Category: Strippers

Jonny & Boris Meet Sam Spade

Hack wrote this to commemorate the passing of Humphrey Bogart, who died 69 years ago today. In truth, the constraints of the Production Code in force at the time wouldn’t allow them to use the scene in The Maltese Falcon where the femme fatale has to take off all her clothes to prove she didn’t steal a $1000 bill in the 1941 Bogart film. But it is in the novel and the 1931 pre-code version so Hack plugged it into this book because we’ve had a stressful morning. He even made Natalie Wood the character to cheer us up that much more. Hack can be a nice guy when he wants to.

From Dusk Till Dong

Happy birthday to Salma Hayek, star of From Dusk Till Dawn, a fun but forgettable vampire movie (with a historically awful acting performance by its screenwriter Quentin Tarantino) made memorable by Ms. Hayek’s turn as a stripper named Santanico Pandemonium. The scene in which she dances with an 11-foot python at a strip club called The Titty Twister inspired Hack to include it on his list of the 10 greatest films ever made.