Did you know Roger Ebert is a Russ Meyer fan, and wrote the script for Beyond The Valley of The Dolls? Nor did I.It turns out that one of America's most loved film reviewers liked hanging around with Russ Meyer, because Meyer liked hanging around with well-endowed women.
When I was younger, I had no idea what Vixen!, Supervixens and Beneath The Valley of the Ultra-vixens were about. By the time I was old enough to appreciate them, they were already old hat.
This is a funny and well-written account of the life and times of the alleged inventor of the adult movie industry, a claim I'm sure Russ Meyer put about himself.
One snippet from Wikipedia is of special interest to me:
In 1977, Malcolm McLaren hired Meyer to direct a film starring The Sex Pistols. Meyer handed the scriptwriting duties over to Roger Ebert, who, in collaboration with McLaren, produced a screenplay entitled Who Killed Bambi? According to Ebert, filming ended after a day and a half when the electricians walked off the set after McLaren proved unable to pay them. (McLaren has claimed that the project actually died at the behest of main financier 20th Century Fox, under the pretext that "We are in the business of making family entertainment.") The project ultimately evolved into The Great Rock & Roll Swindle.
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