Word: raunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called The Dresser, concerning the trials of a third-rate classical actor on a perpetual tour of the provinces. Practically next door is a new Alan Ayckbourn roundelay called Taking Steps, an alternately hilarious and melancholy meditation on adulteries among the middle classes. The West End can play up raunch (Wot' No Pyjamas! and-yes, in its tenth year-No Sex Please- We 're British) as well as tradition (yes, going strong and apparently about to enter the second millennium, The Mousetrap) while also accommodating experiment. A radical theater company has been performing Accidental Death of an Anarchist...
...babysitting and the late show is over. Problem is, most quasi-liberated housewives won't have them, being just with-it enough to fill their bookshelves with Erica Jong but not serious enough to challenge their minds with something truly bad, truly thought-provoking. The acceptable suburban raunch used to be The Happy Hooker, pure and wholesome smut, until women's lib hit the suburbs and Fear of Flying replaced the dog-eared Xaviera Hollander paperback because Erica had something important to say. This was smut with a message...
...Ellen festered into a major femme maudite, an alcoholic adulteress who both loves and hates her baby. Gray blossomed in the role, bringing it passion, grandeur and a touch of raunch. Through her soft, melodious voice, her carriage and her steely blue eyes, she suggested Sue Ellen's lifetime of good breeding and rude awakening, the lady whom J.R. forced to become a tramp. Says Gray: "I love the great broads of the world. I love Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. I love crying and letting the mascara run. I keep saying to the scriptwriters, 'Whatever...
Since they are all self-parodies anyway, the notion of making a satirical version of Airport and its three ridiculous sequels seems superfluous, if not impossible. But Airplane! may be this summer's most cheerful lunacy. Its style is basic collegiate raunch (imagine a disciplined Animal House or a frugal 1941). Its plot is an admitted rip-off of an even earlier example of the imperiled-airliner genre, 1957's Zero Hour. What is particular to the new film is its jostling comic inventiveness and pitch-black humor. The pilot and co-pilot (Peter Graves and Kareem Abdul...
...Anything worth doin's worth overdoin'," says Meat Loaf, the 260-lb. rock singer and star of Roadie. But this is one movie that knows how to overdo it-with speed, elegance, wall-to-wall raunch and a flaky, sidewise wit. Meat Loaf plays Travis W. Redfish, a north Texas naif with the soul of Candide and the hands of an expert mechanic. He hooks up as the "roadie" (bus driver and equipment manager) for a sleazy rock entrepreneur and falls immediately in love with Lola Bouilliabase (Kaki Hunter), a snaggletoothed, anorectic groupie whose mission in life...