I’m forever crawling on my hands and knees in thrift store aisles, hoping to uncover hidden multimedia gems. This past Saturday, I was biking to a film event and stopped at Green Resale, a huge, four roomed oasis of the not-so-badly used. There I found a cheap set of DVDs from (the almost forgotten) Brentwood Home Media, entitled Toga Party. Even though a couple of the discs were missing, there were still many treasures to be found inside.
The era of film where my nostalgia hits the hardest is that late ’80s, early ‘90s late night cable era. Sexy shows reigned on cable stations then and the word Bikini was an oft used/featured thing. (For example: Bikini Drive-In, Bikini Med School, Bikini House Calls, Bikini Car Wash, Bikini Summer, Bikini Summer 2.) Nicely, the Toga Party collection included a number of episodes of a flash n dash show from that period of time called Divorce Law.
There, the prime defense team, played by such titans of this fare as Jay Richardson and Monique Parent, work together to throw the book at very naked varieties of nefarious conjugal schemers. My favorite 30-minute sequence involves my good buddy (and late night cable stalwart) Deborah Dutch. There, as a French charmer named Brigitte Dubois, she convinces a handsome attorney (Christian Noble) to marry her for her Green Card. When he discovers her lesbian lover hovering nearby and tries to divorce her, she drops a pregnancy bomb on him. Of course, her plans are waylaid when a stolen sample of her pee reveals the truth. Barren as the desert and momentarily penniless, she returns to Paris and the sexy charms of her female paramour.
Dutch is obviously having a giddy time being so mischievous here. The role is definitely a change of pace from her more charmingly comic parts in such cult fare as Hard to Die, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds and 976-Evil II, making it recommended viewing for her devotees and for anyone who loves the material popularized on USA’s Up All Night all those magically star struck years ago.
Until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
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