FEATURES
‘Saw’ Thru
L.M. Kit Carson serves up Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper as the main course then spoons out script excerpts from the sequel for dessert
Yankee Doodle Diary
Pat McGilligan chronicles the sad, last days of a Hell’s Kitchen kid who lived the dream, then got eaten up in a nightmare
Piz-ZAZ
They took off in Airplane!, then became Top Secret! Now Jack Barth asks ZAZ (Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker) if they mean to sail or sell out
Midsection: That’s Exploitation
Wages of Sin
David Chute and Kevin Allman interview David F. Friedman, the schlockmeister of sex, sin, spurts and splashes, the king of swing, the sultan of sweat, and the emperor of “I Scream!”
FILM COMMENT INTERVIEW WITH DR. RUTH
By Marcia Pally
The most respected sex therapist (200 million closet clients!) and bubbie of her day, Dr. Ruth stars in Daniel Vigne’s new movie…and becomes our first foldout heart throb
Sexposed
Jimmy McDonough careens down the road that led from softcore sexploitationeers to the hardballin’ hardcore genre
Jail Birds
Mike Wilkins surveys all those women in prison, girls in gangs, and schoolgirls in the showers films that caused car crashes on two-lane blacktops everywhere.
Press Releases from the Twilght Zone
Journals
Out of This World
Robert Seidenberg recalls the man who inspired Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy
Weaver, the Woman
Harlan Kennedy recounts on set experiences from Alien
Robots, the Men
Stephen Schaefer laments the days when robots were robots
DEPARTMENTS
Guilty Pleasures: Joe Bob Briggs, jim morton, & harry medved
The man’s wild: fired from the Dallas Times Herald for bashing “We Are the World,” Joe Bob Briggs retreats to the drive-in and tells ya the score
Industry: Tromatized
Troma, the new home of the barf (Splatter U) pic, knows no shame. Bill Landis tells why.
Books: Schlock d’Oeuvres
Richard Gehr on Incredibly Strange Films
