Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer: "Town Bloody Hall"

[amicus]

http://www.documentarychannel.com/movie.php?currID=8925&trailer=1

Town Bloody Hall. watch trailer. back. next on tv: Tuesday 12/7 4:00 AM ... 2010

I happened across this quite by accident, curious as to what the title might imply…

All of a sudden I was back in the 70’s, when feminism was center stage and debate was raucous and I couldn’t answer the telephone calls to my radio program quick enough.

From the few notes I took, Norman Mailer taking on four feminists, including the then gorgeous Australian, Germaine Greer, who was quick, witty and provocative; Betty Freidan, whom you may recall as the author of “The Feminine Mystique”, Susan Sontag and others, a synopsis can be found here: http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/i...pennebakerhegedus-retrospective-this-weekend/

From the outrageous language, period styles in dress and three Lesbians wrapped together on the stage floor...making out and kissing... reminds me of an old song, "Those were the days, my friend..."

It seems so long ago, yet...the debates here on the same subjects as then, makes a curious comparison, at least for me.

Amicus

 

[Handley_Page]

From the outrageous language, period styles in dress and three Lesbians wrapped together on the stage floor...making out and kissing...

Could find the bucket of cold water ?

 

[amicus]

This was in New York City, with several hundred people attending and the really poor quality video was rejected as fodder for television for several years before being reborn as a 'movie'.

I had thought that perhaps a few here had watched the program or perhaps found another venue to view it...as a history lesson it is priceless and timely, even now, a generation later.

ami

 

[squarejohn]

http://www.documentarychannel.com/movie.php?currID=8925&trailer=1





All of a sudden I was back in the 70’s, when feminism was center stage and debate was raucous and I couldn’t answer the telephone calls to my radio program quick enough.

From the few notes I took, Norman Mailer taking on four feminists, including the then gorgeous Australian, Germaine Greer, who was quick, witty and provocative; Betty Freidan, whom you may recall as the author of “The Feminine Mystique”, Susan Sontag and others, a synopsis can be found here: http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/i...pennebakerhegedus-retrospective-this-weekend/

From the outrageous language, period styles in dress and three Lesbians wrapped together on the stage floor...making out and kissing... reminds me of an old song, "Those were the days, my friend..."

It seems so long ago, yet...the debates here on the same subjects as then, makes a curious comparison, at least for me.

Amicus

I think it's a safe bet that most people alive today, hadn't been born yet. The '70s. Watergate. Nixon resigning. The first energy crisis. The last of real music. Jimmy Carter. The Iran hostage crisis. Yeah, those were the days.

 

[amicus]

Point taken...but...many of the old hippy harridans on this forum are still living in that godforsaken era...heh, ERA...(I made a funny)

But really, pro or con, if you can find a place to view the film, it is well worth looking backwards for an hour or so.

ami