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Choco1980 posted:Nah, you guys don't realize how crazy it got. There was a period where Hollywood films were tanking in the seventies (this was before Jaws changed the entire system, basically inventing the Summer Blockbuster). And then suddenly porn with plot came along, different from the bland stuff hollywood was doing, and it sold like gangbusters. Deep Throat was just this mindblowing success, where a porn literally became the #1 movie in America for a minute. There were all kinds of weird porn films to come out of this fad. It didn't last long, but it definitely made an impact. Apropos of nothing, I heard a story that extras hired for Boogie Nights weren't told it was a 70s period piece, but they were told it was a Burt Reynolds movie so they showed up dressed in 70s clothes anyway, which I hope is true.
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Choco1980 posted:Deep Throat was just this mindblowing success, where a porn literally became the #1 movie in America for a minute. There were all kinds of weird porn films to come out of this fad. It didn't last long, but it definitely made an impact. I went through an old stack of newspapers when my grandma died, flipped to the movie section and was amazed to see Deep Throat in the listings. It was weird to see porn advertised so openly in the newspaper, but it was also weird because President Ford was on the front page and it was still being screened. Either that flick had serious legs or they just put it up annually like it was The Sound of Music.
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Nameless Pete posted:I went through an old stack of newspapers when my grandma died, flipped to the movie section and was amazed to see Deep Throat in the listings. It was weird to see porn advertised so openly in the newspaper, but it was also weird because President Ford was on the front page and it was still being screened. Either that flick had serious legs or they just put it up annually like it was The Sound of Music. Probably just kept playing. Especially in places like Times Square where you had a lot of tourists and transients. I'm sure at some point, suburban couples going to the city to see a porno was a thing. More likely though it was a dark place with sexy stuff on the screen where you could go and have anonymous sex. Lamont was totally boning his 'friends' while poor Fred Sanford just sat home calling out his wife's name.
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BiggerBoat posted:There was Good Times John Amos and Esther Rolle truly wanted to put a positive light on black families living in the ghetto and then DYNO-MITE exploded. In interviews, Jimmie Walker did not give gently caress one about being a clown. His view being that the show was a comedy and he wanted to make people laugh.
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Nameless Pete posted:I went through an old stack of newspapers when my grandma died, flipped to the movie section and was amazed to see Deep Throat in the listings. It was weird to see porn advertised so openly in the newspaper Working at the Highland Art Cinema must have been a wild ride:  (found in a random newspaper from 1974)
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wait, now that I think about it, "porn marathons occasionally interrupted by a children's cartoons marathon" sounds like a perfect prediction of everyone I've ever known on SSDI
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Pastry of the Year posted:wait, now that I think about it, "porn marathons occasionally interrupted by a children's cartoons marathon" sounds like a perfect prediction of everyone I've ever known on SSDI Yeah like this is just a normal weekend for me at this point
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Political ads unironically using "Born in the USA" This got lost in porn chat but reminded me of a few years ago when Honda used “We Will Become Silhouettes” by The Postal Service. The song is clearly referring to nuclear war.
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Mister Kingdom posted:John Amos and Esther Rolle truly wanted to put a positive light on black families living in the ghetto and then DYNO-MITE exploded. In interviews, Jimmie Walker did not give gently caress one about being a clown. His view being that the show was a comedy and he wanted to make people laugh. Yeah, I watched a doc on the show and they talked about how quickly it turned into a catchphrase, which, come to think of it a lot of 70's shows did. "nonoo-nonoo", "Sit on it", "Up your nose with a rubber hose", "Book em, Danno", "who loves ya, baby"...lots of catch prases. It actually seems like there were more minority centered shows in the 70's than their are now - or maybe now they're just all relegated to BET. Fun fact: I waited on Esther Rolle once. She was nice. That's my Esther Rolle story.
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Milo and POTUS posted:What's pioneer in this context? Combat engineer? Yes combat engineers; the "how to change a lightbulb with an explosive"-guys. Not the ones who build brigdes and stuff.
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Mister Kingdom posted:John Amos and Esther Rolle truly wanted to put a positive light on black families living in the ghetto and then DYNO-MITE exploded. In interviews, Jimmie Walker did not give gently caress one about being a clown. His view being that the show was a comedy and he wanted to make people laugh. Which, from what I understand, was the reason John Amos left the show -- he didn't like DY-NO-MITE and Walker's comic portrayal.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:This got lost in porn chat but reminded me of a few years ago when Honda used “We Will Become Silhouettes” by The Postal Service. The song is clearly referring to nuclear war. And Mazda's use of "Zum Zum Zum Capoeira Mata Um", which is about the lethality of Capoeira being one good thing that came out of slavery.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:This got lost in porn chat but reminded me of a few years ago when Honda used “We Will Become Silhouettes” by The Postal Service. The song is clearly referring to nuclear war.
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Do they still make cars in that gold-ish color? I don't think I've seen one since my dad bought a golf at some point in the 90s.
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Volcott posted:Do they still make cars in that gold-ish color? I don't think I've seen one since my dad bought a golf at some point in the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXN1eBiFYyA
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Car colors suck now. It's always some variation of silver, blue, or red and everything's metallic. gently caress yeah, brown cars. Some nice earthy hues. Or at least two tone.
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BiggerBoat posted:It actually seems like there were more minority centered shows in the 70's than their are now - or maybe now they're just all relegated to BET. It terms of network tv it seems to go in cycles where sometimes the networks calculate that they need to be less exclusively white and other times where they turn away from non-white representation. The early to mid-90s were another moment in which black visibility on television was relatively higher. There are a number of shows focused on minority characters now, like Black-ish, Speechless, and Fresh Off the Boat.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Which, from what I understand, was the reason John Amos left the show -- he didn't like DY-NO-MITE and Walker's comic portrayal. They killed him off-screen in a car accident because he clashed with Norman Lear about Walker's performance.
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Yeah..I dunno...maybe it's just because I watch a lot less TV than I did as a kid and I remember SOME stuff in the 90's like Martin and Fresh Prince. Maybe it also has something to do with the nature of 70's culture where the dividing lines between 'Black shows" and "white shows" were more pronounced and the idea of an all black sitcom or whatever was seen as revolutionary before The Cosby Show brought it into the mainstream. Might be clouding my perception. Could be too that black characters are more and more integrated into regular ordinary mainstream fair and that these days a show like, say, The Wire might not be viewed through a "black TV show" lens so don't know. I just thought it was interesting thing to think about.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Steel Panther is all too self-aware about that. "You're the only girl that I like to screw when I'm not on the road. When I come home my dinner's made, and the front lawn is mowed. I'd kiss your mouth even after you swallow my load..."
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Mister Kingdom posted:They killed him off-screen in a car accident because he clashed with Norman Lear about Walker's performance. It was a boat accident.
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah..I dunno...maybe it's just because I watch a lot less TV than I did as a kid and I remember SOME stuff in the 90's like Martin and Fresh Prince. Maybe it also has something to do with the nature of 70's culture where the dividing lines between 'Black shows" and "white shows" were more pronounced and the idea of an all black sitcom or whatever was seen as revolutionary before The Cosby Show brought it into the mainstream. Might be clouding my perception. Speaking of the cosby show......
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Nameless Pete posted:I went through an old stack of newspapers when my grandma died, flipped to the movie section and was amazed to see Deep Throat in the listings. It was weird to see porn advertised so openly in the newspaper, but it was also weird because President Ford was on the front page and it was still being screened. Either that flick had serious legs or they just put it up annually like it was The Sound of Music. And if that doesn't seem weird enough in retrospect, there was a stretch in there where a lot of the porno theatres in town were advertising films with titles that hinted really strongly at being bestiality-themed. In the city's major morning daily, sometimes on the same page as ads for beloved family restaurant Lazlo Nibble has a new favorite as of 07:44 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Ted Nugent had a song called "Jailbait". Ted Nugent had a song called "Stranglehold". Here's the lyrics for the last verse: Ted Nugent posted:You know you cant turn me round
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Flyball posted:Ted Nugent had a song called "Stranglehold". Here's the lyrics for the last verse: Pretty good guitar playing in that song. To be honest, I don't think most people listen to Ted Nugent albums for the lyrics; people come and stay for the guitar playing. I like Nugent a lot as a rock guitarist even if I don't like him as a person. One less well-known song that's aged hilariously is "I'm a Woman" by Fontella Bass from 1966. It was trying really hard to be the distaff equivalent of those boastful tough-guy blues songs by Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley like "Mannish Boy" and "I'm a Man", except it was written by a man, so the lyrics are her boasting about how much cooking and cleaning she can do and how good she is at looking after children. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 09:56 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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Gaunab posted:It was a boat accident. Is this a joke I'm not getting? quote:The family is getting ready to move to Mississippi where James has a promising new job. However, the family is waiting for the right time to tell Bookman the news. Later, Willona throws a going-away party, but the happiness is interrupted when a devastating telegram comes--James had been killed in a car accident.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Probably just kept playing. Especially in places like Times Square where you had a lot of tourists and transients. I'm sure at some point, suburban couples going to the city to see a porno was a thing. I'm gonna sound square as all hell but what is the purpose of porn if you're not jerking off to it or using it as like a sex aid or whatever? Were couples going to see it to get horned up and bone once they went home? Who the gently caress is the type of person to go see porn in a theater for the story or whatever? I honestly don't understand
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:This got lost in porn chat but reminded me of a few years ago when Honda used “We Will Become Silhouettes” by The Postal Service. The song is clearly referring to nuclear war. A while ago some cruise company was using Lust for Life by Iggy Pop to sell squeaky clean family cruises. Which was pretty weird. Australia by the Manic Street Preachers is used in tourism ads for Australia, even though the song is about depression and drug taking. Except they cut out all the lyrics except for ‘oooh Australiaaaa’ to make it super bland.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I'm gonna sound square as all hell but what is the purpose of porn if you're not jerking off to it or using it as like a sex aid or whatever? Were couples going to see it to get horned up and bone once they went home? Who the gently caress is the type of person to go see porn in a theater for the story or whatever? I honestly don't understand Someone hasn't been to a porn and cheese party. Also Twisted Spoke in Chicago does Smut and Eggs night which is a lot of fun.
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BiggerBoat posted:Could be too that black characters are more and more integrated into regular ordinary mainstream fair and that these days a show like, say, The Wire might not be viewed through a "black TV show" lens so don't know. I just thought it was interesting thing to think about. If anything America is more divided racially than it was when the Wire came out so you'd get both sides really loving pissed at it for different reasons I'd imagine
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Aesop Poprock posted:I'm gonna sound square as all hell but what is the purpose of porn if you're not jerking off to it or using it as like a sex aid or whatever? Were couples going to see it to get horned up and bone once they went home? Who the gently caress is the type of person to go see porn in a theater for the story or whatever? I honestly don't understand I don't think people waited to get home before boning. Which is why porn theaters have always had a certain unclean reputation. Also if you want a contemporary depiction of this type of thing in film, porn theaters show up a bit in Taxi Driver.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I'm gonna sound square as all hell but what is the purpose of porn if you're not jerking off to it or using it as like a sex aid or whatever? Were couples going to see it to get horned up and bone once they went home? Who the gently caress is the type of person to go see porn in a theater for the story or whatever? I honestly don't understand If you're not being facetious, then yes, that was absolutely what people were doing. Also, back in the early 20th century when porn was super-duper illegal and difficult to find, the people who went from town to town setting up illicit screenings of porn films would usually work out an arrangement with a local brothel (or whatever); it seemed that showing sexually frustrated groups of men, for whom the moving image itself was still an insane novelty, hardcore pornography was really good for business. This is a fascinating read, btw: 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I don't think people waited to get home before boning. Which is why porn theaters have always had a certain unclean reputation. Then why did Pee-Wee get arrested for jerking off in one
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Pastry of the Year posted:If you're not being facetious, then yes, that was absolutely what people were doing. Also, back in the early 20th century when porn was super-duper illegal and difficult to find, the people who went from town to town setting up illicit screenings of porn films would usually work out an arrangement with a local brothel (or whatever); it seemed that showing sexually frustrated groups of men, for whom the moving image itself was still an insane novelty, hardcore pornography was really good for business. I'm not, I literally don't know anything about the history of the porn industry
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Aesop Poprock posted:Then why did Pee-Wee get arrested for jerking off in one From his wikipedia page: "In July 1991, while visiting with relatives, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Florida for masturbating during a film at an adult movie theater.[42] During a random police inspection, a detective who had observed Reubens detained him as he was readying to leave. (This sweep also resulted in three other arrests)." Just because something is common doesn't make it legal. 
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I bet they stick the Barney Fife level cops on porno theatre sting duty
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hawowanlawow posted:I bet they stick the Barney Fife level cops on porno theatre sting duty I always think this when I see one 'guarding' a construction site at night.
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Lazlo Nibble posted:I remembered that title being a near-constant presence in the Albuquerque papers when I was kid, so I spent some time poking around on newspapers.com, and as far as I can tell from the display ads, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones and (after a while) Behind The Green Door ran more or less continuously at one Albuquerque adult theatre or another, usually as a triple feature, from May 1973 until sometime in 1980. Um, animals aren't the only "weird" theme being advertised on that page 
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Construction sites make good burgling. You can get pretty good money for most tools, though the downside is that they can be a but heavy. And if they don't leave any tools overnight you can always harvest various metals for scrap. If the the electricity has been wired you can rip the copper right out of the walls. Easy money.
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