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...Mainstream newspapers (the Timeses of New York and Los Angeles, the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert) and magazines (TIME and Newsweek) reviewed the more ambitious soft-core movies in the 60s and then hard-core, when it was legally exhibited. Why? Because it was sufficiently dangerous, popular, newsworthy and, frequently, ambitious to warrant the interest of reviewers. The opinion of many of them, including me, was that there might be a meeting of pornography, which had quickly established a kind of artistic pedigree, and Hollywood, which was striding toward explicit sexuality. That was also the belief of Deep Throat...
...recent essay “Who is that mad black woman,” Roger Ebert reports that his one-star review of Diary elicited more angry correspondence than any other film he has ever reviewed—including Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ combined...
...missives populating the subject column for Diary’s Internet Movie Database message board bear evidence of the controversy surrounding the film: “Roger Ebert is the BIGGEST RACIST ever!,” “What’s the deal with all the RACE issues people?!,” and “WHY ARE YA’LL HATING ON US??” are all open threads...
...World War II combat cameraman and onetime Playboy-centerfold photographer, Meyer directed titillating '60s classics like Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and Vixen. He borrowed from his own genial, breast-obsessed farces for 1970's nutty major-studio masterpiece, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, written by a young Roger Ebert. He also produced, financed, wrote, edited and shot 21 other films, some of which have been acquired by institutions such as the New York Museum of Modern Art as prime examples of late-20th-century pop culture at its most cheerfully leering...
...nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, grossed $1 million on a $24,000 budget. In the '60s he shifted to melodramas (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), to which he later added color and an insane pace, creating the nutty masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with tyro scripter Roger Ebert. Hard-core-porn chic eventually made his genial farces irrelevant as erotic provocations, but priceless as expressions of a true movie original. DIED. NIGEL NICOLSON, 87, British biographer, publisher and ex- M.P. who preserved the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury group, notably that of Virginia Woolf; in Sissinghurst, England...