Today's Guest: Russ Meyer, director of pornographic films such as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Vixen, Supervixens, and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, in this never before published audio interview from October 4, 1979.
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Every time I think back to my legendary 1979 lunch with film director Russ Meyer at the Dutch Kitchen in Gainesville, Florida, I can’t help but smile.

He had stopped in at the movie theaters where I worked my way through college, the Royal Park Cinema 4 (http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/34299), and told our manager, Jim Symons, that he was hoping to generate some press for his latest film, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, starring the pneumatically endowed Miss Kitten Natividad.

Lucky me – Mr. Symons told him I wrote for Gainesville Magazine and was also studying film at the University of Florida.

We were introduced and Meyer invited me and my pal (and assistant manager) Allen Solomon to the greatest business lunch of our lives.
RUSS MEYER podcast excerpt: "(I asked) a boy in the audience, 'What did you think of the film?' 'I've always been a fan of yours,' he said, 'but you spent so much time in the courtroom and you didn't spend an equivalent time on people screwing.' He said it exactly that way."
You can LISTEN to this interview with RUSS MEYER, director of pornographic films such as BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA VIXENS, by clicking the audio player above!

Over burgers, fries and Cokes (at a restaurant Allen’s father had literally opened for the chain years earlier), Meyer regaled us with behind the scenes tales of the life of a happy pornographer.

 

The more our young jaws dropped at his descriptions of cinematic sex, the more he enjoyed talking with us.

I found the audio from this interview a few years ago and am presenting it publicly on Mr. Media for the first time.

It is, admittedly, crude and lascivious at several points and not recommended for anyone easily offended or under the age of 18. If that describes you, please stop listening now. Thank you.

Meyer, the director of everything from Jacqueline Susann’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (written by film critic Roger Ebert), The Seven Minutes and Up! to Faster, Pussycat! Kill!... Kill!, Fanny Hill and Pandora Peaks, lost his virginity in the Army thanks to a prostitute procured by Ernest Hemingway. He told many of his secrets in a three-volume memoir, A Clean Breast: The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer. And as of April 2015, Will Ferrell was reportedly attached to play Russ Meyer in the film Russ & Roger Go Beyond, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Josh Gad was being discussed to play Roger Ebert.

Russ Meyer died on September 18, 2004.

Russ Meyer RM Films International website (http://www.rmfilms.com) • IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000540/) • Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Meyer) • Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/russ_meyer/) • The A.V. Club Interview (http://www.avclub.com/article/russ-meyer-13556) • Roger Ebert.com movie ratings (http://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/russ-meyer)

 
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(Here is the text of the Gainesville Magazine profile I wrote following lunch with Russ Meyer.)

Ernest Hemingway gave this man his start.

In a manner of speaking.

As producer of twenty-three mostly sex-oriented films, Russ Meyer Is probably the world's happiest pornographer. His latest epoch, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, is the latest in his series of romps with big breasted women and male fantasy. It opened In Gainesville last week, so Meyer came to town courting the press and spreading his "Vixen" gospel.