Corndogs: Sexy?
Talk about a ladies-of-the-’80s flashback. “Oh Mickey” mama Toni Basil
and“Johnny, Are You Queer?” crooner Josie Cotton
— both in the same week? Strange, but true. Cotton and iconic actress
Karen Black (c)aroused at the party for the new DVD film
Phone Sex last Saturday — along with local legends Ginger
Coyote, Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry. (Did these
chicks discover the fountain of youth or something? Nobody who’s
partied that much should look this good.)
The film came together when director Steve Balderson asked his
crazy array of scenester and celeb pals the question “What is sexy?”
and told them to leave their answers on his phone machine. The
responses he got — including bits from Ron Jeremy, Margaret
Cho, Jayne County and Tura Satana — are an audio
mishmash ranging from kinky to sweet to downright bizarre. (Gehman’s
lascivious laundry list takes the cake.) Balderson illustrates it with
stock footage and visuals both illuminating and nonsensical; the
result is a tour de force of freakiness. The wine-fueled party — held
at DJ Senor Amor’s groovy Hollywood shop, Retropia — had
its moments too. Guests were asked to scribble their own turn-ons on
heart-shaped Post-its, which they slapped on the walls and merch
throughout the store: Corndogs, Clean Fingernails,
Leos and the ever-subtle Cock were just a few of the
answers strewn about.
