Naughty Nicole: Visits the Valley of the Dolls Renegade Talk Radio Atlanta
On Today’s episode of Big Trouble in Little Vagina, I’m still nursing this head cold from last we...
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October 28, 201625m 48sExplicit
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On Today’s episode of Big Trouble in Little Vagina, I’m still nursing this head cold from last week, and after spending so much time in bed I’ve had a great deal of time to reminisce and go all retro. And that’s sort of where my head is today, Retro. See, if you’re anything like me, you get sick and lay in bed looking for something to watch… or more to the point sleep to. And for the past few days I’ve been watching a lot – and I do mean a LOT of old movies. Seriously guys, it’s what happens when the batteries in the remote die and you don’t have any replacements handy. I mean, you can scavenge from other remotes and other devices, but in the bedroom, there’s only the handy toy in the bed-side table and that would be an absolute sacrilege to steal batteries from. I mean, I may be sick enough to not go to work, but I’m never THAT sick!
So today I want to talk about a film that doesn’t get enough credit – at least in my book – for changing the views of sex in society. But before we jump into the movie version, we have to look at the original theory for the film – I mean, sure, the film was risky, edgy and a phenomenon, but it had to start somewhere… Right? But, if you’re not a film buff like me, or maybe if you’ve been living in a cave for the past 50 or 60 years, then you may not have ever heard of a little book by the name of The Valley of the Dolls by one feisty, fiery and fierce author Jacqueline Susann. So let’s all huddle close and jump into the way-back machine and see how it all started.
At 3:30 A.M. on December 25, 1962, Jacqueline Susann—a fading TV actress with an unemployed husband, an autistic son in a mental hospital, and a lump in her right breast—began to scribble in a notebook. “This is a bad Christmas,” she wrote. “Irving has no job. . . . I am going to the hospital. . . . I don’t think I have [cancer]. I have too much to accomplish. I can’t die without leaving something—something big. . . . I’m Jackie—I have a dream. I think I can write. Let me live to make it!” And, that’s exactly what she did.
So today I want to talk about a film that doesn’t get enough credit – at least in my book – for changing the views of sex in society. But before we jump into the movie version, we have to look at the original theory for the film – I mean, sure, the film was risky, edgy and a phenomenon, but it had to start somewhere… Right? But, if you’re not a film buff like me, or maybe if you’ve been living in a cave for the past 50 or 60 years, then you may not have ever heard of a little book by the name of The Valley of the Dolls by one feisty, fiery and fierce author Jacqueline Susann. So let’s all huddle close and jump into the way-back machine and see how it all started.
At 3:30 A.M. on December 25, 1962, Jacqueline Susann—a fading TV actress with an unemployed husband, an autistic son in a mental hospital, and a lump in her right breast—began to scribble in a notebook. “This is a bad Christmas,” she wrote. “Irving has no job. . . . I am going to the hospital. . . . I don’t think I have [cancer]. I have too much to accomplish. I can’t die without leaving something—something big. . . . I’m Jackie—I have a dream. I think I can write. Let me live to make it!” And, that’s exactly what she did.
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