Above, we have a picture of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol posing with two rabbits. I’m not really sure whether or not this picture was actually taken for Easter but let’s pretend like it was. Andy certainly doesn’t look very happy with his rabbit.
Fortunately, he appears to be in a better mood in the picture below, which also features both Edie and Catherine Deneuve.
And, finally, in this next picture, Andy is finally actually smiling. How couldn’t you smile with that many rabbits around? Seriously, rabbits are incredibly cute.
Finally, let’s end this with Andy Warhol’s 1982 painting, Eggs:
In the 60s, there were gang debs and in the 70s, there were cheerleaders. And there were an awful lot of movies about cheerleaders that apparently were a lot more sordid than Bring It On.
They’re not just cheerleaders — they’re swinging cheerleaders! Believe it or not, this was directed by the same Jack Hill who directed Switchblade Sisters and countless Pam Grier films.
Eventually, filmmakers ran out different adjectives to place before the word “Cheerleaders.” And that is how this movie ended up being called The Pom Pom Girls.
Needless to say, this is the edited version of this particular’s film’s trailer. If I ever get a chance to watch Debbie Does Dallas, I’ll have tobecause I live in Dallas. And if Debbie thinks she’s going to do Dallas better than I do Dallas, she might want to jump off that dream train. Just saying…
(By the way, I know that there’s a small group of you out there who probably think I’m just using this post an excuse to kid my sister Erin about her high school cheerleading days. Perish the thought! In fact, to prove my good intentions, the next 6 trailers will be, in absolutely no way, related to cheerleading.)
I’m including this trailer specifically for one of our regular and loyal readers. He knows who he is and here’s hoping he’s having himself a good weekend.
8 ) The Naked Bunyip (1970)
I’ve never seen this film, I just came across it while I was specifically looking up trashy cheerleader-centric trailers on YouTube. It appears to be an Australian mondo film.
Film looks terrible but I love that tagline: “It seemed like a good idea at the time!” I have a feeling that’s what Ray Milland spent all of 1973 telling himself.
This was on the Fox Movie Channel earlier this week and I actually set the DVR for it. Ben Gazzara chews the scenery of Al Capone and then a really young Sylvester Stallone pops up as Frank Nitti. This is one of those 70s mafia films that tries to be The Godfather, just with less running time and a smaller budget. It’s kinda boring, to be honest.
As another Easter draws to a close, consider what would happen if the rabbits of the world turned on us.
That clip is from a 1972 film entitled Night of the Lepus. I saw it 13 years ago when, during a stormy Saturday afternoon, it showed up on one of the local stations. Beyond the image of a bunch of bunnies hopping in slow motion (a bit like the zombie Templars from Amando De Ossorio’s Blind Dead films), I don’t really remember much about the actual movie.
Then again, when you’ve got killer bunnies, what else do you have to remember?
Through the Shattered Lens 