Caligula

The first that I heard of Frank Henenlotter was on a perfectly awful cable tv show that aired on Manhattan's Public Access channel in the 1970s.
"The Nikki Haskell Show" was a self-indulgent half-hour cable show hosted by Haskell, a wealthy socialite-divorcee and former stockbroker who now claims that her show marked the invention of "reality television." About a year ago, after her diet pill company got in trouble with the NFL over a "secret ingredient" that should have been labeled, Haskell signed up for an account at YouTube and started posting clips from the 30-year-old program, but she seems to have lost interest after posting just ten of them.
The main reason I'd tune in Haskell's silly show was the programming that followed it, "adults only" programming like Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein's "Midnight Blue," porn performer Robin Bird's "Hot Legs" show featuring New York's leading "dance talent" and, »
- unclebob

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Last night while scrolling through Milla Jovovich's IMDb page looking for The Fourth Kind, I noticed she was once involved with a remake of Gore Vidal's debauchery-filled 1979 film about the notorious Roman Emperor, Caligula. What was even more surprising than the other people involved (Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler, Courtney Love, original Caligula star Helen Mirren) was that I'd somehow never heard of it. I'm not sure how it slipped by the first time, but maybe it's new to some of you as well. Fair warning: the trailer is loaded with nakedness and drunken revelry. - Dave Davis

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Helen Mirren is learning Hebrew and Jewish history ahead of her role in upcoming Nazi-hunting movie The Debt, it has been claimed. The Caligula actress reportedly hopes to absorb the culture of Israel to prepare herself for the part of Mossad spy Rachel Singer. WENN quotes a source as telling the Daily Express: "Helen has spent the past six weeks reading the history of Israel, Mossad and the life and times of Nazi
By Mayer Nissim

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