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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PSYCHIATRIST told me recently that contemporary culture has moved the fig leaf from the genitals to the face. With his new film Meyer has gone against his own grain. His Valkyries have lost much of thier sexual authority and at times in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls there are moments of restraint. But this surprising equilibrium only reflects the common-sensical questions that have begun to creep into Meyer's films. Meyer as social philosopher, as promulgator of popular tastes, as moralist, sees in his sexual fireworks not only profit, but the bitter lessons of modern liberalism...

Author: By Robert Crosby, | Title: Russ Meyer: Mr. Tits' n' Ass Forsaking Pornography for Obscener Pastures | 8/14/1970 | See Source »

Where indeed? His brother Jerry, the sharpshooting Doppelganger of their nightclub act, calls Wayne (chuckle): "Fig." However obvious, Fig Newton is appropriate. Newton's style is sticky, his humor is seedy, and he is wrapped in dough. He is also astonishingly successful. Beginning with that enduring blob of Teutonic treacle, Danke Schoen, he has two gold records to his credit. He gets as much as $75,000 a week in nightclubs and holds the alltime attendance records at the Royal Box in New York's Americana Hotel, Las Vegas' Frontier Hotel and Melodyland in Anaheim, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What Ever Happened To Baby Wayne? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...neck up it is David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1970 | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

...Sure." If her husband didn't like dates, then as a proper wife she would not of course grow dates. Merilee and Stefan lifted instead a fig tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...Girl growling and Stefan sad. Merilee a proper wife holding her tongue. Thinking, " If there's no money, then we'll have no fig trees. Our ancestors crossed the Donner and left Tulsa in their Conestoga wagons to escape just such old-fashioned logical connectors." And if Sam Bollo thought he was the hot shit who could deny her what she had always wanted just through some old cranky Philadelphia logic, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

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