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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer

by JimmyMcDonough (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $26.62
Synopsis

Bringing his anecdote-and-action-packed biographical style to the ultimate renegade of popular culture, Jimmy McDonough offers a wild portrait of Russ Meyer, the director, writer, producer and commando movie-making force behind such sexploitation classics as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Beginning in 1959, this former combat photographer put his personal sexual obsessions (mostly involving women with huge breasts) on screen, creating a body of work that has influenced a legion of rock bands, filmmakers and even the occasional feminist. Rich with wicked observations and memories from Meyer's friends, lovers, leading ladies, fellow filmmakers and fans, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws tells the full story of Meyer's life and career: it is a story of greed, lust and the American way.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 0099464640
ISBN 13: 9780099464648
Book Overview: The definitive biography of the pioneering independent filmmaker and cultural icon Russ Meyer.

Media Reviews
A very funny, brave book about an artist who deserves to be remembered and enjoyed Guardian McDonough polishes every wacky, wicked facet of Meyer as a redneck rough diamond The Times Russ Meyer's vision was of a hyperactive world occupied by isolated, inadequate men in thrall to overendowed, voracious women. Jimmy McDonough's book is written in such wonderfully bad taste that he has remained true to that crazed vision Independent on Sunday Incredibly revealing -- John Waters Playboy McDonald never flinches from the uncomfortable truths Uncut
Author Bio
Jimmy McDonough is the author of The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan and Shakey: Neil Young's Biography. As a journalist he has contributed to such publications as Variety, Film Comment, Mojo, Spin and Jugg. But he is perhaps best known for his intense, definitive Village Voice profiles of such artists as Jimmy Scott, Neil Young and Hubert Selby, Jr.