue (slideshow)
• Belgian town taxes fat people (Weekly World News)
• Joe Millionaire finalist specializes in bondage films. Hankster, are you on this?
• here's good news - it's not too late to get your copy of the Ethel Merman Disco Album. But act fast. They're down to their last ... actually, I don't know how many they have left, but it's about the same as the number they started with.
• results of voting for the Best Movie Scene Ever
• Trekkie goes through every episode and counts the number of times Kirk got some. He concluded: very little poontang, contrary to expectations.
• This weekend is Groundhog Day. Here's Punksutawney Phil's official site.  This weekend is Groundhog Day. Here's Punksutawney Phil's official site. This weekend is Groundhog Day. Here's Punksutawney Phil's official site. This week ...
• If you're planning a trip to Punksutawney to see the 'hog this Sunday, here's your official guide to activities ... um ... activity
• FEMALE moviegoers have Heather Graham to thank for the profusion of naked MALE butt shots in "The Guru." http://www.pagesix.com/pagesix/29379.htm. Graham herself had a no-nudity clause. So, my question is this. If Heather is going to keep her clothes on, why exactly would you hire her?
 

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.

Time out from The Mummy's Kiss to work on some edits of paparazzi scans. Several A list babes, here... one B, 5 C's and a G.

• Alba Parietti, breast exposure.

• Alessua Fabiani, topless at the beach.

• Ali Larter, a pokie/semi-see-thru.

• Anne Heche, some cleavage and minor see-thru nipple sightings.

• Cameron Diaz and Demi Moore, wearing bikinis at the beach.
• Charlie Mcentee, extreme see-thru nipple sightings.

• Claire Forlani, more see-thru nipple exposure.

• Claudia Schiffer, cleavage and pokies.

• Graciela Alfano, busty cleavage and a nip slip.

Well I made another boo-boo at the video store, rented this Shock-o-Rama thing called "Satan's School for Lust" thinking maybe it was a horror movie. Wrong! It's basically a lesbian flick, but it did have one redeeming value for me...A "Babe in Bondage" scene with a very well endowed Kellie Summers tied to a bed totally naked and tormented by Barbara Joyce.

From the same flick a revealing look at Misty Mundae.

Guess it's back to the time machine for my next effort.

• Kelli Summers (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Kelli Summers and Barbara Joyce (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

• Misty Mundae (1, 2, 3, 4)

Here's what we get to see...
Topless...Link #3 and #6
Topless and Bare bum...Link #4
Pokies...Link #2 and #5
Topless and a possible bit of frontal nudity...Link #1

BUSH GIVES STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
Ted Kennedy CAN'T Stand Up - Tuesday, President Bush gave a sobering State of the Union Address to Congress, calling for tax cuts and new humanitarian and research programs, and making a strong case against Saddam Hussein. He got 74 standing ovations.