Woah, Roger Ebert is a sick freak!
 

I never knew he actually wrote a movie but I just saw this movie that he wrote on IFC. It's called "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and it's rated NC-17. It was pretty sick and twisted, really deserved the NC-17 rating. It was made in 1970 which was also suprising considering how weird it was. It's gont transvestites, nudity, lesbian sex, drug use, a guy putting a gun in a sleeping woman's mouth and... uh... "simulating" with it before pulling the trigger and having blood shoot from every whole in her face. And then it gets all preachy in the end. Anyway, my entire perception of this man just changed completely.

Well, if it was made in 1970 that would be 34 years ago. People can change.

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i always thought valley of the dolls was a russ meyer flick

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Meyer was solely credited as the director, and he and Ebert were credited with the story itself. Ebert also wrote the screen play.

Ebert also did "Up" and "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens" which were both directed by Meyer, and co-written with him as well. All three were fairly horrible, but "Up' was probably the best of the three, but not by much.