Those Sexsational Sexploitationaries

FAROUK UNIVERSITY

Directed by

Thomas Alderman

The title’s a double-entendre for sure, as in “Farouk U” and King Farouk, last of the debauched Egyptian kings, pre-Nasser-wise. Extensions include Burroughsian Arab fantasies, syphillitic narcosis in the casbah and other trans-cultural necrophiliac turnons.

x Things start okay with a surprise cameo appearance by Lyndon Baines himself, doing the Eisenhower reversal move by becoming president of Farouk U. The school opened, Lyndon tells us, when Ali Baba Schwartz, inventor of Preparation Asp, was crushed to death between the humps of a camel in the annual Shriners parade... he left his considerable fortune to carry on the tradition.

Action takes place at Kappa Frig Kappa/Thi Beta Thi, a coed fraternity/ sorority house featuring housemother Tempest Lavern, a red-headed gamey Ann-Margaret caricature who “retired from show-biz a step ahead of the vice squad.”

“Somebody say something about me? I hope it was dirty,” says Tempest. You remember Tempest — one of her best known roles was Nude Nurse, in which she gave her body to an army of lepers in the climactic opening scene.