Uncle Scoopy's world-weary musings about naked celebrities, sports, humor and other important, manly things.
Promoted from the comment section, from commenter Mike Lee …
1. Film clip: Unashamed: A Romance (1938) – Color
2. (Request) Anya Taylor Joy – Northman:
3. Andrea Thompson, Gun, Car, Blonde:
5. Lea Seydoux in French Dispatch:
Still photo: Lea Seydoux in The French Dispatch (2021)
Original .png version of Lea.
Requests are welcome.
Randomly saw this Belgian short movie about a teacher pranked by her class going nude:
Just wondering which other countries could pull this off? Getting a bunch of young looking actors who doesn’t have a problem with getting naked and shooting a short movie about a nude prank.
Do you know examples of other similar movies? Or maybe your readers do. It could be interesting see what other movies of this kind of relaxed, casual public nudity exist.
The vaunted SEC will have no finalist this year.
I can’t ever seem to get a rooting interest in the college football finals. Last year, I wanted them both to lose. This year, I want them both to win.
Indiana has the horsepower, and it would be fun to watch an once-unheralded football school have an undefeated season for the ages.
On the other hand, Miami had to scratch and claw their way here after finishing 3rd in their own conference, and having half of fandom saying they didn’t even belong in the tournament. They are single-handedly defending the honor of the ACC against the Big Two. Plus Carson Beck could become a national champion with two different universities, which is kind of a cool oddity precipitated by the new free-transfer world.
As I type this, Indiana is a 7.5 point favorite. That’s not surprising. The Miami game wasn’t decided until the final play, in a battle between evenly matched teams, while Indiana totally made mincemeat out of Oregon.
You might be surprised to read that Oregon actually produced more yards from scrimmage in that game, 378-362. That’s a pretty amazing stat for a game that Indiana won by five touchdowns, but an offense doesn’t need to amass a lot of yardage when the defense hands them the ball on the three-yard line. Indiana had one scoring drive of three yards, one of four, and another of nineteen.
It’s never a bad time to bring up Rosanna Arquette’s nudity, but this particular movie came up to the front burner because the screenwriter of this film is the same fellow who wrote China Moon, Roy Carlson. He disappeared from the industry after those two films. Based on some clues, I speculated in the China Moon post that he is probably the same Roy Carlson who died in Tampa in 1997, but I don’t know that for a fact.
A merchant seaman gets entangled in a murder in Tampico, Mexico, goes on the run from an entertaining pair of federales, and finds himself in the company of a blowhard American and his available wife. The middle-aged man and the sultry young wife share their convertible with the young man, and their 3-way relationship gets curiouser and curiouser as the police close in.
Debuting on Showtime, it’s a tribute to classic B films
Variety wrote:
Rosanna Arquette is the inarguable centerpiece of the picture. Watching her gallivant around as a voluptuous bimbo who is continually stirring up the testosterone of Anderson and Lithgow, it is impossible not to regard the film as a documentary tribute to the actress’ breasts.
As the good lord intended!
In fact, I would pay IMAX prices to watch a documentary tribute to Rosanna’s breasts. Talk about a deserving winner of Golden Globes.
To my dismay, I discovered that I have only crappy film clips. This must be available in higher quality somewhere, because some of the collages above look great. Who has some decent clips?
This is a South African drama. The name refers to a special type of ecosystem found in that country.
A real estate developer, on the brink of bankruptcy, travels with his wife to a lavish and remote property to close a prospective deal in a last ditch attempt to save his life as he knows it. But in the end, what transpires within the walls of that glass house where six lives intersect, has little to do with money, and everything to do with the human condition: lives and psyches are laid bare, others are obscured, and still others are simply left to wonder at just how narrow is the line between what is real, and what is perceived.
Johnny Moronic’s clips from this film are here, also including a rear nude scene from Jessica Haines, albeit a very dark one.
Cara has one credit on IMDb that has piqued my interest: the part of Naked Dive Bomber in a film titled Shotgun Garfunkel. Johnny Moronic doesn’t have that one, but he does have some clips and pics of her nude scene in Durban Poison.
This reminds me of yet another one of my failures, as I was always a mediocre chimera. Nobody loves a chimera unless they are truly great.
The same is true of lakes, pumpkins, Chinese walls, and of course, Waldo Peppers.
Not to mention Gatsbys. Nobody ever wrote a book about Gatsby’s bother, Chad. His bowling team just called him The Average Gatsby, to which his smart-ass pal, Tony, always said, “Average? My ass! Nobody could call his bowling scores ‘average’ except for a round of golf.”
Fotini’s character finds herself in a foursome this week
Nudity from the first two episodes and series information can be found here.
French drama.
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel ‘Le bal des folles’ by Victoria Mas.
Le bal des folles is also the original French title of the film.
What you will see in the clips:
Lou de Laage
Coralie Russier
Coralie Russier and Martine Schambacher
Charlie’s site also has collages of Lou de Laage in
Blanche comme neige
J’aime regarder les filles
Le cahier noir
Le tournoi
Les gens qui s’embrassent
Iconic actresses like Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, and Gene Tierney played scheming femmes fatales in the 1940s, defining the film noir archetype with roles in classics like Double Indemnity, Gilda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Leave Her to Heaven, manipulating men for money or power with alluring, often deadly, charm.
That genre lay dormant for decades until revived with great panache in 1981 by Body Heat, a stylish, witty genre masterpiece and a commercial success. Hollywood being what it is, Body Heat inspired a rash of mediocre imitators, and China Moon was among them. While China Moon lacked the snappy dialogue, wit and swagger of Body Heat, it had the always capable Ed Harris as the earnest fly trapped in Madeleine Stowe’s web, and it had frontal nudity from Stowe. Unfortunately, it also had some narrative problems 1, and wasted a lot of great character actors in unsuitable roles. Future weirdo Benicio del Toro played a young, handsome cop, and he came across as stilted and clumsy by trying to act normal, which just isn’t his thing. The ever-imposing Charles Dance was his usual arrogant, despicable self. He has that character down to a science, but in this case he chose to deliver his lines with a southern accent that made him sound very much like Foghorn Leghorn.
Why did I list two dates for the film? China Moon was originally shot in 1990 to be released in 1991, but was shelved for three years because of the financial woes of Orion Pictures. When it was finally released, it did virtually nothing at the box and soon disappeared into pay cable hell.
For reasons not known to me, screenwriter Roy Carlson never sold another script or earned another IMDb credit after China Moon was released. Does anyone reading this know why? (He also wrote The Wrong Man, which was responsible for getting Rosanna Arquette to remove her top. That was filmed after China Moon, but released before it.) The only interesting things I could find out about Mr. Carlson: (1) he got his start in writing by creating counter-intelligence manuals for the defense industry; (2) he was familiar with the Lakeland, Florida locations used in this story, and had relatives there. I don’t know what happened to him after 1995, but I have a guess. A Roy Carlson died in Tampa in 1997, and the obit says his relatives lived in Lakeland. The obit listed no career accomplishments after his very distinguished military service. Of course, that is not necessarily our man, but death would certainly explain the abrupt end of his career.
Tomato Meter: 40%
Popcorn Meter: 40%
Madeleine Stowe
Patricia Healy
Theresa Bean
Footnote 1 – spoilers follow
