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April 19, 2007
'Maude' on DVD: The Unbearable Lightness of Adrienne Barbeau
Those of us who worship at the delirously cantilevered shrine of Adrienne Barbeau cried out in delight recently when the first season of the 1970s TV show "Maude" appeared on DVD. Justly praised as a star vehicle for Bea Arthur, "Maude" attracted adolescent males because of the dark, dangerous presence of Barbeau as Maude's divorced daughter Carol. Legions of Barbeau fans made this post one of the most popular ever on Kesher Talk, which says something about the excellent entertainment taste of our readership.
In that spirit, we are pleased to present this picture of the Goddess herself:
Van | 04/19/07 at 09:58 PM | Categories: Sensual pleasures
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Well, that was about the time of the Mary Tyler Moore show so I wasn't paying much attention to Ms. Barbeau. But who can forget her stunning turn in perhaps her greatest role, the renegade anthropologist Dr. Kurtz in that ignored classic, "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death?"
Right up there with great movie lines like "I am big--it's the movies that got small" and "You know, Louie, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship" are Barbeau's lines like:
"This is a war! A war between men and women. Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush," and this exchange:
"Dr. Margo Hunt: Dr. Kurtz, I'm unfamiliar with the academic guidelines at Radcliffe, but I would think any major university would consider warring on the United States and eating prisoners of war a serious breach of ethics.
Dr. Kurtz: Always the cautious scholar, huh, Dr. Hunt?"
The fact that neither this movie nor any of the "Police Academy" pictures--including the classic "Police Academy 3--Back in Training" received so much as one measly Oscar nomination only shows the artistic bankruptcy of the Motion Picture Academy.
Alex Bensky | April 20, 2007 09:05 AM
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