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Pioneer Adult Filmmaker Russ Meyer Dies
ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | Sept.22, 2004 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 09/22/2004 7:30:13 AM PDT by Lockbar

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Russ Meyer, who helped spawn the "skin flick" with such films as "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and "Vixen," has died. He was 82.

Meyer died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills, according to his company, RM Films International Inc. Spokeswoman Janice Cowart said Meyer had suffered from dementia and died of complications of pneumonia.

Meyer's films were considered pornographic in their time but are less shocking by today's standards, with their focus on violence and large-busted women but little graphic sex.


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To: erikm88
Dementia and pneumonia... those are opportunistic complications from AIDS...

Or more likely at 82 years of age, alzeimers disease.

61 posted on 09/22/2004 12:45:19 PM PDT by Ghengis
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

along with his staff


62 posted on 09/22/2004 12:45:59 PM PDT by Hawk44
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To: Borges

My heart breaks: no mention of his Oscar-worthy performance as a porno video store clerk in "Amazon Women on the Moon."


63 posted on 09/22/2004 1:02:53 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Xenalyte; Hap
He once told me there was no such thing as a sex scene that couldn't be improved by cutaways to Demolition Derby or rocket launches.


Needs more explosions and FIRE!

64 posted on 09/22/2004 1:08:18 PM PDT by Bacon Man (Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat.)
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To: cjshapi
"Beige. We should paint the ceiling beige..."

[Punchline to a very bad joke]

65 posted on 09/22/2004 1:27:54 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Lockbar
"Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"

I liked the book better than the movie...

66 posted on 09/22/2004 1:31:51 PM PDT by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: Bacon Man

Yeah yeah! That would be cool!


67 posted on 09/22/2004 1:32:56 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP (Democrat big government is unconstitutional; Republican big government is "compassion")
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To: Shryke

She is probably a grandmother now.


68 posted on 09/22/2004 1:32:57 PM PDT by wjcsux (Don't be a girly man! Vote Republican!)
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To: Shryke
Ahhh...Kitten Natividad. A Russ Meyer discovery.


69 posted on 09/22/2004 1:35:16 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (And everything under the sun is in tune...but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.)
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To: Junior

Not that bad. Punchline alone had me cracking up.

Bet that never happens with those swooning women ;o)


70 posted on 09/22/2004 1:39:04 PM PDT by cjshapi
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To: erikm88
"Dementia and pneumonia... those are opportunistic complications from AIDS"

True. But these problems are also common complications of Altzhiemers(sp?) and Parkinson's Disease.

71 posted on 09/22/2004 2:08:32 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: evets

I don't know what the wierd micky and goofy cartoon means, but I like it anyway!


72 posted on 09/22/2004 8:03:23 PM PDT by Lockbar (Worried about lead poisoning? Then stop eating the paint chips, Dummy!)
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