Were you a freak? Not when you stepped onto the Deuce.


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The Deuce grindhouses were showcases for the wildest and most extreme films in cinematic history, and ticket buyers were of all sorts: depressives hiding from jobs, sexual obsessives, inner-city people seeking cheap diversions, teenagers skipping school, adventurous couples on dates, couple-chasers peeking on them, people getting high, homeless people sleeping, pickpockets. This disenfranchised audience had nowhere else to go, and the grindhouses were where they all wound up. They were the film's harshest critics, and if the movies let them down, they would react by shouting, tossing food containers and physically damaging the theaters.

6 comments:

  1. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Mine was stolen, so what else is there to say but...thank you! ps: are you the same "Johnny Q" as..."New Kind of Mambo"?

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    1. I'm thinking...yes. How could it NOT be? Delighted to find you and this, here!

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  2. apollojams, yes, that was me, glad you're here & glad you like it. Comments (on the books / file formats / downloading etc) & contributions are very welcome.

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  3. It's already gone. Any chance for a re-upload?

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  4. Anon,
    New link here: http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/57939133/file.html

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