Okay, for once work wasn’t that bad today and I’ve got a three day weekend to look forward to, so I’m in a pretty good mood and just feel like taking it easy tonight. I haven’t screened a movie in quite a while here at MAD, so tonight I’m going to have a midnight movie showing of the long-awaited “Fugitive Girls.”
A month or so ago I wrote about this film, but if you didn’t read it or don’t remember, it’s the last movie legendary filmmaker Ed Wood was involved in. He co-wrote the movie with AC Stephens (Stephen Apostolof), who directed it. Ed Wood was the Assistant Director, using the name, Dick Trent as a pseudonym. It came out in 1974, and although I’ve played the movie trailer here before, it’s worth watching one more time before I screen it, check it out.
“Betrayed by her Lover ... Pimp Killer ... Dope Smuggler ... Bank Embezzler ... Lesbian—Leader of the Pack!”
Oh and this film has no subtitles, but I think that every picture will tell its story. Are you ready? Lights... Camera... Fugitive Girls!
A few posts ago the Mad list was comprised of legendary filmmaker Ed Wood films. While Googling around I found one I had never heard of called, “Fugitive Girls” (he wrote it and had two brief parts in it, as Pops and a Sheriff.) It looked great! And Jaws commented that he had a copy. So I went to Amazon (yeah, I know, I should’ve tried to buy it locally after all my preaching, but I was in a hurry) and found it on DVD. As I was leaving for work, the package was on the landing in my apartment building, just in the nick of time. It was a real Bonnie Raitt moment. I really felt like dying my hair red and then marrying and divorcing Michael O'Keefe (who's birthday is coming up and flea markets in NYC are closing in honor of it.) But I had to get to work, so I left the package on the landing. Let’s go get it and then it’s: Lights, Camera...Wood!
Okay, this is my block, almost home.
And here's the box on the landing, almost movie time! Let's take it upstairs and open it up.
Wow, this thing is really packed solid!
This doesn't look like a DVD, what is this?
It's the glass swizzle sticks that Jaws sent me! Thank you so much, Jaws! They are really cool and boy do I feel guilty as I haven't sent him the John Lennon drawing he won here the other week. I'll put it in the mail today Jaws, and thanks again!
The least I could do is to put up a link for Jaws' fine book, "Two Fisted Cab Driving Tales." It's a great read and I have a copy and so should you. You can order it here: Two Fisted Cab Driving Tales.
I'm going to start collecting swizzle sticks. Here's the collection so far: The glass ones on the left are from MAD commenter Jason Hwang (I traded a skull shotglass for them), the the Jaws set and last and least the shitty one from Sir Harry's. I should've saved the Blarney Cove straw, but I wasn't thinking. And now, since I thought Fugitive Girls was waiting for us, I don't have a movie for tonight. Well, let's just watch some trailers from YouTube and call it a night.
Here's the trailer for Fugitive Girls, which I'm sure we'll watch next week. “Betrayed by her lover; Pimpkiller; Dope Smuggler; Bank Embezzler; Lesbian—Leader of the pack!”
Okay, for once work wasn’t that bad today and I’ve got a three day weekend to look forward to, so I’m in a pretty good mood and just feel like taking it easy tonight. I haven’t screened a movie in quite a while here at MAD, so tonight I’m going to have a midnight movie showing of the long-awaited “Fugitive Girls.”
Lights...
Camera...
Fugitive Girls!
Further reading: Plan 9 Crunch, IMDb, AMC Film Critic and Yahoo.
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