Tuesday 25 August 2009

Mondo Hollywood (

Robert Carl Cohen's underground documentary cult classic of the psychedelic sixties.
Invited to open the 1968 Avignon Film Festival, it's exhibition was banned by the French Ministry of Information for "Espousing a number of perversities, including drugs & homosexuality."
The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan -- desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the "Hollywood" sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu. Close-ups and cameo vignettes include: Frank Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention, Carl Franzoni, Bobby Beausoleil of the "Manson Family," imprisoned for life for murder, and Jay Sebring - a victim of the Mansons, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Silent Screen Star; Helen White, Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan, L.S.D. advocate; Dr. Richard Alpert, Jayne Mansfield, and Rudi Gernreich, creator of the topless fad. Described by critics as "bizarre prophesy," it has withstood the passage of time as a unique record of the lives & attitudes of those whose lives mirrored the "Hollywood Dream."

...to see Full-length 120 minute uncensored "Director's Cut" - GO HERE...

...for highly illuminating interview with Robert Carl Cohen - Go HERE...

...and finally, watch Mike Curb deny remembering? his soundtrack work...

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