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I can't spend too much time writing this review (on account that I'm laughing SOOOO hard at watching this movie at the present moment) so I'll sum it up in a nutshell: Chaste would be an extremely gross understatement of this cheesy exposé on how a model, All-American sophomore teenager (with a piously flirty c**ktease of a GF)--who is a popular swim champ--goes to a seniors' party and is introduced to the sinful demon seed of porn. This is some hilarious camp, and the emoting has to be seen to be believed. What's really sad is seeing how far Kelly Lynch, who made a great impact in 1989's "Drugstore Cowboy" (which, incidentally, treated that film's subject matter--pill addiction--with the brutal candor that this film painfully lacks) has sunk career-wise. And, ughhh...the obvious question: just how did this porn-surfing miscreant come to even exist? By procreative methods more graphic than ANYTHING in this dreck, I assure you; that's the hypocritical part. If you've ever wanted to see some G-rated porn, then this dud's for you.

*Note: One might just have to be a reefer addict to sit through this one.

Simply said, this is one of Audrey Hepburn's most superlative performances. Not that she's ever given a bad one, mind you (no, not even in "Bloodline" (1979); that was just a bad film). Here, she convincingly portrays a young nun who goes through various stages in the convent as she battles within herself and tries to uphold the humility of her vows. Her range is extraordinary, as are the compassionate performances of a great supporting cast (Dames Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight and Dean Jagger). Colleen Dewhurst, in a brief cameo as a dangerous asylum patient, could give Hannibal Lecter a run for his money any day (she could very well be his mother!) The scenes with Hepburn's Sister Luke interacting with the impoverished children in the Congo is almost a foretelling allusion to the great real-life work that Hepburn would do in Africa in real life some 30 years later. Another great achievement from Fred Zinnemann. ****

"Entourage", created by Doug Ellin, charts the lives and experiences of young heartthrob actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his close circle of boyhood friends: Eric (Kevin Connolly), who is now his manager, Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), the jersey-wearing, 'blinging' goofball with a lot of wisdom, and Johnny "Drama" Chase (Kevin Dillon) as Vincent's older wiseguy brother. The show mainly focuses on Vincent's escapades with his charismatic agent Ari Gold (Emmy winner Jeremy Piven ("Old School")), a man of all style and just a smidgeon of substance, yet also focuses of the four main characters' youthful lives of clubhopping and dating in mid-2000s Hollywood. All of the writers, producers and escpecially the creator and actors deserve huge praise for bringing to light the down-to-earth, chill, yet "smarmy" side of H-Wood to us.