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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Thanks for the suggestion, but no soap on either source. When you say 'they' are available on the web, do you mean these distributors, or the films themselves, in a less, uh, orthodox format?<BR>
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But wait, it gets goofier still! The super-careful curatorship of the avant-garde pieces like Fly and Bottoms in the recent exhibition sits kind of weirdly with the 2 new releases, 70s genre/B-films in which she stars. Just when her rep was getting some traction on its own, without the leverage of John/Sean/Fluxus, look out, along comes...Satan's Bed, a kind of jaxploitation film, in which she plays a mail order bride. Its companion, Scare Their Pants Off, sounds deliciously tasteless, kind of an Andy Warhol romp. I mean I knew her voice had range, with its proto-noise free flights & dry heaving and all, but I never knew about the camp dimension. Both films are available on DVD on Image Entertainment with lots of dishy trailers. I append the catalog copy:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana">Synopsis: Yes, it's Yoko Ono, sex maniacs, and off-kilter kink in this goofy, ultra-gritty Grindhouse Double Feature! "Scare Their Pants Off" (1968, 61 min.) - Since lunatics John and Bert can't enjoy sex unless their women are properly terrified, they abduct three lovely ladies and attempt to Scare Their Pants Off while gleefully demonstrating why blind dates can be so scary. "Satan's Bed" (1965, 72 min.) - The same year that The Beatles' second film, "Help!," premiered, John Lennon's future soul mate, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, made her acting debut in this twisted sickie. Ono, in a kimono, plays the Japanese bride-to-be of a drug-smuggling immigration agent who wants to abandon crime for life with Yoko. <BR>
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on 8/15/02 9:58 PM, amnornes@umich.edu at amnornes@umich.edu wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000098">> </FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000098"><FONT FACE="Osaka">I believe they are rentable from Filmmakers Coop in New York and Canyon in SF. <BR>
> They are on the web to one degree or another. <BR>
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