Friday, January 14, 2011
I finally got the most expensive portable hard drive you could imagine in my mailbox. Yes, it's filled with every Playboy magazine issue from 1953 to 2010, but that doesn't justify the $300 price (duty tax excluded) for the hard drive.
The main reason why it doesn't justify the price is abominable compression they used on the scanned pages of the magazines. The articles are practically unreadable and the pictures are unwatchable. Even Stevie Wonder would notice that there's something wrong with the quality of the scans on the drive. After a couple of days of using the drive my eyes started to bleed. No wonder you get an ad for
Clear Eyes Redness Relief in January's issue of Playboy magazine, they have to cover their back in case someone goes blind reading this stuff.
I just don't get it. How could they go wrong with this? They've chosen a medium with 250GB of space, and yet they only used 16.6 GB of it for the magazines and the rest is available for your other digital stuff you'd want to store on it... like family pictures for example. I know I'd be more than happy with only 100GB of additional storage and crispy clear scans that I could actually read without going blind.
I know they have a better version of scanned magazines stored somewhere. If you check the free preview issues at www.playboyarchive.com, you can see that they are clearly from the same source, but they are far superior in quality. Why couldn't they put those scans on the drive? Lack of space on the hard drive shouldn't be the problem, lack of brain cells... most definitely.
Since it took Playboy more than three years from the initial release of Playboy Cover to Cover: The 50s DVD to come out with this hard drive, you also have to deal with an outdated reading experience. Forget about putting this on your iPad , Kindle or any other reading device. The only way to read this will be sitting in front of your computer through an outdated Bondi reader, which is used for browsing, reading and searching through the scanned magazines.
Search function in the reader is practically useless. A generic search like "
Pamela Anderson" gets you hundreds of results. When you click on one of them you end up on a page or an article where her name is mentioned. Since the search result is not highlighted, you sometimes have to go through a ten page article to find the exact place where the search term was mentioned. And when every second page ends with "article continued on page..." it becomes a daunting task to find something.
All in all, given the price of the product and poor quality of the scanned magazines, I think they should either recall the product or give an option to download the higher quality scans for those people that purchased the hard drive.
In case you still want to waste your money on this product
you can get it at Amazon if you're from USA or
abebooks for rest of the world.
Personally, I'd much rather get
a one year subscription at Mr. Skin, and used the rest of the money for a nice dinner date. But that's just me.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
HD caps and a video clip of
Jennifer Connelly from The Hot Spot from a HDTV source.
As I mentioned in my previous post, Jennifer stars alongside Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Winona Ryder in The Dilemma. Coincidentally, I also got my hands on a HDTV version of The Hot Spot, so I decided to make a few quick caps from the movie, so you won't have to search fro this nude scene too much.
It's one of my favorite nude movie scenes, but I don't know, maybe it's overrated. I finally got my Playboy Cover to Cover Hard Drive, did a search for Jennifer Connelly and, lo and behold, they don't even mention it in their Sex in Cinema articles.
If you want to explore Jennifer's other nude scenes from movies, check out
her page at Mr. Skin. You can start with
Jennifer Connelly's free hosted gallery at Mr. Skin and if you like what you see, take out your credit card.
Here are links to Jennifer Connelly's nude scene from the movie. File is hosted at megaupload, rapidshare and hotfile. Unfortunately, audio in the clip is Russian.
Jennifer Connelly nude in The Hot Spot [
MU] or [
HF] or [
RS]
The Hot Spot is available on
DVD at Amazon
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Movies to be released this week:The Dilemma (
Jennifer Connelly,
Winona Ryder,
Talulah Riley,
Queen Latifah,
Heidi Johanningmeier)
The Green Hornet (
Cameron Diaz,
Taylor Cole,
Analeigh Tipton)
Barney's Version (
Rosamund Pike,
Minnie Driver,
Rachelle Lefevre)
Ong Bak 3 ()
En ganske snill mann ()
MPAA ratings for this week's releases suggest lots of sexuality but little or no nudity. So, in order to see our favorite actresses nude, we'll have to dig up some old material.
There shouldn't be any dilemma where to look for when searching for
Jennifer Connelly's best nude scene. She appeared nude many times, but her nude scene in The Hot Spot still stands out.
Winona Ryder, Jennifer's co-star in The Dilemma, briefly flashed her boobs in
Sex and Death 101 and Autumn in New York.
Cameron Diaz joins the green movement, whose other prominent members include little green men, The Mask, Riddler, Kick-Ass, Hulk, Green Goblin, Ninja Turtles, Green Lantern, Superman when he overdoses on Kryptonite..., alongside Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in The Green Hornet.
Cameron did lots of topless photoshoot as a model, but once her movie career took off she suddenly stopped displaying her boobs in front of the camera.
Gangs of New York, Vanilla Sky and Feeling Minnesota are only movies where you can briefly see her nips, that is if you don't blink when her ice picks briefly appear.
Rosamund Pike,
Minnie Driver and
Rachelle Lefevre star opposite Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version. So far we've only seen nude versions of Rosamund and Minnie, no such luck with Rachelle.
Celebs in upcoming moviesFebruary 18th
I Am Number Four (
Dianna Agron,
Teresa Palmer,
Judith Hoag,
Emily Wickersham)
Unknown (
January Jones,
Diane Kruger,
Janina Flieger,
Petra Schmidt-Schaller)
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (
Portia Doubleday,
Jessica Lucas,
Ana Ortiz,
Mari Morrow,
Michelle Ang)
Vanishing on 7th Street (
Thandie Newton)
Happythankyoumoreplease (
Malin Akerman,
Dana Barron,
Zoe Kazan,
Kate Mara)
For a detailed review of all the movies, accompanied with pictures and video clips, where above actresses can be seen naked or semi-naked
you should join Mr. Skin's website.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Cameron Diaz was caught in a bikini during her vacation in Hawaii (
NS4W.ORG)
Time to look at some British glamour models: Malene Espensen posing nude (
Boobie Blog)
Rosie Jones poses topless for
Page 3. (
YDG)
Holly Peers is also topless in a
Page 3 photo shoot (
PHS)
Scent of
Natalie Portman (
The Beer Goggler)
Shanola Hampton was also topless on Shamless (
Flesh Bot)
In case you missed
Emmy Rossum's nude scene on Shameless. (
ITR)
Camille Donatacci - Grammer used to film softcore porn (
Mr. Skin)
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
HD caps and a video clip of
Monica Bellucci topless from movie Baaria.
Monica has only a small cameo role in the movie. A topless scene with a lucky bricklayer who gets to play with Monica's boobs is her only scene in the movie. Apparently she shot her scene as a favor to the director Giuseppe Tornatore, who also directed Malena.
Here's a clip of Monica Bellucci topless from Baaria. File is hosted at megaupload, hotfile and rapidshare.
Monica Bellucci topless [
MU] or [
HF] or [
RS]
Baaria is available on
Blu-ray at Amazon store in Germany.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
HD caps and clips of
Lindsay Lohan,
Mayra Leal,
Jessica Alba,
Alicia Rachel Marek and
Michelle Rodriguez from Machete.
Although Lindsay strategically covered her boobs with her long hair during her nude scene, we still got a few frames where her nipples protruded through her thick hair. Hopefully, next time there won't be any hair in the way. Too bad Robert Rodriguez didn't cast her for the role of Chica played by Mayra Leal. Then I'd had something to write about.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Let's see if I can be consistent and do a short review of interesting celebrity nude scenes of the week once a week throughout the year. Basically a review of what caught my eye.
Sophie Monk and
Cameron Richardson in
Hard Breakers. Sophie actually flashes her boobs for a split second in the movie and Cameron spends a lot of her screen time in various bikinis.
According to google analytics, half of Japan internet population saw
Rinko Kikuchi's nude caps from
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo.
I mentioned
Olivia Wilde's magic nipples before, they once more appeared in January's edition of Italian Max magazine
Toni Braxton was in the news, apparently she got an offer to pose for Playboy magazine and a
sked her twitter follower if she should do it.
Jessica Szohr took the torch from Ashley Green and did a body paint only photo shoot for SoBe's ad campaign.
Singer
Amy Winehouse flashed her boobs while on vacation in Rio.
Former Apprentice and Amazing Race contestant
Jenn Hoffman apparently accidentally twitted a topless photo of herself. I am not sure if it's real or not. The topless photo of her , circulating on the web, looks way to compressed to be from an actual tweet. I don't think those free hosting providers for twitter photos compress photos that much.
First caps of
Maria Bello topless from The Company men showed up on the internet. Movie will get a wider release on January 23rd.
Addison Timlin and
Emmy Rossum ended the week with a bang and gave nice start to the new seasons of Californication and Shameless.
Some interesting web finds from the past week:
Rosie Jones ,
Sophie Reade,
Kelly Brook,
Jessica Jane Clement, and
Amy Childs.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Shed those extra pounds with
Sarah Shahi. (
NS4W.ORG)
Paparazzi photographers caught
Bar Refaeli in a bikini. (
Boobie Blog)
Olivia Wilde posing in see through tops, pictorial from Italian Max magazine (
The Nip Slip)
Amy Winehouse flashes her boob. (
Taxi Driver Movie)
Jessica Gomes semi-nude In Madison magazine. (
The Beer Goggler)
Video clip of 2011 Pirelli Calendar photo shoot by Karl Lagerfeld. (
ITR)
Mr. Skin's
Top 10 Naked Stars from ArkansasOlivia Munn has a sexy pictorial in Maxim magazine (
PHS)
Victoria Secret model
Lily Aldridge was caught on the beach by paparazzi photographers in a white bikini.(
Busted Coverage)
Older pictorial of
Lucy Pinder topless in the latest issue of Newlook magazine (
Your Daily Girl)
Ali Landry also took a break and went to the beach. (
DaS)
Monday, January 10, 2011
Caps and clips of
Kelly LeBrock from The Woman in Red from a HDTV source.
I have such fond memories of this movie. Two scenes in particular. Kelly in a red dress, her skirt up in the air while she's dancing on an air vent. The second one comes at the end of the movie. We get a brief bush and boobs flash when she jumps out of the bed. And all this in a PG-13 movie.
Here are clips of Kelly LeBrock from The Woman in Red. Files are hosted on megaupload, hotfile and rapidshare.
Kelly LeBrock dancing in a red dress. [
MU] or [
HF] or [
RS]
Kelly LeBrock's bush flash [
MU] or [
HF] or [
RS]
The Woman in Red is available on
DVD and
VOD at Amazon.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Here’s a list of interesting celebrity appearances on talk shows this week.
Cameron Diaz stars alongside Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen Jay Chou in The Green Hornet. She will be promoting the movie on Jimmy Kimmel Live today and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday.
I think it's the last week
Olivia Munn will be co-hosting Attack of the Show!. Her fans shouldn't be too disappointed though. She has a sexy pictorial in February's issue of Maxim magazine and on January 20th she will return to the small screens in NBC's comedy series
Perfect Couples, series about three couples who have different ideas of what makes the perfect relationship. Olivia co-stars in the series will be actresses
Christine Woods and
Mary Elizabeth Ellis.
Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson will play judge, jury and executioner on the upcoming season of American Idol; premiers on January 19th on FOX. Jennifer will also have a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of Glee. You can catch Jennifer talking about her upcoming projects on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno today.
Ginnifer Goodwin will promote the new season of Big Love on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday and Live with Regis and Kelly on Friday.
Actress
Sophia Bush will be guest on Chelsea Lately today. Last time I mentioned her, she was preparing for a half marathon. I was slightly disappointed when I found her name among the
walkers results. Well, at least she won't have any problems beating 3:15:53 mark next time she participates in it.
You can check the complete list and all the future lineups on talk shows on
The Late Night TV Page website.
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