Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (2001), or Bunuel and King Soloman's Table, is decidedly odd. Basically Luis Buñuel is talking about the making of a film where he as a young man, Salvadire Dali, and Federico Garcia Lorca are in 1930s Toledo searching for the King Soloman's Table, a religious artifact said to give you the ability to see everything, past, present and future.

The entire film is a work of surrealism, and was nearly as incomprehensible to me as are Dali's paintings. We have full frontal from two women, Italian Valeria Marini nude and Spanish Varolina Lapausa. IMSb readers have this at 5.5 of 10. Unfortunately the DVD transfer is not at all good. That is a shame, as the visuals are all the film has going for it. It is in Spanish, with optional sub-titles, and is only available on Region 2 PAL. This is a C-, interesting, but, for me, a very long watch.

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The Gift (2000):

This was the best nude scene of its year, and the only real exposure from Katie Holmes's marvelous chest. Here are the comments. We both liked it. Or maybe I should say "we like both of them".

• Katie Holmes .wmv

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• President Bush agrees that he will debate Kerry, but only on the subject of whether Posh and Becks should split.
• The Principality of Freedonia
• Whose words are these? "Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States. Jimmy Carter? Ralph Nader? A member of the Saudi royal family? You're not even close.
• The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Wild Things DVD. Bad news, guys: no more skin in the "unrated" DVD, at least nothing obvious. I'll look at it soon.
• A review of Nora Ephron's screenplay for "Bewitched"
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• On the 10th anniversary of his death, RollingStone.com remembers Cobain with his fans. In honor of their fallen leader, the Nirvana heads commemorated the anniversary by killing themselves after marrying a crazy blond skank. That made it a long day of marriage proposals for Sondra Locke, who eventually just left her phone off the hook.
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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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 Junior or Brainscan, or somebody else besides me)
• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

Early in their nekkid film career.

• Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl. This is the first and only time those hooters have been on camera in a movie or TV show, and even in this scene they may have been covered with band-aids. Well, that's what she claims, anyway. (.avi version,  .wmv version).

• Jennifer Jason Leigh starts off a long career of nudity in the teen classic, Fast Times. To be technically correct, this was not her first screen nudity. Leigh was actually topless briefly in an earlier film called Eyes of a Stranger, which I have never seen. It is available on VHS, but still not on DVD. (.avi version,  .wmv version).

• Joanna Page in Love, Actually, as with JJL, this was not really her first nudity. She was topless and incredibly adorable in From Hell. (.avi version,  .wmv version). (Here's a Tuna cap from From Hell)

Perhaps these tips will help if you have trouble with the codecs for these movies:

Shiloh says:

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec:  DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec:  Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3.  A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

 

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

A reader says:

You mentioned that some users were having trouble with the videos on your site. There is a tool designed to determine what codec is needed for a video. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Hope this is useful to you or your users.

Scoop says:

I made the .wmvversions of each video. The codecs for these: Windows Video V8, Windows Audio 9. The upside of these is that you know the codecs, and they'll play in the Windows Media Player. The downside is that they are slightly larger, and slightly lower quality.

Scoops,

Here's a vid and some 'caps that might interest you. They're from from an Italian movie called "Scent of Passion", starring Malù and a smashing blonde named Ángeles López Barea. Quite a classic as far as I'm concerned.

Malù and Barea play a couple of dancers who share a boyfriend, as well as themselves.

In the video clip we see them share some quality time together in the sauna. I like the way the director knew exactly what shots of his leading ladies he wanted :-)

This is available on DVD in the UK, but the transfer is very ropey, your US readership might be better off getting hold of one the US video versions, should they, er, want more details on how it all turns out in the end...

• Ángeles López Barea, topless with hints of the other 2 B's

• Malù, full frontal.

• Malù and Ángeles López Barea, all 3 B's and some lesbian lovin'. (1, 2, 3)

• .wmv video clip, with full frontal nudity from both ladies.

Elizabeth Hurley and Patsy Kensit in the 1990 movie you've probably never seen, "Der Skipper" aka "Kill Cruise".

• Elizabeth Hurley, briefly topless. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Liz .wmvs. Topless in #1, having a breast sucked in #2, and gettin' it from behind in #3 (no nudity though). (1, 2, 3)

• Patsy Kensit, bikini.

• Hurley and Kensit, bikinis, etc. (1, 2)

Next on the list, the Ghost takes a look at the 1993 movie "The Baby Doll Murders"...currently only available for home viewing as an antique (aka VHS).

• Joanne Lara, topless in a shower scene. (1, 2)
• .wmvs of her shower scene. (1, 2)

• Melanie Smith...the best nudity of this batch. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• .wmvs of her topless in the hot tub. (1, 2)

• Tuscany, also topless. (1, 2)
• .wmvs of her toplessness. (1, 2)

GATES NO LONGER WORLD'S RICHEST MAN
That's It! No More Charity! - According to the Swedish business magazine Veckans Affarer, Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man. Because of Gates' charity giveaways and the dollar's slide against other currencies, IKEA furniture founder Ingvar Kamprad, 77, is now ahead of Gates, $53 billion to $47 billion. Kamprad lives in Switzerland and is famous for his frugal habits, such as flying economy class instead of first class.