Teen Sexploitation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and The Blue Lagoon (Erotic 80s Part 5) — You Must Remember This

Teen Sexploitation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky’s and The Blue Lagoon (Erotic 80s Part 5) — You Must Remember This

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Long Live the New Flesh! Or, Why Video Stores With Real Employees Will Always Win, By Ross Scarano, Matt Barone, Complex.com, Nov 06, 2013

Teen Sexploitation –The Young Girls Talk: Movies by Kristine Mckenna, Laura Daltry Los Angeles Times, Sep 25, 1983

’They Want us to Look’ Through the Lens of the Teen Sex Comedies of the Early 1980’s by Andy Selsberg, believermag.com, May 1, 2006

In ’80s Comedies, Boys Had It Made. Girls Were the Joke. by Wesley Morris, New York Times, Oct. 4, 2018

The ‘R’ Rating-A Lure Or A Barrier by Susan Heller Anderson, New York Times, May 2, 1982

The Movie No Theaters Thought Worth Showing; Rationale Explained Atkins Used Alone in Publicity Focus on Scantily Clad Youths Some Controversy Stirred by by Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, Nov. 4, 1980

Brooke Shields Tells the Story Behind Her 80’s Calvin Klein Jeans Campaign, Vogue.com, October 28, 2021

Joseph Cates, 74, a Producer Of Innovative Specials for TV by Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr., New York Times, Oct. 12, 1998

Audio discussion from 1982 with Amy Heckerling at the American Film Institute, from the Fast Times at Ridgemont High Criterion Edition

New Talent Featured in ‘Fast Times’ by Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1982

The Life and Times of ‘Fast Times’” Dale Pollack, Los Angeles Times

Watching Innocence Take Wing by Charles Champlin, LA Times, September 2, 1982

Jennifer Leigh and Her Trip Trom X to R, New York Times, September 3, 1982

Fast Times’ Director On Fast Track To Fame by Lawrence O’Toole, The Globe and Mail, 10 Sep 1982

Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1 Star Review by Roger Ebert, January 01, 1982

The Test Screening That Almost Killed Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Dana Stevens, Slate.com, May 27, 2021

Pheobe Cates Cover & Story, Interview Magazine, June 1982, Vol 12 Iss 6

Jennifer Jason Leigh Can Be Fearless Because it’s Pretend by Phoebe Cates, Photographed by Eli Russell Linnetz, Interview, September 14, 2018

Film Reviews: Paradise, Variety Vol. 307, Iss. 2, May 12, 1982

Paradise Review Box Office Vol. 118, Iss. 7, Jul 15, 1982

‘Paradise’: A Lovers’ Oasis Revisited by Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1982

A Suitful Of Trouble In ‘Paradise’: Film Clips by Deborah Caulfield, Los Angeles Times, May 19,  1982

Judge Rejects Attempt to Block Advertisement for ‘Paradise’ Los Angeles Times, May 20 1982

Paradise Star Phoebe Cates Hangs Her Own Film with a One-Word Review—’Rip-Off’ by Josh Hammer, People Magazine, June 14, 1982

Film Review: Blue Lagoon, Variety, Jun 11, 1980

Despite Success, a Tough Fight for Backing” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 1980

The Blue Lagoon, The Director A Common Denominator,  The Cincinnati Post, July 11, 1980

Brooke Shields Cover & Fashion Spread, Vogue Magazine, October 1980

Brooke Shields, US Magazine, May 15, 1979

The Day Blue Jeans Became Sexual; Those TV Ads Anger Some – But They Sell by Julie Hatfield Globe Staff, Boston Globe, October 16, 1980

WNBC Also Bans Sultry Jeans Ads, New York Times, Nov. 21, 1980

Brooke Shields on Barbara Walters c. 1980/81

Brooke Shields Calls Her 1980 Interview With Barbara Walters “Practically Criminal” By Emily Kirkpatrick,Vanity Fair, December,  7, 2021 

There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me by Brooke Shields

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