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Custer · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:59 am Post subject:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a fairly well-known placename, as it is the longest such in Britain. It would make a great password for your account somewhere, right? It is sometimes shortened to LlanfairPG, when one doesn't have access to copy 'n' paste, though the local railway station proudly displays the name in full.

The idea of a different version of the movie, with someone else in the Dildano role, is something I have come across. The film's Wikipedia entry does quote one of the writers, Charles B. Griffith, as saying "I guess I rewrote about a quarter of the film that was shot, then reshot, and I added the concept that there had been thousands of years since violence existed, so that Barbarella was very clumsy all through the picture. She shoots herself in the foot and everything. It was pretty ludicrous. The stuff with Claude Dauphin and the suicide room were also part of my contribution to the film."

Custer · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:26 am Post subject:

An interview in today's Metro newspaper included these questions, and Jane Fonda's answers:

...Barbarella...have you fond memories of that?

I'll probably talk about how I shot the opening space strip-tease hungover. I was so nervous - because I'm kind of modest - that I drank a lot of vodka. But there were technical problems, so I had to do it all over again the next day. So I was not only drinking vodka again but was hungover from the day before.

Was it painful doing the orgasmatron scenes? It inflicted death by orgasms, after all...

Oh that was fun! I don't know what happened to it. I wish I still had it.

Did you keep anything from the shoot? Maybe something smaller...

No! I kick myself now. I didn't understand the value of keeping stuff I could have made a lot of money if I had.

Which of your movies do you wish more people had seen?

A 1984 made-for-tv that I won an Emmy for, called The Dollmaker. It was a fantastically beautiful story.

Other topics included workout videos, plastic surgery, and whether Jane was a glass half full or half empty type - she plumped for the latter. Smile

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Bogmeister · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 3:33 pm Post subject:

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_____________________ Barbarella - 1968

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__________________________ Jane Fonda

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Lava Lamps seem to be really associated with this film which one book review describes as "a cosmic striptease that epitomizes late 1960s fluff erotica."

I don't have stills of the famed first few minutes, in which Jane Fonda disrobes in zero gravity, so these will have to do.

SHAG CARPETS RULE in the Future of the 40th century (or is it the 41st?)

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ABOVE: AND WHAT ARE THESE TWO LADIES PLANNING TO DO?

ABOVE: A CHASE OF SOME KIND... and DOLLS ARE DIFFERENT IN THE FUTURE

BELOW: DON'T RECALL THIS SCENE - PG? Arrow MILO O'SHEA as DURAND DURAND

BARBARELLA was created in 1962 as a French comic strip.
There are rumors of a planned remake with actress Rose McGowan.

Director Roger Vadim was the son of a diplomat; he searched for the naked truth.

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BoG's Score: 4 out of 10

BoG
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2023 12:00 pm Post subject:

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If ever there was a beautiful woman who aged well, it would be Jane Fonda.

Wow . . . Cool

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Krel · Space Ranger Joined: 19 Feb 2023 Posts: 190