onager
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Mon Aug-23-10 09:50 PM
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Line of movie dialogue about us... |
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From the rip-roaring car crash-o-rama Pit Stop. With an unknown actress named Ellen McRae, who wouldn't always be unknown. A few years later she started using the last name "Burstyn."
We rated one line:
Jolene: "What religion are you?"
Rick: "Don't have one. I believe when you're dead, you're dead."
Jolene: "I believe heaven is like a big island in the sky. Where you can make love all day long and never feel ashamed!"
Whew! Well, WTF. Blame the times - the movie was made in 1967 and finally escaped was released in 1969. "Rick" is played by Dick Davolos, a 10th-gen Xerox of Elvis Presley if you squint a lot. And "Jolene" is portrayed by Beverly Washburn, a sort of yard-sale Audrey Hepburn.
The flick was written, produced and directed by Jack Hill, who may have been advertising his own non-belief in the script.
It has lots of stock footage of wham-bam figure-8 racing, with classic Fifties cars being destroyed. And scenes shot at a junkyard on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. You sure won't see any junkyards in that neighborhood today. That would be about like finding a junkyard on Fifth Avenue.
Hill certainly had an eye for talent. He moved into blaxploitation flix after meeting a studio receptionist named Pam Grier. And later practically invented...er, cough, uh...single-handedly the whole "caged women" genre. e.g., "Switchblade Sisters" from 1975, starring Lenny Bruce's daughter Kitty.
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Mon Aug-23-10 09:56 PM
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almost makes me want to believe in god.
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onager
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Tue Aug-24-10 08:10 PM
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3. Heh! She always reminded me of The Smithereens song... |
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She had hair like Jeanie Shrimpton back in 1965, She had legs that never ended, I was halfway paralyzed, She was tall and cool and pretty And just as black as coal If she asked me to I'd murder, I would gladly lose my soul.
She held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band, And she stood just like Bill Wyman, now I am her biggest fan...
Now I lie in bed and think of her Sometimes I even weep, Then I dream of her behind the wall of sleep...
Shit. I think I just managed to depress myself.
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Tue Aug-24-10 11:09 AM
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2. Make love all day and never feel ashamed? |
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That chick's got issues, man.
I can work with that.;)
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