A book and movie I have never seen, although I have it on DVD. But I did read CANDY! Never saw the movie either.
I read the book and saw the movie “Candy”-the book was a little unreal, I thought-but the movie was played for some laughs-especially John Astin’s and Ringo Starr’s characters. I’m sure there was an unofficial list of must-read/see hard “R” adult books and movies for mid-to-late teens at that time-”Candy”, “Myra Breckenridge”, Lady Chatterly’s Lover”, The Debauched Hospodar”, “Fanny Hill”, etc. Interesting that some of those books were written a century or more before then...
Those books/movies all had the lure of the forbidden/taboo then-they were cautionary tales, and did not depict things normal people would do, especially the homosexual, sadistic stuff, orgies and underage sex partners, etc-now, kids are being told by teachers in public schools that those things are “normal” and okay-in my opinion, we need to go back to the cautionary tales of these things NOT being normal and good...