{"id":51378,"date":"2006-09-12T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51378"},"modified":"2020-11-25T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T04:18:16","slug":"candy-goes-to-hollywood-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51378","title":{"rendered":"Candy Goes to Hollywood (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Anyone who can sing that much on her chest deserves a big &#8212; 69!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Poster-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Poster-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Poster-85x128.png 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Poster-180x270.png 180w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Poster.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAspiring actress Candy Christian (Carol Conners) heads to Hollywood, where she is exploited by sleazy talent agent Johnny Dooropener (John Leslie).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adult Films<\/li>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Dumb Blondes<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nOffensive in nearly every way, this adult comedy (directed by a <em>woman<\/em>!) is the ultimate &#8220;dumb blonde&#8221; movie, featuring a female lead so dense she allows herself to be sexually manipulated again and again without learning any better. Of course, this is all part of the inexorable &#8220;logic&#8221; of p. films &#8212; but as Peary notes, &#8220;[p.] filmmakers have got to figure out ways to get female characters into bed other than making them childish bubbleheads who can be talked into anything.&#8221; With that said, the movie <em>does <\/em>contain some moments of genuine humor, and is a relatively pointed satire on the difficulties of breaking into Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fairly amusing spoof of the Gong Show (here called &#8220;The Dong Show&#8221;)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-1024x525.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"328\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-51382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-128x66.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-1536x788.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2-526x270.png 526w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Candy-Goes-to-Hollywood-Still2.png 1803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0123627\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone who can sing that much on her chest deserves a big &#8212; 69!&#8221; Synopsis: Aspiring actress Candy Christian (Carol Conners) heads to Hollywood, where she is exploited by sleazy talent agent Johnny Dooropener (John Leslie). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Adult Films Aspiring Stars Dumb Blondes Hollywood Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Offensive in nearly every way, this adult comedy (directed by a woman!) is the ultimate &#8220;dumb blonde&#8221; movie, featuring a female lead so dense she allows herself to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51378\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51378"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54871,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378\/revisions\/54871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}