Thanks for the Mammaries

Or
The Buxom Stops HereOr
Rack Him
(Kudos to Craig Barker)

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Faster Pussycat, Killed, Killed
(Again, props to Craig)
Legendary soft core film-maker Russ Meyer went tits up this week at the age of 82, as the Roger Ebert curse claims another collaborator. Meyer brought the skin flick out of peep show backrooms, adding bigger budgets, extreme violence and outlandish plots to scores of cartoonishly big breasted women with names like Pandora Peaks and Melissa Mounds. His 1959 flick The Immoral Mr. Teas was the first nudie to make a significant profit, raking in more than $1 million on a $24,000 investment. Other subtle forays into titillation included such films as Vixen, Supervixens, Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens, Confessions of a Sexy Supervixen, Wild Girls of the Naked West, and Mondo Topless. While knockered by many as being exploitative, like any great director, he always brought out the breast in his actresses. Vixen’s success earned him the attention of the studios, and he got a shot at the big-time with the studio release Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, written by bosom buddy Ebert, but he soon returned to his smut peddling roots. The decline of drive-ins and the advent of hard core sex films drew a close to his career, but he made a fortune bringing his films to the boob tube via video sales.