Zandalee (1991) is listed at IMDB as an R rated drama/thriller that never had a theatrical release and is rated 3.6 of 10. The version IMDB scores has some pluses and minuses, but the score is fair. On the plus side, there is New Orleans French Quarter ambiance (scenery and music), talented performers (Judge Reinhold, Nicolas Cage, Steve Boscemi, Aaron Neville, and the lovely Erika Anderson), and very nice photography and set design. Unfortunately, this love triangle drama is more like a porn paperback than a film script, the characters are rather one-dimensional, and the film has a suitable biblical retribution ending to punish the sinners.

The version I watched is the original Unrated version, which would properly be categorized as a soft core sex film. In this genre, Zandalee stands up much better, which is probably why I have always enjoyed the film. Anderson shows all three Bs frequently through the film, and has some very steamy sex with Cage. There is far more plot than is usual in soft core, and the production values are also very good for this genre, as well as the talent of the cast. In addition to Anderson's exposure, three different strippers show breasts and buns. As the strippers are already in my archives, I ignored them this time. Viewed as softcore, Zandalee is a rather good one, and suitable for couples, so the proper score is C+.

Movies:

Secretary (2002)

I found Secretary to be a very satisfying film, although it is determined to be as strange as possible, and I don't often take to films when they are laboring to be offbeat. With magnificent art direction, quirky performances, and tone shifts in zig-zags, Secretary is an odd one, kind of a "When The Marquis de Sade Met Sally" kind of thing, except if that film were made with Tom Hanks as the Marquis. Follow the link for details.

Absolutely beautiful nudity. This finished as the seventh-best nude scene of the year in our poll, but it should have been in the top three. It finished lower because the movie is obscure and Gyllenhaal, although nominated for a Golden Globe, is/was virtually an unknown

• Maggie Gyllenhaal (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)

Swept Away (2002)

The Sun reports on the nudity in the Swept Away DVD. You long-timers know this story is fundamentally inaccurate. The scene shown in the article was in the original theatrical release, as I captured myself, originally from a "cammed" bootleg. You'll find my earliest, pre-video, pre-screener, pre-DVD report in the October 27, 2002 edition. My favorite scene in the DVD is the one where Madonna spreads her legs (non-nude, but really damned sexy as she pops out on both sides of the fabric). The article says that the DVD will come out in May. It is a U.K. newspaper, referring to the release date in England. The DVD is already available in Region 1. It has 16 brief deleted scenes, but no additional nudity.

Here is our review/info page on Swept Away

Here is a complete summary of all the nudity on the DVD, in the order in which it appears in the film: No collages, raw frames only.

• Thumbnails
• Madonna (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

Updates:

• Updated volumes: Emmanuelle Beart

Other crap:

• Celine Dion's husband paid a California woman $2 million in "hush money" about three years ago to keep accusations of sexual abuse from becoming public and possibly damaging the French-Canadian singer's career.
• The Justice Department today announced the arrest of a West Virginia couple on obscenity charges related to the pair's operation of the girlspooping.com web site. On the one hand, this seems to be activity between consenting adults, and I don't see why the goivernment should be involved. (It's a postal case - using the U.S. Mail to distribute obscene materials). On the other hand, the affadavit describes activities that will ruin your appetite for a long while.
• Instead of rating the movies, Mr Cranky turns his jaded eye to TV war coverage.
• Tragic. What happened to Swissair Flight 111 - 4 1/2 years ago off the coast of Nova Scotia? Terrorism? Nope. A fire in the in-flight entertainment system.
• Brittany Murphy dances at a strip club to prepare for a role Needless to say, The Sun is there.
• Randy Savage reminisces about his career Oh, yeah.

What're the odds?

Wimbledon 2003: Odds to win the Women's Single Title

From the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in London, England - June 23 to July 5.
 

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.

• Kelly Lynch, topless and rear nudity in scenes from the Fun House favorite "Road House".

Be sure to pay Graphic Response a visit at his website. www.graphic-barry.com.

Today we return to that all porn star flick "Sinful Deeds".

• First up Angelica Sin doing a little striptease show. (1, 2)

• Then Angelica Sin moves on to a little lesbian action with buxom blonde Adajja. (1, 2)

• Isabella does a little strip in preparation for a love scene. (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Winding it up with the busty Adajja baring her boobs for a male friend this time. OOP'S, not a friend at all he slits her throat in the final cap. (1, 2)

Scoops,

Some miscellaneous goodies today...

• The stunning beauty of Lauren Bacall in original DVD caps from "Key Largo". To quote BBC's Mark Cousins, "There's nobody today like Bacall. For a while, she stopped cinema in its tracks, made it look up at her as she looked down at it." (1, 2, 3)

LISA MARIE SPILLS BEANS ABOUT MICHAEL
Elvis Only Dyed His Hair - Lisa Marie Presley broke her silence about her marriage to Michael Jackson in a Rolling Stone interview. She said she "absolutely fell in love with him," and they had sex "for a while," but it "just got really ugly at the end." At first, he drank, cursed, joked, talked in a lower voice, and told her he was nothing like his image. So she wanted to protect him and help him save children and the world. But then he began disappearing for weeks and using her for PR. His manager insisted they kiss at the MTV Awards, and the last straw came when he told TV Guide that she'd said even her dad Elvis had a nose job. She said that was "B.S." and demanded a divorce.