[Sca-cooks] Not Dead Yet

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Susan Fox wrote:

> If you hear that David Friedman is dead, please note that they are not talking about Our Cariadoc but another notable of similar name.
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> "David F. Friedman, a film producer who cheerfully and cheesily exploited an audience’s hunger for bare-breasted women and blood-dripping corpses in lucrative low-budget films like "Blood Feast" and “Ilsa: She-Wolf of the S.S.,” died on Monday in Anniston, Ala. He was 87. "
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/movies/15friedman.html?_r=1&ref=movies
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> Yours in faith, hope and CLARITY,

Ah, yes, the quiet and business-like (relatively speaking) partner of the great [sort of] Herschel Gordon Lewis, of the pair that changed history and invented the gory horror movie, for better or worse. They had a body of work (no pun intended) in the soft-core pornography industry at the time when such things simply became unacceptable to the target clientele, so rather than branch off into what would later become known as hard-core pornography, they tried... erm... something else.

No comment on the social implications.

Be that as it may, I've occasionally wondered what kind of horror movie our David Friedman would make... something about cannibal Hanseatic League diplomats, perhaps?

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