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Wednesday

  • It was a disappointing week for new DVD releases. Just "The Other Sister" and "Twin Dragons". Therefore, I took a look at some other material.
  • Movie Trivia time. This excellent letter asks a question which I can't answer from memory. Who's got the scoop for him Remember when there were still drive-ins? Remember when the whole family would hop in the car and head off to the drive-in to watch some cute old film, probably with Doug McClure and a bunch of fake dinosaurs? Well on one occasion, when I was around 7 or 8, my Dad and one of his buddies dragged me off to the drive-in. (Mom was probably working, and it was likely easier for them to bring me than to find a baby-sitter...) This wasn't to see some old dinosaur film, though. I don't remember all that much, because I was supposed to be asleep in the backseat, but there is one part of the movie that has stuck in my memory. As I recall, a bunch of guys break into a house and catch a couple of young kids bumping uglies. The kids are probably supposed to be late teens. They end up tied together, face-to-face, with a lot of rope. They're still nekid, though. Buck nekid. The guys are laughing about it while the camera flashes to the kids, bound together, gagged (I think), and laying on the bed buck-nekid. They end up stuck that way for quite a while, and I think the father of the girl is due home at some point. (The idea being that he'll have to be the one to untie his darling daughter and her naughty boyfriend.) That's about the only thing I can still remember about the film. Bear in mind that I was only 7 or 8, and this must have been at least 25 years ago. This image has haunted me for the past 20 + years. When I hit puberty a few years later, I frequently thought about how wonderful it would be to be tied to some nekid, nubile cutey, body-to-body, for hours on end. To this day, out of the blue, I'll get hit by the image of those two tied-up nude. The film was probably shot in the late sixties to early seventies. Certainly no later than the mid-seventies. If you know which one I'm referring to, I'd love to find out.
  • A tip from the mailbox. I was watching a movie on the Sundance Channel called "Six Days, Six Nights" which is also known as "La Folie" and "Alice et Elsa." It starred Beatrice Dalle and Anne Parillaud. I noticed that you had the Beatrice Dalle caps from the movie but you don't have the Anne caps. The reason I bring this up is that I have not seen Anne caps from this movie anywhere (Scanman, etc). Not only is there a full frontal but there is also a scene (albeit brief) where Anne clearly holds onto her boyfriend's member. I know sometimes with foreign films that different versions float around. But the scenes I am writing about are certainly worth capping. Since the movie is not particularly good, maybe other cappers never bothered to finish watching it? You might mention this to your regulars.
  • A tip from the mailbox. I read somewhere that the New York Post or Times ran a picture of Heather Donahue (Blair Witch Project) lifting her skirt and exposing her panties at a premier or something. Maybe you could look into it.
  • A tip from the mailbox. There is a small red-blondish girl with almost-perfect breasts who stripped on the bed in "Key Exchange". Would love to see this scene.
  • From the mailbox. Susan George was always a fave with me--great natural sexiness--so one of the 'cappers might try to hunt down a copy of, I believe, "P.C. Strange" (not sure I have the title right, and probably an early '70s flick), with the piney (i.e., wooden) Michael York as a wayward Bobby (hence the P.C.: Police Constable) and George as a hippie temptress, who with a little weed and a lot more bosom and bum leads the weak copper into fields of sin. I seem to recall bow-coups of skin, with a memorable scene in which Mikey and Susie romp around with a giant balloon betwixt them, their hot bodies meeting as the air rushes out. .
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  • I didn't cap the frontal nudity in Outside Ozona because it is a bunch of anonymous strippers. On the other hand, the movie is a truly offbeat dream-poem of a movie about the loneliness of the open prairie roads on the graveyard shift, and a serial killer who wanders those roads among the usual assortment of losers, misfits, daffodils, and lonelyhearts. It's not quite a great movie because it tried to dominate the entire movie with murky tone and forlorn bluesy dialogue, and that is a very difficult thing to achieve without turning it all to cornball mush. The entire movie tried to be the cinematic equivalent of a saxophone solo, and while it had some great moments, other dialogue rang false. On the other hand, if you have a taste for the strange, as I do, you might give it a rent. I really enjoyed Kevin Pollack (most famous for his Bill Shatner impersonation) as the obnoxiously perfectionistic circus clown and Penelope Ann Miller as his ex-stripper girl. Down on his luck and too proud to accept a handout, Pollack robs a c-store, but ultimately apologizes, returns the money, and buys a Pepsi from his erstwhile victim.
  • Time is required for perspective, but many people are now saying that "Friends & Lovers" could be the worst movie ever made. I don't really think so. I thought it was bad, but actually not as bad as the critics said. It's about on the level of a typical TV sitcom, which is a pretty bad way to pass 90 minutes, but not as bad as watching "200 Cigarettes", for example. Alison Eastwood got naked briefly, and used that time to do some very spirited humping, so some of you may rent it on that basis. Not more than a hint of her lower body, but a clear topless shot and .....
  • Eastwood: another look at her lifting her blouse, and a few miscellaneous frames. The images in this collage came out pretty good, considering it was a VHS tape, not DVD.
  • Eastwood: woman on top
  • A few more miscellaneous frames of Dirty Harriet
  • ... and here's Suzanne Cryer, also topless in Friends and Lovers
  • one more Cryer. The greatest disappointment of this movie: Claudia Schiffer is in the movie and while she does drop her blouse quite a bit lower than it should ride, she ultimately leaves it on. By the way, I don't think Claudia will be challenging Streep and Emma Thompson for any statuettes in the near future. On the other hand, she has already done better than the cumulative legacy of Kathy Ireland.
  • There is no dedicated Johnny Web website, but those scans and caps are introduced in the Fun House, and archived in the back issues. Search for "Johnny Web" with the search function in the back issues. We have more than a year of back issues, plus the rasslin' babes site, the fakes, the Fun House, the Encyclopedia, and the Mardi Gras pics. Click here to sign up, log in, or get info
  • Really bad movies are fun in that they allow reviewers to really cut loose. Here's what Apollo Guide had to say about this one
  • iF Magazine's Review
  • The S.F. Chronicle's Review
  • Roger Ebert's review
  • Comments from IMDb members
  • newsgroup comments
  • Tuna
  • Classic porn from the Yellow-Finned one. Constance Money in Misty Beethoven.
  • I really like these frames of Helen Shaver in The Osterman Weekend
  • Merete van Kamp in The Osterman Weekend
  • Stallone and Stone in The Specialist
  • Master Bagger
  • ..an explicitly naked Melissa Wolfe.
  • A star is born, and an old star returns
  • Move over BD and Crow and Beercaps, because there's a new guy on your turf. Diamondedge sent in just a whole bunch of wrestling and similar stuff. He did a nice job, too. Here's Tori and Ivory battling it out in the locker room on RAW.
  • more of the same
  • here's Terri Runnels at the mike
  • more babes at RAW
  • Chyna and her familiar musclebound butt
  • a large breasted lady from Rollerjam.
  • these two are labeled "Tommy Boy". I guess it would be very brief nudity from that Spade/Farley film which I have not seen. This one is the setup
  • Here's the nudity.
  • Crow sent in seven non-nudes of Sable from a rasslin' mag
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  • Sable. This one has the most flesh. She's in a thong bikini.
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  • Caps and Commentary by Mongoose
  • These caps are from one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. "Requiem pour un Vampire" was directed by (in)famous French director Jean Rollin. The movie was made on a shoestring budget but has beautiful cinematography, quirky art school type directing, a wonderful soundtrack with music ranging from baroque to psychedelic drone jam and naked bisexual virgin runaways with guns! What else could you want? The movie opens with our two gals in clown get ups, with a wounded young man in a car. They are firing their guns at their pursuers. And here it is.(non-nude):
  • The first 40 minutes of the movie has no more than 20 words of spoken dialogue. Marie Pierre Castel is seducing the owner/operator of a lunch wagon so that her friend, Mireille D'Argent can steal some of the food.
  • Somehow the girls wind up in their clown costumes again. They find an old castle and quickly locate the bedroom, which was lit in a purplish light, and proceed to get naked and cuddle.
  • A non-nude montage of the girls walking about with guns drawn. This movie was also released as Caged Virgins and Virgins and Vampires and about 10 other titles as well. (See Scoopy's notes below)
  • Here's the first of three unknown actresses. The problem with these old movies is that it can be difficult to identify all of the actresses. The beginning credits did give a list of names of actresses but did not assign a name or other descriptive ("girl with boobs squished") so that I could make out who is who. If you recognize any of these unknown actresses.let me know so I can put their names on the pics! Unknown actress numero uno being attacked by bad lady vampire as played by Dominique.
  • Unknown actress number two is a real cutie. Our two heroines are in the castle dungeon witnessing the molestation of these three damsels in distress. The lighting is very red, by the way.(6)
  • Unknown actress numero dos getting molested some more.
  • Unknown actress number two having a vampire bat feeding on her twat.
  • Unknown actress number three. This is an artistic study of how many ways a woman's breasts can be squished. This close up of the boobs being manipulated in every conceivable way and manner lasted four or five minutes. Genius.
  • This was kind of cool. Unknown actress number three was chained to the wall naked. The camera did a very slow pan from her feet up to her head and she didn't move much at all. I made caps as they panned upward and combined the caps to form a single pic of her standing there naked. This is the result. It is made of six caps arranged horizontally and with the seams erased as well as I could do it. Kind of an oddity for a cap.
  • Mireille D'Argent exposing herself to a guy on a bicycle. The girls are now using sex to attract food for the vampires.
  • This poor guy has to chase Mireille for about five minutes before he gets a little. Then he becomes food for the undead.
  • Marie Pierre Castel with her dupe. Marie also appeared in Rollin's previous film, La Vampire Nue, along with her identical twin sister.
  • Marie Pierre did not allow the vampires to drink her lover's blood and so she gets chained to the ceiling (buck full frontal nekkid) and Mireille is ordered to whip her into informing where her lover is hiding.
  • Mireille can only whip so much before she gives Marie Pierre a big smoochy kiss.
  • Marie Pierre almost gets her eye poked out! Last bit of nudity from this movie.
  • Scoop's notes on the multiple names for this picture: This movie was co-produced by Rollin and a guy named Sam Selsky. Selsky was an American ex-pat who had been living in Paris for decades. He was kind of a real-life Indiana Jones. He was trained as a geologist and a mining engineer, and led many expeditions around the globe, once being captured by (and presumably escaping from) cannibals. After WW2, he ended up in France as the local administrator for UNESCO. He left this prestigious (his boss was Julian Huxley) but not very lucrative job to open up first one, then a chain, of small art theatres. He eventually became the major importer of American movies in France. Selsky was the driving force behind Rollin's breakthrough film, "Le Viol de Vampire". Selsky's marketing of that film is the stuff of show biz legends. He knew the finished product was incomprehensible crap, so he screened it for the Boublil brothers (major cinema owners) with a steady stream of chitchat and insider stories so that he could rationalize their confusion by "sorry, I must shut up so you can follow the film". It worked, the film was released, and greeted by universal scorn. The magic was that the sex scenes, graphic for their time, caused a stir and Rollin developed a cult following.

    Going back to this movie for a minute, "Virgins and Vampires" was Rollin's working title. Selsky hated the title so he opened up the naming of the film to a public competition. In classic fashion, he awarded himself the prize money, for the uncannily brilliant "Requiem for a Vampire".

    The American distributor was Harry Novak, another exploitation legend, the guy who left Disney for "Boxoffice International Pictures". Selsky was furious to find that Novak switched his prize-winning title to "Caged Virgins" for the US release, but he told the press "Americans probably don't understand what requiem means, anyway"

    Other notes: They actually screened a few minutes of this film at the Cannes festival back in the early 70's, because Rollin was something of a "succes de scandale" back in Paris. Rollin's films are filled with familiar obsessions. Runaways, lonely castles, clown costumes, vampires who need psychiatrists, people speaking in hollow robotic voices. These elements are as familiar to him as running water noises in Tarkovsky films, or trained bears in John Irving novels. I can never remember which of his films are which. The only one I can remember clearly was The Nude Vampire, where the vampire's slaves/victims looked like reindeer instead of bats. I suppose they did this because reindeer horns tied on someone's head, and backlit at night, provide an effect both cheap and kinda scary. Of course, it's not really too scary if you approach it cerebrally, since reindeer are herbiverous, and represent a much greater threat to your garden than to your daughters. "Look out, Marge, I think he's going to graze"

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  • three non-nudes from FR today, but each kind of interesting. Here's a Cybil Shepherd bikini from Last Picture Show.
  • This is Victoria Principal on an episode of Dallas.
  • and Monica Bellucci promoting her new film. She presents two compelling reasons to watch it.
  • Graphic Response
  • Four from the Grandmaster today. Phyllis Davis full-frontal in the filming of Terminal Island. Some frames did not make it to some prints, so this is rare stuff.
  • Catherine Bell in The Brunch Club
  • Phyllis Davis in Sweet Sugar
  • Jacqueline Bisset in Secrets
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  • You can also find these guys at www.germancelebs.de or on the Undernet at #germancelebs, where they have film clips and other material not available elsewhere. Here's Slarti's caps of Nina Bagusat in "Vater wider Willen"
  • Johanna-Christine Gehlen in "Rache ist suess"
  • Tina Plate (not nude) in "Unforgettable Weekend in Mallorca"
  • Markie Post in "Tricks of the Trade". That may or may not be her nipple. If so, it's the one and only appearance that I know of.
  • Talisa Soto in "Hostage"
  • Asia Argento in a non-topless topless from Norman Bates. It's sexy and scary. Norman also has his own site at www.normanbates.de. Last I looked it was completely free, and must contend for the title of best totally free site ever.
  • Isabelle Parkinson in "Nur fuer eine Nacht" (Celeblover)
  • Chiara Schoras in "Einfach Klasse" (Celeblover)
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  • Here's eight more of those Gail Porter pics. Very small ones this time. B&W nude
  • Blue nude
  • Blue nude
  • Blue nude. I don't know why, but I don't remember seeing this one before.
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  • Color t-shirt
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  • From Helcrom: Melora Walters in "Los Locos"
  • From Helcrom: Melora Walters in "Los Locos"
  • From Helcrom: Melora Walters in "Los Locos"
  • From Helcrom: Jennifer Jason Leigh in "Miami Blues"
  • I've seen a lot of vidcaps of Katie Holmes in Disturbing Behavior, and I think this must be the very best. In fact, it's one of the best captures I've seen from any movie. From Yard Dog. Not nude, but trust me, you want to see it.
  • another of YardDog's from "Behavior", Crystal Cass.