Russ Meyer

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He loved to make women look good. I have never seen any of the gals in his films look bad. And the men in his movies were always incapacitated in some way. They were either in a wheelchair or on crutches or short of a full deck. He liked to make women strong, make them feel that they were empowered.

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By: Tura Satana

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Tura Satana said this during a 2004 interview. Satana stated she felt that, regardless of the nudity and sexual themes of his films and female characters, Russ Meyer was a feminist at heart. Satana is famous for her role as Varla in Russ Meyer's cult classic Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill!

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Deadline reports that Will Ferrell is in talks to play sexploitation film producer Russ Meyer in the indie film project Russ and Roger Go Beyond. The film centers on the collaboration between Meyer and iconic film reviewer Roger Ebert on the 1970 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which Meyer directed from a script ….