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...that drive-ins and grindhouses contained some genuine "jiggle," producing sincerely strange entertainment on a regular basis. Such a man was Ted Mikels, who continues to ply his trade today, turning out ultra-low-budgeted features with eye-catching titles and very unusual behavior. In 1973, Mikels made "The Doll Squad," considered by many to be the inspiration for "Charlie's Angels." It features a crack team of glamorous female operatives, a well-connected male boss, and a "smart" team leader named Sabrina...
...stories like that.... As fast as my fingers can snap, I can give you a premise for a new story just like it. There are a lot of people who have ideas - maybe it just so happened that the powers that be [behind "Charlie's Angels"] had seen ["The Doll Squad"] or its script...
...most surprising thing about "The Doll Squad" is that this flashy little number is by far the least of Ted Mikels' efforts of the period. The plotline is doted on at length (always a mistake in low-budget espionage dramas with shapely female leads), and when the all-out action sequences finally do arrive, the visuals are incredibly dark. This is most likely due to the fact that much of the film's closing action was shot in one night, on which Ted had the temporary loan of a real machine gun (thus, the actresses are actually blasting away with...
...When I am depressed, I have been known to mutilate my Fonzie doll. Mostly with pins...
...fact, it was a challenge just to find an English show in London for the first summer season of the millennium. England's former colonists, the Americans and the Irish, seem to be filling all the West End theaters. Two separate Tennessee Williams plays, Orpheus Descending and Baby Doll, made their homes in London for the summer, as did David Mamet's Speed the Plow, a three-hander trying to capitalize on that other London-based, three-actor, world-wide phenomenon, Art (an import from Paris, mind you). Even the self-proclaimed (actually, government-proclaimed) flagship of the English theatrical...