Blame Shirley Temple's Ass

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:48 AM, snappydresser wrote:

> Jesus Fucking Nailholes!
>
> I just surfed over to IMDB to find out more about the "lost"  
> Shirley Temple movies mentioned in Knipfel's essay, and check out  
> the names of some of the characters she played:
>
> Glad Rags to Riches (1932) .... Nell/La Belle Diaperina
> Kid 'in' Africa (1932) .... Madame Cradlebait
> Kid in Hollywood (1932) .... Morelegs Sweettrick
>
> She was four years old during the filming of all three movies.
>
> Wow.
>
> YOP

And America loved it. This was before the Production Code (Hays  
Office) went into effect in 1934.  After that movies were a lot less  
explicit.  Even under the code  however  the censors didn't seem to  
find anything objectionable about a little tot getting what she  
wanted from oldish men by squirming cutely around on their laps.


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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Monroe"  
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> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:49 PM
> Subject: Blame Shirley Temple's Ass
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>> SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
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>> JIM KNIPFEL
>> NEWS & COLUMNS
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>> It was 50 years ago that Vladimir Nabokov published
>> Lolita, whose title has become synonymous with
>> underage sexuality. But Lolita was hardly the first
>> time this subject was portrayed in American popular
>> culture. Nor was it the last. Or even the most
>> graphic.
>>
>>
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