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Wednesday
Chat 'n Stuff
  • Michelle Pfeiffer talks about her body and why she didn't do more nude scenes. Link here.
  • Mail: Great quote from The Economist: "American Pie features an ensemble of unknown nubilia" . From my consistently erudite mail I know I have one of the most literate audiences outside of The New Yorker magazine, but (1) I'll bet not that many of them scout The Economist for movie info (2) I think most of us can add nubilia to our vocab list. I haven't looked up to see if it is a neologism, but I plan to start using it.
  • The country of Switzerland is launching a multi-million dollar ad campaign to change the country's image. They say that people think of Switzerland as nothing more than Heidi, chocolates, watchmakers, and greedy banks. They hope to give it a hipper image by recruiting Swiss celebrities like Martina Hingis and astronaut Claude Nicollier.
    1. Yup, that Nicollier is one swingin' dude, and the idol of today's hippest youth.
    2. Hey, I never thought it was just those things. There's plenty more. They also have super-efficient train schedules, holey cheese, knives that include corkscrews and drain-snakes, and some of the best darn yodelers this side of Slim Whitman! And don't forget those Alpenhorn concerts!
    3. In looking up other Swiss celebrities, I was disappointed to find that Zamfir isn't Swiss. Who could be hipper than he is? I'd put him in the campaign anyway because the Swiss really adopted him and popularized him. Actually, Zamfir hails from Romania, but it was the Swiss Marcel Cellier who popularized Zamfir's music on European Radio. Zamfir also furthered his studies in Switzerland, where (almost needless to say), they have the finest academy of panflautery. The greatest constructor of panpipes - the veritable Stradivari of the pan flute - is also Swiss. Click here for my favorite picture of Zamfir, master of the pan flute, performing in Switzerland. ... Click here for the history of the modern reintroduction of the Pan Flute to Western Europe. I ask you, how many other porno sites contain such information? Wanna know something really screwy. I actually went to a Zamfir concert when I lived in Vienna. It was held in an old church in a decrepit neighborhood, was free, and about 11 people showed up. The real experts in attendance told me that Zamfir has lost a step, is no longer the master of the pan flute, and is in danger of falling off the computer rankings altogether. Memento mori.
    • New Releases
  • No talk today. Behind schedule. New on DVD, The Corruptor, an American emulation of the Hong Kong action flicks, with the usual mismatched cop partners who come to love and understand each other. Yawn. Not Raiders of the Lost Ark, but has some good elements, quite a bit of nudity, you should be able to stay awake. Here is the early scene where they busted the whorehouse.
  • More of the whorehouse bust
  • More of the whorehouse bust
  • More of the whorehouse bust
  • The corpse in the trash hamper
  • The corpse in the trash hamper, close-up
  • Marky Mark spies on the women forced to make porn.
  • Marky Mark busts the porn.
  • The massage. This girl has a name. It's Alice Poon, who played the sexy camera girl with the cut-offs that Spader bangs at the beginning of "Crash"
  • New on DVD: "Forces of Nature". Bullock and Affleck. Do I need to say more? Bullock acts kooky. Affleck remembers his lines. Here's a Bullock downblouse
  • Here's Sandy bending over during a strip dance. I swear there should be something showing, but there isn't. It is a sexy and pretty picture, though, and I recommend it anyway.
  • Sandy in bra and panties.
  • Sandy in bra. Close-up. The closest she came to northern exposure.
  • New on video (although not this week): Juliette Lewis in "Some Girl"
    • Classics
  • Roxanne Hart in "Highlander". These look like the kind of murky scenes that could be body doubles, but they are not. In the director's commentary, he specifically mentions that Hart and Lambert had to come back and shoot these after the rest of the movie was in the can.
  • Roxanne Hart in "Highlander".
  • Roxanne Hart in "Highlander". Note the tributes to Kubrick and Spielberg in the two decorative frames.
  • Joanna Cassidy in Blade Runner. There are movies that we can't view analytically or objectively. Like a remembered lover, we cannot lose them from our hearts. I love Blade Runner, what can I say? More than any other movie. So much that I don't even know if it is any good, because I'm blind to such questions. All such objectivity has been lost. Like tears in the rain.
  • Joanna Cassidy in "Blade Runner". Too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
  • Joanna Cassidy in "Blade Runner".
  • Joanna Cassidy in "Blade Runner". Speaking of tears in the rain, here's the scene. Although the rooftop scene and the speech I quoted are two fixtures of screen legend, Rutger Hauer actually improvised that line and some others.
  • I noticed a humorous excahnge on a messageboard about Jessica Tandy's nude scene in "Camilla", so I tracked it down. She was 84 when she did the scene, and she had died by the time it was released. Hey, that isn't beautiful or sexy, Scoop. No, of course it isn't sexy, but she was one of the great stage actresses of the 20th century, a great and gutsy woman who continued to perform as long as she could stand, and did so very well, if I may add. She and her husband of 52 years, Hume Cronyn, appeared together here for the last of thousands of times they have shared the spotlight. She's terrific in this movie, which isn't a bad chick-flick, if a might contrived. During the film, Tandy and Cronyn speak this line aloud to each other, "And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over". It's a quote from Sea Fever by John Masefield. If that isn't beautiful, then what is?
  • Bridget Fonda also did a nude scene, the very same scene, in fact, but she was a full sand wedge from the camera, and you really can't see anything.
    • DiamondEdge
  • Edgy finishes off his series on "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Amy Lindsay is up.
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Amy Lindsay
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Amy Lindsay
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Amy Lindsay & Annaliza scott
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Kira Reed
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Kira Reed
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Kira Reed
  • "Secrets of a Chambermaid". Kira Reed
  • "Petticoat Planet". How did that get in there? Lesli Kay Sterling.
    • Zononon Zor
  • The famous 1986 Pirelli Calendar, with photographic art by Bert Stern. Supremely imaginative work. March
  • April
  • May
  • June
    • Valentino
  • Special treat #2. When did we ever have four brand new ones from Valentino? To sweeten it more, they are all new to me,a nd all photos by Mario Sorrenti. Audrey Marnay
  • Audrey Marnay
  • Zora Starr
  • Kate Moss
  • Milla
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  • Christiane Kruger in an episode of "Derrick", from Celeblover.
  • Ursula Buchfellner in an episode of "Derrick", from Celeblover.
  • Sophie Marceau in "D'Artagnan's Daughter", from Don Juan
  • Marceau in "D'Artagnan's Daughter"
  • Kyra Sedgwick in "Pyrates". This is from GR, but is a new one.
  • Marg Helgenberger, "Through the Eyes of a Killer" (Schatten)