All Effed Up

That’s a ’70s Lina Wertmuller film, right? Giancarlo Giannini, just back from a two-month stay in Europe, arrives in a sticky, sweltering Manhattan. Doesn’t feel too badly, walks around, buys Lifeboat Bluray, writes about Tomkat. Checks into nice air-conditioned Chinatown hotel around 2 or 3 pm, goes upstairs for a 90-minute nap. Wakes up at 10:15 pm…whuh?…and comes to a depressing realization that falling asleep again within the next several hours is gonna be a bitch.

10 thoughts on “All Effed Up

  1. A John Philip Law biography:
    According to Law, the set of THE GYPSY MOTHS, was not a happy one:
    “The atmosphere was terrible. Burt Lancaster was the star… a very egotistical man, who didn’t help anybody while shooting… He couldn’t stand me, I suppose it was because I was taller than him. I can’t think of any other reason. Then there was Gene Hackman, another difficult person who is always trying to steal the show. Good actor, but not a good person. And the director, John Frankenheimer was always drunk before noon…”
    http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/2845-JOHN-EXSHAW-REVIEWS-A-NEW-BOOK-ABOUT-JOHN-PHILLIP-LAW.html

  2. YES, FRANKENHEIMER was drunk before noon because the year before his best friend Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in a murder that still draws spec …. look at his films post rfk …. The Extraordinary Seaman, a surreal ghost story with a twist and Gypsy Moths, where the lead kills himself in the final scene … a few films later The Iceman Cometh shows him at the top of his game

  3. “Signed to appear in Barbarella, [John Philip] Law found himself sharing the Roman villa and swinging orgies of Fonda and her husband, director Roger Vadim.”

    http://tinyurl.com/bvhc26f

    I will never forgive the Gods for making me miss the opportunity of witnessing late 60s Jane Fonda in an orgy setting.

  4. just turn your baseball cap around, pull down those drawers and think of it as free-stylin’….remember: it doesn’t count if you’re jet-lagged and sleep-walking….

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