So I finally sat thru the entire movie version of "The Valley of the Dolls"
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Tue Feb-17-09 09:32 AM
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So I finally sat thru the entire movie version of "The Valley of the Dolls"
No wonder Jacqueline Susann walked out of the premiere - they really did butcher her book
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Tue Feb-17-09 09:49 AM
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1. Neely O'Haraaaaaaaaaah!
heehee Yeah. The book was more serious than the movie. But you gotta admit that flick is awesome camp.
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Tue Feb-17-09 10:12 AM
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4. That's saying alot to call the book 'more serious' than the movie
the book was trash too but it was amazing trash that I most have read 20-30 times in my life. I won't even bother seeing "Love Machine" movie because I figured they probably destroyed it as badly as Dolls
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Tue Feb-17-09 04:43 PM
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8. One of my favorite lines from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in:
"Work stopped on the set while filming the movie "The Love Machine" when two of the actors forgot their parts."
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Tue Feb-17-09 06:10 PM
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9. Well, it's been ages since I read the book
I remember the novel being somewhat tame but that's probably because it centered around a generation before me, where sex outside of marriage was considered scandalous. As for the film, I mostly remember the campiness and that awesome spangled suit that Susan Hayward wore. I also remember that she took that part because Judy Garland got fired and I think she kept her spangled suit.
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Tue Feb-17-09 09:58 AM
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2. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was a much finer work. nt
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Tue Feb-17-09 09:58 AM
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3. Roger Ebert's finest work
He wrote the screenplay to satirize how decadent Hollywood had gotten
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Tue Feb-17-09 06:14 PM
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Ebert wrote the sequel "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." Not to be confused with "Beneath the Valley of the Dolls." And "Escape from the Valley of the Dolls."
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Tue Feb-17-09 10:15 AM
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you had to sit through that dreck. dg
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Tue Feb-17-09 10:18 AM
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6. Usually I would give up by the first time I saw they cast Lee Grant as Miriam Polar
in the book Miriam was a very overweight unattractive woman. Lee Grant is hardly that
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Tue Feb-17-09 01:03 PM
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7. Not as bad as listening to an entire Rush album ...
That's worse than a freakin' root canal. Now, bite me. Bake
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