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From: marty@boulder.UUCP (Marty Kent)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: obscure movies (Robert Downey)
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:19:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 28 12:19:59 1985
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   Speaking of obscure films, what about the work of Robert Downey?  He 
made a fairly well-known film about a Madison Ave. advertising agency 
called "Putney Swope"; the film started as a rather far-fetched comedy
and became increasingly surreal as it progressed.  He also had a film 
called "Greaser's Palace" in which Alan Arbus played a kind of Jesus-like
character who appears in the old west, dancing through the chapparal with
Fred Astaire moves, dressed in a zoot suit ...
   I've heard that Downey also made a movie during the late Sixties which
was advertised as having been made specifically to be seen by stoned 
people: it was supposed to have a bunch of people playing *dogs* and was
called, aptly enough, "Pound."  Has anybody seen this film, or even heard
of it?  Or was I being thoroughly bullshat?
   By the way, I understand Downey was himself an advertising man for a 
while: supposedly he made a television commercial, never aired, for 
Preparation H.  The commercial featured a pretty Japanese girl holding up
a tube and saying "Use Preparation H and you can kiss your hemmorhoids 
goodbye!"  

			Marty Kent


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