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...each of his three largest-grossing independent films was the first of its type. 'Teas' was the first uninhibited American nudie; 'Lorna' (1964) was the first fully scripted sex-violence-and-nudity movie to attempt to escape the limited booking of the skin-flick genre; and 'Vixen' (1968) was the first American skin flick intended to appeal to women as well as to men, and aimed at bookings in respectable first-run situations...
...Meyer had assembled his own tight little gang. Among them: Anthony James Ryan, a 166th vet who helped write "Vixen!" and toiled in many production capacities; Jack Moran, writer on "Pussycat" and four other films and all-round guy Friday; editor and soundman Richard Brummer; sound editor Don Minkler; music director Igo Kantor; actor Franklin Bolger, the put-upon older husband in six Meyers; and, performing in two films, all-time-worst director also-ran (he was tops at nothing) and "Mystery Science Theater" favorite Coleman Francis...
...portray Laura simply as a one-dimensional vixen and the Captain as a hapless victim would sink the play into a facile exercise of melodrama. Instead, the two actors find an ideal balance between the multiple facets of their characters and their interactions. Gowl’s Laura is manipulative, but she also shows the vulnerability and intelligence spurring her motives...
...street clothes serving as his only uniform. He admits this unique look distinguishes him from many other men in the television delivering profession. After setting up a television in an ogling freshman’s common room, Burk was “somewhat surprised” when this teenage vixen importuned him to stay for a drink. Being 27 and not having a Lolita complex, Burk declined. But then this battle for television-boy ass took on a more desperate character...
...Beautiful Garbage, the electro-pop rockers offer a satisfying follow-up to 1998’s Version 2.0, once again harkening back to their trademark blend of guitars, electronic-influenced beats and lead singer Shirley Manson’s cynical musings. Led by Manson’s rock-vixen vocals, the quartet’s 1995 debut, Garbage, saw the Madison, Wis.-based band rise quickly amidst the then-decaying alt-rock universe. Fueled by producer/drummer/founder Butch Vig, a veteran of the alternative scene from work with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, the band showed considerable maturity and greater refinement...