The Greatest and Most Influential Erotic/Sexual Films and Scenes: an amazingly detailed list and good reference point for those (like me) who are interested in this subject. I didn’t know, for example, that Shirley Temple starred in a short called “Polly Tix in Washington” where, at the age of four, she played a high-priced prostitute! Yikes! (via MeFi)
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Tom Hanks is a Whore
Who Let the Manboy Past the Velvet Rope?
The good news: Criterion is putting out Dazed and Confused. The bad news: Chuck Klosterman is writing the liner notes.
The Bat Segundo Show #27
Author: Ron Hogan
Condition of Bat Segundo: Frightened of the 1970s, abdicating his position to a maniac.
Subjects Discussed: David Frum’s How We Got Here, Peter Bogdonavich, how filmmakers and actors are responsible for their own legacies, Karen Black, the accidental nature of casting, whether or not the 1970s is the Great American Movie Decade, Peter Biskind, “one for them, one for me,” George Clooney, David Kipen’s The Schreiber Theory, movies as business vs. movies as art, Hal Ashby, Roger Corman, Brian De Palma, The Muppet Movie as Joseph Campbell-Candide epic and the film’s influences, what Ron did while crashing at Mark’s, the problems of post-1970 photographic film, coffee table book vs. chronicle of 1970s cinema, the influence of film critics, Shaft Goes to Africa, film against instantaneous culture, the culture of scrutiny, television shows on DVD, and a good deal of idle speculation.
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Snakes on a Reshoot
Hollywood Reporter: “As film backstories go, this one is fairly serpentine. This month, New Line Cinema’s ‘Snakes on a Plane,’ which wrapped principal photography in September in Vancouver, went back before the cameras for five days of additional shooting at the Lot in Los Angeles. In this case, it wasn’t the usual reshoot, hastily assembled to fix a nagging story problem. Instead, the studio decided to create new scenes that would take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory.”
I think this is a first. Reshoots dictated by pre-release interest.