Sharon Stone Nude!

OK enough with the individual messages. They only seem to make my intimate circle of friends better liars.

On a completely different note, I was able to weekend with someone who has one of those crazy dish television services and I came across a movie called “The Last Picture Show”. I had heard of the movie from different sources before, but this was my first viewing. The movie stars Cybill Shepherd, among others, whom my unconscious mind apparently confuses with Sharon Stone and I spent days telling everyone I talked to about this great Sharon Stone movie I had just seen. Its also a period film, but the entire time I watched it I was sure it was made in the late 50’s or early 60’s, but when I finally got back to my computer to look it up it turns out it was made in 1971. Still pretty early for most of the stars of the film.

The film is beautiful. Its filmed in black and white with no sepia filter, which I think can be condescending depending on the script. The copy I saw wasnÂ’t letter box, but considering how it looked full screen the letter box version can only be better. All of the costumes and sets seem more than authentic and lend to sucking the viewer into the story.

The plot is set in a small town in Texas in the 50Â’s and follows the lives of an ensemble of characters as they cope with their circumstances and each other. Reading reviews on the IMDb, people seem a little put out by the sexuality in the movie but you can take this one from old Al. Any director who includes a sex scene with Cloris Leachman in his movie isnÂ’t trying to sell his movie with sex, but I did think that scene was kind of sexy.

YouÂ’ll recognize a lot of the stars in the movie, at a time when they were all unknown. Bizarrely, Cybill looks almost exactly the same. Buy it, rent it, pirate it, steal it from the library; whatever it takes.