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...London he acknowledged that the young lady accompanying him - Myra Gale Brown, the 13-year-old daughter of his cousin J.W. Brown (who played bass in his touring band) - had been his wife since December 12, 1957. Jerry Lee was used to hell breaking loose around him, but usually he was the one who opened its cage. Now he looked pale and defenseless in the tabloid press's glare. The Rank theater chain canceled his bookings, he returned to the U.S. to find the reception no kinder, and the bride and groom found themselves the Monica-and-Bill...
...small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins. That's where I found "Lewis Boogie," a tune that, in its rollicking rockin' propulsion, fully merits a place next to his two signature hits. It begins as abrupt as wartime reveille: four four-note phrases, each an octave lower than the preceding, on a piano that sounds a little flat in the upper registers. Then JLL races into his vocal. This is a 12-bar blues with a difference: the breaks...
...released it, with an X rating, a month after another, more prominent X-er, "Myra Breckinridge," had ignominiously tanked. "BVD" earned a healthy return on investment and a sheaf of favorable notices - though not every critic loved the film. The Chicago Tribune's reviewer sniped at the movie and its tyro scripter: "Boredom aplenty is provided by a screenplay which, for some reason, has been turned over to a screenwriting neophyte." (This was young Gene Siskel, twitting his rival, later partner-rival, Ebert. Here's thumb in your...
...happens now: We're alive, others are not, we have no right to complain. There's no profit in impatience. Broken trains and cold dinners are trivial matters, and we finally know it. One man turned to his wife on the new train and said quietly, "We should call Myra, tell her we'll be late." That...
...Though other Southern-scripted movies are available on video (most prominently "Barbarella"), fans of his work are advised to first check out the film version of "Candy" (1968) which recently made its home-video and DVD debut from Anchor Bay. On a par with "Skidoo" (1968) and "Myra Breckinridge" (1970) (both sadly unavailable) in the must-be-seen-to-be-believed category, "Candy" is a 100% product of the 1960s -- lavishly budgeted, star-studded, exceptionally drug-inflected sex comedy...