Well, now.

[yendi]

"I wouldn't do nudity in a film. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary." -- Julia Roberts

I would like to note that I watched a ton of "documentaries" on channel J while growing up, and they were instrumental in getting me through the early years of puberty. And to think I'd never known the technical term for those movies.

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Oo! That's what I can call Kentucky Fried Movie!

[yendi]

KFM is just a work of genius. Love that film.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"The, uh, strike there is, uh, what's happening in Japan with those Japanese."

That movie warped me early in my puberty. Bless it. (I seriously wonder, how close did that young man and young woman come close to actual hardcore?)

I sometimes do the "Sheldon" gag from the law show segment.

I liked that the video I watched (and, um, *cough cough* copied *cough cough* which I still have *cough cough*) ended with a trailer for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. ("No time to make a fuss, we gotta get those tomatoes before they get us...") Later in college my dorm rented it and it was the same transfer, with the same trailer at the end.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

IIRC, one censor (in either the UK or Australia) used to allow images of topless African and aboriginal women in films back in the 1960s on the grounds that "black breasts weren't erotic, they were documentary".

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

She left off "but acting with a body double to handle the nudity is cinema"

[terminusvox.livejournal.com]

Umm, then what in hell was "Pretty Woman?" Seems to me like there were some 'documentary' scenes in the tub. (and yes I know she was probably covered under the bubbles.)