Today's scene was great for cleave-gag fans,
with some good close-ups, but I thought that was really
loose ropes around her wrists on the chair. Also, did you
notice the screwed up continuity at the end? She was
cutting herself loose and the bandana was for some reason
out of her mouth, then she breaks free, they cut back, and
the bandana is back in her mouth. But I'm not complaining.
Keep 'em coming "Days of our Lives."

Just finished reposting your requested Movb files. They
haven't shown up yet on RemarQ

A Fan - Great alert for Days of Our Lives. I
think somebody above was quite right. If not for "soap
hounds" like you, most of us would never get these scenes
on tape. There are too many of these damn things to burn
out my VCR taping them every day. The only time I tape
them is when a stud like yourself is kind enough to alert
us. Great catch!

H - A big thanks for the immediate Dayscaps.
I did tape the scene today, but haven't had a chance to
look at it yet (too much shopping). Your efforts are
greatly appreciated my friend.

Merry X-Mas everybody.

H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S ! ! !

Does bondage help ratings? Hard to say. Last week's "Angel," ranked 96 among all shows, 8 places higher than it did the previous week. It's lead-in, "Buffy," was number 93 among all shows, 4 places higher than the week before. In it's time slot "Angel" ranked fifth out of the six network shows aired. Let's put it this way. Bondage definitely didn't seem to hurt it any.

Someone brought up the most
productive soap opera of '99. That has to be Sunset
Beach. I swear one of us is working on that show. They
had the great 4-day Sarah Buxton scene, which I thought
should get extra creativity points because it wasn't based
in danger but in humiliation and revenge. There was just
something extra sweet about that one. And with last week's
bondagefest (unfortunately with putzes), it seems that
they're just giving the writers free reign since the show
will be gone soon. I can't help but wonder what the last
episodes will be like.

Can anyone put episode titles to the entries for
"The Fall Guy"
in the database?  Even better would be a pointer to an
episode guide
with synopses.  Thanks.

Can't wait for the new software and new host.

By the way, check out the site below for a lot of free
bondage pix. They include vidcaps from "Poor Cecily" and a
collage of caps from what I think is "Inquisition". It's
not my site.

Title: Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Helen Fraser
Description: In a sequence played strictly for laughs, she plays a Gypsy woman shown chained spreadeagled to a wheel in a dungeon and rotated. Some shots even show her chained bare ankles as they rotate by.

Record number: 1578

Title: Start the Revolution Without Me
Medium: Movie
Actress: Mary Astor
Description: The opening credits include scenes from the old silent film, "Don Juan" where Mary Astor is tied to a wheel-rack.

It's nice one or more of you have taken it upon youselves to add nearly a hundred entries to the database in the last couple of days. However, I wish I could say the above was the only such instance of you-know-what. There are at least a couple more; the titles escape me at the moment.

Seriously, anyone so serious about contributing should e-mail Brian R for edit access so he could modify existing entries in cases like this. That's what that capability is for. Come on, what's the problem?

I was just wondering...how many episodes of this show
contained anything of interest? The only thing in the
database-one of the recent entries I referred to above, by
the way; thanks again to whomever's throwing them
in-describes someone named Lois Hall putz-tied with Tonto
(ugh!). Surely there was something better than this! I
have to admit I didn't watch this show much growing up,
being more of the Sky King type-man, that Gloria
Winters was hot! So... what did I miss? Anyone know?

So long, kemo sabe...

That's the fetching Jennifer O'Dell. She's had a couple of minor tie-ups so far. DirecTV airs the "Lost World" episodes on Pay Per View about 2 months before they turn up in syndication. In about a month or so there should be an episode where she is briefly tied to a chair (hands behind) with a couple of putzes. And of your a pillory fan keep an eye out for the episode entitled "Camelot", Jennifer is briefly locked in a pillory in that episode. The scene is about a minute and a half long.

The vidcaps for the "Camelot" pillory scene are on my page.

The brunette on the show also has a minor hands in front scene in an upcoming episode.

MTV 2, the all music sister station of MTV, will air EVERY SINGLE VIDEO ever played on both MTV and MTV 2. That's a total of nearly 19,000 videos.

The videos will air in alphabetical order by song title beginning at 12:01AM Eastern time on January 1, 2000. Starting with "A Beautiful Day" by 3 Colours Red and ending 3 months later with "Zoot Suit Riot" by Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

I know there have been quite a few videos mentioned on this page in the past. Now would be a good time to post those titles again.

Record Number: 1447
Title: Angeles
Actress: Daisy Fuentes
Description: Kidnapped by stalkers, Ms. Fuentes is tied to a chair and gagged with a thick white cloth.

Actually she's gagged with duct tape.

Supposedly 100 Miles and Runnin' by NWA has a scene. I
have seen the video, but don't exactly remember it, but
someone else mentioned it. Not sure how that plays out
alphabetically (sometimes numbers come before letters, but
it appears that they are starting with A), but it may be h?

Does anyone have, or know that they will be getting MTV 2
on their cable system or is it just DIRECTV?

Thanks

I see from the entries in the database that
Profiler (starting
over here soon) has quite a few scenes. Can anyone put 
titles to
the episodes that are un-named in the db, and to any others
to watch out
for?  Thanks.

A little Christmas filksong, Elke Sommers in bondage, Kira Reed wears revealing accessory to party.

The Lovely Austrailian singer, TINA ARENA, gets caught up
in some plant vines in the video for CHAINS. No Gag.

I saw that DAVID ALLAN GRIER Pulp Comics episode last night.
Pretty damn good little scence. Nice use of Duct
tape.

Interesting thing happened last night. I was thumbing
through the channels and came across IFC showing "HOUSE OF
SPIRITS", which has a great scene with Winona Ryder. Then,
further down the dial, BRAVO was showing the exact same
movie, only an hour later. So I saw that scene twice last
night, with TNT showing the good hogtie in "BIG TROUBLE IN
LITTLE CHINA." Now that was a dumb movie if there ever was
one!

Real good long list on the alerts page. Much
thanks.

Since it was brought up recently, does anyone
REALLY know how many scenes Gloria Winters had on SKY KING?
I have five.

Am I Missing something here? They deleted the main title
page for CONTENT????? What Content??? Unless I missed
something, all it was was a page of links. Tripod has gone
crazy!!! LOng live the MODERATOR!! BRIAN"S PAGE FOREVER!!!

C'mon, LOTW, if you'll look at all the other sites that have
been shut down by other freebie ISPs, you'll see that they
were all shut down for content -- politically incorrect
content. Of course they'd all deny it to the last breath, but
it's exactly like the old Soviet Union censoring
Solzenitsyn's books for obscenity. Everybody knows what the
game is here.

Fortunately, in a weird sort of way, Dreambooks is so
unreliable that maintaining any kind of consistent discussion
on it has become impossible. Being shut down from Dreambooks
is like being bumped off a berth on the Titanic...

Time to express our DID hopes for the new year. Number one is
a gimme:

1. I hope Brian's page gets to a new site before Dreambooks
shuts it down or Dreambooks collapses from its own technical
incompetence.

2. I hope that the writers of TV shows and movies continue to
get a clue about the extraordinary psychological power of DID
scenes. I hope we see more of them, with more writhing and
mmmphing and more imaginative bondage and gagging.

3) I hope in particular that the folks who produce late-night
sexy movies for Cinemax and Showtime and the retail markets
get a clue about bondage scenes. Compared to them, TV writers
are incredibly sharp and on point about bondage scenes. After
all, the late night sexy movies are all about titillating
audiences, and slo-mo sex scenes are nice, but if you want to
make your flick stand out, you've got to innovate. Along
those lines, I'd like to see some nude hogties, some nude
spreadeagles and some gags during sex scenes. An O ring gag
or a pantie gag would certainly set a precedent or two.
Furthermiore, when they do have a bondage scene, I'd like to
see the camera take plenty of time to gloat over it, just as
they do during the sex scenes.

This all seems childishly obvious to me, but the guys who
make soft-core porn are expert at Not Getting It.

4. I'd like to see more naked women everywhere.

5) I'd like to see some commercial video makers get with the
whole plot and characterization thing and make some bondage
videos that amaze us all with their powerful stories.

6) I'd like to see bondage show up in more comedy venues,
where the humorous nature of the material permits more
stringent bondage, as in the caps of Whoops Apocalypse DB
sent me the other day. (Thanks, DB!)

7) I'd like to see the lines between sexy movies and
mainstream movies continue to blur. Along those lines, I'd
like to see talented soft-core porn actresses like Kira Reed
get some shots in mainstream films, and I'd like to see any
talented hard-core porn actresses who might be out there get
a shot in mainstream, too. With a resulting increase in the
sexual heat and DID cntent of mainstream films, of course.

8) I'd like to see the anti-sex (and not so coincidentally,
anti-bondage) feminists wake up and figure out the whole
consensuality, fantasy vs. reality thing, and enter into the
realm of bondage as if they had passed through some ethereal
curtain and found the land of their own dreams.

Movie Fan

Can you at least re-post the index for Tvb00776 to
Tvb00800 so that those of us who missed them (and I think
there are many) can see what we missed.

I'll repost Tvb00776 thru Tvb00800 this weekend.

Who is the girl with the red cleave gag? On your page the
picture is labled "lochness" but I couldn't find anything.
Is this a movie? Thanks.

Luis and Hank suspect Martin kidnapped Sheridan

I don't know anything about the situation other than that.
Sheridan is played by pretty 22yo blonde McKenzie Westmore.

After some configuration problems, things are moving ahead
fine. I've ported all the software and data files for the
Scene Database to the new site. Therefore, I've disabled
adding and editing for a little while, to keep things in
sync.

Oh, by procrastinating a bit, the brianspage.com domain
became available.

I thought I’d finish up 1999 with a few thoughts about
various things:

RANTS TO:

1. BUFFY and Sarah Michelle “I don’t do gag scenes”
   Geller.
   
2. Martial Law for not finishing up the Kelly Hu DiD story
   line.
   
3. ABC for canceling SNOOPS before the gals could get in a
   full treatment scene.
   
4. MYSTERY MEN for the big fake out and DUDLEY DO RIGHT
   for being total crapola.
   
5. That Hispanic channel for canceling ANGELES just as it
   was starting to produce.
   
6. The Dallas Cowboys for being overpaid and
   underachieving once again.
   
7. Finally, a big razz to the film writers and producers
   who don’t write gag scenes for Jennifer Lopez, Catherine
   Zeta Jones, and Jennifer Love Hewitt!
   

RAVES TO:

1. WALKER, TR for being our consistent ever dependable
   source of DiD material.
   
2. DOOL for a strong finish and Sunset Beach for a good
   year.
   
3. Kelly HU for best tape gag and fight scene of 99.
   
4. Cameron Diaz for completing the Full Treatment hat
   trick.
   
5. Donna D’Errico for the ball-gag.
   
6. Brian R for the great work here and all my regular
   trading partners. (You know who you are.)
   
7. Last but certainly not least, CHARISMA CARPENTER for
   one hell of a great scene to end the year with!
   

A bondage acquaintance o' mine commented that it could be
that comedy allowed for more extensive DID treatment, because
it's lighthearted in nature.

RE: Comedy and DID scenes

I just finished taping "The Linguini Incident" and I have to
agreee. Rosanna Arquette plays a would-be escape artist who
has much to learn of her craft. In a scene establishing this,
she shackles her ankles together, balances on a stool, puts a
noose dangling from a lighting fixture above her around her
neck, then cuffs her hands behind her back. Unfortunately,
she drops the key concealed in her clothing and in an
instinctive lunge to retrieve it, falls off the stool.

She's only saved from strangling because the lighting fixture
gives way under her weight. Sprawled on the ground, the noose
around her neck still prevents her from reaching the key, and
a phone call from a co-worker gives her the humiliating
opportunity to beg him to come release her from her self-
bondage.

There are a couple of other bondage scenes here, but this one
alone was lengthy and spectacular by mainstream standards.

Can anyone else come up with spectacular bondage scenes from
comedies that confirm the fact that the lightheartedness of
comedies allow for greater DID scenes?

BTW, there were a couple of very obvious dramatic gaffes that
kept the film from succeeding as much as it might have.
Casting David Bowie as the male lead was not a brilliant idea
-- he just stood around grinning wryly, and he wasn't
entirely convincing as a hetero, either. The other was more
DID related. There's a scene where Arquette is demonstrating
her talent onstage, in which she's chained up and locked in a
canvas bag. the scene is supposed to further establish her
incompetence at escape, but because Arquette is inside a
canvas bag for most of it, it loses a LOT of dramatic punch.
Basically we see David Bowie standing onstage beside a canvas
bag which occasionally bulges and flops about while
Arquette's frustrated voice issues from it. It's boring for
the talent scouts watching her, and it's boring for us too.

Much, much stronger would have been skipping the whole canvas
bag thing and have Arquette writhe about onstage in chains,
straining her body this way and that, her face in turns
focussed and despairing as she tries fruitlessly to escape,
her legs and arms straining against the chains.

Would have been a much better scene for us, too, but the key
is that the canvas bag just destroyed the dramatic intensity
of the scene -- and comedy depends on dramatic intensity,
too. It made a potentially funny scene boring.

It's a puzzler, because knowing the scene would be boring
isn't a matter of being intelligent -- it's just a matter of
not being stupid. All it would have taken is for someone to
say at some point, "Let's try it without the canvas bag,
maybe with a few more chains instead."

A&E: Night Court (1/4), Magnum P.I. (1/3), L.A. Law (1/4). Magnum starts with a marathon.

Bravo: Moonlighting (1/3 marathon) weekdays (1/4). Twin Peaks begins later this year.

Court TV: Wiseguy (1/2 marathon) weekends after that.

TNT: Pretender this year, PSI Factor in 2001 (sooner if it's not renewed for a fifth season.)

Nick: Beverly Hillbillies, Three's Company, Cheers, Barney Miller. And way down the road, Fresh Prince (2003).

TV Land: Harper Valley PTA (1/3), Open House (1/1), Misfits Of Science (1/1), Ironside (1/1), A-Team (1/1).

TV Land has also aquired rights to the Warner Brothers library which includes:

77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Bourbon Street Beat, Hawaiian Eye, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, China Beach, Homefront, Prince Street, Spy Game, Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Life Goes On, F-Troop, Amazing Spiderman, Laugh-In,
Hotel, The F.B.I., Spenser For Hire, She's The Sheriff, Perfect Strangers, Tarzan, Shazam, The Flash, Wonder Woman, V: The Series, Max Headroom, Murphy Brown and many more.

The Warner Brothers deal is a long term one so it may be 10 years or more before some of these show up.

Oh, and since several people have asked, I'll put my e-mail address back up on my page. I was having a major spamming problem (all from the same person) right after I started the page that's why I took it down.

Pat,
thanks for the description on Linguini Incident. I'd
always kind of figured there'd be more of David Bowie
"grinning wryly" than shots of Arquette in a muzzle.

Best
Scenes of the Year: I vote for the Jamie Lunar bathtub
scene in Melrose Place for the blatant gratuitous-nous(?)
of the whole thing, even if it was short. One show that
seems overlooked in the year-end voting is the Seven Days
episode where the girl sidekick manages to be B&G to a
chair upstairs while also being B&G downstairs in the same
house. THIS is why they invented science fiction.

Also,
I'm going to stubbornly stand by my assertion that the
1900's was the very BEST century for bondage. All that rah-
rah talk about the 1300's is just nonsense.

CM, that
Warner Brothers Library looks pretty damn sweet. TV Land
is looking real good for the next decade.

My New Year's
wish is that Dreambook wasn't the high bidder on the Y2K-
preparedness government contract.

Remembering something someone else experienced, I tried
accessing my filemanager. It was still active, but all the
files were gone. So I uploaded my saved copy of the home
page, and it is accessible again. I won't put up any other
files, but I want that there to redirect people when the new
system comes on line.

I'm surprised your email doesn't have the ability to block
annoying people. You may want to look into one of the web
based email services that have such features. Hotmail does
that, but I no longer recommend them because they dorks at
Microsoft have continually "improved" it, making it less
useful. Their latest is requiring Javascript to be able to
access it.

DOn't you mean you wish (hope!) that Dreambook wasn't the
LOWEST bidder? The government always goes for the lowest
bid.

Well, you're never alone, we're everywhere ;)

The question really is, are there others from Ireland that
read the page? As far as I know, you're the first. There
have been several from England and other parts of Europe
though.

Incidentally,Irish soap Fair CITY has good stuff in
Jan.Niamh gets kidnapped!!! She's later rescued
by police who find her bound and gagged in a computer
geek's apartment!(she's a babe by the way!)

Details please! I'm always interested in hearing about
scenes from other countries.

A friend of mine passed along this idea, and I think it's
pretty cool if you've got a scanner, patience and some
artistic talent. A customizable version of the famous board
game, called "My-opoly'' lets you print a game board with
the photos and captions you want, the money is any currency
you want (ie. "ransom money''), and the good news/bad news
cards to carry any message.

He's got a playable TV damsel in distress version and
I've got the kit and I plan to put my models on the board
and have them over for a game. The downside is you can't go
out and market it (Parker Brothers sold you a game, not
rights) and there are probably not a lot of people you can
get up a game with.

I'm not the FJ who has been posting about music videos
here lately, but his information has been valuable and as
far as I can tell, accurate.

Happy new year (century, millenium) to all, you too FJ.

1. The Tripod page is back up. I'll post a redirection there
when it's time.

2. I don't think Dreambook will disappear or kick us off in
the near future. I will also post the new address here.

3. To join the notification mailing list, send a
blank message to the address below.

Anyway, I promise that sometime next century, I will update
the Book of the Month page at my web site, and I will also
be adding a Nancy Drew Page as soon as I figure out exactly
how I want it designed.

Thanks, again for all the alerts and the lively discussion!


P.S.The best scene of the millenium - color="blue">T.J. Hooker - Heather Locklear held
captive by Vietnamese gangsters in a warehouse and menanced
by a deadly cobra.

Happy New Year!

I think the reason they did the chained-up-in-a-bag
scene that way is that bag escapes are standard fare for
escape artistes...and it didn't have to be Ms Arquette in
the bag for filming, nor did whoever was in the bag
actually have to be chained up. I would have preferred
some sort of abortive rope escape myself.

Here's to the
3rd Millennium--366 days and 7 1/2 hours away. Meanwhile,
Happy New Year!

I've been watching "Hard Rain" and you know, Minnie Driver's
scene in it has to be the greatest DID dilemma of 1999. One
long, extended scene requiring extreme resourcefulness of
Minnie's character.

Rich:

Granted, canvas bag escapes are common escape artist fare,
but so are escapes without canvas bags. And typically,
escapes with bags happen pretty quickly -- just a few seconds
of bag-flopping to build suspense and out pops the escapee.
That's because escape artists are entertainers, too, and they
know the audience will get bored if they have to watch too
much bag-flopping -- something the makers of Linguini
Incident apparently missed, because it went of way too long.
Having Arquette out there to writhe and emote would have
helped a lot.

Beautiful actress, great white gag, kind of lame ropework
thought. Lengthy with some good struggling. Nice scene.