The Extreme Student of Prague (8/9/02)
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Platinum Blonde. [Cybil Richards, 2001.]
The indefatigable Shauna O’Brien [whose prodigiously-inflated hooters now remind us of a semiorganic analogue of the Gaultier conical brassiere] appears in yet another product of the equally tireless industry of Surrender Cinema: a B-movie actress dumps the vain overbearing and obnoxious director of a cheesy erotic scifi thriller for the shy sincere and genuine editor [and wouldbe writer! but of course], who has fallen for her while cutting the shower scene in
Zombie Spies From Outer Space. Indeed, why should she not; I sense here a recurrence of that perennial favorite theme, the Polish Starlet. — But is she humping him for real, or only within the film within the film? What is the erotic content of this diagetic space? — These and other metaphysical questions no doubt demanded my attention, but, alas, I fell asleep between acts, and spaced the denouement. Let me know if I missed anything.
“Platinum Blonde” is apparently a reference to a vibrator. — Somewhere on the dial of the ethereal radio, beamed in from the Great Beyond, I hear Jean Harlow laughing.
____________Now you see him, now you don’t (7/14/02)
