Hideous Kinky (1999) was characterized by Junior as "mega-boring," and Scoop, as I recall, was not very impressed either. Kate Winslett takes her two daughters from London, where her long time boyfriend moved on to another woman, and goes to Marrakech on a "hippy' Odyssey to discover herself and expose her girls to the world. Even as an idealist in Morocco, however, lack of funds is a major bummer. She ends up in an affair with a local, Said Taghmaoui, and when he gets in trouble at work, the four of them take a road trip.

The film is mostly about the relationships among Winslett and her two daughters, and so is a character driven drama. Viewers are divided as to the merit of the film, but everyone agrees on two points. Winslett was very good in the part, and the cinematography is marvelous, capturing Morocco perfectly. Winslett shows breasts in a sex scene with Taghmaoui, and I included several non-nude images to show the beautiful camera work.

IMDB readers say 6.1 out of 10, with 6.7 from women 1-18 and 45 plus, and 6.9 from women 18 to 29. This indicates some chick flick appeal. My guess is that women identify with a woman trying to find fulfillment, while raising two daughters in difficult circumstances. Berardinelli and Ebert both award three stars.Rotten Tomatoes shows the disagreement over the film, with a 58% positive overall, but 100% from top critics. I personally liked the film, but related to the "hippy" theme, and frequently like character driven films anyway, but the proper score is probably C+ as a character driven chick flick.

Movies:

I always thought that Harley Jane Kozak was a fox, but there is not much skin in her career. Here she is showing one quick nipple in the cinema masterpiece Side Out, the 2x2 volleyball movie which featured real tour pros playing themselves, their performances shamefully neglected by the Oscar committee.

Here she may be in an episode of Dream On. You'll note that Señor Piel marked this with a question mark, and I echo his doubts, although I have never heard of that show using body doubles.

Also from Herr Haut - a bit of classic nudity. Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass. (1, 2, 3) This may not seem like much today, but it was pure sizzle in 1961. That tells you a lot about the era in which I grew up, unfortunately. I did not see Splendor when it came out, and would not see any nudity in a film until 1963, when I saw Romy Schneider in a brief USA arthouse run of a European film called Boccaccio '70. My friend and I snuck in to see that movie. My mom drove us to another nearby theater, ostensibly to see a different film, and we ran around the corner to see Romy do her thing, then ran back to the other theater so that we'd be hanging around outside when my mom picked us up. Romy, who must have been my first love in one sense or another, died very young, aged only 43, of a heart attack which was probably brought on by realizing that I had seen her naked.

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Other crap:

• Rosie Perez to get naked on Broadway.
• Cameron Diaz beat the crap out of Dicaprio while filming Gangs of New York
• very funny and very sacrilegious - the miracle of apartment g-32
• this is pretty cool - make your own Bush speech
• Eminem says:  'I may be getting too big'. Discuss among yourselves the meaning for the word "may".
• Dick Cheney - his career would have been so different if he had edged out Richard Gere for the lead in Breathless
• an even weirder picture of Dick Cheney
• Holy Scopes trial, Batman! U.S. Government ignores science when it conflicts with ideology, then lies to reporters when asked about it. Oh, those darned pesky facts, if they would go away and just let me believe.

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• The yellow asterisks indicate that I wrote the review, and am deluded into thinking it includes humor.
• If there is a white asterisk, it means that there isn't any significant humor, but I inexplicably determined there might be something else of interest.
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• If there is no asterisk, I wrote it, but am too ashamed to admit it.

Yesterday we gave you Corinne Clery in 1977's "Hitch-Hike", today we give you even more of the "O" girl (check out Dann's caps from yesterday). Today we see bad guy David Hess as he continues to torment Corinne in front of her tied up husband, finally taking her in a campsite fire scene. The last cap shows a stark naked Corinne after she has shot our rogue hitchhiker.

• Corinne Clery (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)

"King Frat" (1979) is a blatant rip-off of Animal House except with gratuitous fart and piss jokes. One of the video nasties: very expensive, hard to find, and no DVD.

• Teri Kelso: topless changing in dorm room. If this scene looks familiar to you, it's a direct rip-off from Animal House except the peeper is a guy in a gorilla suit instead of John Belushi.
• Teri Kelso:cleavage and flash of bush having sex in back of ambulance.
• Teri Kelso:topless in emergency room after being stuck to guy in the throes of passion. Such an incident showing up in an emergency room is an urban legend like the famous gerbil story.
• Suzina Volpina: very skimpy outfit.
• Rahnee Reiland: butt and boobs in covert change room movie. Later in underwear with Sally Ricca. She posed of hefmag a year later as a honky tonk girl.
• Tommie Grimstad: full frontal at costume party as Lady Godiva.
• Starr Dey: upskirt during fart contest.
• Karen Gold: bendover during fart contest. Looks like Geena Davis.

The 1968 movie "The Rape Of The Vampire" is billed as the "first French vampire film", but there's a lot more to it.

The film started out as a short, then expanded to a full-length feature by simply bringing back to life a bunch of the characters that were killed off in the middle (which was actually the end of the original). Hey, it's a vampire film so what not?

Director Jean Rollin threw in existentialism, vampirism, and chaos; heavy on the chaos because half the time you're gonna be wondering what the hell is going on.

One redeeming quality is that, aside from a lot of nudity, the black and white photography is absolutely beautiful, and even off the old master, the DVD quality is good, and the photography very enjoyable. The language on the DVD is French with English sub-titles but that's not really a problem, because there's very little dialog, and what there is makes little sense anyway.