Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site boulder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!boulder!marty From: marty@boulder.UUCP (Marty Kent) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: obscure movies (Robert Downey) Message-ID: <317@boulder.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:19:59 EST Article-I.D.: boulder.317 Posted: Thu Feb 28 12:19:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:50:13 EST References: <319@usl.UUCP>Reply-To: marty@boulder.UUCP (Marty Kent) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 26 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 uucp: {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!kpno | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!kpno} !hao!boulder!marty arpa: MKent @ SUMEX-AIM