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head hair so if you pull it from one end  good so everybody can see it unlike
     it shortens at the other. That s the best  some flickers I don t care to mention
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     explanation I ’ ve heard and it sounds  where you gotta be some incredible age
     okay to me cause whenever she changes  just to get a peek at an asshole. Ann
     back to Jekyll his beard is back and her  Samachson of Jersey, who is one of
     hair's all gone except down to his  these young people who is too young to
     original length. And his original length is  see those moving pitchers incidentally,
     kind of like early Beatle length, a sign  would like to know why these terrible
     that all of limey culture has caught on  laws exist which prohibit her from
     to the grooming end of the mod, mod  seeing cinema and which keep the boys
     world of rock and roll.           away cause if they pop their tarts in her
        And speaking of Jekyll, whcrc ’ d R.  toaster they get sent up the river  Film of the Festival), best actor and
      L Stevenson dig up a name like that?  indefinitely so they stay away. She ' d  best director awards.
     Could it be he was fond of jackals 7  like these anachronistic laws repealed
     Cause there ' s a jackal in Blood from the  and I agree but what would Dr. Jekyll  SOUNDER  —  A feature about share-
     Mummy’s Tomb, a fuckin hell of a lot  say?                         cropper life in the deep South, dunng
     better than Hammer Films ’ last mummy  For instance in his picture he’s  the Depression. Patronizing in spots, but
     effort (it ' s name has been totally  looking for the secret of eternal life (he  featuring a  performance by Cicely
     forgotten) and it has two different kinds  was looking for a cure for diptheria  Tyson,  well  worth  the  price  of
     of jackal in it. One is a dead jackal ’s  before that but he got talked out of it  admission. Also starring Taj Mahal, who
     skull (head bones) and the other is the  cause it was dull). So he gets some  wrote the musical score.
     shadow of a live iackal. Live stuff shows  female organs from off the street by
     up all over the place whenever the dead  means of knives in the guts of whores  SOLO  -  An incredible documentary
     relic is being transported by cosmic  and then he tries it out on a fly and the  filmed by seven camera crews, about
     means. Like when the cobra sculpture  fly lives a long time. So he drinks it  one man ' s attempt to climb a mountain.
     has to get from the nutso ' room in the  himself and then he turns into a female  Most of the angles shown are clearly
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     loony bin to the basement of where the  himself but why was he using them  impossible to film, and give the viewer a
     girl has to get hooked up with the  female hormones to begin with? He was  heady case of vertigo. No dialogue is
     well-preserved (!) mummy, a live cobra  using them cause he believed that the  used, only the natural sounds heard by
     gets to bite the guy dead so he can't  secret of smooth skm was equivalent to  the climber, and it emerges a tribute to
     interfere. No, actually he just gets his  the secret of eternal youth so he used  patience, confidence and skill.
     throat cut from an unknown source and  female hormones (how do you make a
     that happens another three times or so  hormone? ans.: kick her in the cunt!).  THE LOCUST -  A mean short financed
     and from the ad you'd think it was the  Well but there s still another question  by Joseph E. Levine. A motorist on a
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     severed hand that ' s doing it but no it  worth asking and that is how come he  LA. freeway passes by several people in
     isn ' t cause the severed hand is in a box
                                                                        trouble on the road, before his own car
     and doesn ' t get out until the end.  drank it himself, what did he expect to  gives out and he has to pull over. As he
                                       prove since he wasn t gonna find out if
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        And speaking of ends. Valerie Leon s  he was eternally youthful for a whole  goes for help, slowly, methodically,
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     got a nice end herself! Real fine knobs  lot of years to come? A fool is what he  travelers passing by begin to strip his
     too and they look even better on her  was but movies about fools are the best  car; first tires, then accessories, finally
     than they do on the mummy who is also  kind (e.g. Ship of Fools. The April  doors, fenders, headlights, upholstery.
     played by her and there ' s even a FUCK  Foots ) but if everybody was eternally  More and more people arrive, leaving
     SCENE but you don ' t get to see any nip  youthful then you might never get to be  this guy helpless until the entire thing is
     on her (too bad). The guy she fux is  old enough to see X movies and that  eaten clean.
     called Todd Browning in the picture and  would be REAL SHIT!
     here s why: Todd Browning I is the guy                  R. Meltzer  PRE SORTING FIRST CLASS MAIL -
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     who directed the original Dracula and                              A public service short from the U.S.
     Freaks and the original- original Dracula  SHORT TAKES             Postal Service trying to convince big
     (the book) was wrote by Bram Stoker                                companies to sort their mail before it
     and Bram Stoker happened to of wrote  (The Fifth Annual Atlanta International  leaves their offices. Shot in a screening
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     this one also but under a different title  Film Festival put down ten days of  room, where a super straight Postal
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     so they wanted to amuse the knowers  exceptional films in what is probably  Service guy has a big problem with a
     with some references to old shit cause  the grandest across- the board repre -  buckskinned avant-garde director, who
     this is a new movie.              sentation of the cinematic arts in recent  has signed to do the project because he
        And speaking of old and new this  years. From 1,500 entries in categories  had the lowest bid. the director wants
     movie ts PC instead of R which is real  ranging from slick commercial films to  to shoot asses, noses, postage stamps -
                                                     films,
                                             student
                                                                festival
                                                           the
                                       16mm
                                       literally had something for everyone.  and sorting machines in quick, unin -
                                                                        telligible cuts whichll make a "byew
                                       Pretty neat for a Southern town in  tee- ful ”  picture. The Uncle Sam guy has
                                       which people stiU say, " Frank Capra 7  to explain pre- sorting to this cat in
                                       Isn t he the guy who did 200 Motels?”  order to make him understand how
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                                       Some of the outstanding films seen this  important it is. The end title says the
                                                                        production company did do the short
                                       year follow:                     “for the lowest bid.
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                                       The undisputed (and pre ordained) star               Tom Dupree
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                                       of the festival was James Dickey s
                                       Deliverance, screened to open the event.  TEN DAYS WONDER  In which
                                       At the awards banquet, , Deliverance  Claude Chabrol, the Gallic Hitchcock,
                                       was given the Golden Phoenix (Best  remakes ... oh. maybe Psycho, maybe
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