Day: April 3, 2022

Jennifer Holland, with and without her shirt

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The topless shot is from American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)

That was the fourth and last (and worst) of the straight-to-vid efforts in the American Pie Presents franchise that came out before American Reunion. Apart from the fact that they purported to tell the story of the Stifler family, those films had only a vague connection to the original series, but they generally featured the same combination of comedy, sentiment and raunchy shenanigans. Eugene Levy continued to play the part of “Jim’s dad,” but he was the only character that appeared in all four theatrical movies and all four spinoffs.

Many years after the first eight films, there was yet another American Pie Presents film called Girls Rules. That one really just trafficked on the American Pie name. There was a character named Stifler, but there was no nudity and they didn’t even hire Eugene Levy. It was also an utterly lame effort (3.8 at IMDb).

Rumor has it that there is another film in the works with the original cast, but the last thing I read was that the only original characters willing to commit were Finch, Vicky (Tara Reid), and the Sherminator. That group wouldn’t add up to much of a movie. I guess it’s still a possibility because none of the originals has a monster career getting in the way, and they are reputedly still a close-knit group. Mena Suvari, Alison Hannigan and Stifler’s mom are always working, but I’m sure they could fit in a few days of shooting.

Barbara Carrera naked in one of my all-time favorite nude scenes

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She was gorgeous in her day, and she stripped totally naked in good light, then rolled around to allow a look from every angle for her role in I, the Jury (1982).

I still think Mickey Spillane stole this idea from my own story, I, The Nuremberg Tribunal, about “a hard-boiled dick who makes hay with the Nazi dames,” then executes them without a trial, because he doesn’t understand any law but the point of a gun, much like Liberty Valance. (And it goes without saying that he also obeys the unwritten law, which is easy to do because nobody can look up exactly what it is, so they have to take your word for it.)

This week’s famous pairs game – (RECAP)

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As usual I was not able to trick you guys. Between Fred and JJS, they brushed away even my trickiest ruses and red herrings. All were solved within the hour. Fred even came up with a second solution I had not considered.

Of course, if the picture can’t be solved at all, I haven’t done a good enough job of creating it, but I kinda hope to at least keep you guessing longer than I do.

What can I say? You guys rule.

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If you have not played before, the trick of the game is to figure out how pictures of seemingly unrelated items somehow form an English expression, with the separate parts of the original image usually connected by “and.” I started it some weeks ago just to kill a boring afternoon with no new nudity. Inexplicably, some people seem to enjoy it, so it has become a regular feature.

Here is an example.

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That is a picture of Larry the Stooge and a football/broadcasting great named Don Meredith.

Although each was a stooge in his way, “Stooge and Stooge” is not a famous pair, nor is “Larry and Don,” so you have to dig deeper. The real name of the stooge on the left is actually Larry Fine, and Howard Cosell’s personal stooge was known as Dandy Don, so the famous pair is “fine and dandy.” So far I have always put the images in the same order as they appear in the original expression, so Larry Fine is on the left.

That one is straightforward. Others are not. Sometimes there are more than two elements in the answer like “the good, the bad, and the ugly.” Sometimes I omit the “and,” as in “something old; something new; something borrowed; something blue.” Sometimes I get the notion to do a soundalike, like “Porky and Bess.” I will usually warn you when the answer omits “and,” or includes some awful wordplay, or employs some other gimmick, but I may not.