Monday, March 9, 2020

Fonda Jane? You Betcha!

Click bait, not jail bait.
Movie star Jane Fonda [at left - Ed.] is justly celebrated and respected for her advocacy of womens' issues and anti-war activism. But did you know she was also one of the swellest tomatoes to ever strip down to her tan lotion? That's the feeble premise of today's Double Feature Soundtrack piece, and boy, did it ever hook you in! Haw! Wotta sap! This photo ain't from either movie, neither! Fooled ya!


Steelyard Blues ('73) features Ms. Fonda as, well, as a hooker. Like she played in the previous year's Klute. Hmm. Donald Sutherland is in both movies too, but not as a hooker. I think I have this on a hard drive somewhere. Where did I put that gosh-darn hard drive? Did I have my milk yet? I have to replace those light bulbs also.
Vanishing Point ('71) is an existentialist French cinéaste auteur movie but made in the U.S. of A., so it's one long car chase, like Smokey And The Bandit only without the jokes. It stars Barry Newman, who has managed to forge a fifty-year career in the movie business without once getting hassled for his autygraph at crap games or having to play a hooker. Kudos, Barry!

They're both fine examples of real movie-makers making real movies before everything turned to shit with Star Wars (yeah yeah, your favoritest movie, like, ever, and I'm just a h8r, right?) and the soundtrack albums are pretty swell, too, especially Steelyard, which is the more cohesive, featuring Nick Gravenities and Mike Bloomfield with a great little band and some big-name guests.


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15 comments:

  1. johnMarch 9, 2020 at 7:51 AM

    Spot On With VANISHING POINT...One OIf My favorite drive-in movies and a truly wonderful film. I don't believe ther was a single breast(or two forthat matter), exposed on the screen.
    Jeeesh, those were the good old days. Wait there has never been "good old days". I'm Sorry I'm writing this, but I need the link so....
    And I do Like Breasts, just not in my soup please.
    JOHNcowculator

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  2. FiveGunsWestMarch 9, 2020 at 8:11 AM

    Nick used to tell anyone who'd listen, which grew to be fewer and fewer, that he moved to the Bay Area to make it in music but spent 20 years getting high instead. I thought that WAS making it in music back then. i agree with John on Vanishing Point being a wonderful film and a drive in fave....and about the link.

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  3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 9, 2020 at 8:17 AM

    Vanishing.

    (geddit?)

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  4. johncowculatorMarch 9, 2020 at 8:39 AM

    They Must Not Have been very Memorable, Cause I was a lot younger than and would still have been impressed by ANY tits. Still am...now about that link.
    John

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 9, 2020 at 8:44 AM

      It's a Stealth Link, John. Using what wits and motor skills are left you after a lifetime of dissipation and neglect, it is your task to locate the link, which is right there in front of you.

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  5. johncowculator dr. collinsMarch 9, 2020 at 9:02 AM

    I'm an Older Gentleman and I just got my google acount back after months of pleading with a too smart grandson who had taken over my computer and deleted my passwords. I never wrote passwords down and had no idea what any of them were and since I had an account they wouldn;t let me open a new one and I'm retired and the eyes aren't what they once were and my back is killing me and I really want this link and stealth is not in my vocabulary though I have found that i can say the most outrageous things to pretty young women and they don't take offense and...my emotions are on edge at this time because they cancelled the third season of the OA and now I'll never find about they internet tree and the telepathic octopus that at first I thought was Cthullu, but then the guy killed him with an axeand,,, I'm sosorry that Mr.cowculator was able to get the interwebsI hope he hasn't been causing any trouble he really is a sweet oldman, but he get';s passionatte about some woman from hispast that he keeps calling Jane. If you could see your way clear to making him happy the staff and I would appreciate it.
    Dr. Tom Collins

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  6. FiveGunsWestMarch 9, 2020 at 9:49 AM

    My boots are heavy my pants are tight............I get the point. Thanks Farq. Happy debauch! Speaking of Ed, and Wac-A-Mole, I had a friend in Florida, a miserly skin flint of a gent, who bought a hot plate at a pawn shop (who does that? They're cheap as fuck anyway. He takes it home and scrubs the crap out of it. Seems to be covered in rust. Two weeks later homicide detectives showed up, they wanted the hot plate. They were perturbed he had cleaned it so well. It was the murder weapon in a homicide that took place in a Chevy van at Wayside beach park. Brained with a hot plate. What a way to go. How's Ed doing.

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  7. draftervoiMarch 9, 2020 at 10:17 AM

    Steelyard Blues...they shot the racetrack scene over the hill from where I lived, at the Antioch Speedway. We used to go there to watch the Ratso Skagg crash cars in the races. A friend of mine was there the night they filmed, and is visible in the crowd near the fabulous Hollywood stars.

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  8. draftervoiMarch 9, 2020 at 10:18 AM

    Ugh. Not THE Ratso Skagg. Ratso Skagg, himself. Jeez...

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  9. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 9, 2020 at 11:17 AM

    Today's high comment quality, and the virtual absence of coronavirus in the downloads, means a complimentary drink and nut saucer for the Four Or Five Guys©! Simply tell the barkeep I'm taking care of your tab.

    (Offer void where prohibited by law)

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  10. BillMarch 9, 2020 at 10:49 PM

    Steelyard Blues was a mediocre movie but the soundtrack has some good stuff on it. I got it at the screening of the movie. Did it ever hit the theaters?

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  11. apaulingMarch 10, 2020 at 1:34 AM

    I'm with you on the whole Star Wars thing, Farq. Took my kids to the first one and nodded off early in the first reel. Woke up in time for the credits. The kids seemed to have liked it though. And yeah, you reeled me in with that pre-Hanoi Jane cheesecake. Your blog continues to be a refuge and respite from the seething madness beyond the Foam.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 10, 2020 at 3:28 AM

      People Who Fell Asleep During Star Wars may be a larger diaspora than suspected - I did too.

      Thanks for the kind words! The' House O' Foam© is also The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.

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  12. MrDaveMarch 14, 2020 at 7:59 PM

    Thanks for the complimentary drink -- I'm going to the cupboard to pour that now!

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