Indecent Desire (1967) is a Doris Wishman sexploitation film, and has a somewhat more interesting plot than most of her films. A skid row type is trash picking, and finds a fashion doll, and a ring. He has some sexual attraction to the doll and later sees Sharon Kent on the street. He decides she is his doll come to life. Whenever he fondles the doll, Kent feels his caresses. Her work mate and girlfriend, Jackie Richards, is little help, as she is more interested in getting laid, and her boyfriend is out of town. When the stalker realizes she is seeing another man, he starts torturing the doll.

Both women show breasts and buns, mostly dressing and undressing. In typical Wishman fashion, the film is dubbed, but reasonably well this time. We have some patented Wishman camera angles, such as a low camera shooting up at a topless woman, but little or now footage of inanimate objects, other than the doll, which is very much a part of the story. Kent has nine credits between 1966 and 1970. As Does Richards.

IMDb has this at 3.1, but with very few votes. Compared to real films, this is probably fair, but as a Doris Wishman sexploitation effort, it has a lot of nudity and a reasonably interesting premise and rates a C on our scale.

White Chicks - Unrated (2004)

You can skip this one.

The "unrated" is hype, at least as far as skin goes. There is no nudity, despite one scene that was obviously set up to include nudity, and actually includes naked body parts just out of camera range. Two other FBI agents, rivals who don't like the Wayans brothers, publicly pull open the blouse of one Wayans and pull down the pants of the other in order to show the FBI bureau chief that the boys are not the real heiresses -  only to find out that they accidentally grabbed the REAL heiresses. Oops!

It WOULD have made a great nude scene.

Never happened.

It's also a generally unfunny and obvious movie. And, of course, the premise is absurd, even for a slapstick comedy. Two of the Wayans lads impersonate two white female socialites - in a room full of long-term acquaintances of the real heiresses. Get real. Perhaps the lads might hope to succeed if the disguises had to fool some people who had never met the real heiresses face-to-face, because the Wayans brothers did look kinda sorta convincing as women, in a putty-face sort of way. But that ain't how it went down. The script called for them to fool the lifelong friends of  the girls. (How did they explain their height?  "We had our knees done.")

I guess you just had to suspend disbelief a lot more than usual.

It's interesting that two black men can get away with impersonating two white women for comic effect. Do you think it would be considered acceptable for two white men to put on blackface to impersonate two black sisters in a lowbrow comedy? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Reminds me of a strange story.

In my TV days I once had to play a black man. Yes, I know that is in bad taste, but I had no choice. Here's the story. We had a black actor who failed to show up for the taping because of a mix up in scheduling. We had a studio reserved, a deadline to meet, a budget to stay within, and all of the crew and cast assembled and on the clock. The part required a black man - any black man who could deliver a couple of simple lines -  for a simple visual joke. A small, skinny white guy with a squeaky voice, ala Gilligan, was supposed to introduce his twin brother, a burly and polysyllabic black man with a voice like James Earl Jones. Because of the interrelated nature of the sketches, there was no way to re-write the entire show. There was no black man available, not even one of the crew members. I was elected. I was actually working as a writer, standing around the set in my suit because I went to the taping after working my other job. The producer/director didn't care if I was a writer or an actor. It didn't matter to him if I was Walt Fucking Whitman, because he was paying a bunch of technical guys by the hour, and I had the right build and the right voice for the role, so the make-up guys got busy on me and transformed my white surfer-boy ass into a makeshift James Earl Jones. (You can see what I really look like here - or rather what I looked like a few years ago. I'm about as black as Rutger Hauer.)

Of course, we weren't demeaning the character. The whole joke was simply in the fact that the two guys were twins. I was wearing a three-piece suit and I delivered my one or two lines with my best Darth Vader impersonation, so there was nothing especially undignified about it, but I was still relieved that there were no letters or calls of complaint, and the show was pulled from the re-run schedule. Without the permission of those who actually owned the rights, I personally stole and destroyed the original 3/4 inch commercial grade video, so I am sure the broadcast was never seen again and could never be seen again by anyone in the future. I doubt if there are fifteen people in the world who would remember seeing it.

(I do still have a 1/2 inch consumer grade VHS tape of the show, which I made with my home VCR from the broadcast, but that sucker is stayin' on the shelf!)

Anyway, I guess my point is this. I was terrified of the reaction I might get from playing a black character out of necessity, even though it was a sympathetic portrayal, an intellectual, and the only dignified and intelligent character on the show. Yet the Wayans Brothers didn't seem be worried about the appropriateness of  lampooning the daylights out of white female socialites in various cruel and degrading ways.

This does not seem to be a two-way street.

I'm not arguing that it should be. I've thought about it some, but I still just don't know how I feel about it.

I'm just sayin' ...

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

NOTE: because of a unique combination of circumstances with the Windows media player and some substantial bandwidth theft, we will have to do all of our movie files in zip format. Left click on the files as you normally would to view a picture. When you get a choice, click on "save", and put it on your hard drive in the directory of your choice. UnZIP and play from there.

I know this is not especially convenient, but it allows the film clips to continue. I can protect .zip files from hot-linking in the same way I can protect still images. For some reason, if I protect .avis and .wmvs from hot-linking, they will not play in the Windows media player, and I can't get a satisfactory work-around. Perhaps I will find a better solution, but for now this new policy allows you to continue getting the movie clips you want to see, which is much preferable to my abandoning the clips altogether.

Perhaps these tips will help if you have trouble with the codecs for these movies:

Shiloh says:

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec:  DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec:  Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3.  A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

 

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

A reader says:

You mentioned that some users were having trouble with the videos on your site. There is a tool designed to determine what codec is needed for a video. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Hope this is useful to you or your users.

Scoop says:

I made the .wmv versions of each video. The codecs for these: Windows Video V8, Windows Audio 9. The upside of these is that you know the codecs, and they'll play in the Windows Media Player. The downside is that they are slightly larger, and slightly lower quality.

Words, pictures, and vids from ICMS
 

• Carole Laure, part 1 (.avi zipped, .wmv zipped)
• part 2 (.avi zipped, .wmv zipped)
• Jane Alexander  (.avi zipped, .wmv zipped)

• Here's a quick .jpg sample of Jane Alexander. It is not great, but well worth a look, since this is her only screen flesh, and there have never been good caps of this scene.

Today the Ghost takes a look at the mega-lo budget Sci-fi flick "Terminal Virus" (1995), starring James Brolin! He did get divorced that year. My guess is he that he took this gig to pay for the lawyers.

• Elena Sahagun topless and smoking cigars with Jimbo. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Elena Sahagun zipped .wmv

• Kehli O'Byrne also topless as she strips for a love scene. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Kehli O'Byrne zipped .wmv

• Nikki Fritz...her big uns are bouncing as she runs away from a dude (having those silly-cones bouncing like that must hurt!). Eventually she is caught and roughed up a bit. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Nikki Fritz zipped .wmv

• Some unknowns bathing. All 3 B's are on display.
• Unknonws zipped .wmv

"Suburban Nightmare"
No one will accuse this 2004 direct-to-video horror flick of being academy award material, but it IS somewhat interesting, with a plot that's twisty and different.

Charles and Deborah are married with a pre-teen daughter, fight and bicker constantly, but are really very much in love. They are also serial killers who enjoy doing their deeds together (but they fight about whose turn is next, method of the kill, etc.). Things come to a head in this quirky drama when they decide the best plan is to kill one another.

Not great, but defintely different. Despite it's many flaws, I enjoyed it.

• Denise Clewis & Brandy Little

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