From Bruno Thu Jun 8 14:30:21 EDT 1995
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From: Bruno
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Subject: Re: Curious Yellow
Date: 8 Jun 1995 07:38:57 GMT
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> "I am Curious Yellow" was an ice breaker,
> while "Deep Throat" was another ice breaker to a new level.
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> After "Deep Throat" I felt like I saw it all and did not have to see another
> X movie.
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> Why do so few people remember, "I am Curious Yellow?"
I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) has always been a tantalizing mystery to me. I was
about 14 when it came out, and aware of the film's reputation via all the
media attention it got. The title had the kind of public recognition that
made it the object of one-liners by comedians and talk-show hosts, and
through its legal problems it became a default examplar in the late-60s
debate about sex in the media. The film's notoriety, in combination with
the ad campaign (a grainy black and white photo of an attractive young
European woman), worked overtime on my teenaged imagination. I figured it
was one long filmed orgy, or something equally entertaining. By the time
they'd let me into an "adults only" film (which is what they were called
back then), it had disappeared from the theatres, and it was only later
that I read enough about it in film journals to realize that IAC(Y) was
more of an art film than an outright porn movie.
Turan and Zito's SINEMA has this to say about it:
"The ultimate importance of this sour, uncharitable movie
about the quality of Swedish life is that it changed the standards
of acceptability in an industry that was inching toward the
presentation of explicit sex. The initial determination of
obscenity was based on the fact that the film showed the
exposed, semi-erect penis of one man and an oral sex scene in
which cunnilingus may have taken place. (Not even the director
knew for sure.) These small but real differences separated the
film from the American sex-exploitation product in general
release in the United States at that time. The success of
I AM CURIOUS, as it came to be known, almost immediately
pushed explicitness to a point where the only illegal acts
were those that showed intromission or ejaculation."
I still haven't seen the film, but I can imagine that the reason it is not
so well remembered today is that a lot of people went expecting "one long
filmed orgy" and ended up seeing a film about social issues in Sweden.
DEEP THROAT, on the other hand, was nothing more or less than promised by
its hype.
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169 “I can arrange all that.” Such Apaches as had not gone back on the war-path returned to the States with the troops; but there were five months more of the outrages of Geronimo and his kind. Then in the summer of the year another man, more fortunate and better fitted to deal with it all, perhaps,—with the tangle of lies and deceptions, cross purposes and trickery,—succeeded where Crook had failed and had been relieved of a task that was beyond him. Geronimo was captured, and was hurried off to a Florida prison with his band, as far as they well could be from the reservation they had refused to accept. And with them were sent other Indians, who had been the friends and helpers of the government for years, and who had run great risks to help or to obtain peace. But the memory and gratitude of governments is become a proverb. The southwest settled down to enjoy its safety. The troops rested upon the laurels they had won, the superseded general went on with his work in another field far away to the north. The new general, the saviour of the land, was heaped[Pg 305] with honor and praise, and the path of civilization was laid clear. Parliament met on the 10th of January, 1765. The resentment of the Americans had reached the ears of the Ministry and the king, yet both continued determined to proceed. In the interviews which Franklin and the other agents had with the Ministers, Grenville begged them to point to any other tax that would be more agreeable to the colonists than the stamp-duty; but they without any real legal grounds drew the line between levying custom and imposing an inland tax. Grenville paid no attention to these representations. Fifty-five resolutions, prepared by a committee of ways and means, were laid by him on the table of the House of Commons at an early day of the Session, imposing on America nearly the same stamp-duties as were already in practical operation in England. These resolutions being adopted, were embodied in a bill; and when it was introduced to the House, it was received with an apathy which betrayed on all hands the profoundest ignorance of its importance. Burke, who was a spectator of the debates in both Houses, in a speech some years afterwards, stated that he never heard a more languid debate than that in the Commons. Only two or three persons spoke against the measure and that with great composure. There was but one division in the whole progress of the Bill, and the minority did not reach to more than thirty-nine or forty. In the Lords, he said, there was, to the best of his recollection, neither division nor debate! His cheek paled for an instant as the thought obtruded that the man might resist and he have to really shoot him. "Good, the old man's goin' to take the grub out to 'em himself," thought the Deacon with relief. "He'll be easy to manage. No need o' shootin' him." "Them that we shot?" said Shorty carelessly, feeling around for his tobacco to refill his pipe. "Nothin'. I guess we've done enough for 'em already." John Dodd, twenty-seven years old, master, part of the third generation, arranged his chair carefully so that it faced the door of the Commons Room, letting the light from the great window illumine the back of his head. He clasped his hands in his lap in a single, nervous gesture, never noticing that the light gave him a faint saintlike halo about his feathery hair. His companion took another chair, set it at right angles to Dodd's and gave it long and thoughtful consideration, as if the act of sitting down were something new and untried. "Besides," Norma said desperately, "they're only rumors—" "Oh, I've found a way of gitting shut of them rootses—thought of it while I wur working at the trees. I'm going to blast 'em out." During the next ten years the farm went forward by strides. Reuben bought seven more acres of Boarzell in '59, and fourteen in '60. He also bought a horse-rake, and threshed by machinery. He was now a topic in every public-house from Northiam to Rye. His success and the scant trouble he took to conciliate those about him had made him disliked. Unprosperous farmers[Pg 124] spoke windily of "spoiling his liddle game." Ditch and Ginner even suggested to Vennal that they should club together and buy thirty acres or so of the Moor themselves, just to spite him. However, money was too precious to throw away even on such an object, especially as everyone felt sure that Backfield would sooner or later "bust himself" in his dealings with Boarzell. "Let's go home," she said faintly—"it's getting late."