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As the father
of three college students, my heart is heavy for the students and parents of
Virginia Tech.
Beach Balls
I can't remember why I decided to watch this movie, but don't
repeat my mistake. It's just another cheapie 1980's clone of One Crazy Summer without
the imagination. Our hero and his nerdy friend hang out on the beach all summer
long every summer, but for the third consecutive summer he can't bring himself to make his
move on his dream girl. When he finally does get to know her, she only wants to
use him to meet a guitarist she's interested in. This is doubly frustrating
because our guitar-playing hero also fancies himself a future rock star.
Along the way toward the inevitable happy ending, we get to meet the stupid
lifeguard jocks, the stupid hoods, and our hero's annoying family. Cardboard
characters all, each played by unknowns in a formulaic and predictable plot. The nudity is minimal and poorly
filmed, and the 77 minute running time is padded out with two full-length songs
and several other song snippets. Leslie Danon, as the hero's
annoying sister, managed to hang around the industry for more than a decade
playing French Girl, Girl #1, Girl in Bar, and so forth. I don't suppose she
made a great living in the biz, but she did get to see her name in the credits
many, many times. This was her film debut, and maybe the best role she ever had,
but the nudity is too dark. She had a nice body and also did a
brief topless scene in Sometimes They Come Back ... Again.
Thirteen years after this film a very
fit Leslie still looked great in a bikini in Burning Down the House. That
was probably her last appearance on camera. I'm not sure what she is up to now.
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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
*
Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
sucks.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Monique, My Love
Monique, My Love is an east coast grind house film from 1969, starring
Linda Boyce and Uta Erickson.
The stars play roommates. Linda wants to break into adult cinema. Uta wants
to be a writer, and decides to tell Linda's story. She also serves as
narrator. There is no live audio. The story is more of a premise than a plot.
Linda lounges around in bed naked, then sets out to get a job. She takes some
stills, then her new boss has her watch several porno films for training and
inspiration. Finally, Uta ravishes her in a long girl/girl.
Uta Erickson and Linda Boyce both show full frontal and rear nudity, as do
several unknowns.
IMDb doesn't even list this SWV film yet. Although the nudity is plentiful
and explicit, the plot is a throwaway, lowering this one to C-.
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The Hidden
Police detective Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) investigates a bank robbery
committed by a stockbroker with no previous criminal record. The man is badly injured in a high speed car chase and
dies in the hospital. The man in the bed next to the stockbroker then gets up, steals rock music and a Ferrari and goes on an identical crime spree. A massive onslaught of gunfire is needed before he can be stopped, and immediately after he is killed, another person completely unrelated and with no previous criminal record takes
up on an identical crime spree.
Detective Beck is joined by FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan).
Along with the mysterious Gallagher, who is not being entirely truthful about who he is, Beck discovers that what they are really hunting is a parasitic alien lifeform that is capable of passing from one body to another.
The Hidden introduced actress Claudia Christian to the world, who went onto become a minor genre queen, most notably as a regular on
TV's Babylon 5.
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Notes and collages
"Farscape" - Part 35
Season Four, Episode 19
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Film Clips
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Cat People
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I wonder if we'll ever to get to see the nasty
stuff Paul Shrader filmed for this movie. Shrader and Kinski were lovers and she
dumped his ass during the filming. That may not have been perfect timing,
because Shrader got his revenge. There's a scene where Kinski is tied naked to
a bed, and Sharader took the opportunity to shoot some explicit close-ups and
open crotch shots. Kinski called up one of the producers, who persuaded
Shrader to shelve the footage. I wonder if it still exists.
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The Comedy Wire
Comments in yellow...
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome SA unveiled a new line of watches made with
steel and coal salvaged from the Titanic, mixed with gold and platinum. The
watches are priced between $7800 and $173,100, but a spokesman said they'll sell
because they're "very luxurious and very inaccessible. So many rich people buy
incredibly complicated watches without understanding how they work, because they
want a story to tell," he said. "To them, we offer a story."
* Unfortunately, the Titanic watches are not waterproof.
A Concord, Michigan, teenager was arrested after he another juvenile
reportedly confessed to breaking into the home of Ted Nugent early Friday
morning. Police say they stole two all-terrain vehicles and two hunting
crossbows, which were recovered.
* By Ted...at bazooka-point.
* If ever any burglar had a plausible case to plead insanity, it's them.
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