This is the highlight of Defoe’s contributions for today.


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Stella is new to me.

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The entire film is available on YouTube for free.


There are no English subtitles, but if the film interests you, you can fake it by enabling the French closed-captioning (cc menu), then clicking auto-translate (settings menu). The resulting English subtitles will sometimes be awkward, but they are almost perfect, and will certainly do the job.

Another film shot in virtual darkness

Here is what the film looks like on your screen


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Here it is brightened. (It’s reduced in size to eliminate some of the noise. There’s just not enough light to work with to get large, crisp captures, even using AI.)


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Here it is further reduced in size and restored to approximately what the scene would have looked like with light bulbs.


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More interesting than this film is Salome’s appearance at the 2021 Venice Film Festival:


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And even more interesting is the rest of her career, especially her full-frontal scene in Lost Illusions(2021)


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and her topless scene in Filles de Joie (2020)


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The Pitch:

“Kendra and Blake are a pair of interns who got tasked with cleaning their boss Natasha Nice’s huge vacation house from the top down. Blake’s curiosity gets the better of her when she finds a strange terrarium. She leans in for a closer look, and gets jumped by an alien parasite. As Kendra finishes cleaning her side of the house, she gets surprised by a super horny Blake who starts kissing her and transfers the parasite over to Kendra as well.

And then.. big boob boss Natasha Nice walks in and the whole thing into a raging lesbian threesome.

AKA Outside In

Shiloh’s notes from the comment section:

“Another Celebrity Sleuth discovery was Heather Menzies ~ Red, White and Busted (1972). Ordered the DVD 3/4 yrs ago. Made a post at SimpCity April last yr. Tried to enhance, but sadly was a lost cause.”

Shiloh’s video is here

As he implies, the video quality was so poor that it is useless to tinker with it. Here are some lame efforts:

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Heather Menzies had played one of the von Trapp children in The Sound of Music, but around the time of this movie she was trying to change her image so she could get a wider variety of roles. As part of the plan, and at about the same time this film was released, Heather also posed for Playboy. As you can see from the captures above and the pic below, she definitely had a beautiful figure.


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The “mature roles” plan wasn’t really successful. After this role, she was mostly cast in a few TV movies and TV episodes. Around 1975 she married ol’ Dan Tanna himself, Robert Urich, and it was true love. They remained together for about a quarter of a century until his death. She basically retired from acting in 1982 except for a couple of parts in episodes of Urich’s shows.

After Urich’s death, she never remarried, to my knowledge, and kept her hyphenated last name. She devoted her time to the Urich Cancer Foundation. She passed away in 2017, shortly after her 68th birthday.

This film is also called Autopsy, Tarot, Angela and The Magician.

“B” movies in those days had more names than Spanish aristocrats.

You probably remember Sue Lyon. She was the original Lolita in Kubrick’s eponymous 1962 film, which jump-started her career. Kubrick and Seven Arts had signed her to a seven-year contract when she did Lolita, and they gave her plenty of work. She was cast in several major films in the following five years, working for John Ford and John Huston, and alongside A-listers like Sinatra, Burton, Anne Bancroft and George C. Scott. She carried on a public romance with the highly popular hippie-dippie singer, Donovan. She was on the A-List, on top of the world.

When that Seven Arts contract expired, the bottom soon fell out, and she was relegated to the anthology TV shows like Love, American Style, and films as bad as this. She finally gave up the ghost in 1980, when even the most insipid shows like Fantasy Island didn’t hire her any more.

Her private life was messy. When she was 14, she had an affair with a married producer. Subsequent personal events contributed to the decline of her career. She married a black man in 1971, which seems completely irrelevant today, but that was a different time, especially in the South. Interracial marriage was still illegal in some states until 1967! After that marriage failed, she married an incarcerated murderer. She had three other husbands. She got a reputation for being squirrely, and probably for good reason, as her daughter contended that she suffered from bi-polar disorder.

Lyon admitted that she was a troubled soul. She said this in 1996: “My destruction as a person dates from Lolita, which exposed me to temptations no girl of that age should undergo. I defy any pretty girl who is rocketed to stardom at 14 in a sex nymphet role to stay on a level path thereafter.”

She died at age 73 in 2019.

As far as I know, this is her only nude performance, and it’s a really obscure one. This is the first time I’ve ever watched the film, and Sue herself is not even listed in Mr. Skin’s database.

The captures are from a DVD, but not a good one. The quality is not much (if any) better than VHS.

But, dude! It’s Lolita naked!


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Alec Baldwin is a funny and talented man, which ipso facto proves there is no correlation between talent and character.

I tried to find Baldwin’s infamous Twitter attack on Drunken Stepfather, but I could not. I did find something better. Back on June 23, 2012, the tipsy one’s forum posted two pics of Baldwin’s then-fiancee Hilaria, on a day when she was feeling very cheeky.

Sample:

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Hilaria and Alec were married seven days later.