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Media Watch: Lotsa John Lennon on radio and TV yesterday, but I said my piece about him already. Fox Movie Channel surprised me by showing Porky's in primetime last night. In fact, I saw Kim Cattrall in her famous early movie role as the clownish "Lassie" while I was clicking through. I can put up with vulgarity if it is part of a funny script or scene, but vulgarity isn't necessarily funny on it's own, as this movie painfully demonstrates. Revenge of the Nerds followed, and the same observation applies to it.
It is funny that one arm of the Fox media octopus shills for the humorless American Taliban while another arm pimps these Jr. High School smirk-fests.
Ironically, there were two John Waters movies on another network -- Cecil B. Demented and the brilliant Polyester. Vulgarity is only ONE of Waters' many tools in filmmaking -- he mostly trades in wit and satire.
Strangely enough, Beavis and Butthead was recycling on MTV2 -- new videos interspersed with decade-old cartoon clips. I hope Thursday isn't supposed to be "Vulgar Night" on satellite TV.


Kim Catrall in City Limits (1985), as mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in Season 4 (1992-93). Joel (silhouette center) is preserving what little there is of Ms. Cattrell's modesty with a convenient umbrella. Crow T. Robot (R) and Tom Servo (L) help with the wisecracks. Kim Cattrall actually visited their studios near Minneapolis to congratulate them on the witty way they took that movie down, and how Crow T. Robot "fell in love with her" in the framing sequence. The MST 3K crew rarely had to face the objects of their derision, and I bet it made them squirm a little when she was so nice to them. (They tell this story in their book.)