My senior year at Grady High School (1966), Bestoink Dooley, whom hosted the horror movies on the TV, ran this as an “art house”, partially tits and ass stuff like “Nude in a White Car”, and partially Godard and screenings of Warhol’s avant-garde BIKE BOY and NUDE RESTAURANT, and later, more notoriously, LONESOME COWBOY, which was busted by the cops for obscenity: the theater turned out to be full of Atlanta’s elite, including some prominent lawyers, so not only were the charges dropped but the movie re-opened the next night to a full house. I begged to be let in and they agreed to let me stand up in the back. Viva came on the screen, topless I think, and began mouthing off and a cowboy said, “I heard that fucking retort” and half the audience got up and walked out (there was a steady exit procession of most of the rest as the film progressed) and I got a seat as expected.
My senior year at Grady High School (1966), Bestoink Dooley, whom hosted the horror movies on the TV, ran this as an “art house”, partially tits and ass stuff like “Nude in a White Car”, and partially Godard and screenings of Warhol’s avant-garde BIKE BOY and NUDE RESTAURANT, and later, more notoriously, LONESOME COWBOY, which was busted by the cops for obscenity: the theater turned out to be full of Atlanta’s elite, including some prominent lawyers, so not only were the charges dropped but the movie re-opened the next night to a full house. I begged to be let in and they agreed to let me stand up in the back. Viva came on the screen, topless I think, and began mouthing off and a cowboy said, “I heard that fucking retort” and half the audience got up and walked out (there was a steady exit procession of most of the rest as the film progressed) and I got a seat as expected.