Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. Russ Meyer Film. 1965

Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. Russ Meyer Film. 1965

One of my favorite stories about Russ Meyer involves one of his critics, who at the time was the head of CITIZENS



 FOR DECENT LITERATURE, and who said that more than anyone else of his time, Russ Meyer had been the cause of the decay of the moral values of America. Russ told me that he wanted that carved on his tombstone and underneath he wanted carved “I was glad to do it.”

There’s an interesting footnote to that story. The man who said that was Charles Keating who is now serving time in a federal prison for having plundered millions of dollars from savings and loans—part of it used to pay for plastic surgery to augment the bosoms of secretaries.

I wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal after seeing his movie The Immoral Mr. Tease and many of his other films. The article was written by the perfectly named Steven Lovely, and my letter basically seconded the notion that Russ was
not simply a skin flick producer, but was in fact, a true auteur with a unique vision of his own. Russ has created, like so many artists in other fields, a unique vision— a Russ Meyer universe that doesn’t depend on sex to make it work. it relies on his unique pop art sensibility and vision and sex. Russ called me the next time he was in Chicago and we became friends and met for dinner. When 20th Century Fox asked him to produce a major studio picture called Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, he called me up and asked me to write the screenplay. I remember him telling me that the day he went to meet Darryl Zanuck at Fox he was so sure that no major studio would hire him, that he dozed off in Zanuck’s waiting room, only to go in and find himself signing a contract in his office. As he left the studio by way of the set for Hello Dolly, he was driving the jeep used by the sheriff in Cherry, Harry and Raquel and put the red flash light on. Beyond is still rented and seen by more audiences than almost any other film made in 1970. Richard Corliss of Time Magazine called it one of the ten best films of the 1970’s. It made a whole lot of money.

The interesting thing about Russ is that all of his life is in the same compartment. There are some people that put the work here, the family there, the friends over here, the private life somewhere else, and the sexual life around the corner.
For Russ, everybody knows everybody.

I can remember being out to dinner with Russ, Kitten (the famous stripper) and Russ’ sergeant from World War II who must have been about 80 years old. Russ
would never think about having the sergeant out one night and Kitten the next night. He would invite everyone. There is no hypocrisy-there is nothing hidden. Russ has great openness and exuberance. So keep that in mind. - Roger Ebert

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