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ThePrivate Screenings films are, in a word, terrible. It’s a wonder Marilyn acquits herself so well in these lurid, dull, softcore tits-and-ass flicks. In fact Marilyn adds the only touch of class to the low-cost productions which are long on nudity and short on laughs. Surprisingly, the R-rated Private Screenings found a wide audience on cable TV stations like Cinemax and Showtime in the early ‘90s and in the home video market in the mid-to-late '90s. When Marilyn didn’t have one of the starring roles she would often do the wraparounds, introducing and closing the film. “A lot of you were unhappy when I did the softcore stuff,” she said on her 1999 disc Still Insatiable. “But, hey, it paid the bills.” Read more here.
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My Therapist (1984) starring Marilyn Chambers
In 1982, Mel Goldberg adapted his stage play Sex Surrogate, a one-woman show in which Marilyn starred, for television. Inexplicably retitled Love Ya, Florence Nightingale, the cable TV series was Marilyn’s first and only foray into television. She played Kelly Carson, a sex surrogate who tries to help different male clients overcome their sexual hangups. She also has a boyfriend, played by David Winn, who is slightly embarrassed by her profession and tries not to feel jealous of her having sex with other men. Any other plot points would be pure speculation as the series has remained unavailable since it aired. Several of the episodes were edited together into a feature-length film and released to home video under the title My Therapist.
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I unironiclly like this clip
October 1st’s paper started with something I covered way in the beginning, the Tylenol Murders.
You don’t hear too many stories about women killing police officers, let alone someone stabbing a police officer. Also I can’t imagine the phrase “gone berserk” used in a newspaper today. I can’t find anything about Addie Hardy.
omg, the rod that won employee of the month at the Springfield Nuclear Plant was on the loose.
I wonder where the coffee shop was at JCPenney in the old Coliseum Mall. I saw that JCPenney still operates a (modern) coffee shop at one location in Hurst, Texas.
Before we started using the term “ATM Machine”, ATM’s used to be called all sorts of cutsey names. Ours was called “Beacon”, and I still remember my dad going to the one on Woodland Road and I would wait in the car and watch him.
I didn’t know that Thalhimers sold electronics. That clock radio was originally $55! And we complain about the prices of things now!
Just posting because I love that little Western Store logo.
Yeah, newspaper, tell all the creeps what subdivision the little girl lives in.
Man,Golden Goat. There’s something I haven’t thought of since I was like, six. My family never used it, but I remember seeing them when I was really little.
This ad was amazing — until I saw they spelled JCPenney wrong.
The Village Shops at Kingsmill in Williamsburg is apparently nearly all vacant and looking for new development. That place was a poop hole when I went to community college down the street from here like, 18 years ago.
I can’t tell if the illustrations for this Lou Smith’s grocery store are charming or disturbing. Much like the “Kroger People” of today.
Big fail over at Circuit City.
wowow, look at all the movies. Yes, Giorgio was a movie that the How Did This Get Made? podcast covered, but I missed the episode and now it’s scrubbed off the internet.
ooof, the King James was the ~scary motel~ by the time my memories start. Surprisingly, the Fox Den was still open as late as 1994!
…a gorilla gathering.
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