Jacqueline Susann's 'The Love Machine'

[quote]Hideous Seventies interiors! Mincing, scheming homosexuals! Shecky fucking GREENE!

Sold! Thanks for the link, OP. Sony overcharges for its print-on-demand DVDs.

Loved the theme song. Though I wonder if this is the original? It doesn't seem as momentous in the linked version.

Reading the comments, I didn't realize John Philip Law had died. Oh well, I guess it makes sense - the movie was 1971 - more than 50 years ago!

I laughed out loud when one character snarled, "So you're saying Robin Stone is AC-DC?" and Dyan Cannon snapped back, "BALLS!"

It made no sense, but nothing in this movie does.

[quote]I laughed out loud when one character snarled, "So you're saying Robin Stone is AC-DC?" and Dyan Cannon snapped back, "BALLS!"

There's probably a "Larry King Live" clip of Cannon giving the same answer about Cary Grant.

Brian Kelly from Flipper was to play the lead but was in a car accident. When he was in the hospital, the first thing he said was "are there any marks on my face".

Dyan was a real looker! I just knew her a Judge Whipper from Ally McBeal

Brian Kelly was gorgeous.

Thanks, OP! Love this kind of trashy retro shit!

And Dionne warbling "He's Moving On."

R9. She's no Helen Lawson.

This is Dyan Cannon's best work.

I think it's better than Valley Of the Dolls. It's interesting to see how the television industry worked in that era.

There's a character in the book named Judith who's the wife of the network president. She comes from a high society background and is very obviously based on Babe Paley. For the movie version, Jacqueline Susann wanted Grace Kelly to come out of retirement to play Judith! Susann didn't approve of Dyan Cannon playing Judith because she thought that Dyan wasn't "classy" enough.

1:04:20 for Jackie's cameo as a newscaster. Jackie did cameos in all of the films based on her books. One critic called her "the Hitchcock of coarseness."

Thank you OP!!! I will watch this tonight with my 😺 Trixie..

Wasnt Helen Lawson signed for a lead in this?

I just watched this last night and I have a new appreciation for Dyan Cannon. I had never really noticed her before but she's stunningly gorgeous (like a 70s blonde Mila Kunis) and acts absolute circles around everyone else in the movie. Not that that would be hard, but still.

Allegedly, Jackie wanted Johnny Carson for the lead.

It's one of those movies you think will be funnier than it is. The big fight scene with Cannon and the queens is hilarious though.

DOCTOR'S WIVES is another "bad but not funny enough" potboiler from the same period, though Cannon is fun in the first scene. She always acts as if she knows she's doing trashy dreck and is determined to have some fun doing it.