R.I.P. Bud Cort, star of the cult classic Harold and Maude
Since he will always be Brewster McCloud to me, here are some scenes from that film. Sally Kellerman is topless.
Judy Pace naked in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
The popular novelist Chester Himes wrote several stories featuring two Harlem detectives, Grave Digger and Coffin Ed. His books are sexy, some might say raunchy, and their tone is darkly satirical, some might say fatalistic. He focused on black protagonists doomed by a combination of white racism and self hatred. Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of the books in that series.
The humorous Godfrey Cambridge and the humorless Raymond St Jacques played the two honest but unorthodox detectives who “broke a few heads, but never any promises.” The screenplay was written by actor-turned-auteur Ossie Davis, who also directed. This film was a financial success, so Ossie directed several films after this one, but never again with such success, and he returned to performing after 1976. A respected orator, he spoke at the funerals of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. If you can’t picture him, you certainly know his voice, since he did the famous commercial that said “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
This film balanced heavy themes with slapstick comedy, ranging in tone from Cleavon Little’s tragic portrayal of a strung-out junkie, to Redd Foxx basically playing the very same character he played on Sanford and Son. There are times when the very serious pursuit of justice is interrupted by humorous unrelated vignettes, basically non-sequiturs in the style of Laugh-In. Some of the jokes and pratfalls that seemed funny at the time now seem cringe-worthy in today’s more sensitive times. Even though the film was written and directed by a respected and intelligent man of African heritage, I doubt if such a man today would relish images of black detectives crashing into a watermelon truck while chasing down a bale of cotton. A certain amount of self-deprecatory humor would still be present in a modern dramedy from a black auteur, but the topics and symbols would be presented with more subtlety.
For my taste, the plot has too many characters and digressions. It’s one of those deals where the guys who robbed the money were actually hired by the guy they robbed, or maybe they weren’t. And there are all sorts of sub-plots involving militants, an innocent junk dealer (yes, Redd Foxx), con men, the mafia, girlfriends who may or may not be involved, and I don’t know what all. I occasionally got lost in the digressions and distracted by the surreal gags. But that was pretty much OK. It is an atmospheric film, and the confusion was used as part of the atmosphere. It would be made differently today, but it’s still a very entertaining movie, with plenty of laughs, a good detective story, and a great ending.
And Judy was a stunner!
1080 HD Videos. There are also some unidentified actresses in the final scene. (SPOILER ALERT: The clip with the unidentified actresses ruins the surprise ending that I mentioned above.)
Tuna did the full screen version years ago, but I don’t see any additional nudity.
One tiny American high school produced 8 Olympians in women’s hockey
That’s an odd story to begin with, but what makes it really strange to me is that it is my high school.
It’s quite a story. When I was in that school with my fellow early baby boomers, there were about 2,000 students and it was just a typical Catholic prep school. Today the average graduating class is between 50 and 60 kids, yet they have managed to survive and retain the immense old facility.
How could that happen? Well, they expanded to a “high and middle” school, with grades 6-12, but that still only got them to 315 total students, not enough to pay the bills. Then they had a brainstorm. They saw the high schools in Florida that are basically training programs for elite athletes and realized that there was nothing comparable for (of all things) women’s hockey. They converted some apartments, where the nuns and brothers used to live, into dorms, and created a hockey boarding school. (It’s still a regular high school as well. The hockey players attend regular classes with all the commuter kids.) It was really a radical idea, and not many people thought it would have broad enough appeal to succeed. I never would have thought of it. But it turned out to be genius. That high school is still in business, while our identical sister school, faced with an identical situation and lacking a creative solution, has been closed for decades, as have so many high schools in an era of declining birth rates and increased home schooling.
As ol’ Casey Stengel used to say, “Amazin’!”
Grazi Massafera and others in episode 10 of Madam Beja
Grazi Massafera
Indira Nascimento
Erika Januza
Catharina Caiado
Videos. (Mayber .mp4 was the key. The sound seems to work on all of them.)
Liana Ayoun topless in episode 2 of Shlomi 6
Soccer-focused Israeli crime series. In Hebrew.
Two ambitious cousins from Netanya, who dream of playing for the most prestigious football clubs in Europe get involved with a criminal organization that trades players. In attempt to save their dream, the boys embark on a bloody coming-of-age journey that puts their future and their loved ones in great danger. A relentless pursuit of recognition and respect leads them to an inevitable collision.
Video. I tried saving the video as an .mp4, and GoFile liked that better. It played the sound.
Lux Pascal naked in episode 6 of The Beauty
Lux is a woman born as a man, playing a woman born as a man. She is a sibling of the famous actor Pedro Pascal.
Nudity from Alona Tal and others in the first three episodes of Cross, season 2
The top of Jeanine Mason’s butt in e1
Sara Sevigny topless in e3
Alona Tal topless in e3
I’ve kinda decided not to include 4K videos on GoFile, so these three scenes are all in 1080hd, but I did throw in the 4K of Alona Tal for those who care to download it. The still captures are all from the 4K version.
GoFile also decided to be finicky about the sound in streaming the 1080hd clips, although the sound plays perfectly if you download them. I can’t seem to figure out the logic behind it because I create all of the clips with the same method, and some play perfectly.
Alona did a better topless scene in season one (episode 6)
My auto-correct is weird. If I try to type Alona, it corrects to alone and requires me to override, but if I type im, it does not correct to in. Is it programmed by Germans?
“The 7 Worst Mass Murderers Who Didn’t Use Guns”
NOTE: The article uses “mass murderer” and “serial killer” interchangeably, a questionable practice.
A note about one on the list: H.H. Holmes:
Martin Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio were planning to make The Devil in the White City, based on an excellent book that interweaves stories about H.H. Holmes and the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The elements of the story were absolutely made for film: a charming serial killer who built a maze-like hotel designed to make people disappear, the assassination of Chicago’s mayor, and the complex preparation and machinations behind what was perhaps the greatest world’s fair. Meanwhile, the legendary Buffalo Bill, rejected by the fair itself, created his Wild West Show just next door. There’s enough there for several movies!
DiCaprio acquired the film rights to Erik Larson’s book in 2010, and revealed Scorsese’s involvement in 2015, but nothing much has happened to move it forward. There was some discussion at Fox about it last year, but Scorsese’s dance card seems to be full with other projects.
Scout Willis was nearly topless at a pre-Grammy party
Scout LaRue Willis going braless in a sheer dress to the Warner Music Group Pre-Grammy Awards Party in Los Angeles!
