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Too young...way too young.
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... let's not forget one of her earliest cinematic appearances: playing herself in a vintage "Droopy" cartoon! If you want to see something truly surreal, Google it!
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She was certainly not the shy type. Especially liked her with Claus Kinski in that Jack the Ripper movie and with Michelle Bauer in Lady Frankenstein.
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Lina mentioned Dizzy Gillespie & trumpet play'n, I commented that I played trumpet throughout middle & high school, she and Jess lit up and our talk got very personal and fun filled, talking jazz, Jess' trumpet play'n annnd his use of the instrument in his films. We ate some succulent Lamb tips in gravy on a thick bed of wild rice & varied mushrooms, annnd had a great hour long conversation... mostly Lina & I because Jess spoke little English and she lovingly acted as a go between me & Jess. Oh yeah, both Jess & Lina signed my "Venus in Furs" poster for me, TOOO COOOOL !!!
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And so does Rattner. X-Men 3 was better than it had any right to be. Bite me.
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Feb. 24, 2012, 3:58 p.m. CST
My favorite exploitation spanish director is José Ramón Larraz.
by AsimovLives
José Ramón Larraz actually had cinematic talent. He's like a thinking man's Jess Franco.
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c'mon
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Feb. 24, 2012, 4:01 p.m. CST
anyway, 57 years is too young a age to die. Such sad news.
by AsimovLives
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There was an earlier Lina Romay, a jazz singer ala Betty Boop... she was a hero of the younger future Mrs. Franco who use her as a namesake... the singer died many years ago...
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But she didnt age very well. RIP
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and thanks for all the full frontal. RIP
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Yes you are, buuut you can & should correct that. Lina was a huge & hot Spanish, French, & German horror & exploitation film industry star who became very popular with the USA's 1960's & 70's Drive-in movies & Art House crowd.
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hit the States when Harry's mom & I were in the middle of film school... IT WAS REQUIRED THAT WE GO SEE IT !!! Which we did multiple times in those pre-video tape days....
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http://www.lina-romay.com/ How come no pic? Seriously, is it a rights issue? This story makes little sense without a pic of how beautiful she was.
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SKIPPED
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I think that's the wrong Lina
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Feb. 24, 2012, 5:18 p.m. CST
just don't google her while at work... tons of pics of her sucking a dick...
by zom-bot.com
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That's pretty funny, skippy, you definitely got the wrong Lina. Her pictures and vid clips are DEFINITELY NSFW, but also really, really hot. RIP hot vampire.
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I was like 'FUCK YES!!'
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But her legacy will remain. Jesus Franco did countless films, most of them starring Lina Romay, and most of them not all that great. But they were always very distinct and Lina Romay had some undeniable screen presence and gave a lot of quite daring performances. R.I.P. Lina Romay
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Feb. 24, 2012, 6:40 p.m. CST
The woman was beautiful, she was HOT, and the style of films she made will never be seen again.
by Logan_1973
FACT. And RIP sweet girl.
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Feb. 24, 2012, 8:41 p.m. CST
creepythinman: i usually dig your style man, but geoffrey kiiiinda has a point...
by mojination
it is an obit after all...
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Holy cow, I honestly did not know that!!! I always assumed it was the same woman at a vastly different stage in her career, and by "vastly", I mean, it physically bothered me that somebody who showed up in a "Droopy" cartoon would, a few decades later, take a graphic piss in a soup pot that a bunch of semi-naked young women would eat from in the next scene in TENDER FLESH (Franco's version of "The Most Dangerous Game"). Glad to know a) I was wrong and b) a bit of bizarre trivia.
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before I realize who posted it too. But then I realized that Harry's Pop doesn't post a lot of articles nor does he contribute to the TB conversation that often. So I apologize & cut a sempai some respect. I'm sorry for the loss. m(__)m
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I actually just pity you. You must be very lonely.
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Feb. 25, 2012, 2:47 a.m. CST
Finally! Creepythinman exposed as the fucking JACKASS that he is!
by billydeewilliams
I've been seeing this fucking losers posts for too long and his pathetic attention seeking FACT! at the end of every post.
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Is of our dinner table @ the "Highball" (the Alamo's clubhouse/bar/cafe/bowl'n alley) next to the theater where Fantastic Fest, BNAT, etc are regularly thrown. R-L it is the late Lina Romay, video blogger Anne Heller, 80 year old Jess Franco, makeup artist David Gregory, annnd at this time Fathergeek was sitting on Lina's left just out of camera shot.
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Are you referring to the same Tim Lucas who wrote Throat Sprockets?
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It's not 1890.
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and performed just as gracefully.
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Feb. 25, 2012, 7:54 a.m. CST
i love how the font was small, the article removed, then the font came back ginorm-i-bold.
by zom-bot.com
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What movie was that picture from?
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and thanks for the mammaries! Seems the BANHAMMER has fallen once again on CTM.
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Feb. 25, 2012, 10:28 a.m. CST
father geek- can you answer this question about Brian Cox?:
by zom-bot.com
did you at one time mistakenly think it was Brian cox playing Ash in ALIEN instead of Ian Holm, and does Harry continually mention it to see if you are paying attention- or is that just a story/excuse Harry made up one day after he mistakenly said Brian cox was in ALIEN and we gave him hell for it?
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I just did google image search on her name and shows her doing major lezzy action and blowing two guys at once. And no disrespect meant as porno women are cool how they think for themselves and are not slaves to the status quo. Anyway sad to lose a cool chick like this.
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The singer died in December of 2010 at the age of 91.
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...a porno chick. But I suppose you'd have to watch a couple or maybe three decades worth of European horror and exploitation films from early Bava through Soavi to understand the difference. There was a time when it was not mutually exclusive...and yeah, we used to wear onions on our belt, as was the fashion in those days. To understand the difference you probably had to be there. Glad you got to meet her and Franco, FG, but you hit the nail on the head when you pointed out that she left one hell of a lot of movies behind. Think I might watch Kiss Me, Killer this weekend, just for old times sake, and maybe follow it up with She Killed in Ecstasy, just to tip the hat to Soledad Miranda, another of Franco's muses who died too young.
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yes "porno" is kind a dumb term anyway and "video erotica' is perhaps better. And still no need to pigeonhole... as "art" and people fucking in said art are not mutually exclusive.
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...the WEB (its biggest industry). What Lina did was EROTICA (a big difference). Erotica was every where in the late 1960's & 70's before prudes like Reagan took it away, leaving us with only the tight twitching constant closeups of cunts & dicks we're showered with on the web. Yeah, we're better off without all the drama, storyline, and character thrown in that make it erotic, instead of just cum strown...
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...stick with movies made before about 1985. Maybe even before 1980. There's Female Vampire, of course, which I first saw under the title Erotic Kill, I think. And Rolls Royce Baby, which is pretty racy but stylish. I really like Kiss Me Killer, but it might not be the best movie to start out with if you're unfamiliar with Franco's work. Lorna The Exorcist, The Marquise Von Sade (which got a pretty good DVD release a few years back). There's The Brutal Nights of Linda, but that ones pretty extreme. Maybe that for a start, though there are a couple of wip movies I can't think of the titles of and I'm sure I'm forgetting at least a few of the big ones.
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...of the later Zombi movies. Maybe Killing Birds, but I wouldn't swear to it.
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Feb. 25, 2012, 7:40 p.m. CST
Erotica was every where...before prudes like Reagan took it away...
by SutureSelf
Thereby proving that fact-free political opinions don't skip a generation.
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...FG overstated his position. This much is certainly true. There were a number of factors that combined to kill off the style of genre and even mainstream films that were made in the sixties and seventies, from cool stuff like Vadim's God Created Woman or Barbarella to the grittier stuff cats like D'Amato and Franco were making. The first in this series of events was the ability of filmmakers to get away with hardcore at all in films exhibited in theaters. And you can see how that changed the films of all the exploitation filmmakers of the time, from Metzger on. And it can certainly be argued that the need to include full length sex scenes did diminish the quality of the work of these directors. It can also be argued that there was, at least in this stage, a trade-off, with the explicit content bringing a level of eroticism to their work that could not have been present before. The second, far more serious blow, was the birth of video. Guys wanting to jack-off in a booth or knock off a quick one on the sofa before the wife got home form the store didn't need to know the context for why they were watching Franz and Babette and Lenore making a flesh pyramid on the living room floor. They just needed to see it and still have time to clean up. But their was still a market for the old school stuff, and you can see the truth of that even in the horrible Shannon Tweed/Andrew Stevens style erotic thrillers that survived into the eighties. But yes, the third blow was the Reagan revolution. The Edwin Meese/Jerry Falwell love affair had a singularly chilling effect across both the adult and the near adult industry. XXX films endured because the will of the market was so strong. But compare the pornography made in the eighties to that in the seventies and the change in the content is startling. XXX took over the market and became a billion dollar business but it also became largely vanilla. And along with that it lost most of its remaining context. The story became just an excuse to get to the sex, with rarely more than a minute or two passing between sex scenes. The effect on remaining shot on film makers of erotica/erotic horror/erotic-fill-in the-genre was much worse. They were already operating on the margins, producing a more expensive to make product that was heavily dependent on the American market. It was the context that was most objected to in the American market. It was almost always the context, not the fact that a film was showing sex, that made the Moral Majority jump. Generic triple X was safer for exhibitors and distributors. So time passes, the culture wars move on and now you can watch a whole website full of anal prolapse videos. But you can't see even a Tanya Roberts level erotic thriller on Cinemax because they've discovered it's cheaper and just as financially rewarding to show some of the tamer pornos with the insertions and money shots cut out. Maybe those sort of movies would have died out without the Meese/Falwell years, but they certainly hastened their demise. And by creating a paradigm where it was okay to see the dirty thing as long as you didn't do so with a viewpoint you can have people nailing the parts of other people onto boards as long as it's just the act but an attempt to make a film with even the mildest mix of sex and ideas (outside of the occasional serious movie made for limited release) is either marginalized or rendered impossible. For the silliest example, do you think Barbarella could be made today, retaining any hint of the comedic perversity that was essential to charm of the original? Do you think it would even be rated R? You can argue that this comes from changing tastes in the movie going public and you would likely be right. But those tastes were shaped in a landscape that had been made hostile to the type of movie that mixed real erotica with actual ideas. Think East of Eden or the remake of And God Created Woman or any of another hundred examples. My personal feeling is things might have gone the same way anyway, but certainly not as quickly, and perhaps with a larger remaining niche for those films.
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...I did a their there. Maybe I should read before I post. Or an edit function wouldn't hurt.
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Come on, Pops you should be setting an example for us raunchy younglings. Such crude language I tells ya. *SCOFFS*
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