Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
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Russ Meyer had Eve. For me it’s Natalia Wisdom, and I’ll never let her go.
Index
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A
Abrams, Gene
Accomando, Mike
Adelman, Gary
Aivazian, Arshalouis
Albee, Edward
Ali, Muhammad
Alperstein, Glenn
Anderson, Andy
Andre, Maria
Ansen, David
Antz, Bob
Ashmun, Dale
Ashton, Linda
B
Babb, Kroger
Bacon, James
Bane, Monte
Bardot, Babette
Barlow, Ray
Barnum, Les
Barringer, Pat
Beiersdorf, Fred
Bell, Virginia “Ding Dong,”
Berens, Jessica
Berkowitz, Stan
Berliner, Oliver
Bernard, Ruth “Brandy”
Bernard, Susan
Bethune, Ivy
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
abortionist character
absurd personal touches in
box-office business
casting of
critical reaction
as cult classic
Diez’s casting-couch incident
editing of
emptiness of
inauthenticity of
masquerade orgy scene
Meyer’s assessment of
Meyer’s control of production
Meyer’s hiring for
music for
screenplay for
shooting of
X rating
Z-Man and Ashley St. Ives characters
Bibo, Walter
Binstein, Michael
Bixby, Bill
Black, Louis
Blackman, Lee
Bloch, Charlie
Blodgett, Michael
Blum, Irving
Bolger, Franklin J.
Bowden, Charles
Bowen, Henrye
Bowers, James
Bowers, John
Bowman, Brent
Brandt, Bingo
Brauner, Artur
Breckenridge, Paul G.
Brien, Alan
Briggs, Joe Bob
Bromberg, Craig
Brotman, Oscar
Brown, David
Brummer, Andre
Brummer, Richard
Meyer’s relationship with
Bryner, Jesse
Bucci, Eleanor
Burn, Gordon
Burton, Tim
Busch, Dennis
Butler, Jack A.
Butterfield, Ralph
Buxton, Janet (Miss Mattress)
C
Canby, Vincent
Capri, Alaina
Carey, Lynn
Carey, Philip
Carll, George “King”
Carradine, John
Carroll, Mike
Cash, Johnny
Cellini, Joe
Chambers, John
Champlin, Charles
Chapman, Anne
Christiani, Larry
Ciral, Karen
Citizens for Decent Literature
Cocks, Jay
Cohen, Mickey
Collins, Joan
Cook, Paul
Cooperman, Phil
Corliss, Richard
Coshow, Bill
Costello, George
break with Meyer
Couch, Don
Cowart, Janice
Dottavio and
involvement in Meyer’s life
Meyer’s death and funeral
personal qualities
Cramps, the
Crawley, Tony
Cresse, Bob
D
Daalder, Rene
D’Arcy, Alex
Dean, James
DeCarlo, Yvonne
DeCenzie, Pete
break with Meyer
The Immoral Mr. Teas
DeCenzie, Yvonne
De La Croix, Raven
DeMoss, George
Denielle, Dawn
De Vere, Ed
Devereaux, Shawn “Baby Doll”
Dewey, Thomas
Didion, Joan
Diez, Manny
Digard, Uschi
break with Meyer
Cherry, Harry and Raquel
Supervixens
Disney, Walt
Divine
Donnelly, John
Dottavio, Julio
Downard, Harry
Downe, Taime
Duran, Jean
Durgnat, Raymond
Duvall, Denise
E
Ebert, Roger
background of
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens,
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,
Film Comment article on Meyer
The Immoral Mr. Teas
on meaning of Meyer’s films
on Meyer’s historical significance
Meyer’s relationship with
musical preferences
sexual proclivities
Supervixens
Up!
Who Killed Bambi? project
Eden, Barbara
Ekberg, Anita
Ely, Larissa
Emerson, Ken
Erickson, Veronica
Escalera, Rudy
Eubank, Shari
Evans, Dixie
Ewing, Dave
Exploitation picture business
F
Faithfull, Marianne
Fassbinder, R. W.
Faster, Pussycat (band)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,
box-office failure
casting of
critical reaction
editing of
feminist perspective on
music for
opening minutes
popularity over time
rerelease in
shooting of
storyline of
title for
Varla character
Waters’s championing of
Fenton, Harvey
Fiedler, Leslie
Fields, W. C.
Filipovitch, Darlene
Filipovitch, Lou
Filipovitch, Martha
Filipovitch, Pete
Firestone, Paulette
Fishbein, Paul
Fishburn, Paul and Donna
Fleischer, Richard
Flippen, J. C.
Floodbank, Chester
Flynt, Jimmy
Flynt, Larry
Ford, Luke
Fore, Jet
Fox, Dolores
Fox, Fred “F.F.”
Fox, Paul
Foxx, Mickey
France, Mikki
Frasier, David K.
Friedan, Betty
Friedlander, Marvin
Friedman, Bruce Jay
Friedman, Carol
Friedman, David F.
sexploitation career
Fromer, Jill
Furlong, John
G
Gabriel, Veronique
Gaffney, Glenn
Gall, Pete
Gardner, Ava
Gaspar, James
Gavin, Erica
background of
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,
Costello and
Meyer’s relationship with
physical appearance
post-Vixen life
Vixen
Gebhard, Paul
Gertz, Elmer
Glendale, Miss
Goebbels, Joseph
Goldstein, Al
Goosenberg, Ellen
Grant, Ray
Grass, Clancy, III
Gray, Darlene
Gray, Mora
Green, Doyle
Greenspun, Roger
Gregory, James
Grey, Rudolph
Grier, Pam
Griffith, James
H
Hagara, Andrew
Hagen, Morgan “Tex”
Haimson, Gil
Haji
background and personal qualities
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,
Good Morning ... and Goodbye!,
Motorpsycho
Hall, Buck
Hall, Ed
Hannah, Sam
Harding, Warren
Harmetz, Aljean
Harry (wolf-dog)
Hartburg, Christy
Hatch, Kristen
Hathaway, Henry
Haywood, Howard
Haywood, Lucinda
death and funeral
mental illness
Haywood, Lydia Meyer
bust size
final years
Lucinda Haywood and
malice of
marriage to Haywood
marriage to William Meyer
mental illness
Meyer’s childhood
Meyer’s relationship with
Meyer’s visits to grave of
physical appearance
serial matrimony
sexuality of
Hedrick, Betsy
Heffner, Richard
Hefner, Hugh
Meyer’s relationship with
Hemingway, Ernest
Hempel, Anouska
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitler, Adolf
Hively, Kay
Holm, D. K.
Hopkins, Miriam
Hopper, Hal
Horten, Rena
Meyer’s relationship with
Hower, Jane
Hunt, Lillian
Hurrell, George
Huse, Emery
I
Immoral Mr. Teas, The
box-office business
casting of
censorship problems
cost of
critical reaction
cultural context
Ebert’s assessment of
editing of
historical significance
music for
narration for
origins of
shooting of
storyline of
Teas’s payment
title for
Interior, Lux
J
Jackson, Jean-Pierre
Jarrard, Rick
Jeremy, Ron
Johnson, Don
Jones, Steve
Jong, Erica
K
Kahrl, William
Kantor, Igo
Kauffman, Stanley
Keating, Charles, Jr.
anti-pornography crusade
downfall of
Flynt and
Vixen censorship case
Kehr, Dave
Keisha
Kelly, Grace
Kerr, Ken
Kilpin, Kris
Kilty, Jerome
Klaw, Irving
Klawans, Stuart
Knight, Arthur
Knight, Sherri
Koenekamp, Fred
Kramer, Stanley
Kubrick, Stanley
Kues, Wilfred “Bud”
L
Lakso, Edward J.
Lamar, Trena (Donna X)
Lamb, John
La Mont, Lilly
Lancaster, Stuart
Lansing, Joi
La Touche, Gigi
Law, John
La Zar, John
Leaf, Earl
Lean, David
Lee, Ruta
Leighton, Ava
Leis, Simon, Jr.
Leis, Simon, Sr.
Lewis, Herschell Gordon
Lewis, Jon
Lieberson, Sandy
Linee, Sin
Link, John
Livingston, Princess
Lloyd, Arthur
Lloyd, Harold
Lockwood, Paul
Lollobrigida, Gina
Lommel, Ulli
London, John
Longo, Joe
Loose, Bill
Louie, Bebe
Louise, Tina
Lovelady, Steven M.
Lucas, Jack
M
Mack, June
Mahar, Ted
Maitland, Lorna
Mandell, Sheldon
Mandl, Fred “Fritz”
Mansfield, Irving
Mansfield, Jayne
Margold, Bill
Marie, Ann
Marli, Ysobel
Marshall, Thurgood
Marx Brothers
Maunder, Wayne
Mayo, Jacqueline
McBroom, Marcia
McCalla, Irish
McCarthy, Todd
McCormick, John
McDonald, Jeff
McGovern, Kevin
McGowan, Tom
McGuire, Deborah
McLaren, Malcolm
McLeod, Duncan
McLeod, Gordon
Medowar, Wady
Meisel, Myron
Metzger, Radley
Meyer, Betty Valdovinos (first wife)
Meyer, Eve Turner (second wife)
background of
business acumen
children, desire for
death of
divorce from Meyer
drinking problem
Eve and the Handyman
first encounter with Meyer
marriage to Meyer
Meyer’s love for
Meyer’s photographic career, involvement in
Meyer’s sexual relationship with
modeling career
physical appearance
women, attraction to
Meyer, Lydia Howe (mother). See Haywood, Lydia Meyer
Meyer, Russ
American culture, influence on
assault incident in
auto accident
birth of
bowel function, obsession with
as caricature of himself in 1980s
cartooning by
childhood years
child of
children, attitude toward
A Clean Breast (autobiography); description of; writing of
critics, relations with
death and funeral
dementia, fear of developing
dementia of
depressions of
“Dirty Dozen” incident
drinking problem
end days
generosity of
gun ownership
hard-core pornography, distaste for
hipness, lack of
Hitler-Goebbels incident
house in Coldwater Canyon
house on Arrowhead Drive–
late-life changes under Cowart’s influence
libel case
loneliness of
male friendships
male role model in childhood, lack of
mammary obsession
marriages. See Meyer, Betty Valdovinos; Meyer, Eve Turner; Williams, Edy
McDonough’s attraction to
military buddies, post-war contacts with
military career
musical preferences
paranoia of
physical appearance
politics of
posterity, concern about
religious beliefs
self-mythologizing by
self-revelation, avoidance of
sentimentalism of
sex life
sexuality of
stinginess of
Thissen’s biography of
tombstone preference
unusualness of
video appearances
will left by
women, attitude toward
women’s attitude toward
“working class American” persona
See also Meyer, Russ, filmmaking c
areer of; Meyer, Russ, photographic career of; specific persons
Meyer, Russ, filmmaking career of
accolades in 1980s
appeal of Meyer’s sexual message
auteur status
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens,
Blacksnake,
blinking eyes, editing of
Blitzen, Vixen and Harry project
breaks with long-time collaborators
The Breast of Russ Meyer project
car imagery in films
cast members, treatment of
censorship problems
Cherry, Harry and Raquel
Choice Cuts project
Common Law Cabin
coverage, approach to
criticism, reaction to
decision on
The Desperate Women,
DVD versions of films
The Eleven project
energy of untamed youth
Erotica
Europe in the Raw!
Eve and the Handyman
Eve Productions
Everything in the Garden project
Fanny Hill
feminist perspective on
The Final Steal project
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers,
“floor’s-eye-view of sexual congress” image
The French Peep Show,
Good Morning ... and Goodbye!, 104, n
Heavenly Bodies
historical significance
humor in films
industrial films
influences on
limitation as filmmaker
Lorna,
loss of interest in filmmaking
male characters
“meaning of films” issue
Meyer’s on-set sexual activity
Meyer’s relationship with mother and
military experience’s impact on commercial films
military filmmaking
Mondo Topless
montage style
Motorpsycho
Mudhoney,
musicality of films
music videos
Nazi characters, source of
overview of
PAD-RAM Enterprises
Pandora Peaks,
post-war disappointments
pregnant actresses, use of
Meyer, Russ, filmmaking career of (cont.)
recognition as filmmaker, desire for
retrospective showings
The Seven Minutes
sexual combat in films
six periods of
status of Meyer catalogue today
Storm film
tastelessness of films
technological innovations
teenage filmmaking
This Is My Body
three-picture deal with 20th Century Fox
training in filmmaking
universe depicted in films
unpretentious approach
Up!,
video versions of films
violence in films
Viva Foxy project
Waters’s assessment of
Who Killed Bambi? project
Wild Gals of the Naked West,
women’s portrayal
X ratings problem
See also Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Immoral Mr. Teas, The; Supervixens; Vixen
Meyer, Russ, photographic career of
bosoms, focus on
“female explosion” pictures
first session with undressed woman
freelance decision
genius for capturing female form
The Glamour Camera of Russ Meyer,
glamour photography