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"The Pom Pom Girls", from
Tuna
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Tuna's comments: You are
familiar with Rebel Without a Cause. Pom Pom
Girls (1976) should have been called Rebel
Without a Clue. It concerns a misfit highschooler
and his problems, and even includes a game of
"suicide chicken." He is on the
football team, and hence around the Pom Pom
Girls, which provides the excuse for nudity. We
have back-of-van sex, and girls locker room. This
is not my favorite of the exploitation High
School films.
thumbnails Cheryl Smith (1,
2)
Diane Lee Hart (1,
2,
3)
Jennifer Ashley (1,
2,
3)
Susan Player Jarreau (1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
"Network",
from Tuna
Network anchor flips out
and starts ranting. The network is outraged. He's
not anchor-unflappable, but angry. The network
intends to axe him until they realize that the
ratings are up. His anger strikes a resonant
chord with viewers everywhere, who all join him
in screaming out the window "I'm mad as
hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more".
Therefore, the network decides to exploit his
loony ranting for the ratings bonanza.
It's kinda talky, as
most Paddy Chayefsky scripts are, given his
background as a legit playwright and scriptwriter
for the early days of ensemble drama TV. He
writes very long speeches and monologues rather
than crisp dialogue, and the speeches aren't from
the realistic school. Nobody is quite so literary
and witty and brilliant as his characters, and
few people speak with this poetic quality just a
hair shy of iambic pentameter. But I guess that's
OK. It's not realistic, but it's definitely
intelligent. You just have to accept it as
convention. In musicals people break into song
unrealistically. In Chayefsky dramas, people
break into speeches unrealistically. Also, he
disregards the "plausibility of action"
rule. if he needs two characters to reveal
secrets to each other, well, they'll fall into an
affair even if you can't believe that such people
could ever get together.
But on balance, I like
it. It may be a slow movie, and unrealistic, but
how realistic can Black Humor be? It is, after
all, based on exaggeration. It's a thoughtful
movie, and one of the most deeply cynical things
ever written. I admire the sentiments and
intelligence of the movie, and enjoy watching it
in spite of its flaws.
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Faye Dunaway (1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
"Sweet
Movie", from GR
A cinema legend that
I've always wanted to see, but never have. Dusan
Makavejev (He made "Montenegro", which
I enjoyed) just tried to make a movie which broke
all the rules about everything. I don't even
think you can rent a copy of it, but I think this
was another one from Frodo's collection, lent to
GR. If you want to pony up 70 bucks, you can buy
a copy from Reel.com, with a 2-3 week waiting
period, but that's the first time I've seen
anybody selling it in years
Here are the IMDb comments. I
recommend reading them, if only for amusement and
wonder. This is one strange movie. Carol Laure Carol Laure - this is GR's film
clip from this movie
Stone Cold
Yo, Scooperman. Just leftovers. Not my scans
or captures, but just some supermodels from the
famous Vic's Secret Online Show. No flesh except
some serious booty in swimsuits.
Carmen
Cass. Aurelie
Claudel. Trish Goff.
Eva
Herzigova. Adriana
Lima.
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