Jun 06
Good Show Sir Comments: “Demented California of the future…”?
Sounds like the California of the present.
Published 1974
Good Show Sir Comments: “Demented California of the future…”?
Sounds like the California of the present.
Published 1974
June 6th, 2018 at 10:20 am
This is why they quietly dropped Thora Hird from Songs of Praise.
June 6th, 2018 at 11:38 am
GMILF?
June 6th, 2018 at 12:11 pm
Like a bat out of hell I’d be gone long before the morning comes. Bastard step-child of Goya and Whistler.
June 6th, 2018 at 12:31 pm
Matterhorn…….y.
June 6th, 2018 at 1:24 pm
“Come over here and give granny a kiss!”
June 6th, 2018 at 2:10 pm
The blurb forgets to mention that in the demented California of the future, motorcycles get really really tiny.
June 6th, 2018 at 2:35 pm
A Goodreads review:
“De-aging, bikers, hippies, a white guy impersonating a black guy, infertile sex goddesses… it all climaxes with an orgy that contains the unforgettable phrases, ‘Bad trip… Get my guru, I’m freaking out.’; ‘Save me, Filmore. My Virginia’s a werewolf.’; and ‘Grandmother, you!’
How can you pass this one up?”
June 6th, 2018 at 2:51 pm
Well, this is a side of Cloris Leachman I didn’t expect to ever see.
June 6th, 2018 at 2:52 pm
@Bibliomancer
I’d point out that the, erm, technical term, is GILF but I wouldn’t people to know that I know that.
June 6th, 2018 at 4:14 pm
That cloud of smoke must come from all those dead passions burning again.
June 6th, 2018 at 4:50 pm
Ray P @ 3: and Lucien Freud was the midwife. God that’s an awful cover. I wonder how a major publisher got away with it.
June 6th, 2018 at 5:27 pm
@Francis – Thank you. Your knowledge of acronyms reflects hours of painstaking research.
June 6th, 2018 at 7:03 pm
Quite apart from everything else wrong with this cover, her body’s completely out of proportion. Where’s the “anatomical issues” tag when you need it?
June 7th, 2018 at 12:22 am
@Lurker She looks too skinny for a Freud subject.
@Lill She knows you better than you know yourself.
Somebody gimme a straight cigarette.
June 7th, 2018 at 12:43 am
It’d have to be the future — no woman that old and un-enhanced would be so popular in the California of today, regardless of bod. Also, the smog’s not that bad even in LA. And the motorcycles are full-sized.
@Anna T is correct about the anatomical issues. Her joints bend like she’s a Barbie doll.
I’m not sure but what granny’s just stuck her head on/behind a decapitated babe. Necks do not work that way!
The blurb and review do sound VERY 1974. So the future goes retro?
@Lillie: Cloris was pretty hawt back in the day. Maybe the artist had lots of naughty thoughts about her. Here’s her in ’74
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloris_Leachman#/media/File:Cloris_Leachman_Phyllis_1974.JPG
June 7th, 2018 at 12:52 am
Cloris made her screen debut (I think) in 1955’s Kiss Me Deadly, the film noir/apocalyptic sci-fi cult classic. She doesn’t last very long in it, but she makes an impression. And she’s still alive all these years later!
June 7th, 2018 at 1:20 am
She was even on Dancing With the Stars in her 80s! Today is the future of 1974, so… maybe?
Here she is in “Kiss Me Deadly”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001458/mediaviewer/rm128074496
and in 1975
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001458/mediaviewer/rm4024640512
June 7th, 2018 at 10:12 am
I note there’s two new tags used here, “granny” and “embarrassment”. Could be used again if there’s a cover featuring Conan’s grandmother wiping his face clean with a tissue she’s wet with her own spit.
June 7th, 2018 at 2:06 pm
@GSSxn—And let us not forget Cloris’s role as the mother of little monster Billy Mumy in the 1961 Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life.” One of the great classics, with Serling’s screenplay of Jerome Bixby’s short story.
In fact, we should have a “You’re a Bad Man!” tag for appropriate covers.
June 8th, 2018 at 11:29 pm
@THX: “embarrassment” describes a lot of GSS.
@BC: all true.
December 26th, 2019 at 7:54 pm
ANY DAY IN L.A.
by John Boyd