Alright y’all…this installment of VHS of the Week comes courtesy of my good friends Dan and Leslie, who were so gobsmacked after viewing the 1985 aerobics disaster film Perfect that they hunted down a VHS copy of said film for me to view and review. My own personal recollections of this movie are nil. I know that my mother often pushed me to rent it back around ‘86-’87…and that I turned her down every single time. I did know that Perfect was supposed to function as a 119 minute infomercial for Rolling Stone magazine…and that RS founder and man who has been thrice accused of sexual assault yet remains uncancelled Jann Wenner plays himself in the film. In his 2022 autobiography Like a Rolling Stone: A memoir, Wenner spends approximately 1.5 of the book’s 550 pages talking about Perfect. Wenner seems thoroughly bemused by the very existence of the film, claiming to have had little creative input in the entire process. His only memories of the shoot involve getting shitfaced with cunnilingual cancer survivor Michael Douglas and laying a forcefully unscripted rape kiss on Jamie Lee Curtis. I quote: “When the cameras started to roll, I pulled (Curtis) into my arms and kissed her passionately while dipping her as if she were Rita Hayworth. This was taking a chance, but the set broke out in cheers, and the director (a man) loved it. And when you’re famous they let you do it.” Ok…I added that last part.
Perfect
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Perfect
Alright y’all…this installment of VHS of the Week comes courtesy of my good friends Dan and Leslie, who were so gobsmacked after viewing the 1985 aerobics disaster film Perfect that they hunted down a VHS copy of said film for me to view and review. My own personal recollections of this movie are nil. I know that my mother often pushed me to rent it back around ‘86-’87…and that I turned her down every single time. I did know that Perfect was supposed to function as a 119 minute infomercial for Rolling Stone magazine…and that RS founder and man who has been thrice accused of sexual assault yet remains uncancelled Jann Wenner plays himself in the film. In his 2022 autobiography Like a Rolling Stone: A memoir, Wenner spends approximately 1.5 of the book’s 550 pages talking about Perfect. Wenner seems thoroughly bemused by the very existence of the film, claiming to have had little creative input in the entire process. His only memories of the shoot involve getting shitfaced with cunnilingual cancer survivor Michael Douglas and laying a forcefully unscripted rape kiss on Jamie Lee Curtis. I quote: “When the cameras started to roll, I pulled (Curtis) into my arms and kissed her passionately while dipping her as if she were Rita Hayworth. This was taking a chance, but the set broke out in cheers, and the director (a man) loved it. And when you’re famous they let you do it.” Ok…I added that last part.