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Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Is Dead
NY Times ^ | 2/5/11 | DAVE ITZKOFF

Posted on 02/05/2011 4:32:50 PM PST by Borges

Tura Satana, the actress whose authoritative presence, exotic looks and buxom frame commanded the attention of viewers of Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult movie “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”, died on Friday evening in Reno, Nev.

The death was announced by her longtime manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said the cause of death was believed to be heart failure. Ms. Perry said Ms. Satana was 72 when she died, though other sources listed her birth year as 1935.

Born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaido, Japan, to a father of Japanese and Filipino descent and a mother who was Cheyenne Indian and Scots-Irish, Ms. Satana spent part of her childhood in the Manzanar internment camp near Independence, Calif., before her family settled in Chicago. Her Asian background and looks and the fact that she developed early led to frequent harassment and assaults, and she led an itinerant lifestyle, working as an exotic dancer and nude model. She even posed for erotic photographs taken by Harold Lloyd, the former silent comedian, who suggested she pursue an acting career.

(Excerpt) Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fasterpussycat; haroldlloyd; russmeyer; turasatana
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1 posted on 02/05/2011 4:32:54 PM PST by Borges
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To: stylecouncilor

Ping


2 posted on 02/05/2011 4:36:32 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Borges

3 posted on 02/05/2011 4:38:33 PM PST by llevrok (So drink up, be crude, sleep late, urinate in public, and get the job done)
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To: Borges

4 posted on 02/05/2011 4:39:01 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: numberonepal

Life vest hottie ping


5 posted on 02/05/2011 4:40:50 PM PST by llevrok (So drink up, be crude, sleep late, urinate in public, and get the job done)
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To: Borges

Faster, Pussycat! Die! Die!


6 posted on 02/05/2011 4:41:02 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: Borges

I had the pleasure of working with her a few years ago-she was one cool chick. RIP.


7 posted on 02/05/2011 4:42:25 PM PST by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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Bunga Bunga!


8 posted on 02/05/2011 4:42:38 PM PST by csvset
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To: Borges


9 posted on 02/05/2011 4:45:47 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Borges

Remarkable ancestry:

Japanese
Filipino
Cheyenne Indian
Scots
Irish

I must have missed that movie when it came out. Looks like a female Jackie Chan!


10 posted on 02/05/2011 4:50:14 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Borges

Reno is in mourning tonight.


11 posted on 02/05/2011 4:56:03 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Cicero

You probably wouldn’t like it. Russ Meyer was a key figure in mainstreaming porn. FPKK is one of the key early films in the 60s counteculture.


12 posted on 02/05/2011 5:03:45 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

RIP.


13 posted on 02/05/2011 5:15:47 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Borges

No. I looked at the Amazon reviews and decided it’s not for me.


14 posted on 02/05/2011 5:36:14 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Borges

And what’s her name from The Last Tango in Paris died recently, as well.


15 posted on 02/05/2011 5:36:19 PM PST by rabidralph (...Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.--Penny Chenery, Owner, Secretariat)
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To: Cicero

Movie trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWoPFX1Sz0


16 posted on 02/05/2011 5:45:22 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Borges

THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES with David Carradine might still be available for free viewing at crackle.com, it’s a real hoot.


17 posted on 02/05/2011 5:49:37 PM PST by wolficatZ (Somebody once wrote "Revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold")
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To: Borges

Tura Satana: The RetroCrush Interview
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2005/turasatana/

Interview by Randy Waage
randy@retrocrush.com

Tura Satana is one of the sexiest, toughest ass-kickers to ever grace a movie screen. Her role as Varla, the badass tough girl with out-of-this-world cleavage in Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (which celebrates it’s 40th Anniversary this year), is forever cemented as one of the greatest bad-girl roles in film history. Had Uma Thurman’s Bride character come across Tura during one of the Kill Bill films, she would have most certainly met her match. We got a chance to ask some hard-hitting questions of this sexy film legend, from her days as a burlesque dancer, to her relationship with Elvis Presley, and she didn’t pull any punches with her answers!


18 posted on 02/05/2011 5:51:02 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: llevrok
I assume that photo was colorized? Looks kinda odd.

Although I admit it took me 5 minutes to realize there was anything in the photo besides her, ummm, balcony.

19 posted on 02/05/2011 5:51:46 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

“4-Wheel Drive” indeed! A man could get some serious traction there.


20 posted on 02/05/2011 5:53:23 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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