Today's Must Read

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It's long, so bookmark it to read later when you're not so busy skinning baby rodents and trying to suck your own dick, but Roger Ebert's got a new piece up inspired by the death last week of Malcolm McLaren, and it's amazing. Back in 1977 he and Russ Meyer worked on the script for a Sex Pistols film, which he says was to be Beyond the Valley of the Dolls meets A Hard Day's Night, to be called Who Killed Bambi. Apparently only one scene was ever shot before the plug was pulled.

Choice bit about a meal Ebert shared with Russ Meyer and Johnny Rotten:

"After dinner, we drove Johnny in a cab to where he lived, in an anonymous street in Notting Hill. "Fucking McLaren," he said. "That was the first decent meal I've had in a month." Meyer gave him five pounds and we waited outside a convenience store for him to buy lager and canned pork and beans. "Fucking great," Johnny said.

In all the years I knew him, I never heard Russ Meyer say the word "fucking." Perhaps he had too devout a respect for the concept. He preferred such synonyms as "wail," "pound," "pummel," "belabor" and "conjoin," always pronounced with enthusiasm."

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