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  • GOP pollster Frank Luntz revealed a possible Republican strategy if they run against Al Gore. He said he would focus attention on the fact that Gore was born exactly nine months after the famous "Roswell incident" - the alleged landing of space aliens which, according to conspiracy theorists, was covered up by U.S. government agencies. And here I just thought Gore was abandoned by his parents and raised by trees.
  • Salt Lake Olympic organizers are concerned that French athletes may revolt when they find they can't find wine in Utah. The other countries are concerned that French athletes, sober and deprived of wine, may actually run in the correct direction this year.
  • Star Wars Phantom Menace did 62 million in its opening weekend, but that's far short of expectations, and even below "The Lost World". A spokesman for 20th Century Fox explained it with a variation on Yogi Berra's famous "nobody goes there any more because it's too crowded". He said people stayed away because they thought there were no tickets available, not because of the poor reviews. My friend in New Mexico told me that he and his girl went to the 12:01 first showing on the first day, and there were only three other people in the theater. (He liked the movie, by the way)
  • The captain of a Swedish cruise ship that sank off Malaysia said that the evacuation went flawlessly because the crew saw Titanic so may times. Unfortunately, their stay on the island didn't go as well, since the crew's only other movie was "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
  • If you haven't heard, wrestler Owen Hart was killed this weekend, when a stunt went wrong.
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  • FR
  • Three excellent finds from FR today. This is Sheryl Lee, topless in Angel's Dance, which hasn't even been in general release yet. It features another of our Fun House idols, Mac Davis. I like to think of him as the reverse Michelangelo. Michelangelo was possibly the only person in history to be at the very top of so many diverse professions. He was the greatest architect of his time, probably the greatest sculptor of any time, and I hear he could paint a bit as well. Mac, on the other hand, has been absolutely abysmal at several different unrelated careers. His acting is about on the Shatner level, many consider him the worst songwriter of any time, and his singing sucks pretty bad as well. Come to think of it, he doesn't even talk that well. Both Mac (Lubbock) and Joe Don Baker (Groesbeck) are Texas boys. I'm pretty sure Hugh Grant is not.
  • Here's Sheryl Lee again. Just cleavage this time.
  • And here's Catherine Deneuve, still stunning at 55. She's not nude here, but I read that she did a topless scene in Pola X, which was screened at Cannes.
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  • Graphic Response
  • The Grand Master is in form again today. Linda Fiorentino in "Gotcha"
  • Linda Fiorentino in "Jade"
  • Sammi Davis-Voss in "The Rainbow"
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  • Crow
  • Michelle Bauer in "Tomboy"
  • Michelle Bauer in "Tomboy"
  • Wrestling's PMS girls.
  • Buffy cupping her boobs on SNL
  • Buffy waving good-bye on SNL. Everyone says this was a see-through, but we haven't gotten a cap that really picks it up well. This is the best I've seen so far.
  • Leonor Varela from that Cleopatra thingy. No nudity.
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  • Norman Bates
  • The motel king is back with a couple of new scans of Pam Anderson. Noramn asked if anyone knows whether any of these are taken since the latest breast reduction. It seems to me that the one on the right has the old pneumatic boobs, I don't know about the other.
  • more new Pam
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  • Mongoose
  • I guess Mongoose must be the king of variety material. I don't even know where he finds some of this stuff. First up, another forgotten classic. "The Invisible Maniac". here's Dana Bently Konkel as a news reader who falls prey to the maniac.
  • The maniac gets Debra Lamb.
  • ... and Kallei Shallabarger
  • ... and Melissa Moore
  • ... and Stephanie Blake
  • .. and Shannon Wilsey. She was 19 or 20 in this flick, and was soon to become famous as porn star Savannah. She committed suicide about five years ago at age 24.
  • ...and Tracy Walker
  • I've actually seen The Invisible Maniac, but this next Mongoose epic is one I've never heard of. Party Plane. The aerospace revelers include Iris Condon
  • ... and Jill Johnson
  • more of Jill. Apparently the plane included a swimming pool. Hmm. Let's assume the pool is ten by twenty and averages four feet deep. 800 cubic feet times 62.4 pounds. I guess that would be about 25 tons of water in a very small area, the equivalent of about 300 extra passengers, and with the additional problem of liquidity. That's one kick-ass plane.
  • and Jacqueline Palmer
  • and Karen Annarino
  • and Laura Albert
  • and Renee Way, with Palmer and Johnson
  • Renee Way by herself
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  • The Realist
  • Velvet Goldmine. I more or less forced The Realist to watch this movie, because I asked him to cap some scenes of male nudity. (As usual, Obi Wan waves his light saber around a lot) . There is a bit of female nudity, but it's pretty uninspiring and nobody very famous, but here it is. This is Toni Colette. the story is a bit of fan fiction - a what if - about David Bowie and Iggy Pop and the whole bisexual glitter rock era. Unless you are really into Bowie (the characters are renamed, but obvious), I'd skip it if I were you. It has some fine visual sensibility, but the script is meandering and slow, you don't give a crap about the mystery, and they seemed to end it a bunch of times, only to have more and more anticlimaxes pile upon one another. The music is a pastiche of real sounds from the era and songs performed for the movie. Ewan McGregor (as the Iggy Pop character) does an unintentional impersonation of Ray Liotta on heroin. Watch Eddie and the Cruisers again instead of this movie. Hell, watch The Golf Channel rather than this. Maybe even the sepia Ben Gazzara network. If your TV only gets Rosie O'Donnell, then you might watch this instead, but keep your finger on the FF.
  • Toni Colette
  • Toni Colette