#sextette

[in-the-words-of-the-hellaverse]

Is that a gun in your pocket? Or are you just excited to see me?

Chaz to someone at some point

[bitter69uk]

Considering Mae West’s 130th birthday was in August and the anniversary of her death (22 November 1980) is later this month, the 16 November installment of the Lobotomy Room club is a tribute to cinema’s high empress of sex! And - because this is the Lobotomy Room film club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) – rather than show one of her 1930s classics, we’re screening West’s infamous final movie Sextette (1978)!

Persuaded to make one last film, the 84-year-old diva made zero concessions to her age and cast herself as a much-lusted after bombshell Marlo Manners, surrounded by besotted male admirers (including 34-year-old future James Bond Timothy Dalton as her husband-to-be. The rest of the oddball cast includes Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, Keith Moon, Tony Curtis and George Hamilton).

Yes, the mind-boggling, misbegotten musical comedy Sextette is an unintended camp classick which made The New York Times declare, “Granny should have her mouth washed out with soap, along with her teeth!" BUT: I recently watched the 2020 documentary Dirty Blonde, which proposed a kinder reappraisal of West’s reviled later films Myra Breckenridge (1970) and Sextette, asking the viewer why we are so horrified by West still flaunting her sexual appetites into old age. As film historian Jeanine Basinger argues, “There’s a wonderful courage and defiance” to West’s sheer stubbornness in taking what she had in the 1930s and trying to make it work in the 1970s.  Judge for yourself over cocktails at Fontaine’s bar on 16 November!

Lobotomy Room Goes to the Movies is the FREE monthly film club devoted to cinematic perversity. Third Thursday night of every month downstairs at Fontaine’s cocktail lounge. Numbers are limited, so reserving in advance via Fontaine’s website is essential. Alternatively, phone 07718000546 or email bookings@fontaines.bar. The film starts at 8:30 pm. Doors to the basement Bamboo Lounge open at 8:00 pm. To ensure everyone is seated and cocktails are ordered on time, please arrive by 8:15 pm at the latest. Info.

[thexnormalxstuff]

Alice Cooper and Mae West, from the film Sextette, 1978.

[firespirited]

Today was a migraine day so i spent most of it attempting to pinch my face and neck in ways that might relieve tension or staying very still and since neither works you try the other for a while. It subsided to a thick sludgy ache enough for my daily walk with Talia the dog but I walked very carefully because footsteps go oomph through your skull and into your shoulders. Walking the usual route meant facing the sun so I went up the other end of the road instead and got some arbutus berries which I’d never tried before (like faint peach and leaves lots of seeds in your teeth) and spotted something with paw prints in a recycling bin which was hiding teal/aqua plastic with tupperware printed on some instruction manual!

so I grabbed it as discreetly as uh someone realizing they now have to walk home straight into the blinding setting sun with a headache while holding an arm full of plastic and a dog.

Came home, scrubbed it all and there was a large aqua round container (pie sized possibly vintage it’s not translucent) -slightly scuffed, and like new: the teal microwave rice maker and a whisk, all gorgeous colours and tupperware branded.

Very cool scavenge and a new food tried (not a huge fan of arbutus berries, it’s like ripe wild plums but gritty).

Then watched Sextette on youtube which was like watching, well I can’t really explain it, it’s kind of like Mae West doing drag of herself on an episode of the Loveboat with occasional songs that are more spoken than sung and Timothy Dalton acting more seriously than he does as Bond (which is high camp as a franchise, talk about when the performance of masculinity tips into near satire, Dalton played 007 with a wink and I appreciate that).

It seesaws between cringe and fabulous so fast you want to switch it off as much as you’re compelled forwards. Problematic, a crime against art, tedious, the laughs don’t land and yet, definitely a film that is an experience to be had and totally delivered on the uncanny. 5/5 hwhut?!s

[detrixsta]

This all ties-in rather neatly with past & recent events… namely the birthdate of Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) & the French pole-vaulter who lost the event, but ultimately "won" the Olympics! (I think Mae West would have loved that along with all that pomp-n'-pee-pee-pageantry of the recent olympiads.)

As for Mae West, she was having trouble hearing (an earpiece hid-in-her-wig was feeding her cues) & also seeing. (through false eyelashes, presumably..) All I can say is; I hope I can still walk & talk & play a camped-up version of myself when I'm 83!

As for "Sextette" (1978)… it's so bad that it is exquisitely good. It's like a big-screen adaptaition of a 1970's TV-variety "special". Remember those all-star-hour craptaculars we grew up seeing on TV-? One never knew just who would turn up (doing Gawd-knows-what). So yes; a real guilty pleasure film that's all camp & a mile wide. How could "Stars Wars" possibly co-exsist in a universe not-so-far away & yet no one's talking about this-? Ha. Reveiwers at the time had called it "foolish" & "quite vulgar". I say; "spot-on!"

[bitter69uk]

Who’s up for an evening of muscle worship – Mae West-style? Well, you’re in luck – on Thursday 16 November 2023, the Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents the raunch queen’s notorious final film, Sextette (1978)! To whet your appetite, here are some fun facts: Sextette is directed by Ken Hughes – who also directed 1968 children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! The awful musical numbers are choreographed by Marc Breaux, the same guy who did The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins! West’s gowns are by legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head! In the segment where West serenades a gang of semi-naked bodybuilders, some of the baby-oiled muscle men are alumni from the world of seventies gay porn! When West and future James Bond Timothy Dalton duet on the Captain and Tennille soft rock hit “Love Will Keep Us Together” (my personal highlight), 84-year-old West insisted the original lyric “young and beautiful / someday your looks will be gone” be changed to “young and beautiful / your looks will NEVER be gone!” For everyone involved, Sextette represents the nadir of their careers! Reserve your seat now via the venue Fontaine’s (you will get an email confirmation from them once your booking is received). Full rancid details here.

"Mae West and her troupe of musclemen" - Mae West was born 1893 and died 1980. In her last movie "Sextet" from 1977 she played a 28 years old woman.

[applescruffing]

laslo... practicing drawing ringo more :^)

[androcola]

Have you ever considered doing like a for real deal comic of As We Go Along?

yes and I severely lack the patience and drive for something like that so I just think about it real hard in my head

[rastronomicals]

7:35 AM EDT August 31, 2024:

The Beau Hunks Sextette - "Powerhouse" From the album   Celebration on the Planet Mars: A Tribute to Raymond Scott (1995)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Cartoon Music

[lil-melody-moon]

Sacrificed my Tumblr hours to watch "That'll Be the Day" and that was best decision of this evening.

This movie ain't anything special, but I somehow like the trope of "finding your path in life" so that one was a nice watch really. "Quadrophenia" had similar motive, but had a much worse outcome. Either way, I'm gonna watch "Stardust" as well and die. Like I did today...

Listen I knew Ringo played in this movie. He was a cutie really. Each second he was on screen warmed my heart. He smiled quite a lot in this one, seeing him smile always fills me with joy 💜 Also the ✨ass✨ scene 💜💜💜

And I KNEW that Keith played in this one as well, but like... I saw he plays a drummer, great, I thought he will not have any lines, but he did - I love his voice a lot, I can't even put it into words how much - and I enjoyed it, but was no one gonna tell me that he just thrashes on the drums by himself? THAT'S A FUCKING SOLO OF HIS!

*takes a deep breath* Breath, Melody, breath

Watch me... Fucking watch me fall for every character Keith played. Fucking watch me!

[radiophd]

pete brown sextette -- fat man's boogie

[bitter69uk]

Witness for yourself the film that sat in a vault for two years because no one wanted to distribute it … that Time magazine described as “one of those movies rarely seen these days, a work so bad, so ferally innocent, that it is good, an instant classic to be treasured by connoisseurs of the genre everywhere” … that Vincent Canby of the New York Times called “a disorienting freak show” … and that Rex Reed correctly anticipated “will probably be shown decades hence as a monument of ghoulish camp” – when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People presents Mae West’s infamous final film Sextette (1978)! Thursday 16 November in the glittering surroundings of Fontaine’s bar in Dalston! Numbers are limited, so reserve your seat NOW via the venue.

[soulmusicsongs]

Happy People - Pepe Lienhard Sextett (Happy People, 1973)

[plattenabendonline]

Wolf Biermann & Klaus Lenz Sextett - Enfant perdu (1973)

DJane Luzie

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Siobhán McKenna: Miss Madrigal in The Chalk Garden (1955 Broadway); Joan in Saint Joan (1956 Dublin); Margaret Hyland in The Rope Dancers (1958 Broadway)

Mae West: Margie LaMont in Sex (1926 Broadway); Diamond Lili in Diamond Lili (1928 Broadway); Marlo Manners/Lady Barrington in Sextette (1961 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut.

Siobhán McKenna:

i want desperately to have a passionate gay love affair with her after which we share a blunt and whisper about a world where we could be together before she inevitably breaks my heart because she knows we can’t be and then i kill myself by eating paint. and historians would say we were just friends

Mae West:

Jailed for 8 days for Sex (1926), starred in the Sextette film adaptation, a playwright as well as an actress