Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reddest Gore. Only when it comes to promotion is Hammer truly lavish (the usual budget: $50,000 per picture). One of its first gimmicks after getting into the horror business in 1956 was to station ambulances outside theaters where its features were playing, supposedly to cart off fainting fans. For The Curse of Frankenstein, it claimed 3,000 victims in the U.S. alone. Often its advertising billboards seem more carefully prepared than its scripts. "There are more nudes in our posters than in our pictures," admits Founder and Chairman Sir James Carreras, who was knighted last year for his philanthropies...
...adolescent, but in an adult, adolescence is better termed irresponsibility. To whom is Anais Nin irresponsible? Her personal life does not warrant our moralizations. Is she irresponsible to her own talents? The question is tenuous, but provocative. Is she irresponsible to the personnages in this diary, most notably Gore Vidal, Edmund Wilson, and Henry Miller? It is tempting to dismiss the question of Anais Nin's responsibility or lack of it because of her inconsequence as a writer. But because she deals with people about whom the slightest bits of information will be cherished--Henry Miller, Edmund Wilson. Otto Rank...
Time: 1948. Scene: The quaintly musty Cambridge University rooms where E.M. Forster lived the last 25 years of his life as an honorary fellow. The young visitor was Gore Vidal, who had just piqued the U.S. literary scene with The City and the Pillar, perhaps the frankest homosexual novel in the language to date. Forster allowed as how he too had once written-but suppressed-a homosexual novel that boldly depicted two boys in bed together. "And what did they do?" asked Vidal. "They...talked," replied Forster...
...back before the war, every red-blooded American boy who could lay his hands on 10? plunked it down for a Street & Smith pulp called Doc Savage magazine. Now, once a month and at about seven times the price, any red-blooded middle-aged man who pines for the gore of yore can renew his literary acquaintance with derring...
...sleazy horror film called Count Yorga, Vampire contained even more than the usual quota of gore, including a sequence in which a pliant young woman has an orgasm while a vampire sucks blood from her neck. The board wanted to rate the film either R (anyone under 17 restricted unless accompanied by parent or guardian) or X (forbidden entirely to those under 17 or, in some places, 18). The studio agreed to cut some of the bloodier footage and finally won a GP rating. What remained under the GP label included a shortened version of the jugular orgasm...