Big Bosoms And Square Jaws Jimmy Mcdonough

THE BIOGRAPHY OF RUSS MEYER KING OF SEX FILM Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation largo, and the man the Wall Street Journal called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with "big bosoms and square jaws." In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator"s life, Jimmy McDonough espectáculos us how Russ Meyer used that elabora to turn his own crazed fantasies into movies that made him a millionaire and changed the face of American largo forever. This former WWII combat photographer immortalized his personal sexual obsession upon the silver screen, creating boxoffice gold with The Immoral Mr. Teas in mil novecientos cincuenta y nueve. The modest little largometraje pushed all preexisting limits of onscreen nudity, and with its success, the floodgates of what was permitted to be shown on largometraje were thrust open, never to be closed again. Russ Meyer ignited a true revolution in filmmaking, breaking all sex, nudity, and violence taboos. In a career that spanned more than forty years, Meyer created a body of work that has influenced a legion of filmmakers, fashionistas, comic book artists, rock bands, and even the occasional feminist. Bringing his anecdote and actionpacked biographical style to another renegade of popular culture, New York Times bestselling author of Shakey Jimmy McDonough offers a wild, wartsandall portrait of Russ Meyer, the directivo, writer, producer, and commando moviemaking force behind the sexploitation classics Vixen, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and many others. Big Bosoms and Square Jaws blows the lid off the story of Russ Meyer, from the beginning to his recent tragic demise, creating in the process a vivid portrait of a past America