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For everyone looking to score that perfect last minute gift, check out the latest offering of video goodness - far better than frankincense and/or myrrh, though possibly not gold - from our good pals Kirby Ferguson and the fantabulous Wet Spots...

Fist Me This Christmas !!

Fox Before The Code

No, not that Fox, silly! While we were off gallavanting in Vegas with the International Film Festival Summit, we somehow lost sight of the fact that Fox Before The Code, a wonderful, three-week series of films from the era right before the infamous Hayes Production Code went into effect, was simultaneously unspooling at NYC's Film Forum.

In a lengthy discussion on The Reeler, the theatre's director of reperatory programming, Bruce Goldstein, notes how the package of films came together and puts them into their larger historical context. “When I first saw a pre-Code film, I was just stunned," Goldstein said. "I never believed that films could be that racy in 1931.”

But, while we may have missed Call Her Savage - pictured above and apparently containing not only the proffered whip, but a romp with a Great Dane and the silver screen's first bona fide gay bar - there's still time to catch such likely gems as Painted Woman, She Learned About Sailors and 3 On a Honeymoon! The series runs until December 21st.

Oh, Ann. Just bite me. No, seriously, please just bite me.

Sure, it might be some seriously freaky roleplay, but we're certainly not the first to speculate on Ann Coulter's seemingly dominatrix-y demeanor. (See also Google re: Ann + Coulter + dominatrix.) But Ann's nattering on and on reached a new level of sadistic tedium when she appeared on FOX News recently, as part of an "alarming new report," Ivy Gone Wild, commenting on a wee bit of to-do in the news over Columbia University's BDSM Club, Conversio Virium.

As writer/activist/sadomasochist Susan Wright observes:

I expected outrage from her, but all Ann does is giggle inanely and jab at "losers" who have to join a sex club to get sex. Her most priceless quote: "This has been well documented. Christians have more sex, better sex, more sexual satisfaction...you want a sex club, become an evangelical."

Oh, really? Is that the Religious Right's new rallying cry? Join us and get lots of sex? Seems to me the first thing the Evangelical Sex Club should do is stop telling everyone else that the way we want to have sex is wrong. Then let the orgy begin!

Um, Ann. Like we said? Anytime!