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So, today has been a welter of domestic stuff: discussions about schools that Felix may or may not attend in the future (it is a delicate and mysterious process every step of the way), sorting out moving issues (everyone needs something faxed somewhere), and trying to figure out cupcakes for an upcoming birthday (I'm not cooking until we move).
And I'm chugging along on this, trying to forget the other things that have me worried (absence of respectable clothing being but one of them, word count being another), when a little news blurp I saw just blasted me out of that haze. Porn star Marilyn Chambers died, rather abruptly at 57. I am actually not familiar with her porn star work. Really. Insatiable has never been on my radar. But I have seen and feel somehow attached to another picture she starred in, David Cronenberg's Rabid (which I notice actually came out before her signature movie).
In Rabid, Chambers plays a woman who, following a terrible accident is repaired by a fabulous new experimental medical technique, which works wonders except that she becomes a sort of vampire person, feeding off a strange syringe-like new organ that springs from her armpit and leaves a trail of, well, rabid, zombie victims in her wake.
I am a huge fan of David Cronenberg and I'm not ashamed to say that I once wrote him one of th two fan letters I've ever written. It is a little funny, though to be consumed this afternoon with the career and mysterious (for the moment, at least) death of Marilyn Chambers and as always, I wonder, when they start watching movies, what my children will think of their mother's taste. I made some headway with Buster Keaton shorts, but I think I'll hold off on the body horror for a while.
posted by Elise at 12:18 PM
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