{"id":17704,"date":"2025-07-15T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:29:34","slug":"variety-1983-bette-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17704","title":{"rendered":"Variety (1983, Bette Gordon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christy needs a job, finds one in the box office of a porno theater alongside Luis Guzman.  Inspired by her new job, she starts writing dirty stories and reciting them to people.  This all scares away her uptight boyfriend Will Patton (boyfriend #1 of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17184\">Janet Planet<\/a><\/em>), so she lets stalker-customer Louie take her out to a Yankees\/Red Sox game.  When he leaves abruptly she goes detective mode and follows him to a shady under-bridge deal.  After a few days of this she tells Louie she&#8217;s been following him and to meet her on a corner.  This seems like a dangerous move, but the movie ends with a street shot (the corner?) over some nice John Lurie music, so maybe it worked out.  Some lovely scenes of a fish market at night, though I wish they wouldn&#8217;t pick up the fishes by their eyeballs, and the meditation handshake montage is great.  Written by sometime-Mekon Kathy Acker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/variety1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/variety2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christy needs a job, finds one in the box office of a porno theater alongside Luis Guzman. Inspired by her new job, she starts writing dirty stories and reciting them to people. This all scares away her uptight boyfriend Will Patton (boyfriend #1 of Janet Planet), so she lets stalker-customer Louie take her out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,764,3411,1218],"class_list":["post-17704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-baseball","tag-bette-gordon","tag-pornography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17722,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions\/17722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}