Well, I'll be buggered.
Respect must be paid to Manohla Dargis of the New York Times for her elegant namecheck of Lawrence v. Texas in a review of the Jessica Alba scuba picture Into the Blue. You read that right.
This undiluted nonsense is best suited to DVD-rental desperation. Still, aficionados of cheap cinematic thrills involving beautiful and stupid young people will be happy to learn that while the film fizzles far more than it sizzles, its director, John Stockwell, is a connoisseur of the female backside, which he displays to great and frequent advantage. Ms. Alba elicits most of Mr. Stockwell's attention: he films her posterior as worshipfully as George Cukor filmed Garbo's face. But it is Ms. Scott, as the resident bad girl, who is the focus of one of the most startling images in recent memory: a shot of her from the P.O.V. of someone about to engage in an act that, until a 2003 Supreme Court decision, was banned in half the states in the country.
Now that's entertainment.
I'll say.
