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Low-budget indie crime procedural from the USA

In an attempt to rectify their criminal past, a once successful Hollywood starlet, turned prostitute, and a petty, misogynistic thief, set out together to solve a high profile child abduction case in San Francisco.

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You can watch the entire film free on TUBI.

So in the same sense that Chris Reeve was sometimes identified as Christopher “Superman” Reeve, she’s Rachel “Rachel” Rachel. How did they miss her for “The Rachel Papers”?

The film is an obscure French drama. Original title: Faux Fuyants

After coming out of a cinema, car driver Serge accidentally hits a man. Panic forces him to escape. Later, due to a guilty consciences, he decides to hang around the victim’s family.

This is her only IMDb credit, but she had a tiny taste of fame as a singer.

Birth name: Rachel Ortas. She was the lead singer of an indie French 80s pop group called Luna Parker that hit the charts with the single “Tes Etats d’âme Eric”. After the split of the group, Ms. Ortas released a couple of singles under the name Rachel Rachel and moved to London.

According to the Gogglenets:

Rachel Ortas is an illustrator, graphic artist, and artist in residence at Central St. Martins, London. She is also one of the creators and founders of Okido, a children’s art and science magazine that blends education with fun.

That’s the same Rachel Ortas, because her Instagram page includes a few ancient pics from her singing days.

Filipino erotica. Original title: Lamas

Does the plot really matter?

Mona, a baker’s daughter, feels trapped by her controlling father Adon. New employee Lina ignites Mona’s desires. Adon has contrasting plans for Mona. Torn between duty and passion, Mona must decide her future path.

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Fausto 5.0 is a surreal, avant-garde Spanish psychological thriller and horror film.

The story follows Dr. Fausto, an oncologist surrounded by terminally ill patients, who is on the edge of a breakdown. While traveling, he crosses paths with Santos Vella, a boisterous man who claims Fausto miraculously saved his life years earlier. Santos offers to grant Fausto any wish, spiraling the doctor into a dark world where his desires and darkest impulse manifest instantly causing reality to dissolve.

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Irene Montala, Rakel Gonzalez-Huedo, Najwa Nimri – Fausto 5.0 (2001)

Russian erotic romance. Original title: непослушная (Disobedient). Similar to Fifty Shades of Grey

Twenty-year-old Elya is a student and a future ecologist. One day, Matvey, the head of a construction company, comes to her university to talk about a development plan on the site of an old forest park. Elya does not hesitate to smash his project to smithereens. Matvey is intrigued by the girl’s self-confidence and uses his usual methods of influence – he simply tries to “buy” her. But Elya doesn’t need a sponsor. Then Matvey, surprised by her impregnability, offers Elya a bet: seven romantic days according to his rules. If after that the girl still decides to leave, he will refuse to build a skyscraper in the forest park. She agrees when Matvey really suspends the design work. Elya sees herself as something like the heroine of the film Pretty Woman, but Matvey turns out to be not at all the person she imagined.

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Giglio Island, Italy

Jennifer Lopez at the Celia Kritharioti haute couture Fall/Winter 2026/2027 show on July 9.

I notice they rarely pay tribute to bas couture. I think its time has come.

Spanish comedy.

Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.

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It’s not a see-thru in the sense that you can see her areolas or nipples, but you can at least see the full shape of her breasts. The effect is more like pasties.

Pretty Maids is an all-but-forgotten exploitation film, a black comedy written and produced by Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Eurotrash legend Roger Vadim, the European John Derek. It featured a theme song by the Osmond Brothers.

So ya know it ain’t gonna be about the Holocaust.

Unless Mel Brooks was involved.

It sort of hinges on the premise that all of our high school fantasies were true. All the chicks had perfect bodies, ran around in mini-skirts, and had sexual habits that made minks look like the Sisters of St. Joseph. Remember that sexy teacher whose dress you looked up every day? Well, she really wanted to sleep with you, but you just never asked. Remember that wise coach who was also your guidance counselor and who taught you so much? You should have told him you needed some poontang. He’d have been there for you, dude. He would have told the hot teacher (who wanted his bod) that you were impotent and needed the cure, and that only she could help. And then she would have cleaned your pipes.

Rock Hudson plays the coach, “Tiger” McDrew, a former professional sporting great who has a wholesome recipe to turn youths into happy adults. For the boys – plenty of sports to keep them away from disruptive influences. For the girls – well, there’s only one way that they can ever learn to be women, if you catch my drift. Ol’ Dr. Hudson has the prescription of love. Yes, that’s right, Rock was sleeping with the females and pimping females for the males. He was really into that whole heterosexual thing. (Cough) Unfortunately, more and more of the high school chickadees start to feel possessive about Rock, and their desire to hook him seems to coincide quite closely to their commitment to an eternal dirt nap. Why does he kill ’em all? Well, Rock is happily married, and he just can’t have his wife find out about his special proclivities, can he?

It is a completely irresponsible movie, filled with amoral characters, other characters who know about the amorality but don’t care, and other characters who simply don’t care about anything. It features plenty of high school teachers seducing students of both sexes, and gratuitous camera angles up the skirts of high school girls, except of course for the ones who are already naked. In fact, this film will absolutely make you squirm when you experience it with today’s eyes and ears. Women found naked and brutalized? The perfect setup for plenty of cavalier remarks (“Cool! We never practice on the day of a murder”) and visual jokes. Roddy McDowell, the principal, offers a fitting funeral oration, that so-and-so was a great girl and a “terrific little cheerleader,” a mantra he had already repeated several times. This film could only be made as a micro-budgeted indie today. In the early 70s, however, this script was sold to MGM, and was able to attract the wholesome Rock Hudson to star, backed up by Telly Savalas, Scotty from Star Trek, Roddy McDowell, Angie Dickinson, and Keenan Wynn.

I guess the film is sort of fun in a shallow, superficial, Roger Vadim kind of way, although Vadim’s slimy European softcore attitude didn’t exactly mesh very well with the wholesome “palm trees and cheerleaders” setting, and the humor really didn’t work for me, neither in 1971 nor now. The film’s smirking condescension toward the dead women was coldly funny, and still is, as a satire of how little people really care for one another, but this is not your basic laugh-out-loud kind of humor.

On the other hand, I’m embarrassed to admit, when I first saw this film with my friends, back when it was in the theaters, some of us (mostly me) were wont to repeat the line about “a terrific little cheerleader” when we discussed people who died tragically.

Yeah, remember Jack Kennedy? Geez, he was a great man … and a terrific little cheerleader.

We repeated this stale joke for years, so I guess the film made some kind of an impression on us.

Of course, we took a lot of drugs in those days.

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FOOTNOTE

* In the past 55 years, or at least the portion on the internet, nobody has identified Adriana Bentley correctly. That’s not surprising. This is her only IMDb credit, and there are no pictures of her on the open net. Playboy ran a pictorial about this film in April of 1971, with the accompanying article written by Roger Vadim himself, but it mentioned all the nude women except Adriana.

There are, however, many references to her on newspapers.com, including this interview in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which specifically mentions her topless scene, referring to it quaintly as “barefoot from the waist up.” (They rarely used the word “topless” in mainstream newspapers in those days.) She mentions that she was promised that the scene would be blurred, but we all realize that promise was broken. That said, she looked great. She had a scene alone with Rock Hudson, but did not receive a separate credit, presumably because she never spoke. (She spoke English with a weird mixture of Spanish and Swedish accents, which would have revealed that she was not a California high school student.)

The reason she was left out of the Playboy article was political. All of the other naked women were cast by Vadim himself, but Adriana was forced on Vadim by Roddenberry, for reasons we don’t know, but we probably do. (Ahem. Promises made …) She said in another interview that she was also ostracized during the publicity tour. She did mention in a third interview, that the veteran supporting actors in the cast (Keenan Wynn, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson and Roddy McDowell) were very kind to her, so it was just “Team Vadim” that treated her as an outsider.

I assembled all these articles about her just because she has basically disappeared without a trace and the open internet is no help. Here’s one more – a real oddball piece about her walking the MGM lion!