The Place: The Lethal House.
The Hosts: Donna Lethal and Little Lord Chesteroy.
The Menu: Pizza (two pies! one cheese, one pepperoni.) Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes with Mansfield-Pink sprinkles on top.
The Event: Gala Screening of "The Wild Wild World Of Jayne Mansfield".
The Guest List: (in alphabetical order)
Mark (Pantheon Zeus) contributor of Celluloid Slammer and Douchebag or No Douchebag.
Scott Michaels of Find A Death and Find A Grave. And when you come to LA, you must take his
Dearly Departed tour.
Lawrence Snelly wonderful artist.
and me.
About the film, I can't say it any better Something Weird, the company that puts out the DVD:
Look out world, it's Jayne's planet and she's on the prowl in The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, a mondo-style celebration of all things Mansfield and, hands down, The Single Most Inane (and Insane) Documentary Ever Made! With footage of Jayne shot circa 1964, augmented with her bare-breasted nude scenes from Promises, Promises, padded out with such hilariously faked non-Jayne footage as goofy gays on the streets of Paris and the L.A. "topless craze!" and capped off with a ghoulish ending so colossally wrong that it can still make audiences gasp, this combination travelogue / cinematic acid trip is so loony tunes that it's practically legendary. "Hi, I'm Jayne Mansfield!" says a breathless soundalike since Jayne was quite dead by the time this was assembled. "For the next couple of hours, I'd like you to come along with me! I want you to share some of the wild way-out experiences I had during my last trip around the world!" See: Jayne strutting around Rome and being surrounded by MICKEY HARGITAY and other musclemen at the Park of Gladiators: "I would have given anything to have been at an ancient Roman party! Most of the time they turned into orgies!" See: Jayne in a fountain at the Cannes Film Festival: "Oh, what a girl has to do for her career!" See: Jayne visiting the nudist colony at the Isle of Levant and splashing in water like a damn fool: "l hope nobody sees me like this! It's alright for a movie but not in real life!" Real life? Real Life???!!!
Our favorite parts were too many to mention but here is a shot of Jayne and her dirty finger nails.
And a second later, SHE PUTS THEM IN HER MOUTH!
Listen, I love Jayne but she was a mess. And this movie is messier. A good time was truly had by all!
