RIP, Larry, you talentless schmuck.
I like dreadful B-movies... lot better than the crap hollywood puts out on a weekly basis.
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Larry shot a movie called Naughty Dallas in one of Jack Ruby's strip joints (not The Carousel Club, the other one).
He also shot a movie called The Trial Of Lee Harvey Oswald about a fictional court trial had Oswald lived.
Netflix has several of his films and he provided commentary for them in recent years.
Perhaps his most famous film was Mars Needs Women.
Larry's a Dallas boy, one of the most famous graduates of the Buckner Babtist Boys Home, and his first movie was "Naughty Dallas," the story of Jack Ruby, where he used the actual strippers that worked in Ruby's nightclub down on Lemmon Avenue. That led to "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald," which led to "Goodbye Norma Jean," which led to the movie that tied it all together, "Down On Us," the first movie to fully reveal the anti-rock music conspiracy that systematically killed Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
And now we've got "Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn," the first movie to reveal how Marilyn Monroe died just three days before her press conference to tell everything she knew about Bobby Kennedy, the Mafia, Jimmy Hoffa, and Cuba. And this may be the sleaziest movie of 1989, a perfect 100 on the Sleaze Meter, so sleazy that three hours after you watch it you're still wiping sleaze off your chin. Misty Rowe plays Norma Jean Baker before her plastic surgery, and Paula Lane plays Marilyn AFTER the plastic surgery, and between em they sleep with half the pork-bellied cigar-smokin pasty-face slime-meisters in Hollywood. By the time she asks her buddy to shoot her up with a little sodium pentathol, you're thinking, "Thank GOD, is it almost over?"
Dear Mr. Bob,
Your review of "Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn" took me by surprise. You see, Terrence Locke died in 1982, and I was wondering if it's the same person, in an old movie. He did play in a movie with Misty Rowe called "Goodbye, Norma Jean." Perhaps they recut that. I'm curious, because I lived with Mr. Locke until he died and he never spoke of "Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn." Perhaps there is another Terrence Locke. Would you please let me know.
Thank you,
Pat Sheehan
Santa Rosa, Calif.
Dear Pat:
Larry Buchanan, the greatest conspiracy theorist drive-in movie maker working today, sometimes spends ten years working on the same movie, and then he gives it three, four different titles, so it's VERY possible that the movie completed in 1988 was shooting in 1982. That's the kind of drive-in genius Larry is. He's a perfectionist. And now that we're discussing it, if Marilyn Monroe WAS killed by the Mafia, CIA, Castro and Bobby Kennedy, then who killed Terrence Locke? The Soviets? Marina Oswald?
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1990/beyondthedoors.htm
"Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In" for 2/9/90
cutline: Why would the FBI assassinate Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, as depicted in "Beyond The Doors"? After you see the movie, you'll be asking "Why didn't they do it sooner?"
By Joe Bob Briggs
Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, Texas
Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Bryan Wolf, as Jim Morrison, for wearing his shirt open down to his navel, letting the girls in the audience lick his hand, and saying "You don't wanna change the world, do you, honey? You just wanna make love" and "I look for rainbows, and all I see is pig blue"; Gregory Allen Chatman, as Jimi Hendrix, for smashing his guitar, having his private parts preserved forever in sculpture, and saying "I only write what I feel"; Riba Meryl, as Janis Joplin, for porking up for the role, shooting up with heroin, and saying "I go out and make love to 25,000 people, and then I go home alone"; Sandy Kenyon, as the assassin, for saying "Our assignment--neutralize the three pied pipers of rock music"; and, of course, Larry Buchanan, for writing lines like "I know I didn't need that second barrel, but who counts birdshot in a man's chest? Rock and roll is dead. Long live rock and roll."
Three stars. Joe Bob says check it out.