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EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX* ... *BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK -Everything you always found funny about sex* .. .*but were too embarrassed to laugh at.
BLUEBEARD — Lots of highlights — seven in fact, one for each wife. And you�ve probably seen them all on TV. In a few years, TV Guide will call it Horror but it�s really Comedy. Once Joey Heatherton realizes her lines are absurd, she�s as good as Lucy Ball. The other women are great, especially Virna Lisi. Burton plays along. Foreign films offer good money and lovely vacation spots, after all — this one was shot in four different, scenic countries, for some reason. R.C.
BLACULA — Blacula is beautiful!
SLAUGHTERAnother black dick flick, but a real winner this time. Jim Brown gets down with an adequately bad series of slow bums, Stella Stevens takes it all off, and Rip Torn steals the show by mugging his way through as a nervous, disheveled gangster. If you can dig the idea of an underworld kingpin with a cowlick, this is the movie for you. Rip rubs out Jim�s dad, so Jim goes down to Rip�s South of the Border HQ for vengenance, steals Stella from him (he tells her, �Baby, I done set you free�), and brings justice down in one of the most sadistically tasty climactic offerings this season. (Even if some of the tropical exteriors do look like they were shot in Burbank.) Lotsa funny right-on dialog, too. L.B.
SUPERFLY — Hey, l liked this movie! Honest. It wasn�t as good as I expected it to be (or as good as Putney Swope either), but I dug it anyway. Ron O�Neal (Priest) sure kicked a lot of ass. He got quite a bit, too. In fact, ass abounds in this movie. Over all, I rate this among the new wave of Black grade �B� movies so:
1. Sweet Sweet Back
2. Shaft
3. Super-Fly
A. Buck and the Preacher (which really airt�t a grade �B� flick)
5. Bone, Honky of Hate, The Skin Game, Shaft's Big Score, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Elvis, Slaughter and Bobo Brazil in Paris. (All tied because I haven�t seen them.) R.A.P.IV
FLASHES
Bette Midler or Luci Arnaz is up for the lead in Sheila Levine�s Dead and Living in New York, adapted from Gail Parent�s novel. Lucille Ball will co-star.
At the Venice Film Festival, Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey and Rex Reed concluded plans to do their version of the Sherlock Holmes story. Warhol presents, Morrissey directs and Reed writes the script and tries to play Doctor Watson. Will Joe Dallesandro play Holmes?
Hull, Quebec has just turned Our Lady of the Annunciation Catholic Church into a cinema, cabaret and restaurant. Religious services are held in the basement (gratis).
Name of Movie to Watch For::: And Now For Something Completely Different
The third in the Shaft series, Shaft in Africa, will be filmed in Africa with Richard Roundtree starring. The script was written by Stirling Silliphant (Heat of the Night and The New Centurions). Shaft�s female counterpart, Cleopatra Jones starts shooting next month, after Warner Bros, finds the �black beauty� they�re looking for in Washington, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco.
The title Blackfather has been registered for future film production. The movie is about organized crime in Harlem (where else?) and most information will be drawn from documentary files (of course).
B.J. Thomas has taken to acting. Texas born B.J. learned to ride a horse and shoot a gun for his dramatic role in Jory.
