So I finally sat thru the entire movie version of "The Valley of the Dolls"

[LynneSin]

No wonder Jacqueline Susann walked out of the premiere - they really did butcher her book

[blogslut]

1. Neely O'Haraaaaaaaaaah!

heehee

Yeah. The book was more serious than the movie. But you gotta admit that flick is awesome camp.

[LynneSin]

4. That's saying alot to call the book 'more serious' than the movie

the book was trash too but it was amazing trash that I most have read 20-30 times in my life.

I won't even bother seeing "Love Machine" movie because I figured they probably destroyed it as badly as Dolls

[Doc_Technical]

8. One of my favorite lines from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in:

"Work stopped on the set while filming the movie "The Love Machine"
when two of the actors forgot their parts."

[blogslut]

9. Well, it's been ages since I read the book

I remember the novel being somewhat tame but that's probably because it centered around a generation before me, where sex outside of marriage was considered scandalous.

As for the film, I mostly remember the campiness and that awesome spangled suit that Susan Hayward wore. I also remember that she took that part because Judy Garland got fired and I think she kept her spangled suit.

[Lost in CT]

2. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was a much finer work. nt

[taterguy]

3. Roger Ebert's finest work

He wrote the screenplay to satirize how decadent Hollywood had gotten

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. No, you're mistaken.

Ebert wrote the sequel "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

Not to be confused with "Beneath the Valley of the Dolls."

And "Escape from the Valley of the Dolls."

[WolverineDG]

5. I'm sorry

you had to sit through that dreck.

dg

[LynneSin]

6. Usually I would give up by the first time I saw they cast Lee Grant as Miriam Polar

in the book Miriam was a very overweight unattractive woman. Lee Grant is hardly that

[Bake]

7. Not as bad as listening to an entire Rush album ...

That's worse than a freakin' root canal.

Now, bite me.

Bake