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New Line Cinema released a Platinum edition of Boogie Nights this week. There are so many extras, the had to put it on 2 DVD's. What there isn't is any additional footage. They cover claims that it was digitally remastered for this addition. It may be true, as I was able to produce larger images than my early attempt. The deleted scenes were much clearer than they were in previous editions.

This film has been discussed to death here, but let me say that this might well be Burt Reynolds best performance ever. The first image is a composite tribute to the film. I also covered the exposure from Julianne Moore and Heathr Graham, including the deleted scene.

Scoop, part two of the magazine round-up. This month's Femme Fatales is all about Hammer Films, and the women who started in them old vampire movies with the wax teeth and cleavage and British accents. There's a lot of small B&W pictures of unknowns, quite a bit of flesh, and a shitpot of info. I'm not into those old Christopher Lee movies, but if anyone is, they should buy this issue because it has everything you ever wanted to know about those mofo'n movies. Plus the issue about double the normal size with pictures and interviews wirth the stars and directors and shit. Good issue, if you into old wax teeth movies.

The one woman I did scan was Ingrid Pitt. I figger she was a big star by those standards, because Femme Fatales talk about Ingrid Pitt the way the tabloids talk about Brad Pitt.

You know the sad thing is that there is a little nudity and bawdy stuff in Polish sitcoms, and we have virtually none in the USA.

"The Thirteenth Precinct" is kind of the Polish "Barney Miller" or "Night Court". The wacky side of law enforcement, and an ideal place for loonies to gather. Lovely, fresh-faced Aleksandra Wozniak the source of the titillation.

I suppose there are two kinds of sports movies.

Category one tries to extend beyond sports, using the sport merely as a backdrop for a deeper story, or as a metaphor for the human condition. In this category we may find some fine movies like Field of Dreams, The Natural, He Got Game, and Bang the Drum Slowly.

Then there is Category Two, sports movies that just try to capture the essence of the sports story - the personalities, the crowds, the fun, the rhythm, the striving and often failing. In this category, we have some fine films like Hoosiers, and The Color of Money. I believe that Any Given Sunday is the best movie ever made in this category, and is the one movie which has lavished the most raw artistic energy on the poetry of the game. Brilliant direction, top actors.

Oliver Stone, as we all know is full of it. Technically, he may be the most talented director that ever lived, but he's still full of bullstuff. He is not capable of seeing anything without distorting it severely through the prism of his own prejudices and paranoia. When people agree with his biases, they tend to like his films. People with equally immoderate opposing viewpoints hate Stone only slightly less than the Antichrist.

But the world of football is perfect for Stone's distortions, because it's already a bizarro world full of people who intentionally hurt other people, corrupt unethical doctors, greedy owners, drugged-up players, coaches who want to win at all costs, self-promoting media leeches, millionaires who can't write their own names, fierce emotions, and crazies who love bruising physical contact with other crazies. And then half of the games hinges not on what happens on the field, but on the exact inch where an official spots the ball, or whether another official calls pass interference. If ever there was a human activity suitable for Stone's talents, this is it.

First of all, it isn't possible to be paranoid about Pro Football, because no matter what bizarre delusion you dream up, it's probably true somewhere in the league. Even Oliver Stone can't be paranoid in this world, cuz you ain't paranoid if they really are following you.

In addition to being immune to Stone's weaknesses, the game is filled with elements suitable for Stone's strengths. Intensity, frenetic energy, constant heroics, and a dreamlike carnival atmosphere. Bingo, here comes Stone and his MTV fast cuts, pyrotechnics, sound effects, and black humor.

See this film, know the game.

On the other hand, I don't especially recommend watching the DVD. Hope you get a chance to see it in the theater someday, where the hits will make you cringe.

Here are a couple of updated collages of noted classical actress Dame Elizabeth Berkley from the DVD, as well as some anonymous fancy lass.