to paladin310
thank you so much for your kind words about Tura. u said few, but they meant a lot to me.
anyone wondering why this woman was so precious (i'd guess you've not seen FP!K!K! yet), read THIS:
http://www.bizarremag.com/entert ... 43/tura_satana.html
Russ Meyer was another legend: learned how to shoot film as an Army cameraman in WW2 and invented the "nudie-cutie" (first softcore genre) with THE IMMORAL MR TEAS in 1964. but his later films have to be seen to be believed: VIXEN or BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (both 1970) will take the top of your skull off, WITH the head of your penis.
as for Ms Santana:
"While working at the Pink Pussycat club (later featured in Faster Pussycat's opening sequence, complete with leering punters screaming "Go, baby, go!") Tura got a call from her agent. "I told him that I didn't do porn, and he told me that under no circumstances was this a porn movie. So I went and met Russ Meyer. He had this huge booming voice, and he loved to shout out my name whenever he saw me." After Tura had read for him, she recalls, "He looked at me and said: 'You are most definitely my Varla. You're the only one who can play her, because you know her.'
"I got along with just about everyone on the film," Tura says, "except for Susan Bernard." Sixteen-year-old Susan played Linda, the Pussycat's kidnappee, an actress who left high school in response to Meyer's ad for a "girl who looks good in a bikini". "I don't know if it was the fact her mother was on the set at first or not, but I couldn't get any response from her. I discussed this with Russ and the other gals and I told them I was going to make this girl shake in her boots. Russ was all for it."
as for BKK girls, i agree with u, p310, that the girls were better presented in the 90s (i first visited in '90 also)--they were more feminine, more polite, yet just as carnal. prices were less ridiculous, even with the baht pegged at 25/USD. the takeup in fast-food consumption has widened many a pert young bottom. yet, i still loved the year i lived there, even though my work-plans fell through. and despite the ongoing instability i still like to go there and check the talent...there are still some lovely spinners here and there, though many have been spoiled by too many farang with more baht than brains. the country has not been well served by the floods of horny guys who've flooded in, driving annual tourist-numbers into eight digits--the sin sot amount in many Isaan provinces has risen above what locals can afford, not to mention that the bride usually intends to extract every last satang from the farang mark...errrr, groom, in subsequent years. dad needs a new pickup truck, we need a house, my "brother" needs his mao lao/Krongthip allowance, my mother needs three new air-cons and the water buffalo needs a sex-change operation. meh.
just for the hell of it, a couple of FASTER PUSSYCAT stills. Susan Bernard reclines on the hood of the car, you can bet Tura made her "shake in her boots." the other actress is Haji, who plays Dee to Varla's Tom (u know what i mean, p310  ) in the film.
JtB
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) in the film.