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...unbuttoned youth - not to mention early Kelly Preston and middle-period Linda Blair - these are the places to scratch. Studying these photos may seem infra dig to my classier readers. But if doctoral students can prepare dissertations on 60s soft-core directors like Joe Sarno and Doris Wishman (and they do), then it makes sense to drop the persiflage and admit that beautiful women are worth looking at ... again, I insist, for research purposes only. Obsession, after all, is just scholarship without the school...
...Scorsese's first feature went out on the grind circuit. Meyer (with his giddy editing style), Radley Metzger (who made elegant variations on Euro-smut) and R.L. Frost (a versatile imagist, heavy on the rough stuff) could have played in the majors. But most exploiteurs were amateurs--like Doris Wishman, with her mesmerizingly absurd tales of good women gone bad. The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Roberta Findlay, who, Weldon says admiringly, "made the most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized in bizarre ways of killing off sexy...
...Archives sometime this next week and see these films. Make sure to bring your Kleenex, your vomit bag and something to cover your eyes on occasion. But be sure let down your barriers to viewing porno in public, because this may be your only opportunity to see these films, Wishman is extremely hard to find on video...
...that's why she'll be at the Harvard Film Archive in the flesh on Saturday, August 13 for the 7:30 p.m. showing of "Double Agent 73." Admission for Wishman's appearance will...
...Double Agent 73" Saturday August 13, Doris Wishman in person at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday August...